Tongan Language Week 2016

TONGAN LANGUAGE WEEK 2016

September 5th - 9th 2016 marked the celebration of TONGAN LANGUAGE WEEK in New Zealand. The theme for this year is 'Fakakoloa 'a Aotearoa 'aki 'a e Loto'i Tonga'.

In the duration of a week, Room 14 learnt close to 50 new Tongan phrases, including the Tongan Alphabet and a Hiva Faka-Tonga. To finish the week off, Room 13 joined us to make 'Otai (a Tongan summer beverage). This beverage was made using pineapple, mango, coconut, milk, water and a little bit of sugar.

Here is a video of students singing 'Oku 'ofa 'a e 'Otua 'iate au'.

GIANTKILLA!

GIANTKILLA!!!

Glen Taylor School's Duffy Role Model for Term 3 was the young and successful musical artist GIANTKILLA. Giant Killa reinforced the importance of READING and even created a track with the students. Here is a photo of Giant Killa with the Y7&8 students!

Insurance Day at the Auckland University of Technology!!!!!

Insurance Day

Tuesday 6th September 10 Year 7&8 students (5 from Room 14) from Glen Taylor School were selected to participate in the Insurance Day programme. This was held at AUT and was hosted by the Young Enterprise Trust. The students were very fortunate and had the opportunity to learn of better ways to handle their money. Students were introduced to terms such as SAVINGS, SUM INSURED, TRANSACTIONS, DEPOSITS, EXPENSES, MORTGAGE, PREMIUM AND PAYMENTS.

At the end of the day. the students in the groups they were working in, presented a summary of what they learnt that day. The Judges were blown away and were very impressed. 7 out of 10 of Glen Taylor School students were the presenters and spoke with pride and confidence!

 Left: Paula working collaboratively with her group.

Right: students working with their mentors (workers from different Insurance companies).

Left: Jasonette acting all camera shy!

 Right: Christian trying to listen very hard to his group discussions.

Left: Most of the students posing with their goodies from their mentors.

Right: Honey and her group presenting their work to the panel of judges.