NEXT Foundation Assembly

 

The Summer Learning Journey for NEXT Foundation from Next Foundation on Vimeo.

Yesterday at assembly we had some people from the board of trustees and the NEXT foundation come to our school. Rachel (the creator of SLJ) also visited. Mr Johnston, Rachel and Bill Kermode (the CEO of the NEXT foundation) got up on stage and talked about the Summer Learning Journey. Some students from PBS also got to talk about the Summer Learning Journey. We also got to watch a video staring one of our students, Daniel. The movie was about the Summer Learning Journey program. The video is above if you want to watch it. We also got to have free lunch after the special assembly. It was a delicious lunch. Thank you to the NEXT foundation for providing us free lunch.

Screencastify - Christmas In Switzerland

This week LS2 is learning about how to work as a team and how to work collaboratively. We discussed about different countries who celebrate Christmas. We were split into groups and had to choose a country that we would like to research about Christmas. We decided to research about Christmas in Switzerland. We learnt a lot of new things about how people celebrate Christmas in different ways. There are four languages spoken in Switzerland which are German, Italian, French and Romanch .  Above shows you our DLO about Christmas in Switzerland and we made a screencastify to record our thinking about Christmas in Switzerland.

Maths - Cleanup Crew

For maths today, we were doing some geometry coordination. First of all, we had to complete four pages of reading maps. Then, we were given a piece paper with instructions and a piece of paper with a half completed dog. Our challenge was to follow the instructions to complete the dog. We then had to color the dog in. For this task, we had to remember and use the ladder rule (You can't go up and across but you can go across then up)

Google Game

Today I played a google game. The aim of the game was to collect all the carrots on the level using arrows. The game was like using scratch because you had to code to control the bunny. The game was a bit hard but at the start of every level there was a tutorial on how to use the different codes.

Tech Reflection

This year every Friday our class went to Tamaki College to do Cooking, Graphics and Hard Materials. It has been a fun year to go to Tamaki because it gave the Year 8s a look at what it is like at college. In Cooking we learnt how to make a lot of yum stuff. Our teacher was Mrs Heka for most of our sessions. The next activity we went to was Graphics. In Graphics we made our own clocks out of wood. It was fun looking for designs. The final design I chose was a basketball. The last activity we did was Hard Materials. We were making stained glass designs. The design I chose was a shield with a cross on it. Out of all of the rotations, my favourite activity was Cooking because it was fun to learn how to cook.

Summer Learning Journey

On Friday Hazel came in to talk to everyone about the summer learning journey. She told everyone that if you participate and come first, second or third you will get a prize. The theme for this summer learning journey is traveling back in time. The prizes will have things like lego, slime, fidget spinners and other cool things. It sounds like fun to do and you also get something if you are the most active blogger in the summer.

Tamaki College Tech - P.E

On Friday the year 7 and 8s went to tech. We did our normal rotation for the morning. We then split into groups. One group went to Robotics, Another group went to Social Science and another group went to P.E. I was in the P.E group. Our teacher was Mr Moyes and he told us that our focus was on teamwork. We then played a warmup game of infinity tag. After we were warmed up we played benchball. The aim of this game was to chose two catches. If the catcher catches your ball you join the catchers. When your whole team was on the platform your team wins. Mr Moyes added one interesting rule. If you got the yellow ball in the hoop your team won automatically. The other team won because they got the ball in from half court. We then played a game of Samoan Softball where you hit the ball with your hand and run to the wall. It was really fun at P.E because I like running around. This was our last session for the year. Looking back this year for tech was a fun year with cooking and making clocks. Thank you Mrs Ferguson, Mrs Heka and Mr Grundy for teaching and doing fun things with us.

Fire Safety - Smoke Alarms

In LS2 we have been talking about to keep safe from fire. Having smoke alarms all around your house can be very helpful because smoke alarms sense smoke and makes a loud screeching sound to alert you. Make sure to have one in every bedroom. Make sure not to have placed in the kitchen because when you are cooking it will trigger the smoke alarm I have worked with Oh Hsen to complete this DLO.

Fire Service Summary

I have created a DLO explaining how the fire service helps our community with my group: Oh Hsen, Tiava, and Lyric. The first thing we did write down 20 important words then choose 6 from the 20. The last thing we did was make a 25 word summary using the 6 most important words that explains how the fire service helps our community.

