iExplore Endangered Species Learning Story

Learner: Neha, Karleil & Justin             Learning Coach: DWilkes      Date: Term 3-4

Learning Area: iExplore (Science and Literacy)

Learning Observed

During term 3 and part of term 4, Neha, Justin and Karleil decided to collaborate together on their iExplore learning adventure.  They were inspired by their iExperience learning on animals, food webs, habitats and threats so they decide they were curious about endangered species.  During our conferences they refined their curiosity to endangered species of New Zealand and each of the learners selected 3 to find more out about and write a fact file for.  When they went to the zoo they learned more about why animals are endangered in New Zealand and around the world- what poaching meant and how pollution and habitat destruction are often the causes.  They wanted to create an awareness of how the learners at OrmPS could help endangered species in New Zealand.  They discussed how to do this through conferences and open to learning conversations with their learning coaches and each other.  They grew their capabilities at listening, negotiating and researching while they made lots of connections to their experiences and prior knowledge.  They all enjoyd the ‘animal onesie’ day at the end of the term too!

Evidence of learning

iExplore Document

Next Learning Steps

write a reflective blog process about this iExplore share all the finished products and learning with your family identify what we can do next year to extend this learning

Baverstock Oaks School and Ormiston Primary School

This school was my 'school I went to before' and I'm going to compare about B.O.S. (Baverstock Oaks School) and OrmPS (Ormiston Primary School)

What kind of Learning or what we follow around in OrmPS and B.O.S.?:

- This is a school where instead the school follows the 6 core values while OrmPS follows the four C's and the PB4L

- We in OrmPS have different learning aras such as iDevelop and iExperience and in B.O.S we do a roster and have different, seperate rooms that teach you different learning areas such as room 30 as maths, room 31 as main class and room 29 as literacy class.

- In OrmPS we all have a different way and day of doing assembly, OrmPS does thier assembly's on a Tuesday's  and in B.O.S we do it on Fridays and the difference is that in OrmPS we talk about the school and what we do and new announcements and the Caught Being #Orsome and in B.O.S we talk about what is going to happen in the future like new builds and new play areas also with some new things happening.

What is the same about OrmPS and B.O.S.?

- The certificates, the national anthem (with sign in OrmPS), the learners and learning, BYOD and devices, uniforms with different designs, teachers and respect following with responsibilities.

What is different about OrmPS and B.O.S.?

- Deaf people in OrmPS, playgrounds in B.O.S., Blogs in OrmPS, more TV's in OrmPS, way more people in B.O.S., more teachers in OrmPS, LH1 and LH2 in OrmPS and Room 1 all the way up to Room 33 and different ways to introduce yourself. There is a lot of changes and that means both schools are unique.

I wrote this because I have been thinking about schools and lots of cool things that different schools do and OrmPS had a school opening at the end of term 3.

Poem about Learning

CAPABLE AT LEARNING

Curious, Connected, Collaborative and Capable
Awake and ready
Promising learning coaches
Attending on trips
Being silent and quiet
Learners.... Learning!
Exit and practice fire drills

Attending in iDevelop
Throws away waste (hopefully)

Learning life and education

Exploring a topic at iExplore

Apples, banana, oranges, fruit first

Reading and comprehension

Nice people please

Increasing knowledge

Never give up

Going out and play

I wrote this Blog to tell the learners about how we learn because LH1 has been growled at a few weeks by now and hopefully we could do even better. this is what Ormiston Primary should do.

My Birthday!

This is a Blog where I turn 11 and how my birthday went!

02/11/2004

This was the most funnest and successful birthdays in all of my other birthdays. First of all we had bought a Disney Infinity 3.0 game for PS4 and I was pretty meaning very exciting. The characters I have got were Anakin and Ahsoka for Star Wars and Joy and Anger for Inside Out. First part of my birthday party was everyone coming over from the invitations we sent. Next was Dinner, we definitely needed to eat or else... To much cake and by the way I have got chocolate cake! We had a BIG surprise when I and other people were waiting and talking. It is Firework time! We shook of some energy with web blasters and it worked, we had a little energy left to admire the fireworks view... We had to do the 'worst' fireworks for now and we are saving the best ones for Guy Fawkes. We started to realise to we had no cake and we did not open any presents from the members who came. We had cake first and they sang Happy Birthday to me and then I sliced the first piece also with the first taste of the cake and it was yum. I have gotten a little bit carried away because I ate 5 pieces of cake! A few days later we all did (not all) Guy Fawkes and it was loud last night and we slept at 11 o'clock and we were tired. We had a wonderful day.

