Monday, November 14, 2011
Which Political Party would I vote for?
Go to this website
Select 4/5 issues that are important to you. Create a table like the one on the small board in your draft writing book. Click on the relevant links and collect information about what the party's policy to that issue. Summarise there stance and put into your table.
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
What makes the NZ government unique?
This a slideshow about how the NZ government is unique. Please read carefully and think critically about this information. Write down the answers to the questions with the answers. If there are parts of this you do not understand or you have any wonderings please add them to our wonderwall.
Very important. To make the slideshow larger click on the little square to the right of where it says Silde 1/12.
Happy reading!
Happy reading!
Thursday, September 1, 2011
Wednesday, August 31, 2011
6 word stories
Last week we discussed Ernest Hemmingway's famous 6 word story "For sale, baby shoes. Never used."
We had a competition to see who could come up with the best 6 word story. Here is a selection:
The alien landed on earth puzzled.
Tonight I am going to die.
This is a really cool story.
Are you getting pie super clown?
The winning entry was Connor's story - The carpenter was feeling extremely unethical
We had a competition to see who could come up with the best 6 word story. Here is a selection:
The alien landed on earth puzzled.
Tonight I am going to die.
This is a really cool story.
Are you getting pie super clown?
The winning entry was Connor's story - The carpenter was feeling extremely unethical
Tuesday, August 30, 2011
Sunday, August 28, 2011
Current events week 5
At the beginning of this month the City Council announced a draft plan for our new CBD. Please this article and watch the video. Then go to our virtual class wall and answer these questions
* write down the name of the article and the date.
* write down and answer these questions.
1) what do you think of the plan? Why?
2) what else would you like to see added to the plan? Improvements?
Be ready to discuss this on Friday with the class.
* write down the name of the article and the date.
* write down and answer these questions.
1) what do you think of the plan? Why?
2) what else would you like to see added to the plan? Improvements?
Be ready to discuss this on Friday with the class.
Wednesday, August 24, 2011
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Friday, August 5, 2011
Wednesday, August 3, 2011
Monday, August 1, 2011
Term 3 Newsletter
Dear Parents, Caregivers and Learners in Room 2.
Welcome back. I hope you have had a restful break and had lots of fun in the snow.
This term we have an exciting programme ahead. This includes:
- Pubertal Change Inquiry Unit. This unit will include the physical and emotional changes that happen during puberty, positive strategies on how to deal with these and cybersafety.
- AVAILL Reading Programme. This is a multimedia reading programme which is highly engaging and very successful in terms of achievement.In mathematics we will be revisiting the number strands and mathematics and moving into measurement later in the term.
- For writing we are moving into writing narratives.
- Year 8s have a big term of fundraising and preparation for the Wellington Trip in Term 4
- The Friday Winter Sport programme will be continuing
- Winter Sports Tournaments
- Cantamaths Problem Solving Team will be competing
- The CARE value we will be focussing on for this term will be RESPECT. This will include looking at how do we show respect for ourselves, others, and our communities.
The CARE value we will be focussing on for this term will be RESPECT. This will include looking at how do we show respect for ourselves, others, and our communities.
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Puberty and sexuality unit
Dear Parents and Caregivers.
This term has been a very exciting one for the Supernovas. Some of the highlights have been:
Our inquiry unit. The growth in scientific understanding about the cause of earthquakes and building design has been fantastic. In addition the children's research skills have come along way. Check out your child's e-portfolio for examples of their learning.
Some excellent academic achievement especially in reading and maths.
Children taking charge of their learning and deciding to make a difference in this world. We have had children raising money for charity, children working with a publisher to get student's writing about the earthquake published and students collecting cans to give to the Red Cross.
On Monday we planned a very exciting Health unit around puberty and sexuality. The deep understandings we will be teaching will be :
Everyone experiences puberty at different times and in different ways.
Our thoughts and actions have an impact on others. This deep understanding is part of the Respect Value of our CARE programme.
As part of this topic we will be covering:
How the body changes - wet dreams, periods, etc
How feelings and relationships change.
How to meet these challenges positively.
Reproduction (year 8 only)
Cybersafety and how other media influences young people.
If you have any questions about this unit then please contact your child's classroom teacher.
Stay safe, have fun and have an excellent holiday.
