Welcome to the Arohanui Syndicate page, featuring Year 2 children from Rooms 1, 2 and 3.
Congratulations to Evan Johnson-Nebu and Ruby Neil-Nili for receiving Principal awards this week.
Well done! Keep up the good work! 
Congratulations to Jahzaria Ah Chee for receiving the Catholic Character award for Compassion! Great job Jahzaria!
Did you know that tucked in next to New World in Papatoetoe is a wonderful greenspace called the Papatoetoe Community Gardens where you can rent a plot of land and grow things to your heart’s content.
There are experts there who can help you learn. We went and learned how to get the soil ready for plants to grow, we learnt about sewing seeds, we learnt about how to keep pests away.
We saw gardeners with tools, vegetables, inventions, seeds and so much more just a walk away from Holy Cross School.
Maori, Samoan, Tongan, Cook Island, Fijian, European and Filipino – patterns – patterns -patterns – that’s what Room 2 has been looking at. What we’ve learnt is that lots of cultural patterns are based on nature and that they all repeat, repeat, repeat.
We looked at patterns, we practiced making our patterns, we used thick, black vivid to put our designs together and then we carefully dyed them.
Here are the learners of Room 2 hard at work.
What an awesome effort everyone put in today for the great Holy Cross Catholic School run-a-thon – MAGIC!!! After our hard sweaty effort, we used out mighty brains to graph our results.
Way to go Rick with his achievement. Ka pai ruma rua!
Congratulations to Valensia Matu and Jessiah Vaaga for receiving Principal Awards this week. Malo Lava!
In the morning Room 2 starts their day with prayers.
We are learning about ways in which we pray, how do we pray, why do we pray and words we might hear or say in a prayer.
Do you know the song Te Atua? We do.
Te Atua, tapu o ngā tapu
Ki a Hehu, te korōria, te hōnore
Te Atua te mana hareruia
I heke mai i te maunga tapu
Ki te iwi
Hapaitia … Hapaitia
Te ingoa o Hehu
Whakapai … Whakapaingia
Whakamoemititia
Te Atua, tapu o ngā tapu
I mate nei a Hehu e, te kingi nui
(Repeat from the beginning)
Amine
