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.