This term has been a very exciting one for the Supernovas. Some of the highlights have been:
Our inquiry unit. The growth in scientific understanding about the cause of earthquakes and building design has been fantastic. In addition the children's research skills have come along way. Check out your child's e-portfolio for examples of their learning.
Some excellent academic achievement especially in reading and maths.
Children taking charge of their learning and deciding to make a difference in this world. We have had children raising money for charity, children working with a publisher to get student's writing about the earthquake published and students collecting cans to give to the Red Cross.
On Monday we planned a very exciting Health unit around puberty and sexuality. The deep understandings we will be teaching will be :
Everyone experiences puberty at different times and in different ways.
Our thoughts and actions have an impact on others. This deep understanding is part of the Respect Value of our CARE programme.
As part of this topic we will be covering:
How the body changes - wet dreams, periods, etc
How feelings and relationships change.
How to meet these challenges positively.
Reproduction (year 8 only)
Cybersafety and how other media influences young people.
If you have any questions about this unit then please contact your child's classroom teacher.
Stay safe, have fun and have an excellent holiday.
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Inquiry - Where are we at?
The end of the term is fast approaching and we are trying to finish our inquiry. We have been looking at redesigning the Christchurch CBD. This has included learning about:
- the effects of earthquakes
- the causes of earthquakes
We have been currently learning to analyse what makes a building earthquake proof. This has involved students researching about earthquake proof buildings, which materials are best? which designs? Then the student had to take this knowledge and apply it by designing a building, justify why they think it is earthquake proof, construct the building out of popsicle sticks and glue.
Once the building had been constructed they put it on our earthquake simulator. See examples below:
http://youtu.be/EIy_m4TH_Ks
http://youtu.be/VpdnaBjTXVM
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Monday, June 20, 2011
Friday, June 17, 2011
Thursday, June 9, 2011
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
E-portfolio update
Over the past few weeks the students and their teacher have been on a steep learning curve using e-portfolios. There have been a few technical issues with the iPods and the quality of the student's explanations and reflection have been inconsistent. On the positive side there has been great progress made against the student's goals.
The purpose of the e-portfolios is for the students to collect evidence that they are making progress against their goals. This means that the people looking at the e-portfolio will see items of learning that might be mid way through as opposed to the portfolios which show the student's best work.
Anyway, as a class we have been reflecting on the process to improve the quality of the posts we are making. We have decided that...
* items from the students' books will be scanned rather than a photograph being taken to improve the quality of the image.
* the class has discussed at length how we can improve our explanations and reflections. We have decided that every post needs to include the learning intention, success criteria, what went well and what needs to be improved.
This is all part of the learning curve and from the discussions I have had with the students we should see greatly improved and more consistent posts.
Watch this space!
The purpose of the e-portfolios is for the students to collect evidence that they are making progress against their goals. This means that the people looking at the e-portfolio will see items of learning that might be mid way through as opposed to the portfolios which show the student's best work.
Anyway, as a class we have been reflecting on the process to improve the quality of the posts we are making. We have decided that...
* items from the students' books will be scanned rather than a photograph being taken to improve the quality of the image.
* the class has discussed at length how we can improve our explanations and reflections. We have decided that every post needs to include the learning intention, success criteria, what went well and what needs to be improved.
This is all part of the learning curve and from the discussions I have had with the students we should see greatly improved and more consistent posts.
Watch this space!
Thursday, June 2, 2011
Maygan's report and reflection
Here is an example of a report that Maygan wrote about the damage to the CBD. She reads it with excellent expression.
Report
Report
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Friday Sport
Hi Guys
Friday sport is now all organised and ready to go. Hopefully we will get a fine day for tomorrow. There have been many question around what is happening with the students who are remaining behind. As previously stated in the sports notices, all schools have been restricted in the number of teams they can enter due to the damage the February Earthquake has caused to Hagley Park.
Bryan Brown (Oaklands School's Sports Coordinator) has been arranging with Halswell School a sports competition for those children remaining behind. Halswell School is in a similar position to us with 100+ students not going to Friday Sport.
Friday sport is now all organised and ready to go. Hopefully we will get a fine day for tomorrow. There have been many question around what is happening with the students who are remaining behind. As previously stated in the sports notices, all schools have been restricted in the number of teams they can enter due to the damage the February Earthquake has caused to Hagley Park.
