Kea Class @ Pompallier

During Social Justice week this term (7th of September until 11th of September), Kea class focused on the social justice principal of Stewardship .  We learnt about how we should look after and love God's creations. During our discussions we shared different ways of how we can protect and look after God's creations. We decided as a class to go on a 'litter hunt' around the school, we hunted all over our beautiful school - under benches, on the playground and in the garden.  We found lots of litter laying around!  Below is a picture with all our litter. Once we returned back to class we decided that it was time to create something for the whole school to see. We decided to create posters on our chromebooks, using Google Drawings. We worked in groups of 3 and we designed, printed and laminated posters to put up around our school. We had lots of fun. Below are some pictures of our wonderful posters. We as a class hope that our posters will get people to think twice before

Mahi Tahi This week Kea class started "Mahi Tahi". Mahi Tahi is all about collaboration and team work. Mahi Tahi is something which is done quiet often in our senior school with all the senior students, the teachers have seen amazing changes and results in the students.  Kea class will be doing weekly STEM activities in groups and they will need to use the "Four C's" when working in their groups. The Four C's are collaboration , creativity , critical thinking and communication .  This week we discussed the Four C's and we unpacked each word. 4 posters with each word on was set up around the classroom then students were allowed the opportunity to walk to each poster and add their ideas about what each word means to them. The responses were FANTASTIC!  This coming week Kea class will be doing their first STEM activity. 

Imaginative and Creative Prayer  Our Religious Education focus for the first three weeks of term 3 was imaginative and creative prayer.  One of the classes in the school were set up with about 11 different prayer stations. The prayer stations varied; 5 finger prayer, praying for the world, praying in colour, creating a daily prayer, praying with an object, quiet reflecting time etc. All the different students of the school had an opportunity to explore the various prayer stations and learn new ways to pray. The prayer stations were run by the senior students. We took some of these wonderful ideas back to our class and we did some prayers, such as creating a gratitude prayer chain, creating a prayers poster for the sick and praying in colour.  The students of Kea class thoroughly enjoyed the RE focus. Please have a look at a few of our photos below.