Our Anti-Bullying Campaign

We have been working very hard on raising awareness about bullying and what we could do if it was happening to us or we saw it happening in our school.  Our class collaborated and we created a site with all of our information and presentations.  Please follow this link to have a look at our Anti-Bullying presentation.

The Kapahaka Festival

On the last Monday of last term, we entered our first Kapahaka competition.  We had trained very hard and put a lot of time and effort into our bracket.  We did really well - we came second overall - what a surprise.  Check out our performance on this link!

How to make a comment on a blog...

We have been  busy making a video of how to post a comment on a blog.  We are trying to get our families more involved in commenting on our learning blog.

These were the instructions:

Check out the instruction videos our learners have come up with:

Jono      Here

Lenard    Blog instruction thing

Leevy      Blogging comment  

Ciaran      blog comment

Tell us what you think :)

Learning about our community...

We have been working very hard, learning about our community. We have discovered a lot of cool things about Te Tai Poutini - the West Coast Of New Zealand. We have all been very engaged in learning about our turangawaewae. We have also been learning about the tangata of our rohe (area). Pyper has come up with five important people from our community. here is her video:


Biteable Video

She has also created a fabulous slideshow:


Meesha and Alyssa put together a very informative slideshow all about our community:




Jono also did a fabulous job of synthesising information and presenting it in an informative and interesting way.


Marko and Nio created a bitable with a wee bit of info around European settlement here in Mawhera.

Biteable

Virtues - Praying the Lectio Davina way.

This week in RE we are learning about praying in the Lectio Davina way.  This means we read or listen to the scriptures.  Next we identify the word or phrase that stands out to us.    We draw the word/s and a picture while repeating the word or phrase to ourself (meditation).  Next we pray and listen with our hearts.   We used Colossians 3:12-15:

12 Therefore, as God’s chosen people, holy and dearly loved, clothe yourselves with compassion, kindness, humility, gentleness and patience. 13 Bear with each other and forgive one another if any of you has a grievance against someone. Forgive as the Lord forgave you.14 And over all these virtues put on love, which binds them all together in perfect unity.

15 Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace. And be thankful.

We decided to put all of our amazing words and pictures together to create some wall art - it reminds us of the virtues that we are working on. It is bright and colourful and it helps us feel positive and confident to look upon the virtues that we are striving to achieve.