Ko Au - Healthy Me

This term as part of our Ko Au focus, our team Te Whare Pono investigated what being healthy involves.

Over the last 6 weeks, The class have learnt about aerobic and anaerobic exercise and measured how well they could carry out a range of fitness activities. They will be revisiting regularly as part of our PE programme.

They learnt about our digestive system and what it involves, and cooked Island chop suey and a microwave steam pudding.

They also learnt about Healthy Eating - the food groups,and nutrients, you can see this on the slides Room 10 created below as part of their food inquiries. 

This year Tokoroa Intermediate is part of the Lunches in School programme, you can find out more about it here:

School Lunch Programme

The class used their learning  to analyse the food groups and nutrients in some of the lunches they've had:

                     They also found out how much sugar is in many common drinks

The class also took part in a shared Padlet on What We Eat with a class in the Marquesa Islands (North of Tahiti) and one in Ohio USA, it has been interesting to see similarities and differences.

We are currently doing another with our epals in France.

Leadership in Room 10

This Year lots of new leadership roles have been created at Tokoroa Intermediate and today's Assembly saw school leaders, whare - house leaders, class councillors, and team leaders announced and badges presented.

Recipients from Room 10:

* School Leader - Casey

*Te Whare Pono leader - Takurangi

Class Councillor - Tatsuya

We had 5 candidates for the Room 10 Councillor position and after the final votes were counted Tatsuya was declared the Councillor for 2021

Cerrone is our Deputy Councillor, he made an amazing video for the class - He's highly talented and we can expect to see more of him when the school Production takes place in Term 3

*Te Whare Pono Team Leaders:

Maunga iti - Julius,

Mangaharakeke - Qwade

and Rimu - Renata .

We have 4 School Councils this year - giving student's voice and Room 10 are well represented on these:

* Sports Council - Renata and Noah.

* Curriculum and Well-Being Council - Maia, Takurangi, Koston and Kiera.

* Social and Celebrations Council - Casey.

*Eco -Environmental Council - Flynn, Calum and Jacob.