IDENTITY AND CULTURE
Your Fonofale wall display
Introduce the Fonofale health model to your tamariki with this HUGE collaborative mosaic wall display!
Introduce the Fonofale health model to your tamariki with this HUGE collaborative mosaic wall display!
Lean into your strengths with a team work activity.
Celebrating our identity, whānau and where we come from.
Many schools, kura and classrooms have special manu and rākau they associate with. We've created these to add to your classroom and learn from.
From our friends at the Department of Conservation. While lots of our tamariki love being outside, sometimes having something to hunt for can add a layer of excitement and increase the exercise!
A relaxing colouring activity to promote relaxation and calm.
Traditional Māori breathing and mindfulness sequences.
From our friends at the Department of Conservation, this activity combines physical activity, mindfulness and being outside. All of best wellbeing bits that tamariki love!
Welcome some fresh air and some sky magic by making a manu tukutku!
Helping tamariki discover how music affects their mood.
An interactive game that explores all the things we have in common, rather than focusing on our differences.
A game for identifying, naming and sharing emotions.
A group exercise for showing and guessing different emotions.
An energising game that’s all about working as a team.
A tool that supports tamariki to feel settled and calm.
A quick game that promotes cooperation, patience and trust.
A breathing ‘experiment’ that extends tummy breathing.
A crafty activity that will give tamariki a calming keepsake.
An energising game of compliment giving and receiving.
A fun, energising, memory-based game
A calming game that paves the way for tummy breathing.
Two games that helps students discover their inner pause button.
Our favourite ideas for teaching and encouraging gratitude.
Expressing gratitude and giving back through special surprises.
A classic that helps tamariki find similarities and have fun through movement
A calming activity that boosts students’ awareness of the world around them.
Extending the connection between music and emotions.
Celebrating our strengths and being unique.
Fostering a growth mindset and celebrating akoranga (learning).
Use the Whare Tapa Whā hauora model to check in with your collective tamariki wellbeing.
Sensory kete promote self-regulation and calm.
A fun way to foster kindness, gratitude and the joy of giving.
Our favourite ideas for boosting kindness at school and beyond.
A traditional, fun and energetic challenge for tamariki.
A habits activity to help Year 7 and 8 tamariki build empathy and learn new friendship skills
A trust game without any risk! This activity is designed to help tamariki work together on a shared goal
These energising warm-ups encourage team work and communication.
Create an interactive classroom rollercoaster, and support tamariki to develop their emotional literacy and regulation
An energising game to incorporate and extend te reo Māori
A video-making activity for senior tamariki to learn about managing big emotions, and teach others to too.
A fun activity to help tamariki overcome inhibitions and get to know each other better
A familiar and fun game that tamariki LOVE!
Previously called Got Your Back, this activity helps Year 7 and 8 tamariki reflect on the people who are there for them, and the different roles they can play.
A simple and imaginative trust game (without too much risk!), this activity helps tamariki work together
Create a shaker (maybe out of paūa) whose sound will lead you to your friends. This is a great 'taking notice' game.
This activity helps tamariki learn to manage emotions using a playground slide as a visualisation tool.
An acting exercise that helps tamariki learn to manage tricky situations and big emotions.
A partner activity promoting teamwork and a bit of active problem solving.
This activity uses colours to help tamariki name emotions. Being able to recognise and name emotions is the biggest step towards successfully regulating them.
Demonstrating how our actions impact others.
This fun game will get your greetings in te reo down pat!
With Te Ara Pū you can keep learning te reo sounds to help make kōrero easy.
A fun way to help activate Te Whare Tapa Whā at this tricky time of the school year.
Introduce Te Whare Tapa Whā to your tamariki with this HUGE collaborative mosaic wall display!
Help tamariki find the ways that best suit them to support their hauora and wellbeing.
Te Whare Tapa Whā provides an excellent way for tamariki to kōrero and understand school values and the positive difference they make.
A quiz to help senior students find their strengths and make a set of strengths cards.
Practice listening, asking questions, having conversations and building empathy.
A funny game for helping tamariki understand and feel good about their strengths
Activities to help senior students start using and developing their strengths.
A tamariki-led approach to creating a culture of kindness in your school.
This is a handy printable guide you might send home with tamariki for whānau in the lead up to Pink Shirt Day and to support kindness and friendship.
A chance to recreate Pacific stories and beliefs using any performance art you choose.
