Values Poems

Here is another poem written by one of our students, I am extremely proud of the thinking our students are doing and the fantastic work they produce:

Pride
Pride wanders around looking for someone to help, leading people to success through encouragement. Pride supports anyone he sees, telling students daily to never give up and keep moving forward. Pride will always stand tall no matter what ever is in front of his path. Pride wears tidy clothes, that represents who he is and what he does. Pride well never let anyone down.

by Hendrix KP

VALUES POEMS

Imagine... Respect is actually a person.

• What does he look like?
  
• What kind of clothes does he wear? Are they clean and tidy? Or are they scruffy and covered in mud?
• What kind of person is he? Is he friendly or mean? Does he help others or does he push them around?
• What does he enjoy doing?

Students in Room 1 were given the task of describing what kind of person EXCELLENCE, PRIDE, RESPONSIBILITY, RESPECT, or INTEGRITY would be. They needed to use their knowledge of these values to decide how they would describe their person. Here are some examples of what our students came up with.

Excellence
Excellence is uses her happiness to her advantage. The quality of her style is perfect and spotless. She is a caring citizen, loyal to each person she meets. She takes responsibility for her learning and is part of the solution with problems at school. Her smile shows everyone her bubbly personality. She always climbs the mountain and reaches the top.

by Sasha

Respect
Respect walks around looking out for others in need of help, no matter where or when they are in need. She is not a selfish person that only cares about her self, she likes to encourage people. Respect looks up to people as well as being looked up to. She values others peoples opinions and ideas. She tries very hard to look sharp with clean appropriate clothes. She has long brown hair with hazel green eyes that twinkle as bright as the stars.

by Jayda

Makuhari Manuhiri

Today our School welcomed students from Makuhari Junior High School in Japan. They will be with us for the next two weeks and TAI Melville students are lucky to be hosting 4 of these students. Most of our manuhiri are 15 years old and are very excited to learn as much about Aotearoa as possible. Our students are looking forward to hearing about Japanese culture as well - nau mai haere mai tamariki ma!

TAI MELVILLE UPGRADE!

YAY!

During my release time I decided to do some work on our beautiful blog, and I made an amazing discovery! We have now upgraded our TAI Melville Blog to have a number of different pages to link to:

• Panui (Notices)
  
• TAI Rm 1
• TAI Rm 2

These links allow you to see whats happening in each class, and panui (notices) about upcoming events for the students in Te Ao Ipurangi.

STARS

Here at Miriwera we have 5 values we call STAR values:




Here are the classroom posters Room 1 students made for our school values. We will be doing more work on these values throughout the term... Watch the space!

Room 2 Students 2010

Nau mai haere mai!

Nau mai haere mai! A warm welcome to the parents/caregivers and whanau of the Te Ao Ipurangi Year 7 students (Room 2). We hope that you will find this blog informative and interesting. Our blog serves as another vehicle for our students to showcase their mahi (work) and any other tidbits which they may be involved in. I encourage you all to explore the site and see how this unique programme has been developed over the past year or so. Please feel free to leave a comment where appropriate as my students and I will be monitoring our blog regularly. Take a look at the photos of the Room 2 students for 2010 - ataahua ne?

A very warm Kirikiriroa (Hamilton) welcome to our new friends in Room 7, St Claires School, Dunedin. Rm 2 students have been skyping Rm 7 students . We are looking forward to working with them as they develop their Mihi. Ma te wa (see you again).