Tuhi Mai Tuhi Atu, Getting to know you.

This year we are looking forward to making new connections through the Tuhi Mai, Tuhi Atu blogging group.  As a class, we have made a simple google drawing to introduce ourselves to the students and readers of our blog who we will be connecting with.

It is important that we are cybersmart when sharing information.  Please have a look through this presentation and make a connection with us by leaving a positive, thoughtful and helpful comment.  You might also like to explore our individual blogs. At the moment it is just our Year 6s with individual blogs but the Year 5s will contribute to their ones later in the year.

We look forward to hearing your feedback.

Welcome to 2018

We would like to extend a warm welcome back to all our blog followers and readers for 2018.  We have been back together at school for three days and have already achieved so much.  This post will have a few of the highlights for you. Please read on.

Manukau, one of the three classes who make up Te Waka Ako (the canoe of learning) are a digital class. This meant that for many of our Year 5s, new to the senior school, got to unbox their new learning device.  Once we discussed how to best look after these valuable resources we were underway.  All students did an amazing job bookmarking and accessing their learning on our new Te Waka Ako syndicate site.

Getting to know each other has been a big focus for us over the three days. We have participated in a design challenge. We had to create a shelter for one teammate using newspaper, string and tape that could withstand high winds (Dave's leaf blower). This really got us thinking, talking and doing. Check out the photos below.

Mr Rattenbury, our new Waitemata teacher led us through a definition of learning. This helps set us up for a successful year as we know what we need to do to help ourselves learn. We have also touched on our new Inquiry theme of Curiosity.  We have already found out that we are curious about lots of things and we look forward to exploring this more over the coming weeks and year.

Oscar's DLO describing our definition of learning for this year.

We look forward to sharing our learning with you throughout 2018, please check back regularly.

Blog you later.