Virtual Fish! Tickets

Showing Our Values

In 2020 when we were in lockdown, we created virtual Fish! Tickets to replace the paper tickets we use to acknowledge students for showing and growing our school values.  This year, we decided to continue doing these because we have so many students who show great engagement as we learn and work from home.  

For Whakamanawa, we also have Miss Cabral who has created a personalised ticket for sharing.

Here is our 2021 version:

If you haven't heard of the Fish! Philosophy, check it out on YouTube.

Daffodil Day Dedications

 Our Daffodil Day Learning

This year, our Daffodil Day activities have been put on hold so we can't shave heads until we all get back to school.  Mr Huggins will have loads of hair by then. 

In Whakamanawa, we have had a digital learning object with some activities to do that are based around Daffodil Day.

For our online fundraising, we have raised over $1000 for the Cancer Society.  We are so pleased with our efforts and know that this number is sure to grow...kind of like Mr Huggins and his hair.

Check out our DLO.

Make sure you check out student blogs too because there are some cool Voki on some of the blogs.

Kiwi Can Says...

 Be Resilient!

This term our theme in Kiwi Can is Resilience.  Our Kiwi Can catch-phrase is:

Happy, sad, angry, excited.  

All emotions are invited.

Don't keep them in, let them all out.

It's what being human is all about.

Positive People

TITLE: Keeping a Positive Attitude

INTRODUCTION:  Tālofa lava.

This week our values focus is Keeping a Positive Attitude.  We created a Google Drawing with us in the centre, surrounded by things we can say or think to ourselves to help keep a positive attitude.  

This is the example that Miss Driver created as a model for our class.

DIGITAL LEARNING OBJECT:

REFLECTION: I think we came up with some really good ways to keep positive in different situations.  We can already see some of the kids in our class, using these ideas.

SOURCES: We found our information from each other and we used our school Values slide for tr Ara Takitini site.  Miss Waho created the template for us and we personalised it.

QUESTION: Do you have any other ideas for how we can stay positive, especially when things get difficult?  Leave your ideas in the comments below.

Environmental Care

Being On Time

Perfect Punctuality 

This week's value is Being on Time.  This is important for many reasons.  We did an activity to look at how people may think of us if we are on time or if we are not.  
Here are my ideas about being punctual.

REFLECTION: I always try to be on time but the mornings are hard because I struggle to get out of bed.  Hopefully, these ideas will help me. 

QUESTION:  Do you have any suggestions or ideas for how I can get up earlier in the mornings?

Let's Celebrate

 Have Fun and Celebrate

This week our values focus has been Having Fun and Celebrating With Each Other.  We have done this by nominating each other for Fish tickets, being kind to each other, having free time as a class because we had been working well together and giving each other compliments.  We have been recognising the great

Today, we are going to Wycola Park to have fun with each other because last term, our class earned over 3,000 Fish! Tickets.

At the start of the week, we created Google Drawings and learned some new digital technology skills.   This was our criteria.

L.O. Identify ways we can celebrate the success of each other.  

Digital skills~Use a checklist of skills to teach, try and peer assess.

DIGITAL SKILLS:

1) Change the background colour.

2) Create a different shape for each idea.

3) Use a different font for each idea.

4) Fill each shape with a different colour.

5) Increase the outline of the shape.

6) Make the colour of text different in each idea.

7) Centre your text.

Here are some examples:

Our Values Focus

 Be Honest and Trusted

This week our value is to Be Honest and Truthful.  The activity we did was creating a T-Chart to show what it is like when we are honest and when we are dishonest.  

Reflection and next steps:  Be able to seek the truth without being rude or mean.  

Being On Time

 We Value Being On Time

This week we are learning about being punctual and on time.  Our focus for this is about how our actions affect and impact on other people.

We used a Google Drawing that we used earlier in the year but changed our perspectives so we thought about other people rather than the impact on just us.  

Here is a class model of what we did:

Our next step is for us to look at skills and strategies for being punctual and on time.

Kia Kaha

Kia Kaha with Constable Brad and Constable Jess

Today we welcomed Constable Brad and Constable Jess to introduce the Kia Kaha programme.  We had some key questions that we discussed.  
What makes us the same?

What makes us different?

