Term 2 Holidays

 On Friday the 9th of July, it was the last day of Term two and my school or maybe just my space got to do a Matariki rotation, so in the morning we had just arrived at school at different times. We all put our bags on our seats and went out to play for a couple of minutes while others stayed inside and just talked. A few minutes later the bell rang and we had to go line up outside for assembly, we started walking to assembly which was the hall and then we had sat down on the ground folding our hands getting ready for assembly. 

When assembly had started Mr Burt had talked about Matariki, and what we were going to do and all the great things that were going to happen. One of the prefects had told us that we should try new things because we don’t know whether we like it or not. At least we had experience and that's the only thing that matters. 

After we talked about all of that, it was time for us to go back to our class rooms and take our rolls for the morning and then go sit on the big mat with our bags. But the teachers made a change of plans and told us to leave our bags in our classrooms because we were going to come back for lunch and morning tea. The reason why we sat on the mat is because they were going to tell us which group we were going to for the whole day and stay there to do new things and all of that. 

After everyone had found out what their groups were, we all went and followed the teacher we were with and sat down on their mat and followed what they had to say for instructions. I found out I was weaving . It wasn't bad but it was just my first time weaving. I had tried and got some right and some wrong, but at least I tried. 

Our teacher told us to try to finish it to take it home finished or unfinished but it was fine. As time was ticking our teacher had liked our hard work so she got us pizza! It was delicious and I really enjoyed it but the reason was that on Matariki we feast as a celebration of Matariki. 

We then went back to our normal classes, got our bags and went to the second assembly that was in the hall. We then sat down and watched the highlights. It was a long video of highlights from term 1-2. After that finished we had to yell out “HAPPY HOLIDAYS!” out loud to all the teachers.