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    • Welcome to Water Whanau

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      Easttle Reading T1 2020 Assignment
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      Easttle Reading T2 2020 Assignment
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      Easttle Reading T4 2020 Assignment
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      Easttle Writing T1 2020 Assignment
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      Easttle Writing T4 2020 Assignment
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      Easttle Maths T1 2020 Assignment
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      Easttle Maths T2 2020 Assignment
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      Easttle Maths T4 2020 Assignment
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      Term 1 Student Reflections Assignment
      • My long term learning goals that I have developed from my Student-led Conference are…
      • My short term learning goals that I have developed from my Student-led Conference are...
      • My achievement and progress to date...
      • The learning support I need from my teachers is...
      • My family can help me by...
      • The personal action(s) I need to take to support my own learning are...
      • My parents' goals and aspirations for me are…
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      Holistic Student Reflections Assignment

      You are required to write a reflection statement that identifies the SMART goals you have set yourself in 2020 and the progress you are making to achieving these goals. You may choose to describe the actions you have taken, the successes you have had and the obstacles/challenges you have faced. This will be an unedited statement from you and will appear on your Holistic report.

      You may choose to use one of the below sentence starters to help (copy and paste these into the text box);

      A goal I have set myself for 2020 is....
      I have taken the following actions to meet this goal...
      The successes I have experienced are...
      The challenges I have faced are...

      SENCO Writing Template : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xl6gXR6Mnhsvl1dwcJF8pi8opLljSsDM3YXDmLeEz-U/edit?usp=sharing

      ESOL Writing Template : https://docs.google.com/document/d/1xl6gXR6Mnhsvl1dwcJF8pi8opLljSsDM3YXDmLeEz-U/edit?usp=sharing


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      Term 4 Student Reflections Assignment

      • My long term learning goals that I have developed from my Student-led Conference are…
      • My short term learning goals that I have developed from my Student-led Conference are...
      • My achievement and progress to date...
      • The learning support I need from my teachers is...
      • My family can help me by...
      • The personal action(s) I need to take to support my own learning are...
      • My parents' goals and aspirations for me are…

  • Water Staff

    Teachers in Water Whanau


    • Mrs Cathy Hewlett – Deputy Principal/Technology

    • Ms Kate Lambert – Assistant Principal/Global Studies

    • Mrs Gillian Bartlett – Whanau Dean -Science 

    • Mrs Kess Naidoo  – Water Student Services

    • Mr Tashi Hishey – Maths & Science

    • Mr Raj Sharma – Maths

    • Mrs Neetu Ismail  – English & Global Studies

    • Mr Dino Gardi – Physical Ed & Health/ Global Studies

    • Ms Erin Steel - Global Studies

    • Mrs Rajesh Joshi  - English

    • Mrs Juliet Gao - Mandarin/ Enterprise studies/ Robotics & Coding

    • Ms Aidyn Thomas  – Physical Ed & Health


  • New Parent Information Evening

  • Literacy and Numeracy Learning - Home Expectations

    A friendly reminder that your Reading Plus homework schedule starts next week (4 x See Readers, 2 x Read Arounds, and 2 x iBalance for all year levels).  This eLearning programme will help you to reach your easTTLe reading goals. 
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    This means that you need to use your eLearning / pLearning and homework time this week to complete your InSite test + 2 x See Readers, so the Reading Plus programme can assign your correct reading level.  This is called "...completing your Start-up."

    You can complete your Start-up for homework by going to the www.readingplus.com login, entering the site code:  mheightsjc  then your school username and password. 


    • At MHJC we celebrate students reaching the minimum 100 x See Readers mark. This means you have shown a GREAT commitment to your learning!
    • Combos (=2 x consecutive See Readers at 80% accuracy or higher) help you to advance up to the next level/grade.  Usually, the completion of 7-10 combos enables you to "level-up."
    • The programme will put you on hold if it senses that you are not reading correctly (or your comprehension is low).  Please email your eLearning / pLearning teacher if this happens to you and use the 'Re-Read' button to assist your reading-for-meaning. 
    The homework schedule is not assigned during the school holidays, although you are free to keep working on the Reading Plus programme if you wish to. The holidays also provide an opportunity to catch-up if you have fallen behind during the school term. 


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    Best wishes for your Reading Plus Homework this year.  Remember to get that Start-up completed asap, please.🐝

    • Each week you will be assigned Mathsbuddy Numeracy Learning for Home, to reinforce the learning from class.

