This year's stay was a big success - no fence painting but instead we learnt about bees, went on a paddle steamer, and had a great time at Tamaki Village...
Matua Razz came to the Marae and shared his knowledge of beekeeping with us, before we went to the Marae we had to do some research on bees:
Matua Razz used to be a school teacher (Mr Rasmussen). Mrs Puke and him taught together at Tainui Intermediate back in the day, He was a school Principal before he retired - so he knew all about making his bee talk interesting. We sent him a padlet back to thank him:
Thank you so much for sending those delightful letters of thanks. I was really interested to read that some students in the class likened their classmates to the male bee aka “drone” lol. Then, not totally unexpected, the number of boys who now know that Guard bees carry machine guns and machetes!! The students in your class showed humour and respect along with a genuine interest and what was happening.
I thoroughly enjoyed talking to them, answering their questions and visiting your class afterwards. It is not always easy to create that nice tone in a class of year seven and eight students.
As an ex Principal, it was great to see a room that was a visual symphony of students work. Awesome.!!!
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