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!

Interschool Softball Report: By Sylis

On Wednesday Panmure Bridge School participated in the interschool softball. There were three teams, one was a Year 5 and 6 team which was called Panmure Bridge School, another was a Year 7 team called Panmure Bridge B and the last team was a Year 8 team called Panmure Bridge A. Once everyone was ready to play we figured out where we needed to be and played. The year 8 team played Point England, Tamaki Primary and Glenbre. We all played very hard but we lost all our games. Then we heard that we were playing the year 7 team. The year 5 and 6 team did really well and won two games. 

It was really fun even though we lost all our games. Thank you Mr M, Mr Ogilvie, Mrs Kirkpatrick and Mrs Caroline for coming down and supervising us.

By Sylis

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. 

Building Leadership Skills Year 7 by Oh Hsen and Sylis

This is my DLO on Leadership I did with Sylis. Every Mondays the Yr8s have dance while the Yr7's have leadership. We are doing this to build trust with each other and next year we're going camp and we need to get along with each other. Mrs Anderson gives us really fun and exciting. I really enjoy doing leadership activities.

Congratulations CJ and Sylis!

Congratulations CJ and Sylis! A certificate for showing respect to other cultures. Well done boys this was noticed by all the teachers during our Inquiry rotation.