Financial literacy

Room 8 are grateful and thankful that PWC could Come through to teach us about financial literacy. Here is what Room students had to say: "I learnt how to save money, and always use the money on things that cost less. Whatever money is left I would use for a good cause and needs" By K. "I learnt that you need to save money and that you should buy what you need, but not buy what you want. Because, in the future you may not have the money. you need to get by". I also enjoyed the 'spending money game' because it was challenging when you try to use your money on expensive stuff when you had to pay for needs first such as your rent, power, transport, etc" by K "I learnt that you have to work hard to make money and make it far in life. Also, you need to have savings when you want to make big purchases, and. you can only do this when you dont spend too much money on wants" by D. "I enjoyed having fun playing money activities such as throwing the bean bag on the money cards and depending on the card the bean bag landed w ecould collect points for our groups" By J. "I learnt how to save money, and one way we can do that is by buying less expensive stuff so that we can have more money. Because if we buy expensive stuff we wont have any or much money left which means we wont be able to pay for the things that we need . For example,if our car broke down we would not have the money to pay insurance to fix it if we dont save" By R.

Our class trip to 'Te Oro' to learn about Matariki and celebrate through the arts

What Room 8 students had to say about their trip to 'Te oro' to learn about Matariki through the arts. Paint Kowhaiwhai patterns on wood: First they let us draw our maori symbols (patterns) on a piece of paper, and then we drew it onto hard wood. I found drawing our symbols on wood kind of hard. Next we started painting our maori symbols. I used alot of gold paint because it was shiny. After that we let it dry. At the end we went onto the mat and each group showed others what they did and how they did it. (D.S) We learnt that kowhaiwhai patterns are symbols that are important to Maori people and they tell traditional storis about maoripeople. Paint a taniwha onto stone (stone art): Frist we said a pray and did a song about matariki . Second we got put into three groups. Group one did stone art,group two did weaving, and group three did painting . I was in group one so I did rock arts. After that we showed our art to everyone and how we did it.Then we went back to school. We learnt that the taniwha is the gardian of the sea. Weave a matariki star using harakeke (flax): We enjoyed learning how to weave a star using flax. We had to listen and hear the teacher tll us how to do it . It was hard but we enjoyed it.