Preparations are afoot!

 Well it is 3 months since we walked out of our lovely shared space, Te Waka Ako. 

When we walked back in today the board today had the date ..........

         Rātū Here-tura-kōka Tuesday the 17th August on it. 

The timetable from three months ago when we were deep into our study of Taumahekeheke or the Olympic Games was also still up with notes and spelling words. 

We were deep into investigating the different sports in the Olympic Games - Taumahekeheke, with newspaper clippings on the wall and models students had been creating neatly stacked in our 'orange space' or wet and art area.  They had been really enjoying the creation of their models and have often asked if they could finish them off when we go back. So some time in the next 4 weeks we will revisit these and get them complete. 

It was a bit strange and like a snapshot in time seeing it all as we left it. . 

We set up our spaces for our bubble groups that will return tomorrow morning.  Furniture has been shifted, sanitising stations and walkways set up, students work boxes set out and resources for a fun day sorted. We are happy to do it because we are excited to see our students tomorrow! 

We will be taking heaps of pics over these unique weeks at the end of 2021. 

watch this space. 

The Happy Project.

 

Operation "Happy Project" on Saturday night before delivery. 

The teachers of Te Waka Ako thought the tamariki in our classes were feeling a bit down and flat with having to stay online for their learning in Term 4, so we came up with a plan to bring a smile to their faces. :) It started off small with a chocolate bar, some seeds and a drawing of messages from us in a paper bag that we could put in the letter box. Then it grew. 

We decided to add some blank t-shirts so the students could pay if forward by writing happy messages and delivering them into random letterboxes. THEN .....Mrs Jones decided to make WORRY WORM bookmarks for ALL the bags! Crazy!! Fabulous! She was in her happy place!  THEN school had some extra 'YUM' snacks we could add in, pavement chalk boxes were shared out between them for outside creativity and finally Mr Jones found some cool Warriors items he wanted to gift to them all. Hats, bottles, socks, balls. It was a lucky dip bonanza!  Wow, just WOW!  The bags needed to be bigger! Again Mrs Jones put her creative hat on and wrote everyones name and a gorgeous message on the front.                                                            They were ready for the                                                                                                                                                              'JONES FAMILY OPERATION DRIVE BY'.                                                                                                                              Three teams set off to different areas in the neighbourhood and surrounding suburbs to reach all our wonderful students. They were happy faces they saw! The smiles were back! Mission accomplished on a Sunday afternoon

 in Auckland's Level 3+ Lockdown at the end of October 2021.                            

Many lovely messages came in too. Check out this document above for many photos and comments.