Monday, October 26, 2015

I love my life LITERALLY!!!

Do you know why people like you love your life its because you don't get sick very often do you? well look at me i am the problem to the solution because i thought it would be nice if i ate ice-cream after my recovery when i am sick and in the middle of the night how cool is that and now stuck in bed all day long missing on my lovely learning.Learning is my passion and as William pike said all passion and no limits in the grand opening of ormiston primary school.Anyways have you ever heard my coughing it is even badder than a grizzly bear growling through the night!My life has become more exciting and #Oresome just because of ormiston primary school their learning coaches are so nice and experienced with so much things thats why




I LOVE MY LIFE
LITERALLY!

Friday, October 2, 2015

Vrishti's Habitat Hui Narrative


Learner: Vrishti                                                        Date: September 2015
Learning Area: Habitat Hui                                      Learning Coach: John Dyer                 
Learning Observed
During Term 3, we have met as a habitat on Monday afternoons to share our learning and discuss life in our habitat. Each week, new learners have been responsible for presenting the Hui and helping to organise the content.

Vrishti saw a need to have an overarching agenda that could be adapted each week and used to help the presenters run things. She helped to design the layout and organises the learners each week so they know when they are presenting. This responsibility has been good for her and provides an opportunity for her to grow her leadership potential.  
Evidence of learning


Key Competencies/Vision Principles being demonstrated

Thinking - Making sense of information, experiences and ideas.
Using language, symbols, and texts - Making sense of words, numbers and images.
Managing self - knowing when to lead, when to follow and when to act independently.
Relating to others - Interacting effectively in a range of contexts.
Participating and contributing - Being actively involved in school and the community

Curious
Collaborative
Connected
Capable
Next Learning Steps
Vrishti is encouraged to continue with her planning our Habitat Hui. She should ask learners and coaches what things they would like included in the Hui. Things may take a permanent slot each week such as NZSL while other may change, like an upcoming event.



Thursday, October 1, 2015

Collaborative Games iExperience Narrative


Learner: Vrishti                                                            Date: August 2015
Learning Area: Collaborative Games                             Learning Coach: John Dyer                 
Learning Observed
At the start of Term 3, we embarked on a journey of collaboration. All the learners were put into groups that were mixed age, ability and gender. It was a time for learners to get to know each other and develop their ability to collaborate with each other outside of the habitat in a variety of games and activities.
Vrishti participated effectively in the activities, demonstrated persistence and was a good team player. One of the challenges involved guiding a blindfolded team-mate over, under, around and through a course. This required a high level of patience and strategy. Vrishti and her group experienced difficulties but worked together as a team to overcome them and were ultimately successful in the task. They learned about the importance of sticking together in order to reach your goals.
 
     Evidence of learning

Here are the successful warriors
working hard and playing hard.

They were rewarded for their efforts and learned about themselves and about ‘Collaboration’

Here is Vrishti presenting her learning with her group.

Key Competencies/Vision Principles being demonstrated

Thinking - Making sense of information, experiences and ideas.
Using language, symbols, and texts - Making sense of words, numbers and images.
Managing self - knowing when to lead, when to follow and when to act independently.
Relating to others - Interacting effectively in a range of contexts.
Participating and contributing - Being actively involved in school and the community

Curious
Collaborative
Connected
Capable
Next Learning Steps
The challenges that Vrishti faced provided opportunity to practice existing skills and learn new ones. A worthwhile challenge would be for Vrishti to apply her collaborative learning to other areas of the curriculum when she will continue to work with a wide variety of other learners.