Using the photo, children identified things we could see that make us the same and different.

Shields~ I Am Unique Because and Our Class is Special Because...

Shared ideas as unique individuals, origami, learning languages, cultures, own room, being good, different from others, different talents,  go to Mindplus, like arts and crafts, can speak different languages, 

Class-Oldest in the school, artistic, play nicely together, people are born in different cultures, we are all different, we are tidier than other classes, we show empathy, we are role models, 

When we bring all of our differences and uniqueness together, we create a special place.

Takitini Awards

Awards Celebration

In May, we were finally able to have an awards assembly to celebrate and acknowledge some of our fantastic students.

Our welcome awards.

Ngākaunui Award Recipients

Manawaroa Award Winners

Whakamanawa's Award Winners

Kiwi Can Reward

Whakamanawa Wins

At the end of term two, Whakamanawa were so happy to find that we had won the Kiwi Can reward for the term.  Each week, we compete with the other classes in Takitini to earn points based on our Kiwi Can focus.

Here we are enjoying some games as our celebration.

Te Whare Tapa Whā

Lockdown Learning

Today we learned about Te Whare Tapa Whā and how this relates to the recent lockdown.  We worked on creating our own reflections and as a class, contributed to this Google Drawing to share what we had and have been doing collectively.

Here are some of our ideas:

Our Weekly Value

Being Conscious of the World Around Us

This week our value is Being Conscious of the World Around Us.  This means showing awareness and empathy for what might be going on for other people and changing the way we act to be supportive of this.  

In Whakamanawa, we created a Wrinkled Heart Google Drawing to list the things that are said or done to us that make us feel down and blue.  We then wrote things that make us feel positive and fill our hearts with good feelings.

Our next step is to actually change our actions and apply these things.

The Learning Pit

Our Value This Week

This week our value is Learn From Mistakes. We created a pit to show what makes us feel like we are in the learning pit and what helps us to get out of the pit.  Here is the start of one we did together.  Individual students have created and posted their own.

My next step is to feel ok when I make mistakes or learning is hard.

Our Value This Week

Listening to Others

This week our value is listening to others.  We watched a video clip about whole body listening.  

In this clip, they sing about ten body parts that we use when we are listening.  Today, our bubble group of Tali, James and Janco, worked together to remember what these are.  

We need to use our:

1) Ears- we listen.

2) Mouth- Keep quiet when someone is talking.

3) Feet- Keep your feet still.

4) Hands-Keep your hands still.

5) Eyes-Look at the person who is speaking.

6) Body- Face the person
7) Brain-Think about what the person is saying. 

8) Heart-Care about what the person says.

9) Head- Nod when you understand.

Our next step is to: We could focus on being good listening.  

Self Assessment in Values

Whakamanawa Assess Ourselves

This year in Whakamanawa, we are self-assessing in our Values learning.  We have a value and behaviour expectation each week and have created a slide to assess ourselves in how well we show this particular value and what we can do to get better at it.  

This is the template we all have our own copy of:

Kiwi Can 2020

Kiwi Can is Back

We are really pleased to have Tia and Owen back to take us through the Kiwi Can Programme.  We have a new way of collating our Kiwi Can points and have made a great start to the year.  

Here are a few pics of one of our first sessions:

Whakamanawa Expectations

So what do we expect?

This week we looked at and talked about our expectations for how we should act and be within our spaces.  We discussed our school-wide behaviour expectations from 2019 and then worked in groups to determine what we thought was needed for all of us to feel safe, focused, ready to learn and happy here at school.

These are the sheets where we collated our ideas in groups.  

In groups, we shared our ideas.  These were then collated and we created a slide which we later shared with our whole hub.

Our next step is to ensure that we show these expectations and find constructive ways to deal with situations where these expectations have been forgotten.

Chalk Pastel Fun

Our First Fun Friday for 2020

As part of our values programme, we have Fun Friday each week.  Students earn Fish! tickets throughout the week by showing our values of Be There, Make Someone's Day, Play and Choose Your Attitude.

This week, we had our first afternoon of fun activities.

Some students chose to do Chalk Pastel Art with Miss Waho.  Here are some photos of their creations.

We also shared our first pieces of work on our Wall of Frame.