Happy Tongan Language Week

 Malo e lelei bloggers, this week is Tongan language week. We may be in lockdown but that doesn't mean we can't celebrate it, even if you're not Tongan you can celebrate it. Im not Tongan and I'm still trying to learn some words, I'm going to learn the basics like the alphabet, numbers and greetings, I'm learning from some of my friends that are Tongan. My school is celebrating TLW through class calls and we are going to have a whole school call on Friday that sounds exciting. Do you know any Tongan words ?

Lockdown 4

 Talofa Lava Bloggers today is the 15th day of lockdown and boredom has hit. I cooked dinner last night for my family and I baked some cookies, for dinner we I made tacos with lettuce , cheese and tomatoes the we had a cookie and milo. We are going on a bike ride because my dad just fixed his bike. My parents have been doing online shopping for some things. 

How is lockdown, have you been outside ?

Lockdown 3

 Kia Ora Bloggers, today us day 13 of lockdown in New Zealand, the past days have been really boring and there is nothing to do, we made our own pizzas last night which were fun and we have just been cleaning. My dad fixed his bike up and we are going for a bike ride really soon. We haven't been playing volleyball because we have to do school work. We are going into lockdown for 2 more weeks until Jacinda Ardern says lockdown is going to be extended.

What have you been doing during lockdown ?

Lockdown 2

 Hello bloggers, today is day 10 of lockdown and it is really boring, my family are doing really good and my family have been doing challenges that's my favorite part of lockdown. We have been doing a lot of baking and next we are making scones or banana cake. Both my parents are essential workers, they work 4 days on 4 days off so one of them is always home with us. We play volleyball outside when we are really bored but sometimes we watch a movie. Me and my mum went for a bike ride yesterday, there is a lot of people doing fitness at the park, people riding bikes, scooters, walking, running and people even playing soccer. What have you been doing in lockdown ?

Lockdown

Talofa Lava Bloggers

We are in lockdown right now and its really boring, I cant wait till we go back to normal so I can see my friends. Me and my family have been doing a lot of baking lately, I baked some brownies for my mums work and she took them in. Me and my brother always play volleyball outside and he has been teaching me how to spike properly. Its really fun at times but really boring at the same time. On Monday, Wednesday and Friday we have class calls where we talk about our blogs. How is lockdown going for you guys ? Hope you guys are doing well.

Room 5 Museum Trip

Talofa Lava Bloggers,

Yesterday, We went to the Auckland Museum for a trip and we learnt about history of war and what happened in the war. My favourite part in the Museum was when we went to see the Polynesian Panthers black leather jacket, it looked so cool and we saw what happened in the dawn raids. My least favourite part was when we went into a small room and learned about hitler killing all those inoccent Jewish people. I learnt that hitler hated the Jewish people and killed them from putting them in a shower of gas.

Have you been to a Museum ? If so what Museum ?

Nurses during war

Thank you poster for the nurses

 Talofa bloggers, This week we were learning about care that was given and the risks they took for us. They are only cared for if they are wounded or have broken bones, They have a lot of working hours/time, and they risked their own lives for us. Life war pretty tough for nurses because 40 New zealand nurses would work in the 1,000 bed Hospitals, Have 3 hours off a day and a half days leave every 10 days.

We imagined that we were soldiers while writing this Thank you card.

What is your opinion ?

Dawn Raids

Talofa Lava Bloggers

The Polynesian Panthers

 1970 the year of the Dawn Raids, Polynesians woke up to police knocking at the door and sirens outside. Polynesian people got beat from the Police Officers because the Police thought that they were overstayers, they got beat with wet newspaper and telephone books because it didnt leave bruises. Their werent that much Pasifika people that overstayed, it was mostly people from London, South Africa and Canda. The Polynesians did a reverse dawn raid on one of the police officers and the dawn raids stopped.

Steel Pan Drums

On Wednesday 2 of June

My class had the exciting opportunity of opening our Whanau Hui. My class only had a few weeks to learn this song, we went to the music room every Wednesday afternoon and thats when we got to learn. It was very hard but very fun to learn, some parts were boring because we had to wait for a little, but it got hard when we had to put all the beats together.

Thank you Tish and Mr.Sa for teaching us how to play Steel pans.

What song do you think we are playing ?

 Hi bloggers, This term we are learning about war and decided to make a propaganda poster. It is telling you to Join the army and fight for our rights/country. 

I hope you like it !

 Hi bloggers,

At first I thought that they went to war only for land, but Really they fight for alot of reasons that I did not know of, Fun fact:A city lied its way into safety.

This term we are learning about war and why wars are cause the most main reason for war is when another country wants more land.

 Today we learnt about safety in the Music Room, from next week we are going into the Music Room to learn how to play instruments.

St Johns Safety in School

These are some pictures from St Johns safety, we learned how to do CPR and we learnt that if someone is already breathing you dont have to do CPR on them.

DRSABC stands for Danger, Response, Send help, Airway, Breathing and CPR.

CPR Stands for Cardio Pulmonary Resuscitation.

House Captains

Hi my name is Katana and to the left of me is Sina, we are students attending Wesley Intermediate, recently we were selected to be deputy house captains for Sandringham and Windsor.

We have been selected from the people in our house, I was happy that I got selected to be a house captain because it was one of my goals for 2021.

A big congratulations to the other house captains and I hope everyone leads there houses with pride.