This week we went to Autahi to help develop and foster our positive relationships with some buddies. We each had a buddy, we listened to them reading, helped them to post something they were proud of on seesaw and helped them practise their rocket words. We thought back about our own time in Autahi and how we enjoyed it when "the big kids" came to work with us. We also talked a bit about what it was like being a year 1 and learning to do pretty much everything at school for the first time. We needed to be patient, encouraging and helpful.
Being able to help others can give us a sense of positive purpose. Being leaders of our school and tuakana to our smaller friends is another way to have a greater purpose. Positive purpose and relationships are two parts of the flourish model of Positive Education. These elements contribute to our overall sense of wellbeing.
Watch this space for more connections with Autahi and Tautoru.
What things in your life give you a sense of purpose? Or help you to foster meaningful relationships?
Our Learner Attribute focus this term is "I am Connected." Marlon and Tommy made a movie to see what we think being connected means to us...
Brindas School
Bonjour, how have you been doing sorry we have took so long to reply 😅
We are connected
We have been connected to nature when we were gardening and pulling out weeds in the garden and helping the plants. When the year 10s and Gabrielle came to help us. We were connected by being with the year 10s from Scots college.
Positive Purpose
We have positive purpose days on Thursday and Friday and an example of that is moving bark chips and sand for the juniors.
Letters
We have written some letters to you, Te Aro school and Zurich school.
The letters will be coming to your school in maybe term 3 or 4. We hope you reply.
Brindas School, We have been friends for so long now and we are happy to reply for the first time in 2023 and ‘merci’ so much for the video and see you later bye 😃😃😃
From Worser Bay School /The Star Gazers
Writing by Marcia and Ethan
We made this movie for our friends in Brindas School in France to say "bonjour."
We have also been connected to our teacher and friend, Jenny who lives in London now.
Otto: It was good to see Jenny today. We haven't seen her in so long. I wonder how it has been in London. We know that she has visited Porugal, The Netherlands and is going to Italy soon. I wonder how it has been in Britain. Is it similar to New Zealand?
Chloe: Kids at Jenny's school get told off if they take off their shoes. They need to wear uniforms. It was really nice to see her.
Fabian: It was good seeing Jenny. We sang to her. I wonder when she will come back to New Zealand to visit.
Rowan: Jenny, I want to let you know that yes, we are annoying John for you!
Gigi: I wonder what different food Jenny has had in the different countries that she has been to.
Zen: It was nice to speak to Jenny. We would love to hear her talk in a british accent and say something like "A bottle of water!" I hope we get to Zoom call again.
Jasper: It was nice meeting Jenny. I wonder what food she likes in England.
Amelia: It was really cool to see Jenny. We haven't seen her for 6 months. It was very exciting. I didn't want to leave the call as she has been one of my favourite teachers. I wonder what the kids are like at her school. I wonder if they behave themselves.
Soma: Jenny said that the coffee is not so good. New Zealand coffee is much better. She is drinking tea instead.
Amber: I really liked talking to Jenny, but I really miss her. I wonder if we can facetime again... I wonder what life is like in London.
On Thursday and Friday we enjoyed Positive Purpose days. A big thank you to the Scots College students who came to help out!
Within the model of positive education, positive purpose is defined as understanding, believing in and serving something greater than yourself and deliberately engaging in activities for the benefits of others.
This will help us:
- initiate contributing to others in the school community
- develop a sense of responsibility to the world and a commitment to helping others develop leadership
- organise and implement activities for other students
- develop agency with an increasing amount of self-direction
- develop communication skills
Some of us ran workshops across the school
Thank you for the movie, Tui
Some of us moved bark and sand to make the playground a better place
Thank you for making the movie, Tui!
Working Hard Movie
Thank you, Lexi
Tommy: We had positive purpose days and the first day we had to move bark and more bark but luckily we had some year 10s to help us move the lots and lots and lots of bark and now the playgrounds looks amazing. We also did very fun computer ICT jobs I would like more positive purpose days and I would like to have more time doing the computer ICT.
Marcia: This week was really fun because on Thursday and Friday we got to do gardening with John and the other year 5s. We went over the fence to pull the things off so the plants that we were growing had good sunlight.
Chloe: This week my plus was working with Beth for the zine committee on the Positive Purpose days. I liked lifting sand in to the sand pit also working on the whare at lunch and working with the Autahi kids. Positive Purpose days was really interesting.
Ethan Q: I enjoyed doing the workshop with the juniors and teaching them how to make the algebra puzzles. I enjoyed moving the bark chips and pulling stuff out in the garden. I enjoyed being in the ICT group it was fun posting different things on Seesaw.
Zen: This week I like doing paper airplanes for the little kids because they seemed to fly like one hundred meters in the sky and the little kids liked it. I liked doing Positive Education.
Soma: My weekly goal was using positive purpose by helping little kids with learning, participating in groups, challenging myself and focusing on my report to try to get it done. My favourite part of the week was when my brother came to school and helped us move the bark chips to the playground and sand to the sandpit.
Scarlett: I showed positive purpose by helping moving bark and I helped in the garden and I did work shops with people that I have never worked with before. When we were moving the bark chips it was very heavy but I got it done.
Locky: I was involved in positive purpose this week like building the whare. We picked up bark all the way for big kids. We finished it off in 2 days. We helped in the garden for a long time. We got really dirty but that makes it good. We’re putting in hard work I love putting hard work.
We have been ramping up our Cross Country training and working on our Positive Health. We are getting ready for our school event next Thursday. We have set training goals.
Regular exercise has lots of health benefits for ākonga, such as:
improving fitness
providing an opportunity build and enhance Positive Relationships
increasing concentration
improving learning focus
enhancing Positive Accomplishment
building a stronger heart, bones and healthier muscles
We have been thinking and learning about when we are in the flow.
Flow By Charlotte
What is the flow?
The flow is when you are really focused and ideas just come to you. I am in the flow
in the flow when I’m doing writing or art and maths sometimes. I get in
the flow when I am writing poetry.
You can get in the flow by being focused and not getting distracted by
other people. You can get in the flow by only focusing on the one thing
you are doing so that you're not multitasking.
We have been thinking about our Mathematical Superpowers so that we can build our Community of Inquiry. We all have different strengths in Maths. If we collaborate and use our different strengths then we are stronger! We have created our own Maths Justification League...
