Sustainability Term 1

Te Taiao O Tamki

What is the theme for Tamaki College's projects? Sustainability

What were the topics for the six projects? Parks and Public spaces                                                    

                                                                Protecting our Culture and Identity 

                                                                Healthy Foods

                                                                Our Houses, Our Homes

                                                                Rubbish and Recycle

                                                                Our Waterways

What was your project and what did you learn? My project was ( Parks and Public Spaces ) We learnt that there were hardly any parks around in our Community and that we have not that much of entertainment for our children's. So we came up with an idea of building or designing our own parks to put in our Community, for our kids to go and have fun on. We thought that building, designing, replacing parks is a good idea because our parks NOW aren't that much of fun.

What your favourite part of the unit and least favourite? 

LIKED : 

I liked how we designed our own parks 

I liked how we came up with ideas on how to fix the problem

I liked how we all participated and work together

DISLIKED : 

I disliked how we didn't get most of our work done

I disliked how we were off task

I disliked how we didn't finished the design of our own park

What did you see at Te Oro yesterday that stood out to you? I saw that my old school ( Glen Taylor ) was presenting something called ( Fish Bone. ) It stood out to me the most because it had heaps of meanings and the design of the ( Fish Bone ) was awesome. It was colourful and full of words. I liked it so muchh. 

What is a Fono Fale?

A Fono Fale is a model design of health. It is a similar design of a Hauora, A Hauora is represented as a Marae but a Fono Fale is represented as a Pacifica Hut. A Fono Fale holds four main dimensions - Taha Tinana, Taha Wairua, Taha Hinengaro, Taha Whanau. There are six dimensions all put together in a Fono Fale - Culture, Family, Physical, Mental, Spiritual, Other. These dimensions represent a Fono Fale, if at least one dimension breaks down, the whole building together comes down too. The two main dimensions that are important to a Fono Fale are Culture and Family, these two dimensions are important to a Fono Fale because it represents what a Fono Fale is. It is also important because it is what islanders are all about and because the Fono Fale is island, pacific created. Here is a picture of what a Fono Fale looks like :

Hauora

Hauora - ( Taha Tinana, Taha Hinengaro, Taha Whanau, Taha Wairua ) are represented as a Marae. They are four walls of the Marae that represents these elements - Taha Tinana, Taha Hinengaro, Taha Whanau and Taha Wairua. If at least one wall of the " Marae " is destroyed, the other three breaks and the entire building comes down because the four elements is reliable for the " Marae " to stand together as one. This can also be called " Dimensions "  

Dimensions are what we are talking about. The four parts of Hauora are linked to what we call Dimensions. Each Dimension has a different meaning behind of its word. For eg -

Taha Tinana - (physical)

• Sports
• Movement
• Exercise

Taha Wairua - (spiritual)

• Church
• Jesus
• Family

Taha Whanau - (family)

• Friends
• Interaction
• Family

Taha Hinegane - (mental/emotional)

• Thinking
• Feelings
• Emotions

He Korowai Hapori - Ruapotaka Marae

Ruapotaka Marae
He Korowai Hapori
Whaea Noelene
Housing in the Tamaki Community

When we entered the Ruapotaka Marae there was a speaker. Her name was Whaea Noelene. And there was one other school. That school name was Glen Taylor, they brought the year fives and sixes to visit like what we were doing. Anyways Whaea Noelene did and awesome Maori introduction to welcome us and to let us know who she is. Her fluency of speaking Maori was incredible and really unique. The tone of her voice, as she was speaking made me fall asleep. She talked about the Tamaki Community, of houses being built around that area. She also talked out some special Maori words telling us that we are the treasure for the future. She showed us a Maori designed Korowai. They said that they made the Korowai by hand and that got me amazed. Amazed of the amount of hard work they had to do. Each design of the Korowai they created, had a different meaning behind it. I cant remember all of it, but i still know what it could look like. It had colours of course and layers of house's on coloured lines on top of brown flax. It was a good piece of art and it was something different as in cool. I liked how it looked because i havent seen one before but that was my first time. It was a good trip down at the Ruapotaka Marae cause im sure we all learned something special and new.

Digitech - Brief Development

In Digitech, we have been working on Brief Development in class.

I have learnt more about Sustainability in the Tamaki Community and the happen in that problem. I have also learnt about how to sustain my ability in my Tamaki Community and how to create a website about Sustainability and many more stuff.

Review about Sustainability

Review our sustainability day!  Give lots of examples!

What did you do?

We went exploring differents parts of the school and we talk about the Marae and the patterns and the history of Manawa tau and we talk about what each pattern printed on the Marae was about.

What did you learn?

We learnt that we had to keep our school, our area, our community clean and that we have parks and stuff to keep our children fit and that they have fun. And we also learnt that we have to keep trying no matter what happens to us or whatever gets in our way that we fight it and keep on going  

How did you feel?

I felt a lot of things but i don’t know which one yet but i did feel like family with the heart of tamaki college

What do you want to learn more about?

I wanted to learn about why the name is Tamaki College even though it’s a good name for a college but why it was chosen for this college