Skate School

We were really lucky to have George from Skate School teaching us how to ride.

He brought two different types of boards. One for cruising and one for tricks. I really liked the cruise board.

It was really great to see everyone choosing a really positive attitude and giving it a go, even though it threw some of us out of our comfort zone.

A Quick Dip

We hit the pool for the very first time this morning. It was a warm 28 degrees in there and a few of our learners made the most of it, while the rest looked on from the new tiered seating in envy. 

The bees seem to like the warm water too!!

Hanging with Harold

We are learning about our brains with Life Education.

Today we learned about WHAM attacks. We had great examples of when we have them because we've all had them!

WHAM attack

Waiting

Hard

Angry

Mean

The Head Hustler takes your learning and your fun away from you. This sets on when we have a Fixed Mindset. He makes us think "just give up", "why try", "you're rubbish at this". He's not telling the truth... it's a wham attack stealing your learning from you. 

The Mind Master is our growth mindset and helps us make a great choice.

GRIT

Give it your all.

Resolve your problems -communicate

You are important. Know your worth.

Be tenacious - don't give up.

Take the time to do it right -have pride in what you do.

Ignore the temptation to give up! 

Redo if necessary - improve.

Planting Day

Korokia tree - it will come out in yellow flowers and red berries. (You can eat them, but they're not tasty like other berries we eat.)

We needed to tease out the roots out so that they would grow to spread out rather than bound up.

After placing it in the hole, Cayden held the tree while others filled soil into the hole. 

Next we "firm" the soil, by standing on it and "firming" it. 

We'll need to water it weekly. 

Apparently, trees don't like rock music... it's actually been studied!

Play Day

We had our Play Day at school. We were lucky to have a star DJ in the midst of all the action... our very own James! Sadly the smoke machines cut the fun a little short by setting off the fire alarms. It turns out we're really good at clearing the buildings though. There were plenty of smiles on the field while we lined up ao it didn't ruin the fun!

An advertiser in our midst

Orlando has given his Mum's Faceshields a plug on his blog. Listen to his spiel which does a fantastic job of explaining their features and then head to his blog here, and give him some feedback. (He was experimenting with Screen Castify). He does a better job than some of the infomercial people on TV!!!

Here's another video that shows him closer up...

                   

If you would like to get hold of one for yourself, you can click on the link below, which will connect you with his Mum's Facebook page.

If any essential workers or workers would like to source ppe face shields for themselves or their children going back to...

Posted by Leigh-Anne Baird on Tuesday, 28 April 2020

KiwiCan

Kiwican says 

Whakaute means respect 

Which makes me feel good

Taking care of our community 

Just like we should

We played a game using Maori commands. When the word was called, we had to get into a group and perform an action. 

Maunga     -2 people forming an arch. 

Awa           -3 people. Waving their arms. 

Waka         -4 people in a line, one behind the other, paddling. 

Iwi             -5 people in a circle.

We walked around in between.

Working together to help our community. We got into groups and looked at some questions. Some were easier than others... but the answers needed to start with a certain letter. 

1. A country - Tanzania / Romania
2. A Colour - Turquoise / Red
3. A Name - Teri /Richard
4. Movie - Transformers / Rugrats
5. Famous Person - Teri Urwin / Ru Paul
6. Suburb in Christchurch - Templeton / Redcliffs 
7. Job - Teacher / Roadmarker
8. fruit - Tangerine /Raspberry
9. Sport - Tennis / Rugby
10. A drink - Traffic Light / Raspberry
11. Cartoon Character - Taz  / Roger Rabbit
12. A Villian - The Grinch / Rat King
13. A Book - The lion the witch and the wardrobe / Red Riding Hood
14. Name of a song - Ten / Roam

Respect for our Community

Whakaute means respect 

which makes me feel good

Taking care of our community 

Just like we should.

We played Circle Soccer where we had our feet touching as we stood in a circle, but rolled the ball with our hands. We needed to score a goal (by getting it through someone's legs). If it went through someone's legs, they needed to turn around and race the other way. 

Circle Soccer

A community is the area around where we live. There are lots of things in our community where we visit after school and in weekends. Margaret Mahy Park, Cardboard Cathedral, Pak n Save.

We sat in a circle around a community place and discussed who the people we might need to show respect for in that place. 

We role-played in groups, showing respect for people in those places.

It's important to show respect when we're in our community to show respect for our school our people and our stuff. 

We talked about why it's important to show respect when we are wearing our school uniform because we are representing our school.

Reading is our superpower

Constable Brad shared why reading has been so important to him as a police officer. To read the laws and keep up with them online. People write to the police, with statements needing help. He needs to be able to read them to see how he could help them. When Brad was at school, his mum bought him a subscription to National Geographic magazine because he was really into finding out about the outdoors. Now his kids read them. His favourite book is The Places You'll Go by Dr Seuss. 

Brodie Kane, from the hits radio, She went to Waikiki Primary School then Rangiora High School.  She went to university to learn to be a journalist. One of the reasons she liked reading when she was little was that her mum or dad would read her a story before she went to bed. She wanted to be good at writing, so she read to improve her writing. Her favourite book is The Very Hungry Caterpillar & Where the Wild Things Are.

Stella from What Now remembers Duffy books from when she was at school. (She even knew all the words to the song!) 

