Samoan Language Week

Samoan Language Week

This week is Samoan Language Week, Hornby High school celebrates Samoan Language week by learning a few greetings in Samoan, making our own Samoan patterns/tattoos.

The meaning of Samoa tattoos are...

If you look close enough at Samoan Tattoos(Tatau in Samoan). most of them have repeated symbols, each and every tattoo holds a unique and different special meanings.
They represent:

-Love 
-Life
-Family
-Death
-Fertility
-Protection from evil

Common Samoan Tattoos mostly include...

- Spearhead

- Enata

- Ocean

- Turtle

- Tiki

- Shark Teeth

- Stingray

- Lizard

Samoan Greetings

Hello to group ⇒ Tālofa

Thank you ⇒Fa’afetai 

Please ⇒ Fa’amolemole  

Well done ⇒ Malo

Goodbye ⇒ Tofa

What interested you about this topic? I'm interested in this topic because I would like to learn about their culture.

key ideas that you find about the topic? the key Ideas that I found about Samoan patterns are that each of them has a unique and special story.

Why is this significant to the people of Samoa? It's important for us to celebrate Samoan Language week is to show people from Samoa that we appreciate them and care about them.

How does your topic compare to New Zealand’s equivalent? Although New Zealand's patterns and Samoa's patterns are quite similar, New Zealand's patterns commonly have curvy shapes, repeating while Samoan patterns are more of a mix of patterns in one.

♡ My Strength Cards ♡

♡ My strength cards ♡

This blogpost is about some of my strengths, well not all of them represent me. For example, I’m not that energetic and have a lot of enthusiasm but for me, these are strengths I chose because these suited me the most out of all the strengths that teacher asked us to choose.

Here is a slide about my Strengths ⇓
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I really enjoyed making this slide, I tried to make it with using my own ideas. For example, I added gifs(anime), pictures, drawings, quotes, border dashes(which are the lines around the text) and some other things! Overall I like making things original, well things that I think about and like.