Softball Inter schools

Yesterday the year 5-8's softball teams went down to Dunkirk Park to participate in our softball games. There were 2 teams that represented Panmure Bridge School, which was the year 7 and 8 team and the year 5 and 6 team. We played 5 games each. We won 2 games and lost 3 games. Our opponents were Glenbrae School, Point England, Ruapotaka School, O Puau Te Moananui A Kiwa, and Tamaki Primary. We tried our best, but unfortunately we lost to O Puau Te Moananui A Kiwa, Point England, and Tamaki Primary. We managed to win against Ruapotaka School and Glenbrae. Throughout every game we showed teamwork, communication, and sportsmanship to each other. All of us were excited to try our new PE uniforms on. 

Tech with Mr Naicker

Today was another session of Tech at Tamaki College. Our tech teacher is Mr Naicker. This term Year 8 B is doing metal working, by completing a cake server or a pizza cutter. I decided to make a cake server. Today some students were gluing their projects together, while others were filing theirs to make it smooth. We started off by creating the handles of either our pizza cutter/cake server. The handle is suppose to be smooth and soft. We filed the sides of the handle and the top of the handle. The year 7's are with Mr Grundy doing wood work, while the year 8 A is creating clocks with Ms Ferguson.

Kiwisport - Ki O Rahi

Today we completed another session of Kiwi sport. Our Kiwi sport for the next few weeks is Ki O Rahi. Ki o Rahi is a game that was retelled in the words of the Legend of Rahi story. Our coach was Shanice. Today was all about being fair and honesty. There were 2 teams for the game that we played today. Before playing Shanice explained to us about the parts in this game in Te Reo Maori. We were to run to the right place. This included active listening. After doing this we carried on with the session, by getting into 2 teams. These 2 teams were called the Taniwha and Kiamo. Taniwha's job was to run with the ball and touch all poles. We were not allowed to enter the ice bridge. The guards were the only ones that could enter this bridge. This game was similar to golden child, but the Kiamo's job was to try and hit the ball onto the Tapu while the 2 guards were trying to block them from getting it.

Kiwi Can

This week we completed another session of Kiwi Can. Our tutors were Mr Alipati and Miss Paige. Our theme for this term is positive communication and our topic is positive relationships. Positive relationships means a connection between 2 people. Positive communication means a group of people sharing their ideas and opinions. Most of the challenges that we played included active listening. Active listening is when people is always listening at the right time. One of the challenges that we played was Chop Suey. We were to follow the 5 commandments. They were 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. We can show positive communication, relationship, and active listening wherever we go. The catchphrase was " Talk to me, so you can see me, someone with positivity.

Tech with Mr Naicker

LS2 has started their first sessions with their new tech teachers. Our first session was great, as we got into our new groups for tech. It was very new to me, because the year 8's were given 2 groups, which meant that there was year 8 a and b. The year 8 A is with Ms Ferguson and the year 8 B is with Mr Naicker. I am with Mr Naicker, which means that I get to do metal working. For our first session we completed the context of creating a cake server/pizza cutter. We were to say who we'd make it for and why. 

Summer Learning Journey Assembly

Today's assembly was a special assembly, because we were lucky enough to receive a visit from Sophie and Hazel from the Summer Learning Journey team. The Summer Learning Journey is a program that students are able to use during the holidays. This program includes a lot of activities about the whole world. Sophie and Hazel came along to present the prize winners and participants of the Summer Learning Journey. The statistics were amazing. Panmure Bridge School completed 1275 blog posts altogether and 2376 comments. We also received a special visit from Evelyn ( NZ Sailing Trust). Since Alex placed 1st and I placed 2nd we received a free voucher to the NZ Sailing Trust. Alex places 1st, I placed 2nd, and Victoria placed 3rd. The spot prize winners were Marieta, Florence, Chavda, and Sakina. The prize's were outstanding. Most of us received a bag with treats, colouring books, and more, which was great. One of the prizes was for the most participants class, which was awarded to Learning Space 1. This class received a bean bag. As a school we received a Pohutukawa tree to plant. Congratulations to Alex who was awarded a prize for the top blogger in the cluster and the school, even out of the whole world. A huge thank you to Hazel and Sophie for presenting these prizes and certificates to us.

Kiwisport - Ki o Rahi

This week LS2 enjoyed their first session of Ki o Rahi. We were lucky enough to have a coach teach us about Ki o Rahi. Her name is Shanesse. To understand more about Ki o Rahi we watched a video that explained the legend of Ki o Rahi. This legend explained how Rahi tried to get to the other side of the forest, suddenly Te Puhuru had cast a spell, which made the trees rise. This meant that Rahi couldn't get over. Te Puhuru kidnapped Rahi's wife called Te Ara. For the first week we just played a few games, as we start playing Ki o Rahi next week. He decided to make a huge kite that helped him get to the other side of the forsest. 

