Bubble Poetry

Kia orana!

This week we're back at school and it's so good to back! On Monday we had 11 students return and they worked in two groups to collaboratively write a poem about their bubble life.

Here they are below:

Respect the bubble

My bubble is small

My bubble is safe and has locked doors

My bubble is secure like a vault 

Respect the bubble

My bubble is powerful

My bubble is fancy

My bubble is incredibly noisy

Respect the bubble

My bubble is as huge as a shark tank

My bubble is warm

My bubble is clean 

Respect the bubble

My bubble is big 

My bubble is strong

My bubble is colourful

Respect the bubble

My bubble is sometimes loud like a bomb yet sometimes silent like an owl in the day

My bubble is away from strangers

My bubble is what I live in

Respect the bubble 

- Written collaboratively by Hasti, Nasteho, Mina, Melissa & Farah

Lockdown

Believe that the lockdown will be over 

Believe we will have fun after the lockdown 

Believe we will make the virus go away

Lockdown

Believe that we can have great times with each other

Believe that we will be safe

Believe that we can hang out together again 

Lockdown

Believe that we will find a cure

Believe we will have fun after this is over

Believe that we can go to the park

Lockdown

Believe that we will have level 1 soon

Believe that we can go to families' and friends' houses

Believe we can travel overseas

Lockdown 

Believe that l can go to the zoo

Believe that the sea doesn’t have any rubbish

Believe that we have more green trees growing

Lockdown

Believe that we could eradicate this virus

Believe that we could stop spreading the virus

Believe that we could fight the virus together

Lockdown

- Written collaboratively by Dayton, Tino, Miraj, Mohit, Aarav & Pita

Hosting Online Student Toolkits from Home!

Hello blogging world!

Just wanted to quickly share something awesome that happened with out Senior School students this week!

We held our first ever online student toolkits using google Meet! 9 students ran 7 toolkits from their home for their peers. The toolkits covered a variety of tools including kahoot, using google slides to make an animation, word art and canva.

If you missed them or you want to have a look at different one, click here and check out what was covered!

We had a few technical challenges and it was a bit tricky presenting online, but our presenters did a superb job! Some of the feedback that we had from our student attendees is below:

"I liked both of the sessions I thought it was helpful and they explained the stuff well." - Y5 Tuffery Class student

"The sessions were helpful. The kahoot and the animation worked. Both of them worked. I would like nothing changed, I think it was amazing the way it was." - Y4 Lockhart Class student

"The session were very good and helpful. Everything worked perfectly, nothing went wrong." - Y4 Lockhart Class student

"I found the first session quite cool because I found another way to log in to Kahoot. Next time maybe the presenter can help each other when their connections aren't great. I found the second session useful and great because I learnt how to insert an image into an Kahoot. I also had fun playing Kahoot in the second session. Next time the presenter could slow down a bit more and go with the audiences speed." - Y6 Lockhart Class student

"...everything worked well and there is nothing I would like to change." - Y6 Tuffery Class student

Thanks to all our student attendees who also followed our google Meet norms and were super respectful, responsible and resilient.

Overall the toolkits worked pretty well and we're keen to give it another crack with the other schools in the Ako Hiko cluster soon! 

Learning at home vs Learning at school

Hello bloggers!

Did you know this week marks the start of our 4th week of distance learning! So far we've had 15 out of 27 kids attend our google meet sessions. I'm wondering how we can get more... leave me a comment if you have a good idea!

For this week's blog ponder, we want to know how you prefer to do your learning!

Do you prefer learning from home or learning at school? 

Leave a comment below about what you prefer and why.