This week, we celebrated Samoan Language Week in a different way - online!
We didn't want to miss the opportunity to share our culture with staff and students even in a lockdown. The theme was: “Tapena sou ōso mo lau malaga - Prepare yourself a gift for your travels. Below are some of the activities that we did.
Daily activities website:
We created a daily events page on the Social Sciences website for students to do during the week. Tutor teachers went through the activities during tutor time.
Staff briefing:
At each staff briefing, one of our Samoan students would share their understanding of the theme. Here is a link to their speeches.
Student morning tea:
Last year we served hot koko alaisa (cocoa rice) and panikeke's (small donuts) to our students outside the wharekai. It was our way of sharing our love of food with our kids.
Staff challenge video:
Students always love seeing their teachers giving something a go so I coerced some staff to create a staff challenge video which was fun to make and was shown to classes by their tutor teachers.
Staff morning tea:
In previous years we usually have a huge lunch catered by our Pasifika staff. This year, we did it takeaway styles and each staff member was treated to some yummy sweet treats that was delivered to them.
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| Yummy mud cake for staff |
'Pass the Siva' video challenge:
Our team discussed an idea of putting together a 'pass the siva' challenge video where students would perform a short dance and pretend to pass a move to another student. We also wanted to connect our ex-students with our current through the video as the theme lent itself nicely to it. Our Samoan tutor Alby put the word out for students to send in and near the end of the language week, I made a short video bringing all the video's together. Unfortunately we were unable to perform in the polyfest this year, so it was lovely to see our students performing for the video and we enjoyed providing a different way of sharing our love of our Samoan culture.
Cheehoooo!
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