Reporter: Miss Newth Some of our Kākano students recently wrote instructions for how to make a clay bird. This was inspired by the Story telling approach. They took photos of each step as they made the clay birds, printed them off and then the class put the photos in the correct order. They then drew their own story map to help remember the steps then wrote down a step each using words like First, second, next, then, last. Finally, they turned their writing into a Book creator book. They knew that right from the start they were writing instructions for the Koru students so they could learn how to make a clay bird. They were so excited about their final product and would love you to read more about the project and watch their video here.
In Mandy's digital tuakana group, we are designing apps for an audience that need some help in our community. Like spelling, maths, reading and anger issues etc. There are different stages in the process, such as the green stage, yellow stage is your app features, red stage is building a prototype, blue stage is evaluating your app idea, the purple stage is building your app pitch, the blue stage is when you explore apps and get ideas for your app and see what functions they have and the last stage is you have finished.
We had to look at different apps to get ideas on what our app will do and who it will help. We had to look at some Bluetooth apps and see if we could use them in our apps and why you need it.
We are really looking forward to finish making our apps to help out the community.
This is a photo from the keynote slideshow we are working on.
As you may know we have some school winter sports coming up in term 2, for year 5 and 6. The sports we will be taking place at Hagley park on Friday afternoons. Trials have already taken place, and the teams will be announced this week and some other teams may be announced next term.
Here is a quote from our sports leader Ms Baker. “Did you know that team stands for Together Everyone Achieves More? And in order to take part you’ll need to work well with your peers.”
Make sure that if you would like to participate in sports teams you'll need to show you can show leadership and work well with your peers.
Also another quote was from another sports leader is Steve and he said “it's all coming together bit by bit.”. Steve has been coaching the soccer team for a number of years.
We can’t wait to see all of our sports players at Hagley!
Last week the Koru team did a program called Food for Thought. A lady named Makayla came in from the Heart Foundation and taught us about healthy foods.
Session one: On the first session we had a look at all the different food categories, occasional which is foods that are not that healthy, then there's everyday foods which are healthy foods. In everyday foods there are 4 categories, fruits and veges, dairy products, lean meats and legumes, and breads and cereals.
After we did that we went into groups of four and got given a bag filled with pieces of laminated paper. On the pieces of paper they had either a food or a heading. The heading were everyday the 4 categories of healthy foods and occasional. We had to sort them into the right place.
Session two: The first thing we did on session two was learn how to read labels on food packages to see if they were healthy foods to eat everyday. We did a task to swap our paper and write the box with how much energy and so on.
Session three: Nine people from the Koru team went to the supermarket to do some fun things there. Here is what Breanna said about it - “They had a sheet with different categories. They picked two cereals and breads, and they found the total of fat and the sugars and that stuff. They did that to see if it was occasional or everyday”. She also said that it was very exciting and fun.
I am completely sure that the Koru team had a lot of fun learning about how to eat healthy.
This morning our Kapa Haka team has gone to Horncastle Arena to perform for the cultural festival and on the 5th of September our Kapa Haka team performed to our school a little preview of what they will perform at the culture festival.
Here are Charnz's the student leader of the Kapa Haka group's thoughts.
"It was fun to perform to our school and kind of nerve racking. It was exciting and it was also hard to focus sometimes. It's nice to be the leader of the Kapa Haka group because it gives me a lot responsibility and its fun and sometimes cool because people mention you. I am proud to be performing in the culture festival because I like representing my culture and I have done it too times so it will probably will be fun again".
The teacher in charge of Kapa Haka, Miss Gardner, had some insightful comments to make about the group. She said, "Kapa Haka has been going very well. It has been a busy time since we have been preparing for the culture festival. We have a very big group this year and it has been a bit tricky because we don't have a school hall but the beautiful, kind people at the community centre have let us practice there. We are all ready to perform at the big stage at Horncastle tomorrow."
Wishing our performers all the best for a great show today. Kia kaha!
We are very happy to welcome the new year 5 and 6 Bromley School Health Team. There are seven leaders: Milla, Levi, Jett, Madelyn, Marc, Cecille and Eddy.
During our first meeting, we went to see who was in the Health Team and about how healthy our school is right now. We did a ‘what it looks like, sounds like and feels like’ chart about Bromley School. From this we found that we think our school is very positive, we have great manners and we contribute and cooperate in things.
We meet each Monday at lunch and we starting to plan ways to improve our hauora / well being so we can make Bromley a healthy school. We are planning some exciting and fun activities to help keep us healthy. These might include yoga, fitness, jump jam, mindfulness and health workshops. There will be a maximum amount of people for each event.
In Term 3, the Health Team is having a visit to Wharenui School to talk about and show what we have been doing here.
Recently the Pītau group got to experience their amazing trip to the Christchurch Art Gallery and Museum. The reason they went was because they were learning about themselves, their belongings and what kiwi identity might be. The Pītau children also looked at some significant New Zealanders, symbols and history.
The children made an art piece and they had to select some images that were significant to them. When they got back to school they put a picture of themselves in their gallery and they had to put important people of New Zealand in there.
Mrs McLeod said, “my overall thoughts on our art gallery trip is that it was very beneficial because it allowed the children to make connections to how they belong to New Zealand.”