Bryan Brown (Oaklands School's Sports Coordinator) has been arranging with Halswell School a sports competition for those children remaining behind. Halswell School is in a similar position to us with 100+ students not going to Friday Sport.
This is a very quick run down of how it will work.
- Oaklands and Halswell have roughly the same amount of students left over (100 - 120). Each school will split their left overs into 6 teams of yr 5-8 mixed teams,(about 20-24).
- The 6 teams from Halswell will play a rotation of sports against the 6 teams from Oaklands.
- The sports are netball, football, rippa rugby, volleyball, hockey and basketball.
- This will be run as a competition - 5pts for a win, 3pts for a draw and 1pt for a loss with a further 2pts for any team that shows fair play,(sportsmanship) on the day.
- The interchange between Halswell and Oaklands will only happen every second week to allow the students to have skill sessions at school.
- Volleyball will be played at Halswell as well as one netball game.
- Basketball will be played at Oaklands as well as one netball game.
- Hockey, football and rippa rugby will be at the domain.
Our aim is to have all students involved in a meaningful sport competition in this difficult time
Monday, May 23, 2011
Inquiry update and assessment
Last week the Supernova team had a fabulous week assessing the students understanding around the cause of earthquakes and their effects on buildings. This has been a major focus over the last 5 weeks of school and has even seen some students watching lectures from the University of California on the subject.
This learning will help the students in their quest to redesign the Christchurch CBD over the next few weeks.
The assessment was in the form of an art. The students chose whether they would show their understanding of the cause of earthquakes and their effects on buildings by either using drama, music or visual art. This assessment process was fantastic for all concerned as it really showed which students had this understanding that perhaps a written test may not have.
Here is an example of the Drama
And here is an example of an Music
In both cases a high level of creativity and thought was used. I was blown away with what the students came up with and are very much looking forward to what they come up with in their designs for the CBD!
A copy of your child inquiry assessment will be on their e-portfolio later this week.
This learning will help the students in their quest to redesign the Christchurch CBD over the next few weeks.
The assessment was in the form of an art. The students chose whether they would show their understanding of the cause of earthquakes and their effects on buildings by either using drama, music or visual art. This assessment process was fantastic for all concerned as it really showed which students had this understanding that perhaps a written test may not have.
Here is an example of the Drama
And here is an example of an Music
In both cases a high level of creativity and thought was used. I was blown away with what the students came up with and are very much looking forward to what they come up with in their designs for the CBD!
A copy of your child inquiry assessment will be on their e-portfolio later this week.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Wellington Notice 2
Also contains dates for a couple of open nights for High Schools coming up.
Wellington Trip Notice 2
Wellington Trip Notice 2
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
School Newsletter 12
The newsletter is here and you can read a couple of Room 2's reports on the damage to the Christchurch CBD.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Well Done Sophie!
Last Friday Sophie organised a can collection at Oaklands School as part of The Breeze Radio Station's "Can Crusade". With little time she was able to organise a school-wide mufti day that raised nearly 500 cans to be be donated to the Red Cross. You can see more here
This task was part of the Supernova Challenges. In order to complete this Sophie had to;
Within this one task Sophie needed to perform a series of tasks in order to make this happen. This is an example of authentic learning in action!
As an aside, in recognition of Sophie's efforts The Breeze radio station gifted her a Canterbury Rugby Jersey and a $150 voucher at Hornby Mall.
This task was part of the Supernova Challenges. In order to complete this Sophie had to;
- write a letter of proposal to Mrs Trotter the school principal.
- contact The Breeze radio station to enter
- advertise the mufti day by creating a series of posters.
- organise collection of the cans
Within this one task Sophie needed to perform a series of tasks in order to make this happen. This is an example of authentic learning in action!
As an aside, in recognition of Sophie's efforts The Breeze radio station gifted her a Canterbury Rugby Jersey and a $150 voucher at Hornby Mall.
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Sunday, May 8, 2011
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Sunday, May 1, 2011
Term 2 Class Newsletter
Term 2 is upon us!
I trust that you have had an excellent holiday. I have spent the last week putting together the class programme for the term. I am very excited by this and can't wait for the term too start!
