Upper Atiamuri School

1.                  What school do you go to?

Ko Upper Atiamuri te kura. ( Upper Atiamuri School)

2.                  What is something special about your school?

We only have 30 kids in our school. We are a very active school.

Our symbol is a fantail. It is special because it represents being intelligent and inquisitive.

 We are a multi-cultural school and we have a trampoline, lots of sports gear, and a gully and lots of space to run around.

We’ve got our very own culture. We have mixed ages and cultures. Everyone is equal no matter what and we wouldn’t change it for anything.

Everyone is nice and caring.

Our school only has 30 children, our cultural diversity, everyone does kapa haka everyone enjoys it no matter what our culture.

We also have flower day, winter sports, Pet day and fun trips.

We have a swimming pool and a tramp. Not many schools have a tramp.

Everyone tries their best.

Sometimes we get to have a puppy in our classroom while we work we also have a   gully to do epic adventures in.

The teachers are awesome!

3.                  What is something you have enjoyed learning about this year?

I’ve enjoyed learning about different places and my past ancestors.

Learning new sports like soccer and rugby.

Learning kapahaka and doing science experiments.

We love art.

We have enjoyed getting the opportunities to learn physics and multiplications to get us a good understanding of the work and it challenges your mind.

The Commonwealth Games. We really enjoyed learning about the values of the games, to help us succeed and have good values in life.

  

4.                  What do you most like about living in Atiamuri (Rotorua)?

There are lots of dairy farms and sheep farms.

Our community in Atiamuri is so small, everyone knows everyone else. Everyone is nice and supports each other.

I like all the different cultures and all the animals.

We like all the animals and space to play and run around and we don’t have to listen to the trucks race past, we also don’t have street lights shining in our eyes.

It’s nice to go to all the places in Rotorua and living in the country it’s dark and you can see all the stars at night.

I love living on a marae. There are unexpected surprises and opportunities. Like doing a karanga (welcoming call) at a powhiri.

5.         What do you most like doing on your computers/iPads/devices at school to help your learning?

We really like maths games. We learn heaps and it’s fun too!

All I like is that we actually have computers and other technology to me I think we’re very lucky.

The cool educational games. It helps us by researching and finding facts for your learning. We also play games that help our learning and we also use them for publishing our work.

We like to play maths games. We really like going on www.multiplication.com/games

I like the odd games that help you develop skills that you never thought possible.

I like listening to music on devices because it helps me get lost into my work. Also I like singing so it gives me the opportunity to showcase my talents.

6.                  Is there anything else you'd like to share about yourself, your learning, your class or your school?

The year 7/8s are currently doing the William Pike Challenge and we do lots of fun things during the year. We have been Rock climbing and bike rides in the forest. We are going Kayaking and are going to spend a night in the bush.

Well I’m not a very intelligent type of girl, but with the teachers and the class environment it helps me to focus and achieve my goals! (Mrs Needham thinks she is intelligent!)

Well I like how we get to learn other peoples cultures and get to learn to speak their language to  me this  school is like home to me  and I bet you would want to come to our school. 

Room 4 - Broadlands School

We are a class of Year 1 students, halfway between Rotorua and Taupo. 

We like coming to school and enjoy using Notebooks and iPads in our learning. You can learn more about us on our class blog.

Wonderful Waiteti Three

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W3, a Year 8 class at Mokoia Intermediate, had their 1st taste of using Twitter in the class room. We joined in a #kidsedchatnz session where 10 questions were posed, and we had to answer them.

These were some of our responses.

A great experience that we will be repeating. You should have a go.

1. What school do you go to?
Mokoia Intermediate.

2. What is something special about your school?
We aren't the biggest school but we are very good at sport.

3. What is something you have enjoyed learning about this year?
Computer coding on Gamefroot.

4. What do you most like about living in Rotorua?
I like the atmosphere with all the friendly people that encourage you to do your best.

5. What do you most like doing on your computers/iPads/devices at school to help your learning?
I like learning about coding and instead of watching and reading we get to try it and make our own games.

6. Is there anything else you'd like to share about yourself, your learning, your class or your school?
I really enjoy being a student at Mokoia Intermediate because there are so many activities and opportunities. The morning fitness programme has helped me with my sport so much.

By Josh and W3

Some of us at our Mandarin option on Wednesdays.

Room 19 Westbrook School

Room 19 is a composite class of Year 5 and 6 students. We integrate a range of of technology in our learning each day and use SOLO Taxonomy.

1.What school do you go to?

Westbrook Primary School

2.           What is something special about your school?

   Our school has lots of opportunities for the students.

    The Westbrook Way is really special to our school because all the kids follow it and respect it. It also teaches us good values to use all the way through your life.

