Who are we?

Te Ara Angitu is a group of Year 5 and 6 students at Ara Tū Whakatā Gilberthorpe School in Hei Hei, Ōtautahi, Aotearoa. Welcome to our blog where we share our learning throughout 2022.
You can also see sharing from Rimu and Whakamanawa students from previous years.

Wednesday 20 September 2017

Constructing New Furniture

A Great Example of Teamwork

With moving into a new shared space, we found we needed to purchase a few new pieces of furniture.  Today I decided to let the kids go for it.  This was partly to help develop our team work and communication skills and how to read and follow written assembly instructions.  The fact that it all looked too complicated for me when I opened the box,  also played a part in motivating this exercise.  

Three groups worked together and in record time and with so much ease, we soon had two new wheelie chairs and a tote tray trolley.

Working together to put all the parts together.

The instructions were discarded, the communication solid.

Many hands make light work and everybody contributes.

Adding the finishing touches.

All pitching in.

Boom!  Check that out.

Voila!  Another fine creation.

Done and Done!  A solid and sturdy trolley for us to use.

If I knew they were going to nail these so quickly I would have given them a few more projects.  I know what I'm going to do next time we have something to out together.





Tuesday 12 September 2017

Week 8 Value Quality

Honesty


Being honest is a quality that helps us to show all of our school values and that earns respect.  Here is this week's slide to help us with our developing our honesty.

Sunday 10 September 2017

Collaborating towards self-managing our learning

SOLO and Self Management


We have been using SOLO taxonomy to talk about how we are going to work towards being self managed learners with our devices. 

We broke into groups to brainstorm what each category might look like in our new hub. 
We then came back inside and collated our ideas together, on the board.


We are on our way to using SOLO to support our use of devices and self management.  

Tuakana Teina Time

Sharing Our Learning

Upon the return of students who attended the Student Summit, we held our own workshops back in class.  Here are a few of our creations from our exploring time.
Sophie created this and emailed it to Miss Waho.  
Miss Waho and Sita having some Be Funky time.

Check out this Powtoon made by Milan.

Stay tuned for some more creations that we will share soon.

Wednesday 6 September 2017

Soaking learning like sponges

Student Summit 2017

Twelve Gilberthorpe students were privileged to attend the first inaugural Urū Mānuka Student Summit, at Hornby Primary today. 6 students presented Toolkits to other ākonga in pairs. 
They attended (and presented) Toolkits on topics ranging from robotics, voki, scratch coding, using apps... 
Afterwards, the 90 students were able to take their new knowledge back and share it with the akonga in their classrooms.