Kawa of Care

The Kawa of Care is a an agreement between the students, their families and the school. Everyone is responsible for following the Kawa of Care when they use a digital device. The Kawa of Care applies at all times as we aim to encourage students to be digital citizens who are cybersmart!

Kawa of Care

• I will respect the equipment (my Chromebook, power charger and bag) by always looking after it and keeping it safe.

• I will respect others by always using this Chromebook to interact with anyone in a kind, positive and helpful way.

• I will make the most of this opportunity to learn lots of new things and to share these with others.

• I will always be in the right place, at the right time when I am online. If in doubt I will ask my teacher or parent.

• I will protect my password and keep it completely secret.

• I will log out when I am not using my Chromebook.

• When I take my Chromebook home, I will keep it safe when I am not using it.

• When I take my Chromebook home, I will make sure I bring it to school to use in the same condition that I was given it.

• Once I am able to take the Chromebook home, I will bring it back to school everyday, charged and ready to use.

We then had to prove that we knew the Kawa of Care in order to receive our chromebooks! Lucky for us, everyone passed!

You can test yourself by using these slides:

Out of the Box Day!

We finally have our chromebooks! Duncan Garner from TV3's Story came in to film us getting our chromebooks! It was very exciting and nervous as we knew we were going to end up on TV!

Now that we have our chromebooks we are currently learning how to be digital citizens who are cyber smart!

Swimming Skills

Learning how to swim is an important part of the curriculum. New Zealand is surrounded by water and knowing how to swim is a basic skill that could help save your life.

Liam, Dushon and Rueben (aka Harry Potter) came in at the beginning of term one to teach us how to swim. We had 10 sessions with them in the water and we learnt how to float on our front and roll over onto our back. 

 

Practising floating on our backs

Some of us learnt how to do freestyle and some of us learnt how to do backstroke. 

Learning how to kick

Putting the kicking motion into action

Preparing to use our arms in freestyle swimming 

In our last session, we had to work cooperatively in groups to build a boat. This was a real test of our team work abilities!

 

                                    

                                    

We have been practising these skills every chance we get to go in the pool and we have all made some great improvements in our swimming!

Learner of the Week x4

A big congratulations goes to Jordyn who was the first 2016 Learner of the Week for Room 13. Jordyn demonstrated her willingness and enthusiasm to help others during the first 4 days of school. It's awesome to have someone in our Room 13 whanau with such a big heart. Keep up the great work Jordyn!






Week 2's Learner of the Week went to Katalina. We've been doing swimming lessons with specialist coaches recently, and Katalina persevered with her swimming, even when the going got tough! We're really proud of her because she kept trying and didn't give up, despite it being really hard!











We have all been focusing on actively listening. This means we look at and face the person who is speaking. We listen carefully and ask the speaker questions about what they have said. Our Learner of the Week in week 3 was Hola. He received his certificate for being an active listener ALL THE TIME! He demonstrated that he can actively listen in the classroom, at assembly, in the swimming pool, in the playground... EVERYWHERE! What a fantastic achievement Hola! It's great that you can apply this skill no matter where you are!

Our Learner of the Week for week 4 was Ausage. During reading time, Ausage persevered to sound out new words. He has developed some really good strategies to help him work out unknown words and he never gave up. Great effort Ausage! Keep it up!!

We are super proud to have such amazing students in Room 13! We can't wait to see who will be our next Learner of the Week!