Kiwi Can

This week LS2 had their first Kiwi Can session. Our kiwi can tutors are Mr Alabati and Ms Paige. So far we have been learning about Positive Relationships and Positive communication. As a class we came up with different ideas of what these 2 values meant. Positive relationship to me means someone who shows dignity to another person. Positive communication means a group of people that works collaboratively to share their ideas/opinions. We can shows these 2 values in school and out of school all the time. We also show these key values whenever we're in the playground or when we're playing sports. For the last part of Kiwi Can we evaluated ourselves, by going outside and playing a few games, so that everyone could participate.

Explanation Sketchnote

As a fresh start to writing we have been learning about explanation's, since our assessments are coming up soon. Together LS2 worked in partners to find information about explanations. First we were to list down the info that we already knew about explanations on a piece of paper. The acronym that LS2 used last year for an explanation structure was TIIC, which meant title, info, intro, and conclusion. After doing that we did speed dating for about 5 minutes. Speed dating is when 2 groups of partners share their ideas with each other. Finally we created a sketch note together as a group, which explained the language and structures of a explanation. 

E Ako Maths - Problem Solving

As an excitement today, LS2 started off with completing a number of questions from e-ako maths. E ako is a maths game that helps you gain your number knowledge skills. E e-ako has different types of maths skills that you can learn, like your multiplication, geometry, measurements and more. Today I decided to start off by doing problem solving and equations and expressions. Above shows the questions that I completed during this maths lesson. 

Role Models and Hero's

As an excitement for inquiry we are learning about leadership. Leadership in our school is a very strong topic, because we are great at working towards our leadership skills. For this activity we were to find the definitions for a role model and a hero. Each slide included a photo of a role model/hero. If you were wondering as you went pass you could see that the role model slide had a photo of all of your school leaders for this year. We contributed together as we listed a lot of reasons for each of these definitions.

Te Tiriti o Waitangi

A special event has been happening for the pass few years, which is the Treaty of Waitangi. As an excitement LS2 is working collaboratively to learn about the Treaty of Waitangi. Did you know that the Treaty of Waitangi was signed in 1840, 6th of February? More than 500 chiefs signed this. This slide included information about the Treaty of Waitangi. We did a lot of summarising, but at the same time we learnt a bunch of new vocabulary words. We collaboratively communicated together for the last task, which was to choose 2 questions and communicate with our group at the same time. The questions that we chose were what factors make a successful partnership between two people and what would Aotearoa be like today if we had no treaty. We listed down a lot of ideas, as we started talking. Talking was the main thing that helped us during this activity. 

What is a Leader?

As a fresh start for for inquiry we learnt about a topic called leaders. This interesting DLO included information about what a leader is and what a leader can achieve in school/outside of school. To make it look interesting we added images for each slide. Together as a group we defined the word leader. A leader is someone who steps up, by taking risks in everything they do. 

Student Leaders Badges

Today was a special assembly, since it was the first week of school. As leaders Jack and I presented in assembly for the first time of 2019. It was a great experience, because we were both proud to lead our school as Head boy and girl. This special assembly included us school leaders receiving our badges, the sports leaders modelling our new PE kit and Ms Kirkpatrick handing out different prizes from prize giving last year. The sports leaders of 2019 are Fui and Julian. The Manaiakalani leaders of 2019 are Nyjah and Alex. 

Click here to read my Head Girl Speech
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1GTfGZGVfmUcOZ-I9Y_fJ7rQf6MYk_Sl2l-gEaARrbgY/edit

Sketch note Collaboration

Today our group collaborated to create this sketch note that defines what we think team work is. Before completing this sketch note we talked about what team meant to us. We wrote a lot of ideas down. A team is a group that contributes together to evaluate and share new ideas about their learning.

Panmure Bridge School C.A.R.E. Values

Today was the first day back at school. The activities that we completed were based on working as a team. Each team included a school leader. I was the leader for my group. The first thing that we did was to write the meaning of our school values onto a piece of paper and tell them what it looks like. In my group was Avalon, Florence, Te Pounamu, and I. After completing this we were to create poses for each care value. Above shows the creative DLO that we created altogether. Each slide contains a photo, tips about how we can show each value in school, and what it means to us. Our school values are Confidence, Attitude, Respect, and Excellence and Innovation.