Brunner Mine Trip

Yesterday Totara 2 went to the Brunner Mine Site. We have been studying the novel, The Mine's Afire! which is set at Brunnerton at the time of the Brunner Mine explosion. We got to visit the actual site of the mine, see where the characters lived and we even went to the cemetery to visit the mass grave where a lot of the miners were buried. We started the day with some background information. We had to act out some scenes, we took a tour of the mine site, and we learnt how they made coke (not the drink or the drug!) Check out the photos below of our super cool day. A huge thank you to the teachers from Shantytown and the parents who accompanied us on this trip. We couldn't do it without you!

Family Fiesta Cupcakes

Today is our Family Fiesta. The Totara Syndicate had to make cupcakes for their entries in the class competition. Below are a few photos of some of our entries. Come on down tonight to get some food, try your luck at mystery envelopes, get your face painted and you may even win a bottle at the Bottle-O!

Getting to know Totara 2

Part of our Tuhu Mai, Tuhi Atu programme we want our buddy class to get to know a little bit about us. Check out our individual slides and see if you can learn something new about all of us!

Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu

We are excited to begin Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu and we hope we get heaps of comments on our blogs and the work that we are doing!
We have been teamed up with a school in Northland and are really looking forward to connecting with them and seeing their awesome learning too. Have a look at their blog; https://kaiphuia.blogspot.com/

Meet Our Ambassadors

Congratulations to Kyra and Harvey who have been selected by Totara 2 to be our Ambassadors for this year. Both Kyra and Harvey are great Grey Main Learners and they follow the Grey Main way. We look forward to seeing the contributions you two will make at our school.

Visual Mihi's

Kia Ora and welcome back to 2019! I am really excited to be back in our new learning space in Totara 2 with such an enthusiastic bunch of kids!
One of our firsts tasks this term is to create a visual mihi so others can get to know us. This will also help us learn our mihi's orally! We are all currently working on our mihi's and will be publishing our individual ones on our blogs in the coming days. They will also be embedded onto our classes Google Site so anyone visiting that can get to know us too! In the meantime I thought it would be only fair if I shared my mihi that I created (very quickly). I look forward to seeing what T2 does with their mihi's to make them unique!