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.
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.
A creative writing activity for celebrating the senses.
Traditional Māori breathing and mindfulness sequences.
A practical mindfulness activity using our senses.
From our friends at the Department of Conservation - this is a really simple mindfulness activity, only needing a quiet space to look and listen.
A calming, mindfulness activity that boosts body awareness
Tuputupu is a fun, activity-based workbook created as part of Te Wiki o te Reo Māori which uses te Reo and Whare Tapa Whā as a foundation for tamariki to understand and care for their hauora.
Sometimes we fall into habits, and sometimes we have to spend some time creating them. Here's how...
Helping tamariki discover how music affects their mood.
Bring Whare Tapa Whā to life with these super easy print-outs - makes either a mean wall display, or gift for whānau to carry on this important mahi.
Teaching tamariki the neuroscience behind worrying helps them make sense of the way it feels, so they can better work through it.
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 game for identifying, naming and sharing emotions.
A group exercise for showing and guessing different emotions.
A tool that supports tamariki to feel settled and calm.
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.
Teaching mindful breathing for focus and calm.
A calming game that paves the way for tummy breathing.
A fun literacy (and emotional literacy) activity that can last the whole week!
Helping tamariki understand and manage their worries.
Our favourite ideas for teaching and encouraging gratitude.
Expressing gratitude and giving back through special surprises.
Boost children’s awareness of the world around them.
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.
A week of sensory fun and exploration.
This activity encourages tamariki to think about their wellbeing, all the ways they can boost it and some of the great stuff they're already doing.
Sensory kete promote self-regulation and calm.
Absorbing, simple activities that help students relax and find flow.
These energising warm-ups encourage team work and communication.
Create an interactive classroom rollercoaster, and support tamariki to develop their emotional literacy and regulation
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!
We’ve created this activity to encourage tamariki to think about Pink Shirt Day beyond the colour pink.
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.
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.
A co-design approach to creating a culture of kindness in your classroom and school.
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.
When we're tired and tamariki are tired, tiny, quiet activities give us the time we all need to 'refresh'. Here's some go-to's from our weekly e-newsletter.
A book review worksheet for exploring books with positive diversity, emotion or wellbeing- based themes.
Koinei ō mātou tino ariā ki te whakaako, ki te akiaki hoki i te whakawhetai.
He ngohe pāreka tēnei kia puta mai ai te tuakiri tūturu o te tamaiti, kia tuia pai te taura tangata hoki ki waenga i a rātou.
He ngohe pai tēnei ki te whakatau te mauri, ā, he mea māmā hoki te tākaro
Te whakaako ki te whakangā kia aro ai, kia whakatau ai.
He ngohe whakangā nō te ao Māori.
A quiz to help senior students find their strengths and make a set of strengths cards.
A funny game for helping tamariki understand and feel good about their strengths
Activities to help senior students start using and developing their strengths.
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.
When it's a first day back after a break, this activity provides and opportunity to kōrero about this and express how they're doing.
A resiliency-based set of activities based on reading, or listening to the book Rising Tide (He Tai Pari) – in English and/or te reo Māori.
We all know books have super powers. Here’s an activity that will use them to help tamariki develop emotional literacy, tune in to how others are feeling and know how to react to different emotions.
