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We DREAM BIG and we want to GO PLACES! While education is our waka to the future, we will continue to value and maintain relationships we build along the way. For us this means doing the mahi collectively, collaboratively and smartly. That said, we utilise opportunities to cooperate with our peers as we persevere in our own learning journeys at our unique paces.
We are learning to communicate well, be grateful, empathetic, honest, tidy, disciplined, and punctual. Developing these soft skills now should set solid platforms from which we launch.
Our learning goals are guided by a refreshed New Zealand Curriculum (NZC) kaupapa of “Knowing, Understanding & Doing”. This is reflected in the LEARN, CREATE, SHARE pedagogy – an umbrella of the Manaiakalani learning framework that EHS implements. This framework encourages us to drive our own learning through a multitude of learning tasks and through our Learning Inquiries.
We acknowledge the opportunities to have a holistic learning approach, so we are grateful to our Principal & BOT for approving various excursions. This includes Education Outside the Classroom, and opportunities to develop our physical literacy on a regular basis.
We also practise being cyber-smart as we remember the value of our digital footprints. We trust that you too are upholding the value of your digital footprints.
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Kia ora koutou Room 11,
Looks like you were having an amazing time in your session! I know how to play tic tac toe on a game baord – how is it played as a physical game?
Where abouts will your Sports Camp be? What are you most looking forward to?
Michelle
Manaiakalani Facilitator – Horowhenua
Tena koe Michelle
Wonderful to know that someone from the Horowhenua is visiting our blog. I thought it was interesting too to see tic tac toe as a physcial game where students lined up in two teams on either side of the ‘board’. The cones in a 3 by 3 formation was the ‘board’. Using rules of noughts & crosses, the first three students from same team to form a line wins a point.
To make it trickier, each team member cannot stand at any of the cones closest to their team-line. Wonderful to see the collaboration and strategies while controlling actions & emotions when the other team gets a point.
Our Sports camp will be in the last week of Term 3 (Mon 18 – Fri 22 Sept) at Camp Adair in Hunua. The students are looking forward to various sporting activities, ranging from archery, mountain-biking, crosscountry to netball, basketball, pickleball, and many more. I’m looking forward to seeing our students having fun while competing with other schools from our local area of Papakura. The sports camp is wonderful as students have plenty of hands-on learning and practical learning experiences they can then blog about.
As you’d know, EOTC can take a lot of preparation and organisation. Do Manaiakalani facilitators get a chance to assist as camp adult supervisors?
Kia ora.Peta