GO THE WARRIORS. CONGRATULATIONS! #ALLIN

WOW! What a fabulous start to the Warriors post Covid-19 season in Australia. The game against the Dragons was awesome to watch and Te Waka Ako are very happy we are supporting them and connecting with them in 2020.

 Back when we were in lockdown and were distant learning through Google Meets, Te Waka Ako had an awesome opportunity to connect with the Warriors quarantine camp in Australia.

One of the players, Chanel Tavita-Harris came into a google meet and answered our questions. Two of the Community Coordinators (Georgia and Petrece) for the Warriors set it up and introduced the discussion and question and answer session. Georgia is a league player as well, playing for the Warriors women team and the NZ Kiwi Ferns. It was an amazing opportunity for everyone.

The students were given an activity to create a raft of questions to
ask Chanel about being in lockdown, his background, being a sportsman and his dreams for the future.
Many students were keen to field questions and had thoughtful ideas of what to ask.  The call was super interesting and everyone was very keen to create signs to encourage them in training and in the start of their season.  A transcript of the answers is linked below.

Chanel

Georgia 

   

LINK to DOCUMENT 

LEVEL 2 BACK AT SCHOOL

Well we are back in our classrooms with about 80% of our students. It has been a lovely start to the term on site, with happy, excited, keen to learn children, warm sunny weather and fun relevant activities. We certainly hope it continues, so we are 'playing by the rules.'

We have new rules to follow and changes of course and but our kids are adaptable and keen to do their bit. Hand sanitising stations and staying apart from others are major ones changes. One tool we used to help everyone understand the second one, was putting the rubber PE dots on the ground for different activities.







Another way we used them was we ran a lockdown scavenger hunt where students needed to find other students who had completed certain things while in lockdown, but they had to move to a dot before they could ask someone a question. 

 How many of these activities could you say yes to doing during lockdown????

Some VIDEO 'AWESOMENESS' happening in TWA!!

                            Check out the slides in this slideshow to see different students work.

LOTS of them have videos you can watch or listen to.

Rael playing piano

Last week we set up a Lockdown Creations Slideshow for the syndicate. We asked the students to fill in a slideshow with four activities every day. Each activity on a new slide. They had to do a set page in their Lockdown Diary, then they could choose one activity from their maths class tumble, then one activity from their reading class tumble, then finally one activity from all the other tasks set up on the Syndicate Site. The emphasis was on creating things. Heaps of the students loved having choices and creating, so we received some awesome videos and recordings of 

                              student activities. This blogpost is going to have many different links you can connect into and check out what's been happening out there in Te Waka Ako Level 3 Land!

Marcus & Mum dancing

Brittany rapping 

Pao Sign Language

Maddison & Mum Reading

Week 4 Merit Certificates

Week 4 saw a lot more creativity come out with loads of Science experiments, baking, Art projects, storybook rapping and even some Drama and musical talent.
We have had so much fun sourcing and making these tasks, so it has been fantastic to see so many students really get involved (sorry parents for all of the mess in your kitchens).

Without further ado here are Week 4's awesome merit certificate recipients.....

From Miss Daly in Waitemata

                                                                                                       From Ms Sands in Hauraki

From Mrs Jones in Manukau

CONGRATULATIONS

Whole Syndicate Meet

WOW!! COOL FUN seeing you ALL.
Well we got 53 students and 5 staff into our 9am google meet this morning! It was very cool to see so many of our students engaged and the students from the other classes within Te Waka Ako. We all shared a bit of what we had been doing this week or over the lockdown time.

58 onboard! Some lag and glitching occurred but on the whole cool fun.

We also watched Maddison's family help her do one of the Reading tasks; enacting a play.  It is very cool, have a watch.

Tomorrow we will do it again and have it like an assembly with our certificates and sharing work. If you didn't make it today make sure you know how to get on tomorrow. See you there!!

Certificates and Thank You Bouquets!

Miss Daly awarded certificates to Brittany and Amara this
week.








Week three of this term was another short week, but lots of our students did awesome activities around Anzac Day commemorations as you can read about in a previous blog or on their individual blogs. 

Ms Sands awarded certificates to Marcus and Ruta this week.

Talking about individual blogs, we have encouraged all students to blog about their experiences in lockdown and their work they are doing. We want them to read each others blogs and write positive, thoughtful and helpful comments as well.

Mrs Jones has awarded certificates to Demitrius and Jaimie this week.

So to help encourage students we have been creating blogs on the Syndicate Site and asking lots of the staff to comment on the students  posts. We would like to award bouquets to two staff members this week, who have been commenting on MANY MANY students work with very detailed, positive and informative comments. We really appreciate their work.

On the couch commenting on blog posts! 

    A HUGE THANK YOU
to ..............

    Mrs Paterson

and another




                                                                                   HUGE
                                                                            THANK YOU to .......
                                                                            

.  Miss McGrath. 

Miss McGrath at her dining room table. 

           









It is fun to read their comments as well as the students posts! Anywhere is an office these days.

Acrostic Poems

Since starting back at school in Term Two the students of Te Waka Ako have been completing a Lockdown Diary. 

It is filled with all kinds of different writing activities that are done each day. Most students are enthusiastic about this activity and are creating some awesome documents that they will look back on in the future with delight and fond or not so fond memories. Most days there are two slides to complete, but some days only one slide.

They don't have huge amounts of writing to them, but honest, good quality writing is expected. One of the slides was to write an acrostic poem with a word that is relevant to the lockdown event. 
Many students have written excellent poems. Have a read through them and see how you can identify and connect to the experiences of others.