Tag: Room 9

Life Ed – The power of words

During this week, we’ve had Life-Ed trailer arrive to our school escorted with Harold the giraffe. Sylvia and Monica were talking and coaching us on “mind chats,” or conversations we have in our heads. They explained that if our self-talk is negative, our brains start to believe it. This led to a discussion about fixed vs. growth mindsets.

We then watched a video about the difference between bullying and being mean or rude. It was important to learn the distinction between the two so that we could be up-standers and do the right thing.

We learned that words are powerful and that we can show empathy and kindness by being mindful of our language.  We also discussed the importance of not conforming to negative behaviour.

Finally, we learned strategies for shifting from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. In our learning, what are some of the areas we need to shift from fixed to growth mindset?

Room 9 PENN – Prefect Korero posters

“Room 9 has been creating Prefect Korero posters after our school Assembly.
We use google drawing to begin our poster, using shapes, wordart, google free images and ‘ombre – effect’ scheme to use for our titles or our backgrounds and then posting it on Edublog!”

Kiwisports – Football

This term, our class had soccer with Coach Tre. He taught us the skills to play the game and be successful. We have students in our class who are big fans of Messi and Ronaldo.

Coach Tre used different games to teach us dribbling, turning, and shooting. We got better each week and were excited to have soccer. I wonder what skills our students need to develop more?

2023 Rm 9 Class Photos

How do we take such great class photos?

We line up from tallest to shortest. We’re each given a piece of paper with our name and a QR code on it. Then, we head towards the photographer, who decides where we sit. He checks that we’re all in the right position and looking our best, because these photos will be with us for the rest of our lives!

Behind the scenes:

Check out the behind-the-scenes photo footage to see how we do it.  We had 3 students absent: Sione, Utukura & Hisham.

How do you feel when taking photos?

Have you ever blinked in a photo?  Our secret: Keep smiling!

 

Helping out with Weetbix Triathlon

After a wonderful school picnic at Pt England Reserve, teachers’ jobs don’t always stop in the classroom.

A group of teachers volunteered to help out with the Weetbix Triathlon held at Pt England Reserve. We arrived just after 5am, and people were already trying to find parking close to the reserve and dropping off their children with their bikes to get ready for the big event.

We were assigned to man the car park for VIP guests. It was great to see how many families were ready for this event, post-COVID. The atmosphere was positive and lively, with many grandparents among the biggest supporters of their grandchildren.

My highlight was meeting these celebrities:

A New Zealand Olympic weightlifter
A New Zealand Silver Ferns netball player
A Te Karere TV presenter

Can you guess who they were?

Healthy Lunches

This year we’ve had a new provider for our school free lunches called ‘Kiwi Canteen’.

Kiwi Canteen supply lunches across South and East Auckland schools.  Our learners have been loving their nutritious, well-seasoned lunches, especially our fussy eaters.

The lunch comes with a main meal, fruit and a snack (eg: banana cake, biscuits, pop-corn, corn chips and our learner’s favourite chocolate brownie).

Our lunch ranges from sushi, chicken burgers, pasta, fried chicken, with mash
potatoes and peas.  During Samoan language week, we even had chop suey and rice on the menu.  It’s better than the chop suey Mrs Siō makes.

We haven’t decided what our favourite lunch is yet, but we wonder how does Kiwi Canteen make the lunches tasty?

Coin trail and Wacky Hair Friday Assembly

This week, our school participated in a coin trail (raising money for overseas) with a wacky hair on Friday.  It was astounding, the amount of creativity and work that went into some of these unique designs.

Check out Diana-Grace (from our class). Her hair design was outside the box thinking.

It started with a bottle (orange fizzy drink bottle), pinned on top of her hair, then her pony-tail that went from the bottle into the cup (that had a straw attached to it).  Her whole hair was spray painted the colour orange.

Diana-Grace  said her mum put it together.  A+ for brilliant idea and using her hair as the prop.  I wonder what her next hair design will be?

Duffy Books in Home

The Duffy Books in Homes program has been a part of Pt England School for many years. We are grateful to our sponsors for providing all of our students with several books each term.

We recently had a Duffy Theatre performance about “Duffy having space.” It was a lot of fun, and our students were really engaged.

Our students also try to write book reviews of the books they read. We are grateful to our sponsors for making this program possible, especially as books are becoming more expensive.

I wonder if they have ‘Duffy having space’ in written form?  I wonder what the sequel would be?

 

Prefect Korero – Stay cool at School

Today’s prefect korero is ‘Stay cool at school’.  To help us to stay cool – during morning tea and lunch, we keep our hats on, stay hydrated (drinking water through out the day), hygiene – keeping our hands sanitise and keep our jumper and jackets off and placed inside our bags.

Check out some of our class posters by Khai Shwe, Diana Grace, Eziaz, Hinerangi & AJ.  Please leave a positive comment on their blogs.  Nga mihi nui.

Welcome to 2023!

Welcome back to 2023!

Not a good start to the school year with Auckland’s unexpected flooding (Hope everyone’s been keeping safe). However I hope you’ve all had a wonderful break and ready to get back into learning, growth, ownership and creating positive memories for 2023.

With the remembrance of Waitangi Day today, I have been looking forward to returning back to our classroom, no longer with covid-restrictions but with a refreshed lens to reinforce the 3P’s – Pātuitanga (partnership), Te whakamarumarutanga (protection) and Te whaiwāhitanga (participation) to empower our learners with mana (power).

“Keep it Real” is our PES yearly theme.  It encompasses ‘tika (fairness), pono (integrity) and aroha (compassion) with all three of these intertwined to create a school culture of support, caring and understanding (Cavanagh 2004).

With our ‘keep it real’ focus, we looking forward to seeing our learners grow confidently into their identity, taonga (treasures/resources), tikanga (customs),  and  rangatiratanga (self-deteremination) building with 21st Century skills ie:  critical thinking, creative, collaboration and communication.

I wonder what our learners will bring to our class?  I wonder if they’re ready?  Will keep you all posted.

Nga mihi nui

 

Reference:

Cavanagh, T (2004).  Criminalising our schools:  Effects on caring and nurturing teachers.  School of Education, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand.