Waikowhai Primary have had success at the recent Central Zone Rippa Challenge Cup! We are so excited to say that the top team are the champions for 2017! It was a fabulous day and both teams had a ball, starting the day with plenty of wins during the pool play.
Team 1 continued on to win all of their games for the day. A fantastic achievement to come first out of the 26 teams that were competing on the day. The final was very close against Dominion Road. At full time it was 8 all. Waikowhai won the game because they scored the first try. Team 2 also had a fantastic day out, scoring lots of tries and working together as a team.
Here is a snapshot of some of the action from the day, including super teamwork and a try scored by Waikowhai. We would like to thank all of our supporters and parents who helped transport, encourage and hydrate us on the day! Congratulations to Jordan and Conrad who also showed super tidy kiwi skills, keeping the venue tidy and earning themselves some rugby balls to develop their skills more too.
We can't wait to compete in the championship against the other qualifiers from the Auckland Region. Go Waikowhai!
Sunday, March 19, 2017
Friday, March 10, 2017
How to SMRF?
One of our new challenges as we work digitally is making sure we are smart about where we store and share our files. We have enjoyed working with James to create a flowchart that shows us the process of how we can get our learning activities from our syndicate site, make a copy of them and then organise them in our own google drives.
To do this, we call it SMRF(ing) a document. This is to remind us what to do.
S=STOP
M=Make a copy
R=Rename the file
F=File it in our drive.
To make this process easier you will see below some flowchart examples from Room 8.
Do you SMRF your documents too? We would love some positive, thoughtful and helpful feedback about how you do this. To find out more, please check out our cybersmart page.
To do this, we call it SMRF(ing) a document. This is to remind us what to do.
S=STOP
M=Make a copy
R=Rename the file
F=File it in our drive.
To make this process easier you will see below some flowchart examples from Room 8.
Do you SMRF your documents too? We would love some positive, thoughtful and helpful feedback about how you do this. To find out more, please check out our cybersmart page.
Monday, March 6, 2017
Digital citizenship - connecting the dots
Our key concept for Inquiry this year is "Responsibility". So far, we have been inquiring about the rights and responsibilities that we have as a student at Waikowhai Primary, a student within the senior syndicate of Rooms 7,8 and 9 and as a person who is part of the many and varied things we all do when we are not together at school.
One new area for many of us to explore (and some of us to refresh) is digital citizenship. This means the rights and the responsibilities that we have when being an active part of our online community. Today Mr Riceman challenged us to make some connections between key words that relate to digital citizenship. We worked collaboratively to come up with definitions of what these words could mean.
Our next step was to identify any connections between key words and then join those two hexagons together. If we found three words that we could connect and explain then we tessellated the shapes together and shared these ideas too.
Room 8 was full of fantastic conversation and ran ourselves short of time, we look forward to finishing off these connections tomorrow and sharing them with you! We would love it if you gave us some feedback in the comments. You might even be able to help us further expand our definition of the key words that you can see in our whiteboard picture.
One new area for many of us to explore (and some of us to refresh) is digital citizenship. This means the rights and the responsibilities that we have when being an active part of our online community. Today Mr Riceman challenged us to make some connections between key words that relate to digital citizenship. We worked collaboratively to come up with definitions of what these words could mean.
Our next step was to identify any connections between key words and then join those two hexagons together. If we found three words that we could connect and explain then we tessellated the shapes together and shared these ideas too.
Room 8 was full of fantastic conversation and ran ourselves short of time, we look forward to finishing off these connections tomorrow and sharing them with you! We would love it if you gave us some feedback in the comments. You might even be able to help us further expand our definition of the key words that you can see in our whiteboard picture.
Friday, February 17, 2017
CyberSmart Week 1
Our CyberSmart teacher James come for his first visit back to Room8.
- We are learning to follow the Kawa of Care and use our device confidently and in clever ways.
- Smart learners know their Google ID and password.
- Know how to use their device confidently.
Thursday, February 2, 2017
Welcome to 2017
Kia Ora,
Today we spent our first day together as the new Room 8. We started our day, getting to know each other through a range of activities. It was interesting to find out about our new teachers Mrs Dron and Mr Riceman. Then we interviewed a buddy and participated in a scavenger hunt to find out more about each other. Congratulations to those of us who managed to tracked down a different class member that fitted each of the categories.
After that we spent some time thinking about top tips to look after our new chromebooks. Then, we got to take them out of the box, investigate our syndicate site, and begin creating our first google drawing to represent respect.
Here are some of the photos of our "out of the box" day, we were super excited! Please check back regularly as we update and share our learning.
Today we spent our first day together as the new Room 8. We started our day, getting to know each other through a range of activities. It was interesting to find out about our new teachers Mrs Dron and Mr Riceman. Then we interviewed a buddy and participated in a scavenger hunt to find out more about each other. Congratulations to those of us who managed to tracked down a different class member that fitted each of the categories.
After that we spent some time thinking about top tips to look after our new chromebooks. Then, we got to take them out of the box, investigate our syndicate site, and begin creating our first google drawing to represent respect.
Here are some of the photos of our "out of the box" day, we were super excited! Please check back regularly as we update and share our learning.
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