Travelling Tale- Danger on the Coral Reef

"Danger on the Coral Reef" is a new #globalgoals inspired digital story created by 4 different classes from around the world. Students from the USA, New Zealand and Vietnam collaborated to create this story with a focus on the Sustainable Development Goal #14.

One of our learners attributes is "I am connected." We are aiming to connect globally so that we have a better understanding of the world around us: 

We used this story mountain to help:

Kia ora Brindas School

Kia ora and bonjour to our friends at Brindas School in France,  

We have made a short video for you. 

We hope that you all have a great Christmas break and we look forward to collaborating again next year!

Here are some messages for you...

Maths is all around us! Collaboration with Auroa School

Maths is EVERYWHERE! It surrounds us in nature and technology. Everyday tasks such as driving, playing sports or cooking, require us to use Maths.

Maths influences our daily lives. Galileo said, "Mathematics is the language with which God has written the universe."   

In collaboration with our friends at Auroa School in Taranaki, we asked the students to put on their "Maths Eyes" and look for Maths around them. We started adding to these slides in lockdown. 

Can you answer the questions? Can you create your own Maths questions? 

The purpose of having Maths Eyes is to show that Maths is meaningful and it is not just something that we do in school. 

'Why is it important to have Maths Eyes?

• Having maths eyes promotes the usefulness of mathematics – Everyone has maths eyes they just need to be opened. Involves individuals, parents, children, young adolescents, pensioners, teachers, tutors.
• Having maths eyes builds confidence in mathematics.
• Having maths eyes encourages the use of the real world as a starting point for the relevant exploration in the maths world.
• Having maths eyes provides excellent opportunities for linking education (primary, secondary, adult) and community.
• Having maths eyes provides a platform for adults and children to share their maths eyes in their everyday life whether they are shopping, walking, driving, at sports events – everywhere. Open a channel for dialogue about real world mathematics.
• Maths Eyes provides parents with opportunities to talk about mathematics that are not related to homework
• Having maths eyes promotes active citizenship and informed decision making.
• When teachers, and tutors have maths eyes they can identify real world starting points for mathematics teaching and learning that are relevant to the social, cultural and educational context of their learners.
• Developing maths eyes helps to create a new inheritance for future generations –‘ we are all real world maths people’

This list was directly quoted from the Maths Eyes Website: http://www.haveyougotmathseyes.com/

Playing Maths games are fun!

Hello friends from France!

We would like to say "Bonjour" to our friends in Brindas School in France. 

See their last message to us: http://cm1.galligani.eu/auroa-school/friends-2020-2021/

Bonjour friends!

How are you doing? We have just arrived back from Camp Kaitoke. We had a fun bus ride and got to watch a movie!

We did lots of fun activities such as a big zipline called the Super Fox, kayaking, abseiling, and crate stacking! We got to sleep in cabins and have meals in a big dining hall together.

We are having a Whanau Festival on the 28th of March. Our Whanau Festival will have fun and games, also food, dancing and music, we have been making Kowhaiwhai patterns (Maori patterns) to go with it and designed some posters to advertise.

We are very excited!

How have you been at school? Have you done much cool writing, reading or maths?

It’s really cool that you are learning English, we want to thank you for that. It’s fun being able to talk to your school all the way from New Zealand! Maybe we should start learning some French!

Did you guys have a good Christmas holiday?

We have been spending some time at the beach and once got to host another school!

We had a sandcastle competition and we also got to swim in the water!

We also have started a maths investigation.

What we did was pair up with a buddy and research a cultural pattern, then, we copied one and made our own one, after that, we put them on display.

While the year fives and sixes were at camp, the year fours made some awesome artwork of their Turangawaewae, inspired by the artist Heather Brown.

From Cleo and Mae

Te Aro School Beach Day

Te Aro School Beach Day - We welcomed our friends from Te Aro School to our wonderful beach playground. This was a great opportunity to get to know our fellow Wellingtonians.

Cleo: I used manaakitanga by including some kids that didn't have a group. It was really fun swimming and doing tug of war with them. I also liked playing football. It was fun making sand sculptures and I got to know some of them more while we were in a group. It was fun playing with other kids and doing activities. It was cool watching them do their karakia and songs like us. It was actually quite funny. Next time I would like to go and have a look at their school.

Ethan: I liked playing football with the kids from te aro school. The teams were fair but then Nik joined the other team and it was hard. I liked doing tug of war with the other kids. The funniest thing was when we did Kids vs Teachers. My wish is that it wasn’t so windy because sand went in my eyes. I met some new people in the sandcastle building competition and football. I showed manaakitanga by being kind to them and helping my friends when they got hurt. I found the sandcastle building interesting because it was about Ngake and Whataitai.

Rani: I met a few people who were working with Mae and I when we were building a sand castle. The sand castle was a fish tail basically to symbolize Ngake. I showed manaakitanga when I was showing some of the Te Aro school people the bathrooms and explaining the rules of tug of war. I also showed manaakitanga when I was playing tug of war with them. I also show manaakitanga when I was going to show them a few games that I have sometimes played at school or not at school including sliding down the dunes, HIde and Seek tag, Chain tag, Camouflage, and the colour game. Also a few ball games in the water that a few played with me and a bunch of other people. Next I think that we should do some more beach things with Te Aro school and maybe invite them to our school and have a day of different activities and games and also going down to the beach for a bit and then back up for more games, The games we could play might be: Ditchies, camouflage, tag, chain tag, ultimate tag, cricket, touch rugby, and the colour game too.

