♦♦♦♦EDUCATION♦♦♦♦

KAITAIA COLLEGE

Every Friday we go to Kaitaia College and we have to catch the school bus at 6:30am it is a long way. We have to do work and activities in class with the teachers. We are learning about algebra in Maths with Mr Yates and then we go to the library to choose a book and read it. We will be questioned about it by Matua Teimana. We go and do music with Uncle Bundy. After that we have science with Mr Bryan. We are learning about the good, the bad and the yucky. Every afternoon I go and visit Tom Besson to have speech therapy.

WHAKAWHITI ORA PAI

Every Tuesday we have cooking down the marae or at the school with Whaea Sheridan and Whaea Lenny who worked for Whakawhiti Ora Pai. We waited for Whaea Sheridan and Whaea Lenny to come and tell us what we are making today. Last week we made pickle, rice pudding, and nachos. We have also made pikelets, pancakes, soup and cupcakes. Whaea Lenny and Whaea Sheridan are going to make a new cookbook for 2007. We are learnng to make healthy meals on a low budget.

MUSIC

We have music with Uncle Bundy.

We are learning A, G, F, D, C, E and Minor keys. We have to listen to the music together and sing the songs on the paper. After that we have to go to a class next to Uncle Bundy's and sing and play our instruments in front of some other students on the stage.

KAPA HAKA

Our teachers for Kapa Haka are Aunty Sandra and Papa Chris Henare

we have kapa haka every fortnight. We have to listen to Sandra and Papa Chris sing the song first and then we repeat it. We have to stand up and be confident to sing the songs on the whiteboard without looking. Sometimes it's hard for the boys and new girls to learn the songs. All of the wharekura, Te Ngai and Waaka went to Cape Reinga for Kapa Haka and sang to support Muriwhenua.