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. 

This term our STEM focus has included The Arts - we are enjoying STEAM sessions on Wednesday afternoons, that are supported by our Literacy and Maths learning activities related to our focus on Music and Sound.  This term we have used a discovery learning approach. We have had a variety of different musical instruments to investigate and play. We have learnt about different types of musical instruments and how different materials are used to make different sounds in different families of instruments - string, percussion, brass, wind. We have carried out a variety of activities to learn about sound and how certain materials can be used to make particular sounds. Our aim is to design and make a musical instrument of our own.  Each student has used what they have learnt about musical instruments, and how sound is produced to create a plan to make their own musical instrument, using labelled diagrams to show what the instrument will look like. Our plans i...