Welcoming Mr Chalmers

Today we held our mihimihi to welcome Mr Chalmers, our new Principal. It was a fabulous day - the weather was warm and sunny, we were dressed up for the occasion, we spoke and sang from our hearts and we met some wonderful people from Tua Marina.

The mihimihi ceremony made it a wonderful occasion for us to all remember. Willow, Bailey and Jade called the Karanga, Kieran and Mr Gemmett spoke on our behalf, Mr Hepburn said the karanga and the whole school sang to support them. It felt wonderful to be a part of such a special ceremony. After the Karanga (calling the visitors onto our grounds), whaikorero(speeches), waiata (songs), hongi (pressing of noses) and karakia (prayer or grace) we shared kai (food) together. And of course we also shared our playground - those boys were pretty good at soccer.

We are looking forward to having Mr Chalmers as Principal of Mapua School next term.

Easter Egg Hunt

Easter is always a time to look forward to!

Mad Hair

First week back and we were into the crazy stuff at Mapua School. It was amazing to see the outrageous hair styles people had come up with. Some were very funny, some were very artistic and some of them had a whole container of gel!!!

gym

The gym festival was a success all our hard work paid off. We had been working so hard. All grades worked hard to be all we can. The competition was on the 5th June and B Grade was on the 6th June. For A Grade we had to do beam, long vault,cross vault and mat 1 and 2 and of course our team flow routine. We were rated out of 100 for all the events. Our score was 74. There was also a competition grade too. Natasha, Lydia and Zara entered it. The sort of stuff we did
was mat activities, long vault and cross vault and we did time flow with the A grade competitors. They did everything that A grade did except skipping. The amount of people from our school that went to the festival was 13 girls and one boy. After the competition they gave out the certificates. Every school got a certificate for B Grade.
For A grade and competition grade. We are looking forward to next year.
written by Ellie and Natasha.