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.
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!
Traditional Māori breathing and mindfulness sequences.
A practical mindfulness activity using our senses.
A calming, mindfulness activity that boosts body awareness
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!
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.
An activity that’s fun and engaging for all students and has a unique Pacific focus – first create your fale (house), then create your classroom’s village!
Kōrero with a loved-one and create a poster about them.
Sometimes we fall into habits, and sometimes we have to spend some time creating them. Here's how...
An activity for thinking about and adjusting our energy levels.
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 group exercise for showing and guessing different emotions.
An energising game that’s all about working as a team.
A quick game that promotes cooperation, patience and trust.
An energising game of compliment giving and receiving.
Teaching mindful breathing for focus and calm.
A fun, energising, memory-based game
A calming game that paves the way for tummy breathing.
Make fun, feel-good posters for your classroom.
A fun literacy (and emotional literacy) activity that can last the whole week!
Helping tamariki understand and manage their worries.
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
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.
A fun way to foster kindness, gratitude and the joy of giving.
Our favourite ideas for boosting kindness at school and beyond.
Absorbing, simple activities that help students relax and find flow.
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
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.
Making memory posters to encourage connections to tamariki whānau and whakapapa with this simple interviewing activity.
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.
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.
An acting exercise that helps tamariki learn to manage tricky situations and big emotions.
An opportunity for tamariki to acknowledge and explore their amazing whenua (land) and heritage.
This activity uses colours to help tamariki name emotions. Being able to recognise and name emotions is the biggest step towards successfully regulating them.
A fun and memorable lesson about diversity, acceptance and being our true selves
Demonstrating how our actions impact others.
A co-design approach to creating a culture of kindness in your classroom and school.
This fun game will get your greetings in te reo down pat!
A great aiga (family) connecting and learning activity highlighting the importance of our names.
Help tamariki find the ways that best suit them to support their hauora and wellbeing.
A book review worksheet for exploring books with positive diversity, emotion or wellbeing- based themes.
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.
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.
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.
This is a great calm down activity and so simple to play
