Students of the Week

Congratulations to our recent Students of the Week... Anaru and Lily.

They were nominated by their fellow students for the following reasons:

Thank you Alesha for designing and creating these certificates.

Interest Projects

Year 7 & 8 students have started their second Interest Project.

There are a range of exciting ideas across all classes including coding, animal cruelty, free range chickens, raising money for the poor, fitness/health, effects of technology on our health and lots, soar power, wheelchair accessibility, education and more.

We are going to be very busy getting to the impact stage of our projects.

Thank you Lucy and Lana from our blogging buddy class at Selywn House for asking your blogging buddies questions and giving them tips on their Interest Projects.

Thank you Caro from our blogging buddy class at Auroa Primary School for your comments too.

Keep up to date with the progress of our projects or offer support/suggestions by visiting our students' individual blogs.

Stages of Inquiry

This week year 7/8 students are reviewing the stages of inquiry they learned in Term 1.


We would love to hear from you if you have previously completed an inquiry using some or all of these stages. What was your inquiry on? Which stage did you find most difficult and why? Which stage did you enjoy completing the most?

This is in preparation for our second Interest Based Learning Project. We will be using the stages of inquiry to help us structure and plan a project on an interest of our choice. Lots of us have already decided what we are going to do and are getting very excited. We will use our individual blogs to update you on our progress.

Students of the Week

Each week a group in our class has the responsibility of awarding Dojo points and nominating a Student of the Week.










Congratulations to our Week 5 Student of the Week -Andre.
Andre has been working hard to improve the amount of work he gets completed in class time and is always respectful during class discussions.







Congratulations to our Week 6 Student of the Week - Juliet.
Fellow students nominated Juliet because they have noticed she is always focused on her work and ready for learning.

Storyboard: How to write a science report?

In 7/8 OD we have been learning how to write a science report. Our task was to share what we have learned in creative ways.  

This is how Josh shared his learning using storyboardthat.com

Check out Josh's blog and leave him a comment by clicking HERE

Middle School Ski Trip

Last week year 7/8 students traveled to Mt Ruapehu for the week of a lifetime.

From chilling out in our warm cosy hut to flying down the slope on our board or skis, we had an excellent time!

This was all of us at the top of Knoll Ridge.

This is our class at the bottom of Happy Valley after our very first run down.

Our Rangatira mascot :-)

Snowball fights and fun outside our hut.

We had amazing helpers in our hut. 

Lucky us! Maddie (& her dad Rob) and Summer chose to join our hut. It was awesome having them!

Meeting up in the morning to get our ski passes!

After dinner we wrote in our diaries!

We all had an amazing time and we are so grateful for all the hard work that went into organising this trip. We are particularly thankful to Mr Naden and our parent helpers Rob Ashworth and Mark Armstrong. 

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE

FROM 7/8 OD & Maddie & Summer

Student of the Week

Week 3 this term saw Hannah Ruelens receive our Student of the Week certificate before she left us to return home to Belgium. 

Hannah was nominated  for being a helpful, kind, caring and polite classmate.

We are already missing you Hannah! We hope you arrive home safe and we look forward to reading about your life back home on your new blog. ;-)

Student of the Week

Congratulations to our Term 3 Week 2 Student of the Week:

Aaron Sarcia

Aaron was nominated by his fellow students for always working hard and doing his best in class.

Welcome to 7/8 OD Term 3 2015

Welcome back from the holidays.
7/8 OD have been busy getting back into learning after the holidays.

We have been setting up individual blogs which will be popping up on the side of this blog very soon.

Our focus this term is 'Relating to Others'. As part of this focus we have new co-operative learning groups. Each week one of our groups are responsible for awarding 'Dojo' points and nominating a Student of the Week.

Week 1 this term our Student of the Week, as nominated by fellow students, was 

Seamus Mc Cormack

CONGRATULATIONS SEAMUS!

Keep it up!

R.E. - Holy Spirit

Check out some of the word clouds 7/8 OD created when they were learning about the Holy Spirit.