Week 3, term 2:
Well, after a fun filled few weeks the Year 7 and 8's have finally completed their application to win our school a Treemendous School Makeover. The children have worked very hard designing their project by completing a brief of the project, concept drawings and recording this on a DVD. There were many laughs as they made the DVD and realised how hard this is. The first part of the DVD had about 8 takes! Below is the final brief and two of the concept drawings which were constructed by the pupils on google drawing.
Treemendous School Makeover
Our school aims to build an amphitheatre on the tennis court bank.
Our tennis court is in a bad state, there has been a huge puddle in one corner all winter. This year the Board of Trustees has jumped into action and the drains are being replaced.
Stage two is to cover it with tigerturf, the court will be a multi-purpose area.
We would make it of ekologix timber, made of recycled products. It is low maintenance and non-slip, a great thing for the environment and safety!
We would like potted plants (all natives) down the outer edges of the theatre, to make it attractive and to provide shelter.
Our amphitheatre would be a great for place students to do our work on a nice day, talk, play, have school singing and lunch, it would become an outdoor classroom.
We would put planter boxes on each side of the entrance, we could plant natives or make an edible garden which the students would plant and look after.
To keep our awesome students safe from the sun’s rays we would put shade sails over a part of the amphitheatre.
Treemendous Organisers, please consider our application, we know we deserve it.
Holly Bissett and Tiana van Schalkwyk, on behalf of the students and teachers of Warepa School.
Fingers crossed we get to stage 2 of the competition.
Week three is another busy one for our pupils. Today our year 8 students attended the National Young Leader's Day in Dunedin. The aim of the day is to develop student leadership and be both inspirational and practical. Thank you Mrs Wilson for taking the students, we look forward to hearing about their experiences tomorrow.
With the Rippa Tournament fast approaching on May 29th for year 3-8 students we are practising our rippa skills. Please bring a change of clothes and footwear daily.
I would like to encourage all our parents and any members of our community to attend the meeting below. Please let me know by Thursday the 22nd of May if you would like to attend so I can pass numbers onto the organising committee.
DIGITAL LEARNING - WHERE TO FOR OUR LEARNERS?
7.00 p.m Rosebank School
Monday 26 May 2014
SPEAKERS:
Introduction: Big River Bridge to Success
Rob Mill (Ministry of Education):
A brief outline of the goals of working with the Big River Cluster.
Main Speaker: Dorothy Burt
Dorothy Burt is a teacher at Pt. England School in Auckland. She is widely acknowledged for her work in e-learning. She leads the Manaiakalani Professional Learning and Development programme for a cluster of schools in Auckland. She will talk about how students across the cluster have the opportunity to ‘be at home in a digital world’ so they can learn ‘anywhere, anytime and at any pace’.
The Manaiakalani Education Trust and participating schools have forged cross sector partnerships to sustain programme innovation and development to make digital technology accessible to the students of the cluster.
This is an opportunity for our community to think about how we can lead developments in e-learning for our students in the south.
Supper and networking to follow.
View at breakfast, so breath taking,
Flag pole on the Waitangi grounds.
Hobson house on the treaty grounds.
The meeting house at Waitangi.
Lunch at the Workd famous fish and chip shop, VERY nice!
Mission accomplished, we made it on our afternoon off to Ninety Mile Beach in the far north.
