Week 7 .....

He rōpū manaaki, he rōpū whakarongo, he rōpū ako mātou 

We are respectful, we listen, we learn

Reminders:
This Tuesday 13th September - school finishes at 12.30pm. (Union meeting for teachers).

These things can help me at home 

– Key Competencies

ü  Help me learn that time and effort pays off. For example, when I say This is too hard, say, That’s great because now you have an opportunity to learn something new.

ü  If I make a mistake, celebrate it as an opportunity to learn. Help me to understand that making mistakes will help me learn.

ü  If I feel like giving up on a task, encourage me to stick at it a little longer and/or to try another way to do it.

ü  When I say That’s good enough, encourage me to ask if it is really my best work.

ü  Encourage me to apply the ‘can do’ attitude I have in rugby to my writing goals.

ü  Talk to me about the ways other people might see issues. Help me see things from a range of different perspectives.

ü  Give me increasing responsibility for a task that will help at home, e.g. I could feed the cat, empty the rubbish on Saturdays or help prepare dinner on Sundays.

ü  Help me to manage my television viewing time by giving me television tickets. Each week I could be given an agreed number of tickets that can each be used for 30 minutes of TV time. A variation is that any tickets remaining at the end of the week could be cashed in for 25 or 50 cents each.

ü  Help me see my problems are temporary, by saying they are glitches, snags or hard spots and talking with me about things I can do to get through them.

ü  Help me to role-play so I can see other people’s views as clearly as possible.

ü  Help me to take more responsibility for my school things. For example, have me choose a place to put a cardboard box, perhaps near the door of my room. Every afternoon, I will put my school things in the box. When my home reading is done, it will go in the box, too. In the morning I will check the box before I leave for school. 

ü  Help me to understand and experience the consequences of my choices.

Working away in Room 7. 

Māori art electives - the students made manu tukutuku (kite)

 A good ONSIE day on Friday - with the donations going to the Wellington free ambulance. Below we have fun-sie onsie....Ava, Jacob, Tyah, Liv, Petra, Mackenzie & Tyah

Dancing the morning away - with Douglas leading us.....

We were singing Old McDonald had a farm...and today we had 2 cows =) ....

 OUR special visitor - with our Inquiry being based on the Olympics - we had my nephew Nesta visit us on Friday. He has recently returned from representing NZ in taekwon-do. Nesta did some demonstrations, showed his silver medal and photos from his time in Brighton, England.

Here are the funsie Onsie people with Nesta. We had a couple of visitors from Room 7 last year. 

Nesta and his silver medal winning photos..

THE SILVER MEDAL...

 In Room 7 - we often go over our Golden Rules - which tie in so nicely to our Schoolwide SHARP matrix. We talk about this often so we are all aware of how to be SHARP.