We got a quote from a student that went. She had told us about her favourite part and what she saw. Paige says, “we learnt about some pounamu and we went into a paua shell house and learnt about all the history that was in it.”
On Thursday the 22nd of February, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, Jacinda Ardern, came to visit Bromley School to announce mental health policy for Canterbury and Kaikōura children. It wasn't just Prime Minister Ardern, there were people from the government such as the Minister of Health, David Clark, and two well-known Christchurch MPs, Hon Megan Woods and Poto Williams.
Two of our Ariki leaders, Sheldon and Helena, got talk and introduce the Prime Minister and everyone that came. Some of the guests went to the library where Mandy and her coding group were working and to Pītau 1 to see what they were learning about.
Prime Minister Ardern came in a crown grey BMW. When she stepped out of the car, our Kapa Haka team welcomed her and her team. They did a wonderful job on such short notice.
Our Ariki then led Prime Minister Ardern to the staff room where she met Mr Kinley, some of our Board of Trustees members, parents, Wali the cat, and our lead teachers. She then spoke about the mental health care initiative.
Afterwards, the Prime Minister spoke to the media outside and some of the teachers and staff had photos with her before she left.
Mr Kinley says, “It was a fantastic day for Bromley School. Not only just to meet the Prime Minister in person and chat to her, as well as other very important Members of Parliament, but to hear about her announcement to support children in their mental health made this certainly a day to remember”.
We hope that initiatives like this really do benefit us children and we look forward to hosting more important guests who make important decisions about our future.
In week 2 and 3 all of Pītau and Koru went to South Brighton Beach for Beach Education to learn many things.
They took part in many activities including everything the lifeguards had learned, a sand castle competition and going in the water.
The students were separated into 4 different groups to go around into four stations. On one of the stations they learned what the IRB is and that is an inflatable rescue boat that they use 70% of the time to rescue people.
Next is the medical equipment to help people that are unconscious or are having trouble to breathe. Another one was the inflatable rescue tube which they use 15% of the time to rescue people and finally is the knee boards, which they use another 15% to rescue people.
The sand castle competition that they participated in was a great event with working together very well with great designs with shells, sticks and dried up seaweed.
Finally the water time even though they didn’t have much time they made the most of it with some huge waves chatting with their friends and having fun.
Mr Cron, who organised the event, said “I thought it was absolutely fantastic, the life guards related really well and children learnt important new safety issues involved with New Zealand beaches”.
Overall this was a great programme. Thanks to the lifeguards who ran it, as well as the teachers and parents for their support.
In Week 10 of Term 3, Koru 1 and 2 went for a 2 hour bus ride to Hanmer Springs. Once they got there, they lined up to get in. They quickly got undressed and they had already got there togs on underneath there school clothes. It was really fun and everybody had a good time, there was lots of stuff to go on such as: Hydro slides, pools, hot pools, water slides, lazy rivers and so much more. Once we had to leave everybody didn't want to go because it was so fun. Some people didn't want to go because there was a cafeteria there too. Our key competency focus was Relating to Others. Check out some of our blogs about how we reflected on the day and that key competency. Check out some of the action. Author: Blaine
Check it this month's show, which aired in assembly today!
(Video features the photo guys, Mark Dickel, Kākano trip to Ferrymead and the Cultural Festival)
This morning the coding group participated in a robotics programme with Jan-Hai from Christchurch City Libraries. The coding group were programming some robots called the Bee-Bot and Mindstorms. The kids were programming the robots to go around a square in the middle of the room. They learned how to add images and sound into the Mindstorms via Bluetooth. They also learned how to move the Bee-Bots and Mindstorms with simple commands. Chelsea, one of the coding group members, said about the first session of robotics programme, “It was really fun, I got to learn from my mistakes and if anyone wants to try it, I recommend it".
In the next session the coding group will be continuing with learn how to make the robot manoeuvre, but it will be a little bit harder. There will also be a special challenge given to them. Keep an eye on our Twitter over the next few weeks for more info on this story.
Bromley school has been preparing for the Cultural festival 2017. We started at the beginning of the year, writing our own bromley haka, with Jerome Kavanagh, and since then we have been learning our other songs with some sharp actions, singing and more! Our five songs we have learnt are:
Whakarongo mai, Bromley School Haka, Tenei au, Toru mai, and Tena koutou.
We have also found out that the visit to the Cultural festival is on the 17th of August or in other words term 3 week 4 on a Thursday. It will be at the Horncastle arena, in Christchurch. You can purchase tickets from Ticketek.
The helpers includes Tyson, Whaea Jo, Whaea Mata, Whaea Latoua, Sheryl, Ms Baker and more! Yesterday we tried on our uniforms. The girls put on a skirt, a top, and a headband, and the boys wore skirts and belts. All of the kapa haka people are so excited for the Cultural festival.
Watch out for our next WUB episode when we have more on the Cultural festival.
Our school is Apple distinguished, which means we have lots of Apple devices, such as MacBooks, iPad minis and more! It is a privilege to have so many devices to learn with and be the only Apple distinguished primary school in the South Island currently.
Here is a quote and a bit of a story from our principal, Mr Kinley. "Its a a reward for a lot of hard work from the teachers and children in the area of technology. Some of the teachers at Bromley primary school went to an Apple summit, and got called up to the stage and were awarded a banner and plaque."
