Akeake Tennis Hot Shots

On Thursday all the children in Akeake had some tennis coaching.  

We had heaps of fun learning some new skills and it was great to see the children being brave 

and trying something new.  Well done to all out tamariki who had a go!

TENNIS HOT SHOTS is a world class tennis programme for 3-12year olds.  It is a safe, fun way to get into tennis.  

Children are encouraged to work together or independently on tasks to learn the game of tennis - how to serve, rally and score.  

If your child is interested in giving tennis a go you can email

programmes@tennis.kiwi

or register at

tennishotshots.kiwi

Our amazing Akeake students

It was great this week to celebrate our 

Star Students and Outstanding Workers, 
our Role models, Great Friends
and having such wonderful Awesome Attitudes. 

Sun Smart - Our Skin!

In Akeake, we are learning about how to be smart in the sun. The first thing we had to do was some learning about our skin. We had to use red, brown, yellow and white paint to create some natural-looking skin tones. Our biggest challenge was trying to recreate our own skin tone! Once we had our colours, we fingerprinted them onto a tree template. Then we reflected on how everyone's skin tone is slightly different, but that doesn't change how we treat them. 

Akeake Production

Wow! What an awesome effort from all our Akeake children this week with their performance in 

Next Stop Mars

We teachers are so very proud of our children and extremely grateful to all our wonderful parent helpers who 

gave their time and effort to help us make this show happen.

Room 8 - Flying us through space

Room 9 - Heading to work

Room 10 - Ready for lift-off!

Room 11 - About to go into battle

Room 12 - A bunch of Purple People Eaters!

This was a great experience for all and not one that any of us will forget anytime soon! 
THANK YOU to everyone who came to watch.  
We hope you enjoyed our show.

Craig Smith - Wonky Donkey Author

This morning, years 1-6 gathered in the hall for a very special visit from Craig Smith, the author of Wonky Donkey and other very cool books. He shared his brand new book called Grizzly Bear and told us it would be in the shops to buy next week. 

He also sang the Wonky Donkey, My Daddy Ate an Apple, Kaha the Kea, Eating, The Scariest Thing in the Garden and he sang the alphabet backwards!

Craig brought some friends along with him. Kaha the Kea was a crowd favourite.

He also brought some puppets to help tell the stories of his books.

Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori - Take 2!

Kōpapa have been celebrating Māori Language week this week. We thoroughly enjoyed our house morning and the bake sale on Thursday. Thank you to everyone who donated baking for this, we really appreciate your support.

On Friday we spent some time learning how to use rakau, which are traditional Māori batons.

Te Wiki o Te Reo Maori

We have been busy celebrating Maori Language week in Paneke.  

One of the things we did was learn how to ask and answer: How are you?

We spent time with a buddy to practice asking how they were and we used the 

new feeling words that we had learnt to answer.

We also had a go at doing our Te Reo in Sign Language!