Stella from What Now

Stella liked books about mermaids. As she got older, she looked for books about Maoritanga. (How Maori view the world) Her message was to read a book about something you like. She talked about how she copes with doing things for the very first time. If she got to gunge anyone, who would she want to gunge? Mr Wilkinson!

Mr VanOpzeeland from Opzeeland Transport spoke about how you need to read to get you truck and car licences. He spoke about why reading is important in running a transport business.  

Our theme is superheroes. Our superpower is reading! We are going to have loads of fun with reading this year... dress-up days, pyjama reading days... Chris from Scholastic gave us a pack of books per class!  

Spices

We are learning about different herbs and spices and how they are used in different countries foods.

Today we looked at turmeric, cinnamon, paprika, Ginger, cardamom  seeds, bay leaf, Rosemary, coriander 

 

Samoan Language week

It's been fantastic to celebrate Samoan Language this week, after our massive Cultural Diversity Celebration last week!

Check out these fabulous boys celebrating their Samoan heritage.

We love our pool

(Here's a post that got stuck in the drafts in term 1!!!)

The warmer weather has been great for heating our pool again! It was getting a bit chilly last week!  

Summer Learning Journey

Emma had a captive audience

Emma came in from the Summer Learning Journey, to visit with a prize pack for one of our yr 6's from last year.

Check out these goodies!

Market day

Te Ropu Whakamanawa held their first market day on Friday. 

Students and whanau made sweets, craft and donated goods to sell.

It also happened to be pyjama day, so it was an extremely festive atmosphere around the school.

Here's some pics of some of the stalls:

Super Rugby trophy comes to visit

(Here's a throwback from last year that's been lurking in the drafts...)

We were lucky enough to have the Super Rugby trophy come to visit.

The inside looked gross...

The teachers were pretty excited too!

 

Uru Manuka Student Summit

On Thursday, 15 students from Gilberthorpe School travelled just down the road to Hornby High School to present and attend the 2nd Uru Manuka Student Summit.

This full day action packed event focused on creative and collaborative use of digital technologies to promote innovation and learning. The programme included problem solving challenges, breakouts, hands-on workshops and demonstrations led by students for students.

There were 24 sessions, each about 45 minutes. The Summit ran from 9.15am until about 1pm.

After the students returned from the Summit (and enjoyed a well earned lunch!), they then spent the afternoon teaching our other Te Ara Takitini Students about a toolkit they attended.

2nd Annual Uru Manuka Ki-O-Rail tournament

On Friday, the 7th of September, Gilberthorpe School hosted the 2nd Annual Uru Manuka Ki-O-Rahi Tournament. (The first tournament was held at Yaldhurst Model School last year).

Teams from Hornby Primary, South Hornby School, Yaldhurst Model School, and of course our very own Gilberthorpe School, participated in the tournament. It was held over 5 rounds, with each team having a bye during the round. The team having a bye wasn't able to rest though! They had the responsibility of refereeing the four games that were being played. It was a great afternoon, with great camaraderie being shown amongst the akonga in our Uru Manuka Cluster.

We are looking forward to next year's tournament already!

If you'd like to know more about how Ki-O-Rahi is played, click here.

Dawn McMillan comes to Gilberthorpe

We were lucky enough to have author, Dawn McMillan visit today for our Duffy Assembly.

She read 'Mister Spears and his Hairy Ears' to us. The idea came from Derek having really hairy ears!

Dawn McMillan

She used to be a teacher, but now she's an author. Best job in the world because she can do it in her pyjamas.

She lives in the Coromandel. 

She lives with her husband Derek and Lola her cat. Occasionally Lola walks across the keyboard. Derek brings morning tea and cups of coffee out to her studio, sits on the couch and checks what she has written. Sometimes Derek makes snoring noises when the story is boring.

When you're writing , you need to listen to the voices is your head. 

She has written 220 books for schools and about 30 for shops. She always liked the idea of writing stories. 

You can find out more about her on her site

Author James Russell visits

James Russell came in to visit us to talk about his books. 

His main characters are Flynn & Paddy, which happen to be the names of his sons. 

He told us a great story involving frozen crumpets and a hunting knife 🙄. Followed by a story of him putting his leg through a deck.

When he writes a novel, his brain works really fast, but with his hand bandaged up... his one hand typing couldn't keep up with his brain. 

He explained what derrière meant by waving it about. 

He doesn't have a dog named Coco... or a dragon!

He has lots of really good ideas in the shower! 

The Dragon Defenders Series is set 3 years after the picture books.

He shoes us how you can use an app with the books, to show augmented reality.

He introduced us to the Pit Bull, the bad guy in the book... through the augmented reality app. The bone he crushed was a leg of lamb, which didn't make much noise... so he had to get the real Flynn to snap a stalk of celery next to the camera! 

Waiata O Aotearoa

We were lucky enough to be invited by Linwood Avenue School, to their performance of Waiata O Aotearoa.

Other schools in the audience included: Linwood North,School Te Waka Onua, Omihi, Bamford, and Tai Tapu.

Performers ranged in age from 5years to 11 years old. 

Student voice:

• People were singing along to the songs.
• They were talking about the olden days so they showed us what it was like when our parents were young.
• I really liked the bird costumes. 
• They put a whole lot of thought into that whole performance.
• I enjoyed the time machine and how it put the disco lights on, was shaking and making noises.
• I liked the army and how they went out excited and then came in hurt.
• I liked how the transitions were so quick
• I liked it how they used the time machine to go to the different places.