Official Opening for OrmPS

This is the day for our Official day at OrmPS

This is an exciting time for us, learning coaches and other guests and parents. We all did something different for our schedule because at 1 o'clock everyone will either go home or go to OrmiKids (after school care) first we were put into 4 lines, two girls lines at the front and two boys lines at the back. Te Pu is a song we practiced every morning, we needed it to be perfect because who would want to be embarrassed in front of everybody? This song represents the beginning of the world. We had some time to talk to LH1 and possibly LH2 and 4 too. First we had some activities in all of the habitats that are happening. The activities I did were building blocks, quizzes and sign language. My challenge for building blocks were trying to make the building stable and locked in its place because William (my friend) and I was trying to build a bridge to let the bike riders cross safely. My challenge for quizzes were trying to keep up with the questions because it was kind of fast for our team to keep up. My last challenge for sign language was remembering the signs because at the last part was doing signing whispers, just like the normal Chinese whispers you need to remember what the person is saying but instead you need to remember what the person signed. Now there is a lot activities, there was goop, dancing, drawings and lots more. Now it's time to talk or write about how the Opening ceremony went. The learning coaches were very proud because of how we sang Te Pu and how we walked silently and respectfully also we (most) all sat quietly. There was a famous person who came, William Pike! This was exciting because the year 6's noticed and remembered that William was from NYLD, he also has a secret frame that would be either important or would represent OrmPS as our trophy. William pike was a leader and he guided us through his adventure on how he experienced a volcanic eruption and how he survived it. He went through a lot of things on his adventure. Now the fun part, maybe because we go home at 1:00 pm! I will remember this important and fun experience.

Poem about Holidays

The sun may be up but the rain might come down

Sometimes the faces may be happy and sometimes with a frown.

There is so many fun things to do for fun

It's mabye endless there is a ton.

A lot of children having fun

All the work the teachers have hoped we have done.

I have ate ice cream with a cone

And when we went home my cousin would call me on the phone.

I was playing the piano while I was waiting ( for school to come )

it was a long time it was taking.

when it was raining it felt chilly

sometimes my little cousins can be kind of silly.

When it was nearly the school days I was preparing

trying to change my plans and the time I was sparing.

It was starting to get hot

And while I was playing a catching game I got caught.

I wrote this to try and talk in a poem but also aboout my holidays. Thank You and hope holidays are fun.

Holidays!

This is a time to relax and have more time with family, friends and more fun stuff.

It may be bored doing nothing but you can really book up for something fun and interesting. My plans for the holidays was not keep playing on technology stuff, I once went to the top of the skytower and when it was time for the holidays there is something special and different topics that children may like this topic was being a spy agent it was about lasers (fake) and running through to get clues to solve the mission. On the first week we had a busy week. On Monday my dad would go to work and whiles he is working we just do some shopping you know the normal stuff that family's do. On Tuesdays, Wednesdays, Thusrdays and Fridays my mom would go to work and all the children in the family would go to grandpas house to supervise us then at around 4:30 we would go home. On Fridays at 4:30 I would go and do TaeKwonDo classes till 6:00. On the weekends we would just relax and go to places and explore and on Sunday my mom's uncle and untie was inviting us for a snack and a trip to western springs to feed the ducks and have fun on the playground. It was kind of creepy when gooses and ducks follow us and the cutest part was the ducklings! Last part of our adventure was going to the dentist and to go haircut. This was really fun and the truth is that I miss school and learning to increase our knowledge and to hang out with friends. That was my Holiday Adventure.

Super Deafy

This was a really fun and important experience.

