Gardening club Leadership Getting Involved Merit Blog post #1

For gardening club we are getting ready for the garden show. We are making a house with big pipes painted like a candy cane. We are also putting red and white flowers in them. And the roof will be made of cardboard tubes painted like candy canes. I have shown excellence by contributing to the wider school.

Head Boy Leadership Merit Blog post #1

Over the last few weeks the student leaders have been learning about our roles and today we have been planning things that we will be doing. I have shown Active Thinking by contributing to my group.

Treaty of Waitangi

Te Reo Term 4 2016

This term we have been learning all about the Marae. We have learned that…….

• The Marae is an important focal point for the community.
• The Marea is a place where tradition and customs can be carried out.
• The Marae is a place where people can express their values with dignity.
• There are many kawa ( protocols) that prevail on the marae.
• Marae kawa (protocols) can differ between maraes and iwi.

We have focussed on some key concepts when doing this learning.

These are listed and explained in the table below.

Concept	Definition - give the meaning of these concepts in your own words.
Tikanga	The way they do things
Pōwhiri	Welcoming ceremony
Tangata whenua	the local people
Manuhiri	visitors to the marae
Tūrangawaewae	where you are from
Whanaungatanga	family connection
Manaakitanga	care for people
Aroha	Love

See this video for an explanation of the roles and responsibilities of people on a marae.

Something I would like to learn more about the marae is... what do the carvings mean?

Merit Must do - 5

A few weeks ago the Kauri team had our athletics I was in the 12 year old boys and I was number one so I had to do all of the field events first. I was resilient because I had to do everything first and I tried my best in every thing.

NZ Identity WW1

Parliament

Parliament

This term we have been learning about Parliament. We have looked at the difference between government and parliament, NZ parliament, who is in government, how our government works and we compared democracy to dictatorship.

Three things that I learned are NZ parliament are:

• The prime minister sits on the 4th seat on the speakers right
• We use Mixed Member Proportional  
• National and Labour have accomplice parties

Here is the link to my compare and contrast map explaining the difference between democracy and dictatorship.