The students of Wairakei Primary School completed a survey to identify areas that needed a bit of attention to make our school based Tokarewa program even better.
The most common area identified was there needed to be new and improved tokens. Not just spray painted gold, silver, and bronze tokens. Tokens that had the design printed in that colour specifically.
The ideas did not stop there. Students went on to say that there needed to be a different kind of token that is special to be used for sporting event and whole school activities that happen in whare tiaki groups. This would also save Miss Nicholson a job of having to count all the tokens at the end of the event ready to start fresh again the next day.
Miss Nicholson Yes, I can confirm there are hundreds of tokens that need counting after these events.
Luckily, the Ministry of Education came to the party and accepted our application for funding to help us to get this project off the ground. Thanks to them we were able to get our once only dreamed gold and navy tokens as well as our sports tokens printed.
These decisions were not taken lightly. There was a group of students who learnt all about colour palletes and how and what colours look good with what. After selecting colours these were taken to the Power 4 Learning team who had the hard decision of selecting from the student picked colours. Then it was time to make contact with the printer to see if our colours and ideas could be made into reality.
The introduction of the new tokens has been a collaborative process with teachers and students being involved. The initiative to use special white tokens for sporting and whole school events is a clever idea from our students. I am looking forward to seeing which Whare Tiaki earns the most white tokens at the next school event.
The sports tokens are very important as we get rewarded for showing POWER and sportsmanship during sports events.
The new tokens are shiny and bright. I can’t wait to get one of the gold tokens.
They are good. We have to try hard to show POWER in the playground to get one.
These new white tokens are special because they are only for sports events or whole school activities. We get them for showing POWER when we are listening to instructions, encouraging people, and trying your best.
As a Kotahitanga Manakura, it is my role to collect tokens on a Friday. I noticed that the old tokens were becoming more and more damaged throughout the year, especially as the spray painted tokens were hard to know if it was gold, silver or bronze. That made it hard to count the points. The new sports tokens looked really cool and are a good idea for a sporting event to make them separate from the everyday blue tokens. It was cool to see the white tokens showing which whare tiaki group participated the most and had the best team spirit.
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