Thursday, March 24, 2011

EWES Inter-school Swimming Sports - Fri 4 March on PhotoPeach

Rodney College Head Boy and Girl visit to Room 6 - Wed 23 March 2011 on PhotoPeach

Visit from head boy and girl of Rodney College


On Wednesday 23rd March Room 6 had a visit from the head boy and girl from Rodney College. They came to talk to us about leadership and the responsibilities of being head boy and girl. At the end of their talk Room 6 had a chance to ask questions. Some of our questions really made them think. They talked about when they went to a leadership camp and about some the things they did. They ended up showing us some of the games that they played. But then it was time to go and so we said goodbye and thank you. I think Room 6 learned a lot from them about leadership and also had a lot of fun.

visit by head girl and boy from Rodney College

On Wednesday Brittany and Romahn came to talk about leadership. They talked about their responsibilities at Rodney College as head boy/girl. They played games with us. We played pukana and finger grab. We all really enjoyed them. They told us about the leadership roles when they were younger and how it helped become great leaders. Some of the roles they had were cadets, Surf life saving, whanau leaders etc. We had a great time with them and we learnt lots!
By Holly and Cara

Thursday, March 17, 2011

One sentence stories

As the water came crashing down over the streets I heard screams and scared people crying then it was all over.

Shawnee

And there came the big black water streaming past me at 100kms an hour flooding everything in its way, pushing cars into brick walls then the water was at my feet.

Tiarna

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Mr M conference update

Hi everyone, it is the morning of the last day of the conference. I have had a couple of days of some very engaging speakers with topics ranging from letting students be the teacher, looking into the future, thinking about what a leader is ,brain-based learning and what is inquiry learning? I get to have a play with some LEGO robotics this morning prior to the final Keynote Speaker of the conference. It has been a great week in terms of professional development and I'm sure much of what I've heard with be beneficial to me in the future. GPM

Learning@School 2011 - Rotorua

The teacher is at a conference. I arrived safely on Tuesday afternoon and after a couple of small issues I checked into my motel and settled in. Wednesday morning - have registered and am now sitting and waiting for the conference to start. It begins with a welcome to all delegates and no doubt there will be some changes to the programme with the events in Christchurch. The images on the TV are absolutely terrible and incomprehensible to those not on the ground in the city. After, there is the first keynote speaker followed by a day of breakouts (workshops). I'm looking forward to it and will try to post regular updates.

GPM

Friday, December 10, 2010

motutapu camp


camp was very awesome and epic. people got over there fears and accomplished the new obstacles. Sailing was fun and so was the survivour challenge when you had to work as a team to complete the course there was ponds by the challenge so of course groups were wanting to jump in the ponds........they got dirty


by Izaiah watts

camp at motutapu

it was great time and was fun. my favourite thing was sailing. because I got to tip rebecca off.


by eru

Camp at Motutapu



It was a long walk to camp from the ferry.But once we got there it was the best camp i've ever seen.All the activities were fun and exiting. Sailing was awesome cause Hannah and I kept tipping out.Motutapu camp was the best camp i've ever been to.



By Leah