Super Deafy is a deaf person (Of Course) and he is an interpreter, actor and movie maker, it happened in the OSC (Ormiston Senior College) in the theater and I was buddies with Marcus from LH2. When I was there it was helping me remember the time that we went there to see drama and how they are at pretending but the LH2 and 4 learners went there to see and hear some music. Super Deafy "signed" a story about 'The Giving Tree' and it was a happy/sad story because the boy wanted to play but as he  got older than the tree would give more to make the boy and himself happy... This was a common book that is found from England or Hollywood (I think). Sometimes there is some parts that I don't understand because it was all said in sign languages! (But there was somebody talking over while he signs) We were learning new signs and there was someone that I saw and that was my friend from Baverstock. His name was Jai Rong, he was deaf too. As the time past, Super Deafy was in a movie and he wanted to make a movie to make deaf people enjoy also he wanted to make a movie because all the movies he has seen was hearing people. We have seen the trailer and that was cool. At the end we asked some question to Super Deafy. My little sister Suri was brave and asked a question to him and she said "What is your sigh name?" I thought that she was a bit nervous at the same time.

This was a cool, fun thing to go to.

Poem about OrmPS

The first day of school it was really cool,
Then I met the learning coaches the building was new so there was no cockroaches,
There was lots of people can the classrooms keep all? (The learners)
Ten million people it felt like and there was some people riding a bike.

When we visited we walked and when we played we talked,

And there was a lot of friends Sometimes when we text we type and then press send,

In class we met and talked a little bit of ourselves and we did art the things are in the shelves,

The people I have seen and the their new uniforms were clean.

After time has past the learning we had done and we had lots of fun,

So new people have come and people from Baverstock I knew the people that have come,

It was time for lunch so it filled up our tum and after that we played to have fun,

And it comes to now we continue our journey and in the future we will learn and go to university.

I have wrote this because this is my first ever time to write a poem for my blog and when I continue I will try and make more poems. Thank you and come to OrmPS.

Science and Technology Competition

It was the day of the science and technology competition.

We got the form, signed it and went to Point View, it was 5min away from OrmPS and all of us went. We did not go on the bus, we went on Mr Dyers car. When the team went the carpark was full so Mr Dyer parked outside. When we arrived we were waited from other schools, I even saw my last school That I went to (Baverstock Oaks School)! We were waiting for 3min for the other 2 or 3 schools. I was in a team with Taanvi and Willie, the other team was Henry, Anjili and Nelvin so Mr Rankin was suggesting that we should watch a helpful video and told Mr Dyer that it was a really good website to go on. We were deciding if we should either watch the vides or start planning and organizing so Willie and I watched the video while Taanvi was thinking about some ideas that we should do. The materials we need were 2 chairs, 1 big and small pieces of paper, rubber bands, wires and heavy stuff. The challenge was trying to build a bridge at least
40 cm. Before we started there was obviously some rules.
Important Rules:
Must put a plastic bag on the bridge,
You must try and build a bridge without letting it stick to the chairs,
Have fun!
Those were the Important rules but there was more rules (Sadly I couldn't Remember all of it). It took 45min before we have to stop but Mr Rankin was really nice and gave us 10min extra time! It took a while to figure out what we should do then I had a brilliant idea. My idea was wrapping the extra pieces of paper to make it stronger. Mr Rankin said "All the bridges don't have to be the prettiest, they have to be strong so that it could hold lots of heavy stuff". After all the building time we had it was time to put it to the test, the test was holding bottles of water to try and weigh the bridge even more so the challenge was trying not to make it fall. It was tricky because Mr Rankin hit every bridge until it fell. We were so lucky, We came in fifth out of 32 teams! It was really enjoyable.

Ohm & Justin - Author's Purpose Learning Story

Learners: Ohm & Justin V    Learning Coach: T.Dillner            Date: 3.9.15

Learning Area: Literacy - Author’s Purpose

Learning Observed

Ohm and Justin attended a literacy workshop which was aimed at one of the Learning Progressions that each learner has on their Learning Pathway. We were looking specifically at how an author might use features on the cover and spine, in the blurb and in the text. The learners had to work together to analyse a text and identify why the author included these features and what they told the viewer about the text. Ohm and Justin worked as a group on a variety of novels, connecting how the author may have used features that were the same or different on each text. They showed an increased capability in this when talking together about how the cover image, title, blurb and first page gave an idea of the theme and the author’s purpose. As they collaborated, each of the boys were able to extend their own knowledge by building on it with the ideas of the other group members.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Finish a Best Fit Novel and analyse the Author’s Purpose after reading the entire book. Record this analysis either in writing, video or audio. Upload this as evidence in their Literacy Learning Pathways.