3.           What is something you have enjoyed learning about this year?

This year I have enjoyed learning about Space because we got to learn things about Space I didn’t know.

A trip to our Museum.

This year our class has had a term three topic about space and our class has enjoyed learning about it because there were so many things to learn about it as well.

4.           What do you like most about living in Rotorua?

That Rotorua has lots of nature for us to enjoy. Most of the people in Rotorua are friendly so I feel safe. That it has mud pools. It also has lots of parks to go to.

5.           What do you most like doing on your computer/ Ipads/ devices at school?

playing learning games such as tanks (a maths game) etc.

playing tanks on the computer to do angles and degrees

6.Is there anything else you’d like to share about yourself, your learning, your class or your school?

We always try to be the best us that we can be. We always follow the Westbrook Way. Our values are important to us and they are: Respect, Responsibility, Initiative, Excellence and Whanaungatanga

We Are Learning to Speak Spanish!

These are Year 7 students in K4 at Mokoia Intermediate.

This term each of our learning centres (syndicates) has one day when we have specialist and technology subjects.  The rotation includes soft materials, hard materials, electronics, food technolgy, music, science, Mandarin and Spanish.  K4 are learning Spanish with their class teacher and it's a new experience for all of them!

Lynmore Learners

Lynmore  Learners

Here are some video clips from some students at Lynmore Primary School.   They were asked how Lynmore was special to them or what is special about Lynmore to you.   Enjoy the clips.   Please comment on all aspects of this post, because I am a dinosaur and despite a few hiccups, I have managed to publish this post.   

I thank, those children in the clips and Annemarie Hyde for her endless patience and Wendy Stafford, for her amazing ICT knowledge, particularly, around Apple.  

 

Rotorua School for Young Parents

Kia ora koutou.

We are very excited to be participating in Pass the Blog.  We are a teen parent unit based in Rotorua.  We study N.C.E.A levels 1,2 and 3 while our children are cared for across the playground at our childcare.  We thought that we would ask interested students to answer the questions from the blog.
Thanks for reading....

Question 1 - What is something special about your school?
Moana - It's a friendly environment and everybody is very welcoming.
Sasha- We are a very close school, being treated like adults gives us the self motivation we all need to learn what we are interested in learning and at our own pace. Cutting out any teacher student tension.
Stevee-Lee- That we can study at our own pace and do whatever subject we choose at anytime instead of a set timetable like other schools.
Te-Mou- At out school its much easier to work and go at your own pace. Everyone is so nice and there is no drama to worry about.
Morgan- At our school they give us many more opportunities than at other schools, and you can work at our own pace. Everyone has a lot of respect for each other.
Catherine-The most special thing about school is that my baby is right next door while I study.


Marie- The special thing about this school is that we don't have to hide anything and we can feel comfortable to ask or tell the teachers anything.
Destina- Special thing about this school is knowing that even though we have to study and keep up on work we are still able to be mums at the same time.
Andrea- A special thing about our school is that we have support in everything we do, whether it be doing school work to even when we have problems in our own lives
Gina: The teacher's are down to earth and are very understanding.

Question 2 - What is something you have enjoyed learning about this year?
Moana - That nothing is hard if you give it a go
Sasha- I've enjoyed doing the courses such as first aid and barista.
Stevee-Lee- I've enjoyed a lot this year like our amazing end of the term trips, also doing different courses and being a team.
Te-Mou- I enjoyed doing the first aid course and learning new hobbies.
Morgan- I enjoyed doing the schools amazing race, and learning new things like crochet, quilting, and lip balm making.
Catherine - So far I'm enjoying getting through my level 1 maths with flying colours and learning heaps of different math techniques.
Marie- I enjoyed doing the courses and trying different courses.
Destina- The trips, auctions and just being with everyone including my son :)
Andrea- This year I have enjoyed learning about our own health and wellness and accomplishing the goals we strive towards.
Gina: I've enjoyed learning about the different subjects that'll contribute towards the career I wish to pursue.


Question 3 - What do you most like about living in Rotorua?
Moana - It's away from mum. LOL
Sasha- I have my mum around for anything.  I love that I can return back to R.S.F.Y.P next year.
Stevee-Lee-I have family and friend support in Rotorua. Also my great teachers that help and support us are right here. 
Te-Mou- I have all my family around and close friends.
Morgan- I like how a lot of my family live here, and how the towns quite small so friends are always near.
 Catherine - Mainly because I know the town and also my friends and family are here
Marie- Well I'm from here so pretty much family reasons and great support.
Destina- Family and friends. Rotorua will always be my home no matter where I go.
Andrea- A beautiful Maori cultural place where I know is a safe place to raise my daughter.
Gina: Rotorua is where I was born and raised, so to me; Rotorua is home.

Question 4 -What do you most like doing on your computer/ipad/ devices at school to help your learning?
Moana - Finding the answer to something difficult by using google.
Sasha- I'm not much of a fan of laptops and Ipads I prefer sticking with pen and paper but I will always be up for a game of Kahoot! Where we do quizzes or surveys of the different activities we do.
Stevee-Lee- Searching things that may help me with my school work . I also enjoy reading on the kindle. Another thing is definitely the game Kahoot!
Te-Mou- I like to play Kahoot! As a class on the ipads, and I get a lot of information off the internet from the laptops and ipads.
Morgan- The computers/laptops/ipads make work so much easier and faster. I like how you can go on google drive and share my work with my teachers.
Catherine-I like Mathaletics as well as GOOGLE. Google is my favourite website to use for all sorts of information.
Marie- Researching information for my school work. learning more things about these devices.
Destina- Looking up answers that we need and having fun with activities such as Kahoot-it. 
Andrea- Being able to look up things when we need to research thing we don't know about. Making CV's to help us get employment.Gina: When in need of a second opinion, being able to seek many via google.
Question 5 - Is there anything else you'd like to share about yourself, your learning, your class or school?
Moana - I have a 2yr old baby boy named Manawa , I need 3 more credits to pass numeracy level 1.
Sasha- Rotorua School for Young Parents is very warm and welcoming, having the day care on site is very comforting for myself having my oldest daughter Mia there and soon her sister. We are more like one big whanau.
Stevee-Lee- I am very new to parenting  and so  I am glad that I have so much support up at RSFYP. I love how the day-care is by the school and I can go see my daughter Airah-lee.
Te-Mou- I love this school because of how much support I get about being a teen mum, it makes it much easier to get a good education.   
Morgan- I think this school gives teen mothers a great chance to get the education they want and I like how they also make it fun!
Catherine-There's nothing much really just that its a awesome school and the best part is my daughters right there when I need my fix of cuddles <3 :)
Marie- Well I started this school when I was 7 months pregnant and had no NCEA level 1 credits. Now I have completed NCEA level 1 and gaining credits for level 2.  This school has really helped me to achieve everything I need in life.
Destina- Loving that even though I hated English throughout my school life, this school has managed to help me improve my literacy in a very easy and fun way.
Andrea- This school has helped me build my self confidence in everything and has taught me that I can reach my goals and go even further than I thought I could in my future.
Gina: I LOVE my school. RSFYP has so much to offer it's students and I'm so grateful that there is something in place like this for us young parents. 
Wakata:  that my school enrols all year that my teachers and class mates all look out for each other. I just love my school all together

Otonga School Room 22

Kia ora koutou!

We are a group of 6 year 3 and 4 children from Otonga Primary, Te kura o Tihiotonga and we have had fun creating this post. We hope you enjoy it and please leave a comment.
Click on the picture below to go to our school website.

Our class pepeha

At Otonga we are all in a different house group

Made on Explain Everything

Our school

Made using I-movie

Our answers to the questions



We worked together on the above presentation using Google slides.

We love creating our own stories. I wrote and narrated this and then shared it to be used in the school as a 'big' shared book with other children. 

Pass the Blog - Western Heights High School

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My name is Miss Le Long and our awesome Western Heights High School students have put together a massive range of responses for you all. I asked our students to be honest, uphold our school's mana and pride and above all else help show why Heights is an awesome school to be a part of.

Huge thanks to everyone that was involved in putting this blog post together! Pics to come soon :)

P2 MOKOIA INTERMEDIATE

We are from MOKOIA INTERMEDIATE!  We are a year 7 digital class and we love to have fun and work together.  We are a class that believes strongly in our school values of Honesty, Relationships, Respect and Learning.  We love being in P2!

Here are our answers to the questions:

This year we have enjoyed heaps of things such as, Minecraft, storys, playing with each other, school trips, Inquiry, making new friends, making the Typhoon Bothers in term 2, Speeches and our Teachers.  We are a very good and small school.

This year the teachers have been awesome and the learning is so much fun. We also get alot of opportunities including sports, performing arts, technology and much more.  We al follow values that make a great class and school.

In Rotorua I like going to the skyine gondola because of the luge ride and the Jelly Belly shop.  

I like the nice clean lakes around Rotorua because they have the tastiest trout.  

I like the Redwoods and biking areas in Rotorua because it's a peaceful place to spend the weekends.  I like Te Puia Geothermal Park because of a the gysers and hot water pools.  It was a great experience for me.  

I like the beautiful flowers in the city and the Maori Culture is alive here.  I also love how clean Rotorua is.

Mokoia is special because it is a nice small school and we all know each other.  We have a variety of activities for morning tea and lunchtimes.  We have awesome opportunities like the Devon exchange, Arts options on Friday, Technology, Digital Classes and Alternative education week.  We have a Bike track in our school!  We get to go fishing and kayaking at camp and we have awesome teachers!

As we are a digital class we love to use our computers for learning.  We use all sorts of different websites and devices to create the learning environment we need.  Readum is an online reading site where we read through the computer screen.  We use Google docs as it is a way we can all write at the same time with different computers.  Using Storybird is a way for us to create stories from peoples art.  We do so much more and we hope you have as much fun as we do!

Here is our class blog:  Please take a look and comment on our adventure in learning.  http://p2mrshay2014.blogspot.co.nz/

Otonga School

From the mouths of the young...

Malfroy School by Julie, Millie, Ryan and Alexa

Our School Korowai

This is a Thinglink... it shares the values of our school

Our School Has Many Programmes:

Transition to School

When you are 4 years old, you can come to school one afternoon a week and learn about what school is like ready for when you turn 5.

Montessori

We have a Montessori class that follows the teaching philosophy of  Dr. Maria Montessori.

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Rumaki

There is Junior Rumaki class at Malfroy School and a Middle/Senior class. Literacy We have a lot of support for learning literacy at our school. We have Ngati Whakaue support and Reading Recovery support and PPP. Life Education Harold and Bernie visit us every year so we can learn about ourselves, our bodies, our relationships and our health. We love this! Swimming We go to Rotorua Aquatic Centre every year and learn how to swim. We do a water safety course that is important because we life in a place with 16 lakes.

Education out of the Classroom [EOTC]

We get to go to exciting places and go on overnight camps that give us opportunity to push our own boundaries, develop excellent friendships and learn to support and encourage each other. Camps are the BEST! This year we went to Tui Ridge.

Tui Ridge Senior Camp 2014 on PhotoPeach

We are Seniors and have Responsibilities

Ambassadors

In order to become an ambassador, you need to be nominated and have and interview. We (Julie and Millie) were selected as having 'the right stuff' and got to go on a leadership development programme and attend the National Young Leaders day.

As Ambassadors we are involved in meeting and greeting visitors, helping with junior and middle school classes, assisting in the playground at break times, and representing our school.

Dynamos

Dynomos are senior students who are selected and trained to organise and run lunch time games for the junior and middle school students. Ryan is a Dynamo, this suits his bouncy personality.

Librarians

Alexa, Julie and Millie are Librarians. They are responsible for issuing and returning books, and filing books onto the shelves.

Road Patroller

Ryan helps keep kids safe by being out at the zebra crossing in the rain and the sun and the frost and the wind. "Signs out!, Wait Please! Check! Safe! Cross now please! Signs in!" Says Ryan.

Receptionists

Alexa and Ryan are Receoptionists. They get a welcome desk at the reception office of the school and are responsible for meeting and greeting visitors, answering the phone and taking messages. They also help the office staff with anything they need.

ICT Leaders

We are ICT Leaders at Malfroy School. This is what we enjoy the most!

The best part of being an ICT Leader this year is that we established our own 'real' business: The Malfroy Market. You can view our business ventures here. 

We have our own school blog where our teacher (she calls herself a 'facilitator' though) leaves instructions for us and where we showcase our learning outcomes. You can view this blog here.

One of the coolest things about an ICT Leader is that we get to explore many different Web 2.0 Tools and Apps that encourage us to think, collaborate, create and connect. It is AWESOME!

And, we earn badges for our successes. Check them out!

Web 2.0 Badges on PhotoPeach

Below are some outcomes we want to share with you.

Bomomo Digital Art Competition Entry

Psykopainted Tiger

Graffiti Creation

Jackson Pollock Digital Art

A quick review by Moenah, Adele and Jordan....

Our school is Mokoia Intermediate.

Mokoia has got a lot of different opportunities for different people in the school such as: Sport (a lot of sport), Stage Challenge, Production, Kapa Haka, Student Council, House Captain, Camp (basic and flash), Inter-House Competitions, Maths Competitions, Band Competitions, Tough Guy/Girl Challenge and a whole lot more.

One of our favorite things in class was doing a novel study on the book Divergent with fun and interesting activities to understand the book better. Also our pathbrite (digital portfolio).
Making and firing our catapults for science, having an awesome teacher, Social studies, experimenting with our green screen, blogging, seeing Aida (production by RGHS and RBHS), our speeches and so much more.

We like Rotorua because of the clean air, the free space and we have some really nice locals.

We find Google Docs really cool. You can make your own presentation/ spreadsheet/ document/ drawing/ form and you can share it with friends, family, classmates or even your teacher.

Mokoia is a small school which is really cool because you know everyone by face or name.