Home learning

 Coronavirus is a virus that through rampant spreading has created a pandemic for our world. We are all in this together. We need to do what we need to do to keep those vulnerable in our society safe from the effects of this virus. So when they asked us to stay home, we stayed home and the humans adapted to living and continuing to learn through the internet. We were online doing our writing, reading, inquiry and connecting with our classmates through google meets. Not ideal, but a new way to do things. Here are some of room 7 students learning online.

Last day of term 2

We had an interrupted term 1 and term 2 and to end it off, we decided, because of our love of Food we would have a shared lunch. There was pizza and chips, lollies and cupcakes and someone brought in some delicious chop suey and a traditional potato salad. Oh boy it was all good and delicious.

Matariki Kites

 Room 7 had a lovely time finishing their kites to be ready to fly it on the last day of Term 2. Their designs were creative and some structures were successful yet others not so much. 

Have a look at their creations.

Cybersmart- Tracking our Digital footprint

 Mrs Collins our Manaiakalani Support teacher took the students on a Digital journey. They were to track their footprints over a space of 24 hours. All the websites they visited and how often they went to those site. It was very interesting for the students to see exactly how much time they spend on a particular website and perhaps some of them thought about if those sites were worth spending that much time on. This year in particular where home learning was a new phrase to get used to, working from home and connecting with others in a digital world is the norm it is important to track where you are going, how often and if it is safe to be there. 

Y7 and 8 Volleyball

Term 2 the year 7 and 8 students are doing Volleyball. They are learning their ball skills which include setting, serving, spiking, digging and passing. They have really enjoyed learning these new skills and practicing with their peers. Some students did get a little competitive but whats wrong with a little competition, as long as we can be gracious losers when we need to. Because the students were doing so well in their lessons, the faculty decided to have a teachers vs student match!!!

Despite a fantastic game the teachers' skills proved too seasoned and they won the match. 

Samoan Language week

A big thank you to Mrs Folu who came to our class to speak about the Samoan culture. The students really enjoyed listening to the story of how the tapa came about and were even more excited to have a go at making one themselves.
Sonny, Sebastian and Frank made a presentation to talk about their culture as well. They did such an awesome job!

For our writing we posed a controversial question; should we continue to do language weeks at school? More about that to come.

2nd week of Tech by Frank

On the 2nd week back at tech we were taught about the different types of plastic. We learnt the different types of plastic that are Reusable plastic and One use of plastic.

We were also learnt that having Biodegradable plastic is actually pretty good to use. There is also so many different types of plastic out there. One of them being  high density polyethylene, which is just milk containers and any other type of bottle.  This type of plastic is called HDPE.