Habitat learning

For 4-5 weeks of digitizing, localising, making and drawing, we all gathered up in habitat hui to share our Habitats

Last Monday all the localize and digitize groups met together to prepare our presentation on animal habitat. All the localize it group were (I didn't know exactly what they did) Researching about an animal and creating the habitat in a device. The way we did our habitats was that we made an Animal Fact File then we planned on what we were going to build and the fun part Digitizing it! I was Collaborating with Rohullah to finish the habitat we created by taking turns since there is only one device. We did our habitat on Minecraft PE so we tried to take turns for building each part of the habitat. The other people was getting ready to comment to our habitats. By the way our animal is the Cheetah so we need a big open space for it to run, shade and water to cool it off and places for it to hide from Predators. Other people did other animals (Flamingo, Lion, Birds) and you can even make your own wacky animal by using MakeYourWildSelf (I think) and making up random facts too. On Wednesday the make it and draw it groups was getting ready to setup there art and presentations too, while the other groups comment on them. It was a fun experience and we all enjoyed it!

Digitise It Animal Habitat Learning Story - August 2015

Learner: Justin V & Rohullah                                                     Learning Coach: DWilkes       Date: August 2015                                                                       Learning Area:  Science

Learning Observed

This term the LH1 learners have been learning about animals, adaptations and habitats.  They were fortunate enough to go on a field trip to the zoo where the live cheetahs captured the curiosity of Rohullah and Justin.  The learners were instructed that they needed to create a habitat that would be suitable for an animal of their choice or creation.  The boys opted for the ‘Digitize It’ option knowing that they wanted to design the cheetah habitat in Minecraft and demonstrate their capability at using it.  They went through a rigorous design process that involved connecting with information through researching to create a fact file on the cheetah, drawing a draft diagram of what the habitat would look like and then creating it in a digital tool of their choosing.  Justin and Rohullah collaborated very well- taking turns, listening to each other and asking questions.  They also assisted other learners who were using Minecraft.  When it was time to share their learning, the boys presented their cheetah habitat confidently to all of the Learning Coaches and learners in LH1.  You can see their assessment here.

Evidence of learning

Justin & Rohullah share their Cheetah Habitat in Minecraft   Animal Fact File- Cheetah

Next Learning Steps

write a reflective blog post about their learning and share with parents create a product of their learning eg. iMovie to show their Minecraft to others create a more detailed diagram with labels that is represented in their final product

The 4 C's

OrmPS focuses on one of the 4 C's each term and we do it.

First 'C' is Connected, We connect our learning to teach other people new things and to remember our old learning to our new learning, it also means to meet new friends and stay as a connected friend. Secondly there is Collaborative, Collaboration is working together as a group and cooperating with others, helping each other to get things done, you do what your good at then the other persons can support. Thirdly the there is Curious, this is most likely used in iExplore time ( When you research about something your interested in ). This is a good time to use this principle when you are wondering and asking others. People are always interested in something, so they find it out. Lastly there is Capable, Capable is when you can do things and understand on what the person is talking about. People sometimes struggle when they are being Capable because it is quite hard when you do things when your by yourself. Ormiston primary school follow the four Principles to have a nice environment.

Tallest Tower Technology Challenge - Learning Story - August 2015

Learners:  Justin V and Nelvin                                        Learning Coach:  Ms Wilkes

Learning Area: Science and Technology                        Date: August 2015

Learning Observed

Justin V and Nelvin were 2 of four learners who initially showed interest in representing OrmPS at a technology challenge at Point View Primary School on August 26.  They met each Friday for a new challenge.  Their first challenge was to make the tallest free-standing tower they could using only the materials they were provided with:  5 sheets of paper, 6 straws, 30cm tape, 2 pipe cleaners, a couple of popsicle sticks and their imagination.  There was a time limit and they were up against the girls!  Justin and Nelvin strategised together before they started building showing some fantastic problem solving and an ability to pre-plan.  They also made adjustments as they went demonstrating that they were resilient and could respond as needed.  They used the materials wisely and kept the brief at the forefront- being victorious in the end!

