I am Powerful

Our Learner Attribute this term is "I am Powerful." 

Students are receiving Principal Awards for being powerful... 

But, what does that look like? and how can you be a powerful learner? 

We are working hard to overcome challenges at Bootcamp

Being Powerful is overcoming challenges.

We are excited about our learning in Kapa Haka. Learning rakau is challenging!

Being Powerful is being excited about learning.

We are challenging ourselves in our whānau group

Being Powerful is challenging yourself.

Being Powerful is knowing that sometimes not knowing is good!

We have been planting, growing, harvesting in our environment. We are making pesto!

Being Powerful is making decisions about your environment.

We are sharing our learning from our "Do good, feel good" Inquiry. We are thinking about we can affect change.

Being Powerful is taking action.

Being Powerful at Basketball training!

Being Powerful is about not giving up!

Being Connected: Travelling Tales

During lockdown, some of our students were involved in Travelling Tales. Students were allocated a section of the story to write and illustrate. After they finished their part, it was passed on to the next student. What a great way to demonstrate our learner attribute of "being connected." 

In the past, we have been involved in Travelling Tales with other schools across the globe created by Joel Bevans. 

Story Mountain Planner:

Building Positive Relationships

Manaakitanga is a principle we embrace in the Māhutonga Matariki Whānau. This is about caring for others, uplifting them, supporting them and making them feel at home!

We are learning to celebrate difference

Life would be very boring if we were all the same. Celebrating difference is exciting and makes life interesting! 

This is us at karakia. We are getting awards for being connected. We are all so different!

We are learning to listen to each other

We actively listen to the person speaking. We may need to turn our body so that we are facing the speaker. This helps the speaker to feel valued and supported.

We are actively listening to each other!

We are learning to give our time to others

When we give our time to others it enhances our Positive Relationships. We are learning to be present in the moment. Spending time building relationships is a valuable life skill. One way that we give time to others is in our Positive Purpose Student Council Groups. 

We are practising our Positive Purpose, planting as part of the Enviro Group. 

We are learning to develop our conversations

We are developing our communication skills through conversations. We take turns, build on each other's ideas and keep focused on the question.

We are learning to give and receive feedback

Giving and receiving feedback is really important in learning. It can help us to gain a different perspective. 

We are giving and receiving feedback in the helping circle

We are learning about empathy

Empathy and understanding builds connections between people. Every relationship can teach us something!

Building relationships with people helps us to become more connected!

Bonjour to our friends in Brindas, France!

Our Learner Attribute focus this term is, "I am Connected." As part of our Positive Purpose Digital Technologies Student Council Group, we have been focused on being connected with other schools. 

Our friends at Brindas School in France have started their new school year and we wanted to send a quick note to say bonjour! 

They have made a movie for us. You can see it on their blog: http://cm1.galligani.eu/auroa-school/friends-2019-2020/

Dear Friends,
We’re going tell you some stuff that we do at Worser Bay School these days.
First things first, we have 3 classes called Māhutaunga Matariki, Tautoru and Autahi. Autahi is for 5 year olds, Tautoru is for 6 and 7 year olds and Māhutaunga Matariki is for 8, 9 and 10 year olds. Fun Fact: All our classes are named after some Māori stars. Our school is on a hill, it's a small hill and small school but it is a good school. We learn Māori for one of our languages. We also say Māori phrases as well. We have sausages for lunch on Tuesdays if we pay $2. Sometimes we have pizzas on Wednesday, if you pay $5. 

Please ask us any questions!
Angus

This is some of us in Māhutaunga Matariki! Bonjour!

Dear Friends,
How are you?
Here's an update, because it was a long time since we contacted you last
Lately we have been to the local Museum (Te Papa.)
We also had an Art Celebration where we displayed some art that we made. We did swimming sports and are looking forward to a beach week and sailing at the end of this term.
We are also looking forward to our school fair.
Inigo

We attended the “Tūrangawaewae- Art and New Zealand” exhibition at Te Papa. It was very inspiring! This is an art piece which resembles pou/ carvings. We are sketching it.

Dear Friends in France,
Did you have the School holidays? well if you did I hope you have had a good time. One of the things that we are doing is one of our teachers, John, reads us a story every day.
Do you have an inquiry? Well, if you do, I would love to know. We have been learning about Space and now we are thinking about Māori navigators.
At our school we have a school fair and a Poetry night. On the poetry night we make little books and then read our poems to the adults.
By Sammy

We have an athletics tournament coming up. This is us training!

Dear Friends, 

how are you? 

Yesterday I had my road patrol training. We help students to cross the road before and after school. 

I am really looking forward to our school fair. It is coming up really soon. In a few weeks we have senior beach week and we get to go sailing. Has anything exciting happened to you?

Ethan

New Zealand's copy of the 2015 William Webb Ellis Trophy, the Rugby World Cup. We can imagine the Positive Accomplishment you'd get lifting this up.

I am Connected- Tuakana Teina Whānau Buddies

Our Learner Attribute for this term is I am connected.

As part of building on our Learner Attribute of I am connected, some of the year 2, 3 and 4's have become tuakana (older) whānau buddies for the new members of Worser Bay School from Autahi as they begin their learning journey at our kura.

Over the next few weeks, they will get to know each other and do different activities together to build their relationships.

First, the tuakana (older) buddies made an introduction card for their (younger buddies).

Next, one group of tuakana got to know their teina buddy by interviewing them, making connections and then spending some time playing games.

Here are some of our thoughts from the afternoon:

Tuakana buddies:
Eddie- It was exciting to meet my new buddy because it was fun to get to do something with someone you have never done something with before.
Lillian- It was fun to show someone little how to do things.

Teina buddies:
Leo- I want my tuakana buddy to help me make more friends.
Violet- I want my tuakana buddy to help me learn maths.

Together we are stronger!

At Worser Bay School, we creating a "Community of Inquiry". This links with our three underlying principles in our vision; valuing the whole child, knowledge building and inquiry and embracing collaborative learning.

We have been taking on different roles in groups. We know that everyone has strengths and that if we combine these strengths then together we are stronger!

These students are working on a collaborative Maths task. They worked together to problem solve and explore different vocabulary linked with geometry. 

Our whole school focus for this term is "I am Connected!" We are connecting locally, nationally and internationally... 

Problem Solving: I am a thinker!

Students have been working on problem solving in Maths. You may have seen some of these on Seesaw. Our big focus is explaining our thinking and justifying our answers. Please continue these conversations at home...

After camp, our students made up their own problem solving activities for each other. We also sent these to Room 3 at Auroa School to solve. Students at Auroa School have made some problems for us. The photos are of us working on the problems that they wrote.

We have been working through a thinking process for problem solving. This is linked to our learner attribute: I am a thinker!

The problems on the slide below are from Auroa School:

Here are some of our camp problems. Can you solve them?