Farewell Father Albano, welcome Eden ad whanau and our special ANZAC Liturgy

Our first School Prayer for the term was a very special one. We welcomed Eden to Tui Class and Sacred Heart Petone School. Eden wore the Petone Beach korowai, which symbolized the care and nurture she had received in her Early Childhood education. Shelly her previous teacher told us all about it.Her new big buddy Troy and Mrs Pennington took off her korowai and welcomed her into her Primary School.

Her very proud big brother Solomon introduced her and all her cousins stood up to awhi her as well. Eden was so excited to start school and we are thrilled and lucky to have her join our community.

It was also a sad day as we farewelled Father Albano. He has been a very special part of Tui Class for the last 3 years and we are very sad to say goodbye.

On Friday Mrs Bell organised a very moving ANZAC liturgy to remember all those who fought for our country in the first World War.

It was a beautiful sunny still day as we had our liturgy outside near our remembrance field

 Zach and Angelina did a fantastic job of representing Tui in carefully laying a cross and poppy wreath.

We were all very respectful during the service.

Term 1 Finishes

Term 1 was a short term and it flew past in a flash. We had such a busy term with lots of fun and learning going on. Here are some of our last activities for the term. Now we've said goodbye to the sunhats and hello to winter uniform.

We can now sing our Days of the Week song in both English and Samoan.

Here's our counting trains, we love to see how far we can count forwards and backwards

 Here we are at our last Discovery time for the term. This is one of everyone's favourite part of the week. Loads of creative learning, thinking and talking go on for all.

 Making the worms in mud activity was a huge hit for everyone!

It's also a time for us to create things with people from other classes.

Easter Play was a lovely performance, we practices our dance with our big buddies from Pukeko and the church was packed with members of our whanau who came to watch.