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Justin and Nelvin participated and contributed enthusiastically, relating well to each other and managing themselves.  They used strong thinking strategies to maximize the use of their materials to strengthen and heighten their tower.  They collaborated strongly demonstrating an ability to listen to each other and communicate.  Their curiosity was evident in their design and as they won they developed their capability at technology challenges.

Next Learning Steps

continue to come and participate in challenges every Friday consider starting and leading a club for technology challenges in Term 4 ensure that you always stop and think before making decisions write a blog post about this!

GAFE - Google Apps For Education

On Wednesday we went to a trip (and it was #Oresome) to another school for Google Apps For Education.

In the school we went to different locations to learn about different things and my favorite activity was the 'controling the robots'. It was quite technical to do this like steering it or moving it. We also did animating, it is easy to do animating but when you start animatin it is tricky and confusing to do but when you get use to it you can get better and better then you can make a long animation and create a 'video like' animation. Sketch Up is an app on the MacAirs that you can make 3D buildings and other stuff and print it with a 3D printer, you can make block, towers, building you can even put a picture and details to make it pop out. It really looks cool when you print it (I haven't seen it in actual life but seen it online) It might look real. Lastly most of us went to the library to see PhotoSphere is an app that makes you feel like your in a sphere and you surround yourself with photos and with Google cardboard you download an app that looks like it follows where you look and make or buy it, a 'binocular looking like' cardboard and it has to fit your iPhone, shake it to play the game and have fun. Lastly we had the prize giving was exciting because we saw lots of people there so low chance of me getting picked. After that we obviously went back to school.

NYLD Leadership Experience- Kevin & Justin on William Pike - August 2015

Learners:  Kevin & Justin                                                       Learning Coach: D Wilkes

Learning Area: KCs and Literacy                                                Date: Aug 5

Learning Observed

It was impressive to watch these two learners collaborate together to provide a wonderful and inspiration component to the ‘Leadership Experience’ as a long awaited follow up to the NYLD that all the Year 6s attended in Term 2.  Kevin and Justin co-constructed their video and presentation (which can be found in the Leadership Experience presentation) and they wowed the crowd with their video of ‘William Pike’ aka;Justin V!  When their first video wasn’t what they wanted they redid again demonstrating persistence, commitment to excellence, confidence and resilience.  They decided to do a video rather than a presentation because they wanted to really capture William’s essence and his message.  The learners loved watching the video and most walked away with the ‘all passion, no limits’ as a lasting message.  Practicing their public speaking, writing, videography and leadership was what they did while the rest of us enjoyed a fantastic recreation of William Pike’s amazing story of how he survived the eruption at Mt Ruapehu.

Evidence of learning

Kevin and Justin impress the crowd with their recreation of William Pike’s story

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

While Kevin and Justin collaborated they made direct and indirect connections to their experience at NYLD.  The related to others, managed themselves responsibly and participated enthusiastically on the day.  They were enthusiastic and responded to changes with resilience.  The preparation for the video was great.  They made us curious and they inspired us!

Next Learning Steps

learn some blue screening (you could put the mountain behind Justin) write a blog post about the afternoon including your reflections share your learning with family at home

The Zoo!

( If you read the Maori Culture blog, I mentioned that we went to the Zoo. )

It was the day that we went to the zoo so we all went on seperate buses and it took a while. We went to the Zoo excitedly to learn and see animals we never knew about. Firstly we ate a snack because there was fruit-flys around the zoo. We got in groups then explored the zoo to recognise about what we learnt in school, there was lots of time to explore the animals but when it was eleven we all have to group up where the Asian elephant were then everyone can learn even more. The animals that we learnt more about were the cheetah, flamingos and of course the Asian elephant. The cheetah can run short distances but very fast, I learnt in school that the antelope runs fast but it can run farther distances, the flamingo is unique and if it eats it turns more pink and the more atractive, the elephants from auckland zoo had a baby called anjelee, we saw a real tusk that has been cut off and an elephant tooth. That was the adventure of the Auckland Zoo

