Whaea Tania Room 16 @ OPS

  Our adventure as a new Whanau with two permanent teachers, started on Tuesday 2nd February 2021. Whaea Naomi Smith became our new Team Leader on this day, after the whole school welcomed her, and all the children who were starting their first day at Otahuhu Primary School. Whaea Tania gave a karanga which Whaea Naomi responded to. Whaea Meritiana led the school in a rousing haka powhiri. Mr Swann gave a welcome speech, which was reciprocated by a Tongan father who had brought his son on his first day at school. To whakanoa this occasion we all piled into the library room where we had kai with our new whanau, Whaea Naomi and our Senior Leadership team of Mr Swann, Mrs Patel and Whaea Meritiana. Everyday, we have been lining up at the doors of the wharenui; junior girls in one line, senior and Year 3 girls in another, junior boys in another, and the senior and Year 3 boys in the back. We have been walking into the whare, to sit in our lines before beginning with a karakia, ‘He Hono...

 Anei te whahkatauki o toku kura: Ko Tainui te waka Ko Tamaki te awa Ko Te Manukanuka me Waitemata nga moana Ko Te Kura Tuatahi o Otahuhu te kura Ko Rangimarie te whare Ko Te Whanau Tutakitanga te hapu Ko Ruma Tekau ma Ono te akomanga Ko au te kaiako. I te taha o toku papa, he uri ahau no Samoa. I te taha o toku mama, he uri ahau no Ingarangi. Heoi ano, ka puta mai ahau i Te Whanganui-a-Tara, ki Aotearoa nei. Ko Tania Siueva toku ingoa. No reira, Tena koutou, Tena koutou, Tena ano tatou katoa