E Learning This Week

Have a look at this site. You can select a story and have it read to you.

http://www.storylineonline.net/

NZ Music Month

Well NZ Music Month has finished but that does not mean that we don't stop promoting and listening to kiwi music. What a great month we have had in R4 listening to music and researching our favourite artists.
Stan Walker was R4's best artist.

E Learning

Kia ora
This weeks e learning task is to explore WORDLE.

http://www.wordle.net

Have fun!

Advertsising - Knowledge Net Activity

http://dlo.knowledge.net.nz/dlos/L6172/index.html

This is the advertising activity that we did during the week. Have a go and tell me how you got on.

Key Competency - Managing Self

Term 2 Goal - Managing Self

This competency is associated with self-motivation, a “can-do” attitude, and with students seeing themselves as capable learners. It is integral to self-assessment.

Students who manage themselves are enterprising, resourceful, reliable, and resilient. They establish personal goals, make plans, manage projects, and set high standards. They have strategies for meeting challenges. They know when to lead, when to follow, and when and how to act independently.

Akomanga Wha - Room 4! Have you shared your goal for this term with someone at home?

Motu Wha - Variety Show 1st Dress Rehearsal

Today at school we made a video of our variety show performances. This is the first time we have had to perform in front of an audience. We are going to give each other feed back so we know what our next learning step is.

6 Thinking Hats

Use the Six Thinking Hats to improve the quality of your decision-making, look at the decision "wearing" each of the thinking hats in turn.

Each "Thinking Hat" is a different style of thinking. These are explained below:

• White Hat:
  With this thinking hat, you focus on the data available. Look at the information you have, and see what you can learn from it. Look for gaps in your knowledge, and either try to fill them or take account of them.
  
  This is where you analyze past trends, and try to extrapolate from historical data.

• Red Hat:
  Wearing the red hat, you look at the decision using intuition, gut reaction, and emotion. Also try to think how other people will react emotionally, and try to understand the intuitive responses of people who do not fully know your reasoning.

• Black Hat:
  When using black hat thinking, look at things pessimistically, cautiously and defensively. Try to see why ideas and approaches might not work. This is important because it highlights the weak points in a plan or course of action. It allows you to eliminate them, alter your approach, or prepare contingency plans to counter problems that arise.

  Black Hat thinking helps to make your plans tougher and more resilient. It can also help you to spot fatal flaws and risks before you embark on a course of action. Black Hat thinking is one of the real benefits of this technique, as many successful people get so used to thinking positively that often they cannot see problems in advance, leaving them under-prepared for difficulties.

• Yellow Hat:
  The yellow hat helps you to think positively. It is the optimistic viewpoint that helps you to see all the benefits of the decision and the value in it, and spot the opportunities that arise from it. Yellow Hat thinking helps you to keep going when everything looks gloomy and difficult.

• Green Hat:
  The Green Hat stands for creativity. This is where you can develop creative solutions to a problem. It is a freewheeling way of thinking, in which there is little criticism of ideas.

• Blue Hat:
  The Blue Hat stands for process control. This is the hat worn by people chairing meetings. When running into difficulties because ideas are running dry, they may direct activity into Green Hat thinking. When contingency plans are needed, they will ask for Black Hat thinking, and so on.

So next time you make a decision.....think what hat do I have on today?

Cycle Safety - On Ya Bike #3

Cycle Safety - On Ya Bike #1

Bishop School Trip

Bishop's School - Nelson

In 1844 a brick schoolhouse was built for the Church of England elementary school in Nelson. It was later briefly used as a public school, then from 1860 to 1895 it was again an Anglican Church school for boys and became known as Bishop's School. In 1881 a new wooden schoolhouse was built, with one brick wall from the original building, later used as a library and meeting room, private primary school, and scout and guide room.

Restored by the New Zealand Historic Places Trust in 1975 the school contains articles from Victorian days. A highlight is a recreated Victorian schoolroom where groups can receive a Victorian school lesson through Nelson Provincial Museum Education Service. Interpretative panels describe the history of the building and teaching methods of the time.

It was a great morning out and a big thankyou to all those parents that helped with transport.

First Day in Akomanga Wha 2010

Unity By Cleo V. Swarat I dreamed I stood in a studio And watched two sculptors there, The clay they used was a young child’s mind And they fashioned it with care. One was a teacher: the tools she used were books and music and art; One was a parent With a guiding hand and gentle loving heart. And when at last their work was done, They were proud of what they had wrought. For the things they had worked into the child Could never be sold or bought! And each agreed she would have failed if she had worked alone. For behind the parent stood the school, and behind the teacher stood the home!

Term One Theme - Changes

Ch ch ch change....Nayland has certainly changed over the years. Can you see Miss Mason's mum in this photo?

Nayland opened in 1961 in a rural environment with a roll of 105 children - new entrants (Year 1) to standard three (Year 4), and a staff of three. The school was officially opened on 23 rd February 1961 by the Minister of Education, Mr Blair Tennant. More than 100 parents attended with all foundation students receiving a commemorative certificate - even as builders, electricians and plumbers were busy finishing last minute jobs.

First Assembly	Presentation of Certificates by the Minister of Education

The Tiriti O Te Waitangi

New Zealand's founding document, the Treaty of Waitangi, was prepared over just a few days in February 1840.
On the day that it was first signed, there were versions in English and Maori.

English version of treaty

HER MAJESTY VICTORIA Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland regarding with Her Royal Favour the Native Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and anxious to protect their just Rights and Property and to secure to them the enjoyment of Peace and Good Order has deemed it necessary in consequence of the great number of Her Majesty's Subjects who have already settled in New Zealand and the rapid extension of Emigration both from Europe and Australia which is still in progress to constitute and appoint a functionary properly authorised to treat with the Aborigines of New Zealand for the recognition of Her Majesty's Sovereign authority over the whole or any part of those islands – Her Majesty therefore being desirous to establish a settled form of Civil Government with a view to avert the evil consequences which must result from the absence of the necessary Laws and Institutions alike to the native population and to Her subjects has been graciously pleased to empower and to authorise me William Hobson a Captain in Her Majesty's Royal Navy Consul and Lieutenant-Governor of such parts of New Zealand as may be or hereafter shall be ceded to her Majesty to invite the confederated and independent Chiefs of New Zealand to concur in the following Articles and Conditions.
Article the first [Article 1]

The Chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes of New Zealand and the separate and independent Chiefs who have not become members of the Confederation cede to Her Majesty the Queen of England absolutely and without reservation all the rights and powers of Sovereignty which the said Confederation or Individual Chiefs respectively exercise or possess, or may be supposed to exercise or to possess over their respective Territories as the sole sovereigns thereof.
Article the second [Article 2]

Her Majesty the Queen of England confirms and guarantees to the Chiefs and Tribes of New Zealand and to the respective families and individuals thereof the full exclusive and undisturbed possession of their Lands and Estates Forests Fisheries and other properties which they may collectively or individually possess so long as it is their wish and desire to retain the same in their possession; but the Chiefs of the United Tribes and the individual Chiefs yield to Her Majesty the exclusive right of Preemption over such lands as the proprietors thereof may be disposed to alienate at such prices as may be agreed upon between the respective Proprietors and persons appointed by Her Majesty to treat with them in that behalf.
Article the third [Article 3]

In consideration thereof Her Majesty the Queen of England extends to the Natives of New Zealand Her royal protection and imparts to them all the Rights and Privileges of British Subjects.

(signed) William Hobson, Lieutenant-Governor.

Now therefore We the Chiefs of the Confederation of the United Tribes of New Zealand being assembled in Congress at Victoria in Waitangi and We the Separate and Independent Chiefs of New Zealand claiming authority over the Tribes and Territories which are specified after our respective names, having been made fully to understand the Provisions of the foregoing Treaty, accept and enter into the same in the full spirit and meaning thereof in witness of which we have attached our signatures or marks at the places and the dates respectively specified. Done at Waitangi this Sixth day of February in the year of Our Lord one thousand eight hundred and forty.

Key websites on Te Tiriti o Waitangi The Treaty of Waitangi The Treaty of Waitangi http://www.treatyofwaitangi.govt.nz Te Ara The Encyclopedia of New Zealand http://www.teara.govt.nz/

Nau Mai Haere Mai - 2010

Kia ora koutou and welcome to 2010 in Akomanga Wha!!!
Stayed tuned for up dates now that I have found my password to up date our class blog!!

Miss Mason

Senior Syndicate Mini Market - Camp Fundraising Event

Governor General Anand Satyanand Visits Nayland

Today the Governor General visited our school. In the picture is the Governor General Anand Satyanand and his wife.
The Maori Culture Group can be very proud of the way that they gave such a warm welcome to our visitors.
The haka was done with mana and our waiata was tino pai. Cole was spotted in the group too for giving a tu meke performance!
Kei te pai to Sol and Meihana who spoke so well too with their whaikorero. The Governors wife said that they spoke with excellent pronunciation!!!!!!!
The practice paid off and everyone can be proud for their effort!!!

How To Prepare For a Tsunami

Learn about the tsunami risk in your area.
Plan an evacuation route from your home, school or work to higher ground.
Prepare a 'Disaster Supplies Kit', containing water, food, first aid, equipment, tools, clothes and blankets.
Listen to radio and television programmes that broadcast tsunami warnings.
Follow directions given by officials such as police and fire officers.
Stay away until you are told it is safe to return home.

What evacuation procedures would you put in place for your community?

Breakfast Group #2

MMMMMM......... I think the camera failed us!!!!! I can't find a photo of the group. This group was well organised though. they were the first to get to school and start making their pancakes and smoothies for breakfast. This was another group that had an interesting smothie drink. Again I was invited to have breakfast with this group and by now I was nearly ready to be sick because I had just eaten way too much!!!!

Breakfast Group #6

Table Group #6 had invited me to their table for breakfast too and by now I was really ready to explode!!!! They had an interesting smoothie mix (not) and some great waffles made by Cole.