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.

Another busy week in Tui Class

This week we were back to normal routines. The weather gave us a bit of a shock too. It was still a week of lots of great learning and we had some visitors from Petone Beach Kindergarten and Imagine Pre-School.

On Thursday the Greenie group served the whole school a yummy rhubarb crumble. Kahlea lept in to give Mrs Pennington and the group,  a hand serving the 100 plus people.

 At Maths time we often work in groups to explore number concepts. Here we are learning about groups to 10.

Sr Annette comes every Tuesday to teach us Tai Chi, she often thinks we are the best class in the school.

 Father Albano is another regular visitor to Tui class. We are going to miss this wonderful man when he moves to Rome in April. 

 Here we are enjoying our lovely free Duffy books. What lucky tamariki we are.

Petone Scavenger Hunt

On Thursday we had another glorious day for our Petone Scavenger Hunt. We walked all around Petone taking photos and being great detectives. We learnt a bit about our Petone History from Jolie at the Settlers Museum and finished off with a sausage sizzle, ice blocks and a fun time on the beach.

EOTC WEEK

What a fantastic week we had, the weather was great and it was a week full of challenges and learning taking place in our lovely community of Petone.

Huge thanks to all the parents and wider family members who came and helped out, trips just cant happen without the extra support.

We were all thankful for the lunch break.

Soni and Amelie have a closer look at a bug we found.

 Eva is wondering what's eating this plant??

 Brayden and Mrs Havell take a closer look in the weta cave.

Some of us including Mrs Tristram still had energy to burn in a fast and fun game of Stuck in the Mud.

On Wednesday at school we had outdoor activities at school. We had to work as a team and one station we had to put up tents.

Zach and his group were successful.

So was Samantha's.

Sini was a great help to her team.

Tala's tent was a read challenge.

We finished Wednesday afternoon with a whole school water fight but Mrs Pennington was too busy getting everyone wet with the hose to take photos.

Swimming Sports

What a fantastic fun day we had on Friday. It was our annual school swimming sports. It's pretty loud and we get very excited hopping on the bus as we head off to Naenae Pool.

 We are all in colour teams and each team had their own special team chant, lead by the school leaders.

 We are so proud of Kahlea, Shardae's Mum she was the only Tui parent in the parent v teachers race. Go Pirate Parent!!

Wibble wobble jelly

In Tui we had great fun making jelly with Maree, the best part of course was the next day when we got to eat it. What fantastic cooks we are! YUM YUM!!