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[Health] - "Te Whare Tapa Wha - Hauora"

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Te Whare Tapa Wha

During the sessions in Health class we’ve expanded even more knowledge between ourselves and our well-being.

Throughout the past few weeks we’ve learnt about our well-being first in English then in Māori. The four dimensions are known as Taha Hinengaro (Mental/Emotional), Taha Tinana (Physical), Taha Wairua (Spiritual) and Taha Whanau (Social), overall this is called Health.

There are 23 different keywords that relate to the four dimensions. These keywords associate with our feelings, how we take care of ourselves, and how we socialise.

For Taha Hinengaro this mindset affects the way we feel and think. Mental comes with our emotions and Emotional comes with our feelings. Personally, this dimension mostly affects the way we use our brains. For example, if someone was being bullied by people who use their physical skills and here's you trying your hardest not to cry. But your feelings along with emotions click, which would result in depression, being scared and becoming anonymous.

For Taha Tinana, this certain physical aspect affects the way we do things and how we do it. For myself personally my physical well-being has been affected by the amount of running I would do three times a week and the amount of actions I would do everyday. But overall my physical well being wall has been structurally strong. 

For Taha Wairua, this form of well-being just affects the way we value many things. What I mean is this certain well-being dimension just affects all the things we have valued towards our beliefs and achievements. For myself this has been affected by the way I’ve achieved a lot during the past few years and the times I’ve been going to church. 

For Taha Whānau, this well-being format affects the way we socialise with family, friends and social media. But personally on my side of view, my social well being has been affected in a way I can socialise with my family and friends. And this has improved my ability to stand out more often towards my familys and friends. This has resulted in a healthy mindset between my social well being and my own actions.

Recently my overall well-being has been affected positively by my recent actions since the day I ran for my life but this was during a big run, from Mission Bay towards Saint Heliers. I’ve also been apart of the Akomanga Kaihanga class. This has positively affected my well-being, because during the classes I’ve been able to show my strengths with each dimension

Recently my mental/emotional wellbeing has been affected negatively, as I’ve been feeling low on energy & tired. This has affected my learning and effort towards activities. However, slowly my mental/emotional well-being has been improving because I've been able to open up my side of view to someone who I know and trust.

[English] - "Big Brother little sister - Story Rewrite & Well-being"

Story:

Hema running down the dark street crying as he goes. Janey hiding, as she too

tries to catch up with her brother. “Hema wait up”! Janey yelled. As she ran down

the dark street following behind Hema, barefooted. Hema yelling “DON'T FOLLOW

ME I’LL RATHER BE ALONE”! “NO I WANT TO COME”! Janey Yelled, you could

even hear them one block away. But in order for Hema to make her calm down and

not make anyone notice was for Janey to come along.

Music rumbling through the walls, the floor shaking and thumping as Wiki and Bill

had their daily party. Hema and Janey's parents caring less about them, yelling shouting

and partying as they normally do for the weekend off work. As Hema and Janey hugged

each other in the dark as the night went on. CRASH! Hema and Janey wake up by a thud

noise, mum arguing at dad, dad hesitating, “Hema i’m scared”, Janey whispered frightened.

“It's ok just go back to sleep”, Hema said hesitating. You could just hear mum through the

thinly made walls, walking around and making huge noise. Dad is trying to get her to be

calm and go to sleep, “urghhhh, I,I,I,I,I,I lurv yeaaa Johhh”. Mum said weakly and in a wasted way. 

The next morning Hema woke up with a smashed window in the living room, broken photo

frames with a worned out mother on the floor:wasted. Everyone in the neighbourhood thought

the family was an alcoholic family where they sell a lot and when I say a lot I mean a lot. 

Hema thought to himself and said “I have to change this habit but mum might give me a hiding”.

Hema went to mum and told her that everyone needs to go church more often or constantly.

But mum also said “maybe you need to have a drink kid”, but Hema said “no i’m not like you”.

Mum thought to herself.

In your own words continue this writing:

[Health] - "The Present - Short Film"

Video: "The Present - Short Film"

How was this boy’s well-being affected before and after he decided to pick up the ball? (Before & after 2:39) 

Social 

Before: 

- he was antisocial 

- online friends 

- he was isolated

- he felt neglectful about the pup 

- his mum, was his only friend

- his mum was supportive in her own way 

- lack of relationship 

- he used social media as communication

After: 

- connection between him and the pup

- the pup had a positive attitude 

- now Zach had another friend

- he chose to play

Spiritual 

Before:

- his self esteem was low due to his amputated leg

- sense of achievement by playing games

- he valued the game over family

After: 

- he felt another sense of achievement in himself

- he finale considered trying

Physical 

Before: 

- he has an injury(amputee)

- he used his leg(un-aputamed) to kick the dog

- sitting on the chair playing call of duty

After: 

- he adjusted himself to the pup

- he threw the ball

- he used his leg to play with the dog

- he used the crutches as support

- breathing air(fresh air). 

- he smiled since a while

- he consistently played with the pup

- used arm muscles

Mental/Emotional

Before:

- he felt annoyed 

- he felt ashamed of himself

- didn’t want to be reminded of his disability

- he knows he is different than others

After: 

- disgusted(by the dog)

- he made up his mind

- relived the dog wants to play

- Empathy connection with the dog

- feeling energetic in playing the pup

What was the producer trying to teach us? (What was the producers main purpose?) 

The producers or for instincts, the maker of the film shows that no matter who you are

or what you are we are all equal in our own ways. Another example is how we use our

rise values. The first one represents how the film is played. Respect means “treat others

the way you want to be treated”. The producers or for instincts makers of the film, shows

how everybody is the same and just like in our school values or school motto(rise).

This shows that you must respect or treat others the way you want to be treated.

What can we further learn from this story that we can use/apply in our lives?

Think about: how choices link to well-being, time, gratitude.

This can trigger using your mental and emotional mindsets and sometimes social.

Why you may ask, it's because you might not like what you get and maybe some

people may say that you are a problematic person like those rude words everybody uses.

But they don’t realise that you probably like an amputee or like you don’t want to be

recognised as the child who has only one leg. This is just like bullying and also bullying

yourself in not stepping up. So what this message is just saying is that you can be yourself

but also not to just shut yourself out.

[English] - "Who Am I"

[English] - "Compare and Contrast"

In English, for this task required two different characters.
For this I've chosen Dad and Uncle Pera.