Working Well

Work Habits

This year we are working on having good work habits.  This week we did a brainstorm to share our ideas about what good work habits look and sound like.  We then started working on our handwriting title pages so we could be these ideas into practise.  

Check out how well we are working here:

Our next step is to continue to focus on our work habits and improve, maintain and show these in different situations.

Colour Your Day

In Respect and Memory

We recently had one of the most devastating and shocking events happen in Christchurch history. The support, love, acceptance and learning that has come from this has been quite phenomenal.  

One initiative that we took part in, was Colour Your Day.  We had a colourful mufti day to help raise money to support those who have been affected.  We had two minutes silence together as a school and ties 50 colourful balloons across our front fence in memory of those whose lives were taken.  

Some of our Whakamanawa students who tied balloons.

Friendly Flemish

Flemish Giant Cuddles Pays A Visit

Dry Land Swimming Lesson

Safety Swimming

Even though our pool has now closed for the season, we had Leeanne from Canterbury Swimming to come in and do some dry land lessons.  

These lessons looked mainly at water safety and what dangers we could face in different bodies of water.

When we go swimming again, we will review and revise what we have learned during our dry land lessons.

Rest and Relaxation

Our Values Focus:  Rest and Relaxation

During term one, one of our weekly learning areas in our Values programme was Rest and Relaxation.  One of the follow up activities we did was designing a poster.  This is a template to help us get started:

Work Habits

Learning About Learning

At the beginning of the year, we looked at what good work habits and engagement might look like in the learning space.  We talked about what helps our learning and how we need to develop skills for staying on task.  

Our next step is to look at different learning styles and plan to enable students to engage in activities that provide the best learning opportunities.

Courtesy

Our Weekly Focus for Values:  Courtesy

In term one, one of the values that we learned about was courtesy.  This shows our Choose Your Attitude Value and also Make Someone's Day.  In Te Rōpū Whakamanawa, one of our activities was to create a Google drawing showing the different ways we can show courtesy at school, home and within our community.

Here are a few examples of student creations: