Life Education Visit - Making Choices

Fiery Taniwhas posing with Harold.

 We love you Harold. 

Waiting anxiously to get in.

Key messages that were covered was peer pressure and how the brain influences our decisions. We learnt the difference between a choice and a decision.  

Chanel was chosen to decide which destination she will be taking her class mates to. The choices were South Island, Disneyland or Gold Coast with different packages. Chanel had a difficult task with all the peer pressure that she was under. She finally chose South Island since they got to fly first class, get picked up by limo, stay in a five star hotel, everything paid for plus $20 000 spending money. Hilary then said that there was some bad news. They all screamed, "WHAT". She said that they will be going nowhere.

We then completed the recount planning sheet together. Our next step was to go and now write independently using the template as a guide. It was great having the visual cues at the corner to refer to. Adding detail to our writing was simplified.

Life Education - Digital Citizenship

We started of the session by recapping on the previous lesson. 

Brain Gym was quite challenging and humorous for us.  We were basically playing tricks on our mind. 

We had to sing the Alphabet song with different actions. It was really difficult even though we knew our alphabets.

We played a clapping game which really confused our brain.

Ngakiri, Luke and Esther were the top three students. The winner was Esther. Congratulations Esther.

We also learnt about the parts of our brain and their functions.

Carpet boy was introduced to us. Volunteers had to find correct places to place information on which part of the body they will use. The choices were the gut, brain, heart and muscles.

Some new words that we came across were reputation, footprint and citizen. We also learnt that we are the boss of our brain. Whatever we post online follows us for life. Nothing get deleted. We planning our writing together.  Stay posted for some writing getting published soon.

Term 1 House Event

On Friday afternoon the High Flyers participated in tabloid sports organised by our very own school leaders.  Thanks Whaea Lois for making this possible.

We are really fortunate to have a teacher at our school, Mrs Sagote who is a trained Zumba instructor. Students enjoyed Zumba the most. Our school also has Thursday night Zumba sessions in our hall from 6 to 7pm. All you need is comfortable clothes, shoes and a gold coin donation. Feel free to join us. A healthy whanau is a happy whanau.