      • You have a Maths book to use for your Maths Learning at Home. 
      • You need to use this to show your working steps - justify your answers.  
      • Your Maths teacher will regularly ask you to hand in your At Home Learning Math Book to check that you are showing your working steps





  • Te Tohu o Te Reo mai Te Whanau Wai

    Water Whanau Te Reo Phrase of the Water


    Use your Water Card and collect a token to acknowledge your use of Te Reo. In your Monday Session 1 class the phrase of the week will be introduced. Monday is practice day. Then try your best to use the phrase in conversation over the week and collect a token each time. 

    Your teachers are also part of this - catch them trying to use the phrase in conversation.

    We would like to acknowledge Radio New Zealand and Hemi Kelly, to whom resources we are using.  Hemi's a lecturer in Te Ara Poutama - the Faculty of Māori & Indigenous Development at Auckland University of Technology, and his book A Māori Phrase a Day: 365 Phrases to Kickstart Your Reo will be released on January 7.

    • Maori Phrase of the Week (10th-15th Feb)

      Kei te pēhea koe?

      Translation: How are you? 

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      Kei te pēhea koe? How are you? 

      "It's a good follow-on from 'kia ora'", Hemi says.

      "You can use it any time of the day - and quite often it's shortened to just 'kei te pēhea' - so we leave off the pronoun, 'you', and we're just saying 'how's it?'"

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      Click the play of the sound file below to hear Hēmi pronounce this phrase and take you through any pronunciation nuances


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      Te Reo Phrase of the Week: Kei te pēhea koe? URL

    • Maori Phrase of the Week (17th- 21st Feb

      Kia pai te rā

      Translation:  'have a good day'
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      "There's a familiar word there - 'pai' - which means 'good'", says Hēmi. "'Ra' is 'day' - so we're telling someone to have a good day: 'kia pai te rā."

      It's a sentence that can be used at any time of day - and a dextrous one too.

      "What we can do is take out that word 'rā' and we can put in another word."

      "If we want to say have a good meeting - 'kia pai te hui'".

      "Have a good trip - 'kia pai te haere'. So we can change that last word for different contexts.

      "You'll normally hear it when you're saying goodbye to someone, or maybe when you're signing off an email, if it's not too late in the day."

      "You can also change 'ra' for 'po', which is 'night.'"

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      Te Reo Phrase of the Week : Kia pai te rā URL

    • Maori Phrase of the Week (21st-28th Feb)

      Taihoa, kāore e roa!

      Translation: hang on, hold up, wait

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      "Taihoa' means 'hang on, hold up, wait' - and 'kāore e roa' means 'I won't be long'".

      "If someone's knocking on the bathroom door you can say 'Taihoa, kāore e roa! Or you could just take that first word - 'taihoa!'"

      How much should we roll our 'r' in 'roa'? "It's rolled - but not THAT much", Hēmi says. "It's not a violent roll - it's a pacifist roll!"

      "Everywhere the 'r' is present, it's always rolled."

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    • Maori Phrase of the Week (2-6th March)

      Kei te hiakai koe?


      Are you hungry? If we think about what we've learned already, we can start to figure out what this is asking, Hēmi says.

      "The 'kei te' is the present, doing. The 'koe' is you. So we're asking you a question."

      "And we've got the word 'kai' in there - a lot of us know this to be food".

      "'Hiakai' is to want food, or to be hungry - so we're saying 'are you hungry?' 'Ke te hiakai koe?'"

      "We put that little 'hia' in front of a noun like 'kai', we're saying 'want food' or to be hungry."

      We do the same with the word 'moi' - sleep.

      "'Hiamoi' - to be sleepy."

      "Your answer might be 'āe' - for yes - or 'kāo' for no."

      Blending the vowels in words like "koe"

      "We see a lot of vowels sitting together than make one sound in Māori."

      "If you're new to the language, go back to the vowel sounds: ah, eh, ee, oh, oo."

      "Here we've got 'oh' and 'eh' - so we roll them together to make that sound: 'koe."'

      "It's not like 'kway' - it's fluid and rolls into itself."



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  • Water Affiliation Party


  • NZ 2nd


  • Spinoff Party


  • Wai Party


  • Water First


  • Water Diversity Party


  • Natural Party


  • TRC - The Right Choice


  • Aqua Party


  • Wai Not




  • The Rightside


  • Pohutukawa Party


  • Land Party


  • Water Students 13: WS-13


  • Blue Zone


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