Ext(reme) Writing: Home Learning - do to completed by 12 April

 Please go to your Ext(reme) Writing Seesaw class and complete the 'Awesome Moment' activity.

Home Learning: Philosophy (Manwanui) before 12 April

Driverless cars 

Watch the two videos below 

Then think about...

How should a car be programmed to deal with

a potentially dangerous situation?

Home Learning: Philosophy (Manawanui) Before 29 March

 Consider these questions this week:

Ext(reme) Writing: Home Learning Week 7

 Please go to your Ext(reme) Writing Seesaw class and complete the 'Celebrate' activity.

Brain Busters: First Trial on MONDAY

 Those students who showed interest in trialling for Brain Busters, please come to Learning Support Room at lunch morning tea on Tuesday Monday for the first trial.

Sorry about the change - I forgot I was on duty on Tuesday

What Holds the Internet Together?

 

Photographer Extraordinaire!

 Photographer, Australian Ray Collins shares incredible photographs of waves in various stages of crashing. 

Our planet is AMAZING! Check them out in the link above. 

As an extra, Ray is colour-blind so light, water and contrast are central to his photography.

Toitoi Magazine Needs a Writer....

 

Happy to help you...Mrs Dunn

Springfire Video

 This video promoted a lot of in-depth discussion today 

at Springfire regarding common misunderstandings.  

Philosophy: Manawanui - Prep for Week 7

 What is real/not real?

Is ignorance bliss?

Watch this video...

Before next Monday, think about...

• How can we know if something is real or not?
• How is it possible that people can believe in illusion and accept it as reality? And why?

Tournament of Minds Meeting on Monday 15 March

Anyone who is interested in finding out about the Tournament of Minds programme in 2021 needs to come to a meeting in the Learning Support Room at morning tea on Monday.  If you can't make the meeting, please email Mrs Dunn as soon as possible. 

Any students who have done Tournament of Minds before are welcome, as are any students who are involved in any of the Extension programmes. 

Come and find out what it is all about!!!

Mathletes Home Learning for Term 1

  Now that Overnighters are the Mathletes, activities for Home Learning will begin. These will be explained in class before you start them.

 In your Mathletes Student Folder in your Drive, are four activities to be done over the next 5 weeks of Term 1.  Copy the document and share it with Mrs Dunn.

These activities are in preparation for your learning in class.  

See or email Mrs Dunn if you have any questions.

Love Chess? Wanna learn Chess?

 If you feel like a game, come to the Learning Support Room Monday lunchtimes.  

We just started this week!

Mathletes: Home Learning - Whai Wahi and Whakaute

 Now that Overnighters are behind Whai Wahi and Whakaute, activities for Home Learning will begin. 

 In your Mathletes Student Folder in your Drive, are four activities to be done over the next 5 weeks of Term 1.  Copy the document and share with Mrs Dunn.

These activities are in preparation for your learning in class.  

See or email Mrs Dunn if you have any questions.

Ext(reme) Writing: Home Learning Week 5

 Complete the publication of your Opposite Day poem and Abstract Noun poem.  The presentations for those can be found in the EW: Student Stuff folder that has been shared with you.

PhiEd@Raroa

 Philosophy Education group will be starting up this week - beginning with students from Manawanui.

Taking Action for Well-being: 

PhiEd (Philosophy Education)

Phi-Ed Raroa

Philosophy education promotes critical thinking, insightful questioning, reasoned argument, metacognitive reflection and problem-solving skills, as well as improving students’ social competence and self-management.

Springfire Programmes

Springfire programmes starting up last week for Wahi Wahi, Mohio, Motuhake and Whakaute.  This is a short course to find out more about this thing called giftedness!  The benefits and how to make the most of them, and the challenges and how to lessen the impact of them.

Taking Action for Well-being

Living and Learning - Giftedness

To help the gifted students to understand his/her own uniqueness

and develop potential

By understanding ourselves, we understand others better

Congrats to Raroa Writer: Lottie P. D.

 Huge congratulations to Lottie, a Year 7 student in Room 12.  

Over the summer break, she was runner-up in the Wellington City Council Short Story Competition in the 9-12 years division.

The competition involved writing a short story that brought Wellington's history (or imagined history) to life. The inaugural competition was part of the celebrations for Wellington City Council's 150th Anniversary.   

Lottie's writing was in the form of a diary, and centred on the experiences of Mittens the cat and his everyday relationship with Wellington and Wellingtonians.  Lottie also illustrated her writing.  

Her writing can be viewed here