Welcome Back to the Te Waka Ako Blog. The first few weeks are always a very intense time of the year in the Senior Syndicate of Waikowhai School. Students have many opportunities and responsibilities that they need to be trained up for and organised around. This builds student independence, community service and confidence as senior students. Many activities can be added to the school programme because of this student involvement.
We also all need to get to know each other so as a school the staff and students complete
Getting To Know You Forms. The students forms are written in class and will be printed for a wall display. Later they will be blogging these on their individual blogs. The teachers forms in Te Waka Ako are included below. This is our second year working together and we feel we work very cohesively. We certainly enjoy working together and look forward to another year designing programmes that hold activities and learning that sparks the imaginations of all students.
As the school has a pool we can have swimming lessons twice a week and lunchtime free swims twice a week. In this hot weather we love the opportunity to cool off.
Last year the school was gifted some bikes, so students have been able to ride the driveway and courts during break times.
Zone Sports training of Rippa, Softball and Football have all started up this term as well. All in all there are lots of physical activity opportunities for students to involve themselves in. They can also train for Jump Jam, Librarian duty, Backtrack duty, Leadership and House Captain roles, Peer Mediation, Environmental Group, Gardening Group, Sports Monitors, AV System monitors, Wet Day monitors and Bell ringing. As you can imagine, some students can have very busy school lives!
Over 90 of our students also participated in the Summer Learning Journey over the break. Three of our girls completed every task set and commented on many other students blogs across New Zealand. All the students received certificates and the three winners received awesome prize packs. Congratulations to Pao, Maddison and Izumi.
TEACHERS Getting to Know You Forms
Over 90 of our students also participated in the Summer Learning Journey over the break. Three of our girls completed every task set and commented on many other students blogs across New Zealand. All the students received certificates and the three winners received awesome prize packs. Congratulations to Pao, Maddison and Izumi. 
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