Week 1 & 2 Term 4

Important Notices:

- we need permissions slips back for the upcoming EOTC trips - snorkeling and Goat Island.  Karma is loading payments into MyMonitor

- School athletic sports. We need parents to help supervise our groups.  Please see or email Lisa if you're available on Wednesday 11 November

The focus at school this term is on Effective Communication, this encompasses many things but is concentrated on Teaming and Collaboration; Interpersonal Skills; Personal, Social and Civic Responsibility; and Interactive Communication. This week we have been immersing LC4 in a film making activity, the students have been developing their collaboration skills, storyboarding their films, learning about camera angles and how this affects the impact of a film.

Here the children are celebrating their digital stories that they made by retelling a Maori myth or legend.  We used iMovie to edit our stories, added in audio and titles.  We also explored drawing using kowhaiwhai patterns and did a brief artist study.

The collaboration aspect and timeframes around deadlines meant that children encountered the 'learning pit' a lot and had to work hard on communicating effectively with each other.

On Tuesday, we hosted some Year 9 & 10 students from Hobsonville Point Secondary School to start work on a PE and Technology project they are completing. The first day was about immersing the secondary students into running a PE lesson with LC4 and getting to know each other. Throughout term 4 they are going to develop an app to support the teaching of a PE skill. We are lucky to be the target audience for their project. LC4 was thrilled to be outside playing T-ball, basketball, cricket, soccer and touch rugby and afterwards provided some great feedback for the older students about how to improve their lessons. We'll be using this project as way to build our communication skills around coaching, teamwork, constructive feedback and will look to create our own PE workshops. The sport skills haven't been determined yet but will be based on the expertise that is on offer, LC4 interests and equipment requirements.

Some of our Term 3 projects continue to provide rewards, this week a cricket coach came to school and ran a workshop with some of our students. The students all had a great time learning the cricket skills although it has taken a lot to plan and organise: 
"It was awesome to see how many kids were interested in playing cricket so I can probably get a team together from the school. The challenge was getting everything organised for the workshop like what time he was coming in and whether we were going to do it inside the gym or outside on the court. Next time I would tell Reid and Lisa that he was coming in earlier. It was really fun and I want to keep getting more kids interested and playing cricket."

Outside Garden Area

The area outside LC4 is bursting with colour and is a beautiful spot for us to enjoy our lunch.

We would like to continue exploring growing plants. If you have any spare pots at home or little black pottles for us to grow some seedlings then we greatly appreciate it.