Bonjour Brindas School

Students at Brindas School have started their new school year. The students in CM2 have introduced themselves to us. They have made us a movie!  Please watch and make sure to comment on their blog: http://cm1.galligani.eu/auroa-school/friends-2020-2021/

We made some positive affirmation Art for our friends at Brindas School: 

Collaborative Poetry- Tuakana Teina

Last week, our Social Positive Purpose Group worked collaboratively with the Year 3 students to create some poetry. The aim was to teach the juniors about the poetic devices that the seniors have been using in their poetry. It was great to collaborate and learn from each other!

When I feel Excited By Nikita and Sitara 

When I feel excited 

I bounce off the walls 

When I feel excited 

I explode excitement 

When I feel sad 

I burst into tears 

When I feel sad 

I read a book 

When I feel sad 

I slam the door 

When I feel nervous 

I freeze into a ball 

When I feel nervous 

I shiver with scaredness 

When I feel hangry 

I screamed angrily 

When I feel loved 

I get happy and my heart bursts

Childhood Tracks by Soma and Nina 

Hearing tui waking me up in the morning 

Hearing the teacher talking to my class 

Hearing kids and me playing at playtime 

Eating toast in the morning 

Eating orange for lunch at school 

Eating pizza for lunch 

Drinking water in the afternoon 

Drinking orange juice 

Drinking fizzy drinks at home 

Smelling pizzas cooking in the oven at lunch

Anger by Oscar & Charlie

Anger 

It flies through our head 

like a bullet 

Causing happiness to scramble away 

Making everyone grumpy

Childhood Tracks by Ethan Gigi and Oli 

Smelling delicious flowers 

Smelling pollen in the flowers 

Hearing tui sing loudly 

Hearing beautiful getting pollinated by bees 

Eating delicious KFC 

Eating the burning pizza 

Feeling water on your face 

Feeling the fresh breeze on my face

Love By Charlotte and Cara

Love is form of relationship 

Flying through the air 

as its formed 

Love is a red hot heart 

Burning through
The soul

Childhood tracks- Sam and Mastani 

Hearing my Dad screaming 

Hearing my little brother throwing dishes on the ground 

Hearing seagulls stomping on the roof 

Seeing my neighbours jumping on the trampoline 

Seeing seagulls flying past the window 

Seeing harakeke bending in the wind 

Eating chocolate caramel goody-goody-gumdrop ice-cream 

Eating pancakes with chocolate and raspberries 

Eating tacos with guacamole and black beans

Travelling Tales

Our first Worser Bay Travelling Tale is ready!

Well done to Sitara, Taiga, Jenny, Amelia and Solly. 

5 students used the mountain story planner to create the story!

Story Mountain Planner:



If you are keen to take part in a Travelling Tale, you can sign up on this Google Form.

Collaborative Art

The Pineappleverse!?!

We have been working collaboratively in learning groups in most areas of the curriculum.  This is challenging!  Probably our most successful collaborative work so far and one in which we displayed our creativity, was this colourful piece in which we doodled, with no boundaries.  Tuakana, our older leaders, really stood up during this activity, showing the way.

The benefits of working collaboratively are many and well documented.  The ability to cooperate, problem solve, and create together is one of the most important skills for 21st century learners and a sort after attribute for those in the work place. We are effectively knowledge building together. 

Pictured are the students in action.  Great work you guys!

Mingalabar to Yangon International School! Our Mystery Skype...

Our Digital Technologies Student Council group did a Mystery Skype with students at Yangon International School. The first question they asked us was if we went to school in Myanmar. It sounded a bit like Miramar so we were confused!

This Mystery Skype was with a school in Myanmar. Our old teacher, Chrissy, was there. We found out that they where in Asia and we tried to guess their school before they quessed ours. We had to use yes or no questions. Next time we are going to ask each other questions about where we live...

By Dylan and Nikora

Mystery Skype teaches students 21st century skills such as:

• Critical Thinking
• Collaboration
• Cultural Awareness
• Deductive Reasoning
• Digital Literacy
• Geography
• Teamwork ​

Mingalabar Chrissy! Lovely to see you. 

'How Maui Discovered Fire' -Matariki Whanau Groups Day

James and Nicola's Whānau group (with Neil stepping in!) retold the tale of how Maui discovered fire. We did this through the medium of puppets!

First we got into groups and retold the legend. Then we got back together to share, before planning and discussing what we needed to make. We asked, how did we want to do it? What characters will we need? How will we make the settings for the scenes and the backing music?

Everybody played their part in creating the artwork for the show, as well as telling the story. Some were on stage during the performance and some recorded their voices. We also made the background music using GarageBand. 

         

Here's the audio by itself 

Pepeha with our Friends at Auroa School

We recently did a Skype with Auroa School in Taranaki. We took turns saying our pepeha and saying it without reading it. We acknowledged the other school for giving it their best shot. It was a great experience speaking to others in a different language and getting the courage for public speaking. We think they did good for the first time saying their pepeha to people they didn’t know for the first time. We were very nervous and one of us nearly chickened out of doing it but he still persevered.