Why Your Teeth Should Stay Healthy - Eric, Lyric and AJ

This week LS2 have been focusing on sharing a community message. Eric, Lyric and I created a prezi to show our learning. In our prezi we talked about why your teeth should stay healthy and what happens if you don't keep them healthy. Our targeted audience is Room 5.

PBS Holiday Blogging Challenge - created for our learners by our learners!

Our wonderful student leaders were challenged to create and manage our own mini holiday blogging challenge. They have done an amazing job by creating activities that will take our holiday bloggers on a virtual tour around Auckland. There was a wealth of rich discussion as tasks were created and a lot collaborative problem solving to decide who will be responsible for which role in helping to manage the commenting and feedback. 

This challenge has been put in place to grow our leaders and strengthen our literacy skills. To make managing this task easier we have created a spreadsheet where bloggers will post the links to their blog posts and record which blogs they have commented on. 

This morning AJ and Mia introduced the challenge to those who have chosen to take part. What impressed me was the engagement of the audience and the clarity of the instruction. We have borrowed the points system from the Woolf Fisher Summer/Winter Learning Journey that runs over the December and July holidays, so will be giving out prizes to our own holiday blogging challenge champions (and managers). 

Anyone who would like to copy and repurpose this resource is most welcome. Link

Breaking News: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Daniel, Shannon, Sylis, Te Wai, Harlem, Jeremiah, CJ, AJ and Mathias chose to make a movie to share their learning about Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. Well boys, a great job well using the green screen for the first time!

Congratulations Oh Hsen and AJ!

Congratulations Oh Hsen and AJ a certificate for being organised for school. Well done to both of you! We have all seen the way you have stepped up as school leaders and made sure our school is set up for a successful day.

PBS CARE Award Badges

Congratulations to Sanujan, Ofa, Mishaan, Nazella, SaKae, AJ and Sylis for receiving your CARE award badges! Our CARE awards help our Year 7/8 students understand our PBS Values so that they can grow their leadership. The badges awarded today were for Respect, Attitude and Confidence. To receive a badge our students need to complete 5 tasks linked to that value. In Year 7 they begin at the silver level and progress to the gold level. 

Congratulations PBS Summer Learning Journey Bloggers!

Congratulations Daniel! Overall top blogger of the Summer Learning Journey 2016/17!

PBS blogging champions 2016/17 

(L to R) Oh Hsen (3rd =), AJ (2nd) Rachel, Daniel (1st) Alex and Ofa (3rd=)

Today our Summer Learning Journey participants were presented with their certificates at assembly. A huge thank you to Rachel and her team who read and commented on every post. Congratulations and well done to everyone who took part!

Congratulations AJ and John!

Congratulations AJ and John, a certificate for progress in writing! Both of you have listened to feedback and thought of ways you could apply new learning to help move your work to the next level.

Congratulations AJ and Oh Hsen

Congratulations to AJ and Oh Hsen, a certificate for thinking of others. Well done boys a superb quality to have and a great start to the term!

Congratulations Daniel and AJ!

Today the librarians form Panmure Library came to present certificates to the students who took part in the summer reading 'Dare to Explore' challenge. Well done boys, its great to see that you were reading over the summer!