Term Overview
A major component of this term will be our investigation around the impact of the Christchurch Earthquake. At the end of last term the class decided that we would redesign the Christchurch CBD and submit it to the City Council for consideration. There is further explanation here. Also we are visiting the Christchurch CBD on Wednesday and the $5.50 and permission form need to be returned before then.
Winter Sports start this term in week 3. Unfortunately due to earthquake damage we won't be able to take as many teams as we have previously. There will be more information coming out about this.
This term Room 2 will be focusing their attention around excellence. This will comprise of children learning about striving for their "personal best" and persistence.
E-Portfolios
This week your child will design their e-portfolio and begin sharing their learning on it. Last term the students set some learning goals. These will be accessible on the e-portfolio as well as updates on how the students are going at achieving these. In addition, over the next couple of weeks I will start adding some of the results from the standardised testing that was conducted in term 1. When something new is added to your child's e-portfolio you will be alerted via email. We will be having a Parent evening around the e-portfolios in week 3/4 of this term for parents.
Homework
There have been lots of questions from parents and students around homework. Here is some Informationthat should answer most of your questions
Email Notifications
Be sure to enter your email address in the "Follow By Email" Box on the right hand side of this blog. This will mean that every time that some new is added to this blog you will be alerted so that you never miss a thing.
Warm regards
Steve Ladbrook
I trust that you have had an excellent holiday. I have spent the last week putting together the class programme for the term. I am very excited by this and can't wait for the term too start!
Term Overview
A major component of this term will be our investigation around the impact of the Christchurch Earthquake. At the end of last term the class decided that we would redesign the Christchurch CBD and submit it to the City Council for consideration. There is further explanation here. Also we are visiting the Christchurch CBD on Wednesday and the $5.50 and permission form need to be returned before then.
Winter Sports start this term in week 3. Unfortunately due to earthquake damage we won't be able to take as many teams as we have previously. There will be more information coming out about this.
This term Room 2 will be focusing their attention around excellence. This will comprise of children learning about striving for their "personal best" and persistence.
E-Portfolios
This week your child will design their e-portfolio and begin sharing their learning on it. Last term the students set some learning goals. These will be accessible on the e-portfolio as well as updates on how the students are going at achieving these. In addition, over the next couple of weeks I will start adding some of the results from the standardised testing that was conducted in term 1. When something new is added to your child's e-portfolio you will be alerted via email. We will be having a Parent evening around the e-portfolios in week 3/4 of this term for parents.
Homework
There have been lots of questions from parents and students around homework. Here is some Informationthat should answer most of your questions
Email Notifications
Be sure to enter your email address in the "Follow By Email" Box on the right hand side of this blog. This will mean that every time that some new is added to this blog you will be alerted so that you never miss a thing.
Warm regards
Steve Ladbrook
Friday, April 15, 2011
Red Cross
Dear Red Cross Earthquake Relief Fund Team
We designed a homework challenge and we came up with raising money for the Red Cross Earthquake relief fund team.
We organised a red and black mufti day for the school on Wednesday 13 April 2011.
These are the steps we did:
· Kate and I came up with the idea.
· We had to ask for permission from our school principal to do the mufti day.
· Kate and I talked to our principal and we came up what day and what theme. The theme was to wear Red and black the Canterbury colours.
· We made posters to stick up in each class
· Kate and I went to all the classes to collect the money on the mufti day.
We raised $593.00 altogether.
Kate and I enjoyed organising the mufti day and seeing the kids dressed up in red and black.
We feel that the money we’re donating to the Red Cross Earthquake Relief fund team could go towards emergency supplies.
Kind regards
Noor-Aisha Mann & Kate Humphries
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Activity fee term 2
The activity fees for term 2 are:
* year 8 $50 deposit for Wellington Camp
* trip to the Christchurch CBD $5.50
The notices give an explanation about these trip can be found here:
Wellington trip notice 1
Red zone notice
* year 8 $50 deposit for Wellington Camp
* trip to the Christchurch CBD $5.50
The notices give an explanation about these trip can be found here:
Wellington trip notice 1
Red zone notice
Tuesday, April 12, 2011
Monday, April 11, 2011
Friday, April 8, 2011
Kate H's homework challenge
For this challenge I have choosen
To help families in christchurch community after the earthquake. While school was closed i did the following to help. 1. Baking day- I baked for family friends who had a loved one missing in the Pgc building. - I helped nana bake for the student army and the farmers army. 2. Cat food- I used my pocket money to buy a tin of cat food to donate to the homeless cats appeal. 3. I raised $15.00 doing ( bob a job) for the red cross Christchurch earthquake appeal.
