We practise Mindfulness every day in Rongo-mā-tāne in a variety of ways. Our favourite way is using breathing techniques to help us feel calm and focused. Our tamariki especially love to be imaginative and create their own breathing poses to share with the studio at hui.
Here is Charlie teaching us his crocodile breathing.
Rāwhiti School were lucky enough to be given the amazing opportunity to attend several gymnastics sessions through the Christchurch School of Gymnastics.
The Rongo-mā-tāne students were so excited to be able to give the different equipment a go for the first time. They were in groups of 10 and moved around different stations with gymnastics coaches. The stations included skills that focused on, balancing, jumping, rolling, swinging, and climbing.
The children had a blast and were so brave at giving everything a go, even if they were feeling a bit nervous about having to climb or swing.
The crowd favourite was learning different jumping techniques on the trampoline and then finishing with a big jump into the foam pit.
Everyone was exhausted but buzzing by the time we left and they can't wait to have their second session next week.
Have you done any gymnastics before? If you have, comment below and let us know your favourite gymnastics activity.
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| Oliver hanging around |
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| Riley hanging around |
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| Joseph jumping his way down the trampoline |
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| Emilie-Vida concentrating very hard on making her way across the balance beam |
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| Ashleigh showing off her 'pike' jump |
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| Freida practising walking out using only her hands |
After Show Weekend the school pool was opened for business. Some of the children in Rongo-mā-tāne were super excited because it was their first time in the school pool.
We've been practising lots of new skills like getting in safely, putting our heads under water, blowing bubbles, and just generally becoming more confident in the water.
Lately, the weather hasn't been so great, but the children have been so brave getting in and enjoying it anyway. They love to show the teachers all of the different things they can do in the water.
What's your favourite thing about the school pool?
Students in Rachel's kaiāwhina group worked with Elizabeth today to explore ScratchJR. Students learnt about the drawling tool in ScratchJR. Our challenge was to draw a Minecraft character. Some of us programmed our Minecraft character to move and some did a 360 turn! These are some of our characters below...
When the children get to school in the mornings, there are a range of activities for them to choose from between 8.30 and 9.20 a.m. Some of our choices at the moment are:
It didn't die from a cat because there wasn't any blood and it wasn't bitten. We made the box to put the rat in there. By Jacob
