Email Etiquette

Email Etiquette by Liv and Gretel

This week we have been thinking about manners and expectations of emailing. We have been learning about this over the past week.

We have been thinking about manaakitanga and how email etiquette helps us to use manaakitanga in our emails as well as in person.

We came up with what we think are good examples of email …

To: Frankie CC: Hanne, Jack M

From: Gretel

Subject: Bad Day

Dear Frankie,

I understand how you are feeling. We all have our bad days. We could organise a play for on Saturday. We could practice some sports and go to a cafe. Do you have any ideas on what we could do after? Hopefully you are feeling better after planning this play.

Cheers,

The team!

To: Church

From: Chester, Takehisa, Evie, And Liv

Subject: School Visit

Hi Margaret,

We are a group of students from Worser Bay School and we are interested in finding out about people in the community.

We were wondering if we could visit your Church? If so, could we come next Thursday at 1 pm? Or are there any alternative times that we could visit?

Please reply so we can get permission.

Thanks heaps!

Liv

We have co-constructed our own WBS email rules: 

Worser Bay School

Student Email Expectations and Etiquette

• Include a clear subject line as a header so people can identify if it is relevant to them.
• Remember your online manners. Say please, thank you etc.
• Say “hello” and “goodbye.”
• Address the person that you are talking to e.g. “Dear Jude”.
• Check who you are sending it to before you send.
• ‘Reply to All’ option should only be selected if you really need everyone on the list to see your reply.
• Do not send group emails e.g. “everyone” or “mahutonga2015” unless you have been given permission by a teacher.
• Do not respond to emails that are inappropriate. Report these emails to one of your teachers.

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Wellington Indian Sport Centre: Who is in our community?

Wellington Indian Sport Centre     

On Wednesday Asha, Eloise, Frankie, and Gretel went to Wellington Indians Sport Centre. 

We spoke to the president of WISC, her name was Hansa Parbhu. One of the questions we asked her was how old is WISC? And the answer was 23 years old since we have developed it into a Sport and Cultural Centre. We then asked What was here before WISC? And the answer was a Vacuum Cleaner factory! We learnt a lot about going to this place. Me, Eloise and Frankie play for Indians and we learnt a lot more about the turf as well. We learnt that it was a Concrete area before renovation and it took around 3~4 Months to make it a turf! It was really fun and interesting!

By Gretel

Doodle 4 Google

We have started to design our Doodle 4 Google artworks. The theme was "If I could go back in time..." We had to write about what we would do in 50 words or less. You can see some of our designs in the presentation. 

By Hayley

For more information go to: https://www.google.co.nz/doodle4google/

Interview with Jason about when he went to school at Worser Bay: Who is in our community?

Alex, Lucie and Gemma were interviewing Jason (Lucie’s dad) so that we could find out more about Worser Bay School and about the Miramar Peninsula. Jason went to Worser Bay School so he told us about his school days. He told us what it was like when he was there.  

The Miramar Peninsula wasn't that different then. Worser Bay School was very different than it is now. At the top court there was a pool, but then it got drained out in 2001 so we can’t swim at Worser Bay School now. The keys to get into the pool were only five dollars for the whole summer. You had to return the key when the summer was over. He liked most of his teachers. One of his teachers was Teddy’s grandma, her name was Mrs Stanley. Thanks for your time Jason!

By Lucie, Gemma and Alex P.

Planning our own trip: The Roxy- who is in our community?

 On Monday the 29th, Asha, Frankie, Chanel, Eloise and Gretel went on a trip to the Roxy to find out more about the history of the site.

We found out that there was a cinema at the same place as Roxy in 1928 it, then closed down in 1964 because at that time people started getting television and there wasn't enough money to keep the business going. It was  then just an empty site until the owners of the Roxy now came along and decided to build another cinema on top. They removed each wall brick by brick, but left the wall where you come in.

We got a tour of the projection room. They were screening The Minion movie. Valentina showed us how the machines worked!

It was so dark!

By Asha and Frankie

Trip to the Roxy from Matariki on Vimeo.

Roxy - By Gretel and Eloise

On Monday 29th  we went to Roxy to find out more about the site and building.

Before the Roxy was built, in 1924  there used to be a building called the Capitol Theatre. The Capitol Theatre closed down in 1964 because people started getting television and there wasn’t enough money to keep a Cinema going.

After the cinema closed the space was divided into seven different spaces all for different shops and it became a mini mall area.

In 2009 they took down the Old Cinema/Shopping Malls but they kept the front wall where you walk in! It took one year to plan and one year to build! Roxy then opened in 2011.

The first Movie they showed when Roxy opened was King Kong  premiere and that was sold out! The other times that they were sold out were when the Hobbit, Lord of the Rings and Tintin were showing. Overall, we all found it very interesting and we got to go into the projecting room! Minions was showing in Cinema one!

By Gretel and Eloise

Newlands Mystery Skype

Some of us Mystery Skyped a class from Newlands Primary School. We recorded our progress on Twitter 
@MatarikiWBS 
#mysteryskype 
It was fun having to research and find places on a map.  We took turns and asked questions to each other to narrow it down until we got the correct school.


Newlands mystery Skype from Matariki on Vimeo.