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Inquiry Unit
Over the last couple of days Room 2 has been doing a variety of activities around the Christchurch Earthquake. This has included:
- liquefaction experiment
- looking at photos and video of the damage to the city center.
- learning about building design
- learning about how a building gets constructed.
From this learning the children have decided they are going to apply use this new knowledge to make a difference to other people's lives by redesigning the CBD. The children are very excited by this.
This will become a major unit of work for the rest of this term and next term. Our aim is to redesign the CBD so that it is an earthquake resistant city and submit our ideas to the Christchurch City Council.
This unit has a real focus on on Science and Technology. The CARE Value that we will be integrating as part of this will be Community. The deep understandings that will be developed throughout the unit are:
- Understanding the cause of earthquakes can help us to be prepared for their effects.
- We can participate and contribute in the wider community to make a difference
WATCH THIS SPACE!
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
Inquiry
For our inquiry we learnt about our Christchurch earthquake. One of our activities was to experiment with liquefaction.
Here are some of the photos we took.
Friday, March 25, 2011
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
Hollys homework
I decided to do the homework challenge and I choose the task that you had to write a report about. A topic and I choose to write about the christchurch earthquake the hardest part was to think of a topic and think what to write and how to set it up. And. It was hard to do I thought it was going to be easy.
Monday, March 21, 2011
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Sydney's painting
I drew a picture using pastel,the Picture had to be of any landscape, and I chose the beach the hardest thing about this task was trying not to smudge it.But it was really fun!.
Friday, March 11, 2011
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
Thursday, February 24, 2011
Something personal
Let me start by saying I hope you and your lived ones are safe and well.
After leaving school on Tuesday it took Sally (my wife) 4 hours to get back to our home in Dallington. We were unable to drive across the Gloucester street bridge and so we had to make part of the trip by foot. When we got close to our we discovered that our street had been flooded.
We got home to find my daughter sound asleep ( she was being baby sat by my father in law). Our house was a total mess - everything that could fall over did. Our house was surrounded by silt due to liquefaction.
I am sitting writing this on my iPhone with no power or water
Today some very generous volunteers came and dug up all of the silt.
The main thing is that all my friends and family are safe.
On a positive note Mya took her first step tonight so she will be walking in no time.
Please comment on this post. I would love to know how things are for you and your family.
Just remember that good learners meet their challenges, and the challenges of the last few days are among the biggest you will ever have.
Kia kaha ( be strong) Room 2
After leaving school on Tuesday it took Sally (my wife) 4 hours to get back to our home in Dallington. We were unable to drive across the Gloucester street bridge and so we had to make part of the trip by foot. When we got close to our we discovered that our street had been flooded.
We got home to find my daughter sound asleep ( she was being baby sat by my father in law). Our house was a total mess - everything that could fall over did. Our house was surrounded by silt due to liquefaction.
I am sitting writing this on my iPhone with no power or water
Today some very generous volunteers came and dug up all of the silt.
The main thing is that all my friends and family are safe.
On a positive note Mya took her first step tonight so she will be walking in no time.
Please comment on this post. I would love to know how things are for you and your family.
Just remember that good learners meet their challenges, and the challenges of the last few days are among the biggest you will ever have.
Kia kaha ( be strong) Room 2
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Monday, February 21, 2011
Maygan's pizza
I made a pizza and I had to make the dough. I used cheese, bacon, pepper, onion, and tomato paste. The hardest part was cleaning up after.
Bye Maygan
Bye Maygan
Friday, February 18, 2011
Sarahs career
This is a slideshow showing the learning habits of models.
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
- Posted using BlogPress from my iPhone
Thursday, February 17, 2011
Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Run to Australia
We are trying to run to Australia. Each day we will be running a circuit and then we will add up the distance we have run.
Jacqueline
Jacqueline
Monday, February 14, 2011
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