Dawn Raid

This term we have been reading the book 'Dawn Raid' by Pauline (Vaeluaga) Smith.
We were lucky enough to have a character from the book 'Tigi' come in and talk about his experience as a Polynesian Panther and how they fought the injustice of the Dawn Raids in the 1970's.

Rm23: Tell us what was most memorable about Tigi's talk. Comment on what it made you think/feel.

Here are some of the questions we wanted to ask Tigi.

Room 23 video about change entry - Ako Hiko

Credit to Leo, Solomon, Harry, Joel, Rico and Charlie. Awesome work boys!

Mexican Group

Here is the slideshow with the Mexican dances the Mexican group will be doing for Cultural Festival.

Congratulations to the speech winners

Firstly congratulations to Solomon and Rawiri who represented Rm23 in the Kauri Speech finals. They did an amazing job representing us. Kapai!
Solomon's speech was on 'Nuclear Weapons' and Rawiri's was 'Rebellion not the Empire'.

Big congratulations to all the Kauri Team finalists that did an amazing job representing our cohort.

Big thanks to the amazing judges Mrs Fletcher and Mrs Cramer who had a very hard job picking the winner.

Finally a massive congratulations to 3rd place equal winners: Alodia and Zoe

2nd place equal winners: Luka and Licha

and 1st place winner: Bruno.

Author Visit

Today we had a visit from the talented author Anne Kayes who wrote 'Tui Street Tales'. 

She read us an snippet from her book which had us all hooked in and wanting more.

Rm23 - Please comment on what you thought about the sound of the book or a question you would like to ask her.

Check out more information about Anne and her book here: https://www.annekayes.com/

Book Review

Congratualations to our awesome Rm23 certificate winners!

Tongan Language Week 2018

Learn some fun and useful words and phrases in Tongan for Tongan Language Week!