Kokako Lodge Brochure

This week LS2 has been celebrating camp, one of our tasks was to create a brochure for Kokako Lodge. My group (Marieta, Joel, Viliami and Joseph) filled the outside part of the brochure with information, and the inside with pictures of what the camp, activities and waterfall look like. To make it easier for us to complete the brochure we organised ourselves into different jobs, mine was to write the introduction.

Heroes And Role Models Venn Diagram

This week one of our tasks for Inquiry was to create a venn diagram on the similarities and differences between a role model and a hero. Although there isn't a big difference between role models and heroes, since we look up to both of them, it was interesting to learn about.

Leadership DLO

This week we've been learning about leadership. Marieta, Joel, Viliami, Miiana, Sakina and I worked together to create a DLO on what a leader is, what goals we have as leaders this year, what responsibilities we have as leaders this year and what makes a good leader. For what makes a good leader we wrote things like: Someone who can step down and let others have a turn, someone who can take the initiative and someone who can learn from both their mistakes and successes.

Teamwork Sketchnote

 

Today Marieta, Joel, Sakina and I worked together to create a sketchnote on what a team is, our definition of a team is a group of people who work together to achieve a common purpose. In teams all members must respect one another, make sure everyone is included and respect all opinions. Three things that people need to do in teams are: Communicate, collaborate and participate.

Panmure Bridge School CARE Values

                      

Today Joel, Viliami, Marieta and I worked together to create a DLO on our school's CARE Values. In it we needed to include how we could show the values and what they mean, an additional task was to brainstorm how we could use pictures to show what the values would look like. For the confidence value we chose to have someone standing up and pretending to present their work which would take confidence and for other values we had raising one's hand to answer a question, picking up rubbish around the school and completing a set task.

Leadership Challenges

Because this week is leadership all of the year 7 students have been working together to build or strengthen their leadership skills. The first task after getting into our groups was to answer questions and find solutions for problems like how to get students to only drink water. After that we all headed to the hall where in our groups of four we were told to create cubes out of diamonds, to do that we needed to cut out diamonds from different coloured sugar paper and then place them together to make the cubes. My group Aung Naing, Marieta, Te Pounamu and my self won the first round. In the second round the four groups were put joined into two and were given the same task, my team didn't win that time but it was still fun to do. The last things that we did were teamwork exercises where we needed to go from one side of the hall to the other by going under our teammates.

Reflex Activity

Last week's task was to find a pair and together, test each other's reflexes with a ruler. The way that it was to be done was one person sits down and hangs one of their arms off a table, the other person would put the ruler over the top of their hand that was hanging off. After levelling it to the top of the hand the partner would drop the ruler, the amount of centimetres that were shown above the hand that grabbed the ruler before it fell were recorded. If you missed then it counted as a zero, the lowest (Best) you could get without failing was one and the highest (Worst) was thirty. We did three tests like that, one with our eyes open, the other with our eyes closed but listening for a signal to try and grab the ruler and the last with our eyes closed but were tapped on the shoulder. Before we'd started to test however, we were supposed to write a hypothesis, my one was that I'd do best on the listening- but I was wrong. I did the best on the looking tests, since I managed to get a one. After the tests were done, we then needed to get into a group of four with another pair. Marieta and I grouped up with Sky and Jericho. The test batch that we did the best on was the second test for hearing.