Police Visit

On Thursday the police helicopter came and landed at Panmure Bridge School. They came and talked about how they help out in the community. The helicopter was cool to watch come but the dogs came as well and everyone was excited to see the dogs. When the dogs came out they did tricks. They then gave an example of what the dog sniffs out. They then showed how the dog catches someone trying to run away. A man came out with padding and the dog ran after him. It was a fun to experience the helicopter landing and seeing a dog in action.

Fire Station Visit

As part of our inquiry this term we have been learning about people who help out the community. On Tuesday LS2 went to the Mt Wellington fire station. We learnt all about there job. One interesting thing I learnt about firefighters is that they are first responders. This means that they can be the first people to help the injured. 

Mussel Harvesting

In maths we have been doing some maths problems. This week the problems we were solving involved using our times table and our division. I have worked with Jeremiah to show our learning through a DLO.

Exploring Characters

For novel study, Tiava, Nazella and I were working on exploring Captain Tombs and Tam Spratley from the book Rat Island. We read the book then we had to answer questions about the characters. We created two drawings, one on Captain Tombs and another one on Tam Spratley. We then explored the similarities and difference between to two characters using a venn diagram.

Swamp Tiger Adaptions

In LS2 we have been learning about the adaptations of an animal. I chose an animal the starts with the first letter of my name. I decided to do a Swamp Tiger. An interesting thing I found out about Swamp Tigers is that there fur is to help them blend in to the forest. Researching was hard but I kept going.

How Children Learn At School

How Children Learn at School

Are you aware that children watch and copy other people? Learning is important for children because they are going to grow up and become adults. Children ask a lot of questions, talk and have fun this helps them to learn and experience as they grow. 

Firstly, children copy what they see. They copy things from other people, television and especially their parents. They are awesome observers and this will help their imagination grow. They often follow a certain role model. They listen to things that they are highly interested in. Kids also have a lot of energy.

Kids have a lot of energy and they use this energy to play with friends and talk. They have numerous ways to play and have fun. When they play it helps them to gain more experience in the environment they are in. Children also ask plenty of questions.

Children ask questions when there confused. They take a lot of risk when they ask questions. They ask questions to help them understand. When they ask questions they improve the skill that there learning about.

Learning is vital for children because they be our next generation. Children will take risk and make mistakes. They will learn with and from each other.


For writing we have been practising to write an explanation for our writing test. Me and Ofa worked together to write this explanation. While writing this we learnt that there is a title, introduction, paragraph 1 2 3, conclusion and to add a hook. I also learnt how to link my paragraphs together. I think that this helped me because it gave me a recap of all the things that I need to use in my writing test. After we finished we gave our work to other groups and they proof-read our work.  

Production 2017

On Wednesday night we had our production for 2017. This is the first time we were in front of an audience so I was nervous. We did this because we were celebrating 60 years of Panmure Bridge School. In LS2 we have been doing 70's and 80's songs. We have been practising a dance so that we could present our dance to everyone who came. Pasifica and Kapa Haka also performed. Both performances were well done. Tonight we will be dancing again for everyone who comes. Thank you Zoe for teaching us the dances. 

 

Cross Country

Last week Panmure Bridge School went down to Dunkirk and had our Adidas Fun Run. The school leaders went down and helped set up. The first people to run was the young students. The last people to run was LS2. It was hard because we were running through mud. Daniel and Aj came first and Te Wai came second. I came 8th place out of the year 8 boys. At the end of the run I felt tired and proud of myself that I finished.

Kiwican

Today for the last session of kiwi can we played games for the whole session. The first game we played was called object. We had to turn a random object into something useful. My group won two times. The next game we played was hand soccer. Our group one with 4 points. The last game we played was ten down. We had to pass it around and everyone had to touch the ball onto the ground. Kiwi can today was fun because we were all getting active.

Scale Drawing

Last week I finished my scale drawing. For this task we had to find an image that we were going to enlarge by drawing it. We had to rule 1 centimetre grid over our original design. We then doubled everything and made a grid so that we could enlarge it. First we drew grid lines on an A3 paper. One thing that was hard was that we needed to make sure that we were copying the image square by square.

The Princess Bride Character Introductions

 Today I created a DLO about The Princess Bride film study. I chose to make a DLO on how the characters of the movie were introduced. I created this to show what I learnt about the characters introduction. An interesting thing that I found from the movie is that Inigo and Fezzik turned good and helped the protagonist.