Monday 11 December 2017

Christmas around the world

Today in class we learnt about christmas traditions from different countries around the world.  Students had to pick a country name out of a hat and go and research its traditions.

Have a look at their work!

Stephney @ Tamaki Primary School: ZAMBIA CHRISTMAS: On Monday I have been learning about his cultures Christmas called Zambia which can be located in the African Continent. There Christmas ha...

Hope L @ Tamaki Primary School: CHRISTMAS IN FIJI: WE are learning about how other countries celebrate christmas and how we celebrate christmas and  we are also learning that if we have the ...

Dwyane @ Tamaki Primary School: Christmas in france.

Isaia @ Tamaki Primary School: christmas in New Zealand

Timote @ Tamaki Primary School: Christmas by Timoteand Tino

Rawiri @ Tamaki Primary School: Christmas in Mexico

What did you learn? Comment about some of the christmas traditions you found interesting!

Friday 8 December 2017

TPS Prizegiving!

On Thursday the 7th of December Tamaki Primary School had a prize-giving to celebrate our students AMAZING achievements from the year. Usually the prize-giving it just for year 8 students but this year we all got to go along and it was great. 



Each class from Room 1-10 had three students who won awards. 
The awards were:
Academic Excellence - This is an award that goes a student that who has achieved academic excellence for reading, writing and maths this year. 
School values - This is an award that goes to a student that has shown the school values consistently throughout the year. 
Most improved - This is an award that goes a student that has made MOST SHIFTS in their learning across the curriculum this year. 

This year the students who won awards from Room 8 were...

Stephney for Academic excellence! Congratulations!

Denzel for Most improved! Congratulations!

Fe'ao for School values! Congratulations!
To check out the bands AWESOME performances - click here!

Well done to everyone who worked hard this year to make great shifts and have positive attitudes!

Monday 4 December 2017

FRIDAY FUN DAY: Wonder and Christmas presents - by Stephney

On Friday the 1st of December room 7,8,9 and 10 went to the movies to watch a film called Wonder. The movie wonder had all sorts of emotions in it and if I had the chance to watch it again I would.The movie was about a little boy called August and he has something called Treacher-collins syndrome and it makes people look different. Only 1 out of 50,000 kids get it. I think the movie was about teaching kids a lesson about that you should not like someone by what they look like but what they look like in the inside.The movie has inspired children with Treacher-collins syndrome to not be afraid about what they look like. If you read the book wonder and watch the movie in both it has a quotes that is “You can’t blend in when you were born to stand out” and I think that is really inspiring to others.

Next we came back to school and got ready to get our presents and sausage and juice and when it finally our turn I was really excited about what we were going to get I wished that I had got what asked for but if I got something different I wouldn’t mind I would just act happy and surprise and get what I get.My present was a school bag,water bottle,nail polish,a towel and knuckle bones which were really great. Then we had shared lunch with was really big because the whole school was involved in it.The shared lunch had so many yummy food, They all smelt good and delicious and I wished I could just marry them. Then lots of parents and younger and older children started to show and I saw my family which was really cool.I really enjoyed that day that day was like a activity day.

By Stephney

Here are some photos!








Tuesday 28 November 2017

Diversity - what does it mean?

Today in Room 8 we had some Room 7 students join us for our learning.

We completed a reading about diversity and what it means.

We had to summarise what diversity means in our own words and then create something to teach others about it.

Here are some of the things we made!


Edith from Room 7s work on diversity

Hamish's work

Faka'ata's work 

Reign from Room 7 - Rap about bullying

What have you learned about diversity? Comment below what you now know about it and how you can encourage it at school!

Wednesday 8 November 2017

KINDESS

At Tamaki Primary school we try to show our school values everyday. Manaakitanga is one of those values and it means caring for others.


We made this film to show everyone that kindness is contagious, enjoy!

Friday 27 October 2017

Science experiment Week 1: Food colouring and Milk!

One of our goals for the term has been to do a science experiment each week!

In Week 1 we did a science experiment that involved mixing food colouring, milk and detergent and watching the reaction. We wrote down all of the powerful language that was being discussed to help us write detailed recounts after the experiment. 

Room 7 came and joined us for this lesson and we had a lot of fun. 

Check out some of the photos and blog posts about the activity!

Arizona @ Tamaki Primary School: Science Experiment: SCIENCE EXPERIMENT! On Monday the 16th of October 2017, Room 8 and Room 7 joined together and we made a science experiment. Miss Morriso...

Alyssa @ Tamaki Primary School: Food colouring experiment recount: In room 8 we were learning how to edit a recount.









Jackson Pollock

Last week we had an AMAZING art lesson where we learnt all about this famous artist called Jackson Pollock and his unique painting technique.

Read Hope T's recount below!

RING. The bell went for all of the students to go back to class.we all arrived to class. we sat on the mat and waited for a while. Room 7 came into our classroom because we were doing painting.
Good morning Room 7 and 8 Miss Morrison said we are going to do painting today not just any kind of painting and painting from a famous arts. Well my beautiful teacher miss Morrison showed us what the painting looked like and who the famous arts was. First she made one for us to look at then she told us about the famous arts his name was jackson pollock the painting he made was a very expensive because the painting he made was a very amazing art he sold it for $140 million.


We all lined up outside of the classroom and we waited for the teachers to come in the front so we can head off .

Down stairs to the grass near the park. I put the cardboard down. We went somewhere and separate because we might splash the paint on them. Some people stood up and some people sat down. we all started. we splashed the painted everywhere we splashed and splitted the paint. I used black and it looked like night I flicked the stick like a wound and I drizzled  the black and white and it look like storm. I flicked the stick and it made blobs of paint . I went with the paint and almost covered the whole cardboard. finally we finished we all lined up.
We went back to class and we put all of our painting on the tables in Room 8's classroom.
Click on some of the blog posts to hear more recounts about our art lesson. 
Isaia @ Tamaki Primary School: art

Stephney @ Tamaki Primary School: Splittering Art: On wednesday the 18th room 8 and room 7 were learning about splattering art.It was really fun and I enjoyed.We went outside and got some st...

Timote @ Tamaki Primary School: Art Action

Fe'ao @ Tamaki Primary School: Art work-Fe'ao:This is a recount about the art room 8,7 and some room 5 kids did hope you like it :)

Here are some photos from the lesson!