Maori Culture

Kia ora This week (Week 2) we are learning about Maori Culture

I have heard that some of the native birds, plants and names are just Maori names (e.g. Kea, Kowhai, Tui). In our Learning pathways we wrote Digital mihis in our 'about me' page, we have to write about ourselves in Maori, so what our nearest mountain or river and what you like is in a Mihi. Manuwera Intermediate went to our school to teach the boys the haka and teach the girls a waiata. We also learnt how to pronounce some feelings, native birds and nature in Maori with Mrs Dillner and with Mr Dyer we sang some other waiatas with sign. On Thursday we went to the zoo to learn about animals, we mostly learnt about cheetah's, flamingo's and african elephants and I learnt some of the animals Maori names. Maaori is quite tricky to learn because nga sounds like na.

Thank You

Collaboration

it is term 3 and we are back in school, this term we are collaborating

If you don't know what collaborating means, it means that your working together in a team. We need to work together to get more ideas and if we are arguing then you haven't noticed that you are getting ideas so you need to mix those ideas to get something different and possibly better then what you were expected. Teamwork is working together so you can have more fun and more strategies on how to get on with things. Do not be afraid to ask other people to help you finish an answer on something or how to do the strategies on a confusing question. Collaborating is like connecting too because if you work with some new people then your connecting with them. If you don't know what connecting means, it means that you are connecting your learning that is similar to your old learning and it also means you are making connections with your friends too  and it's one of our 4 C's. You don't have to do the same thing, you can do something that your good at and the other person can support and do something that their good at.

Justin's Music Learning Story

Learner: Willie, William and Justin     Learning Coach:  T.Dillner          Date: 2.6.15

Learning Area: The Arts - Music

Learning Observed

The Keas Hapu group have been learning about the features that we use to make music. They were introduced to the formal language of Tempo, Dynamics and Rhythm. After three sessions, Willie, William and Justin chose to work together in a group to collaboratively write three lots of four beats (rhythm), that had a change in volume (dynamics) and speed (tempo). The learners needed to record their patterns using correct musical notes to show timing and the correct Italian terms to show where the dynamics and tempo changed. The boys then had an opportunity to share this with the Keas and demonstrate their understanding of the three features of music. They used clapping to show these patterns.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

All three boys worked collaboratively to share their thinking and formulate their pattern (Participating and Contributing). By standing up and giving a short presentation, they demonstrated their capability in understanding these three features of music. When we talked about Dynamics and Tempo, the learners were making connections with new vocabulary. They had to make sense of words and symbols in the traditional language of music - Italian (Using Language, Symbols and Texts).

Next Learning Steps

To make up a clapping game that uses the same thinking or language from this activity. In the future, practise musical performances in order to stay in time with one another.

Justin's iExperience Learning Story

Learners: Justin V & Amin    Learning Coach:  T.Dillner          Date: 1.5.15

Learning Area: iExperience - Social Sciences

Learning Observed

We have been working on understanding ANZAC Day and what the soldiers did in Gallipoli 100 years ago. This iExperience was called ‘An ANZAC Pack’ and related to Trench life and warfare in World War One. During the first session, Justin and Amin were completing research around life in the trenches and what the soldiers would have eaten. The learners were provided with a variety of links which they had to read and discuss. From this, they needed to record two facts that interested them. At the following session, they had to go through the information they had discovered, put it into their own language and prepare a slideshow or poster to explain their learning. The link for Justin and Amin’s presentation is below.

Evidence of learning

Link: Justin and Amin’s Presentation

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Justin and Amin both demonstrated a lot of curiosity during both iExperience sessions. They had a device each and shared their documents in order to work collaboratively - each learner was able to work on the presentation, but on different slides. This helped them to manage their time well, as they were completed within the time given (Managing Self). Justin and Amin had to make connections between what was used 100 years ago and what is used today (Thinking). This is particularly evident at the end of their presentation as they inserted a question to encourage their audience to respond (Relating to Others).

Next Learning Steps

Add video or audio evidence to support their ideas. Begin to branch out from the research links provided for them, and source their own information.