Farewell to my Class of 2014!

Last Friday was the last day for the totally awesome team of pupils that I have had the pleasure to teach during 2014...what a super fun year we have had together! It was quite an emotional day as this group of pupils really had a wonderful team morale and we had a great working partnership between us - I will miss everyone!

I always aim to develop pupils who will be independent, confident and capable young men and women, who care for others and respect themselves, and I think I achieved that (with more than a little help from their families/parents and previous teachers too)...good luck to all of them as they move on to the next chapter of their learning journeys, at their new schools in 2015...

I Was Here legacy project

Last year and again this year I have had my Year Six pupils each decorate a fence paling, with the intention to build a legacy fence around the back boundary of our school. Here is this year's results...

In January I will place these and the 2013 palings out on the fence.

Are you listening?

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Some cool tips here for ways to help pupils learn to listen...

http://www.edutopia.org/blog-five-listening-strategies-rebecca-alber

This week's THINK ABOUT IT quote...

...comes from Tyson Adams...

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This week's Think About It...

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Take Two News episode

My Year Six pupils take turns to work in teams of three to write, film and present a short video about a current event or issue happening at our school...I do the editing using Windows MovieMaker...


2014 Take Two News - We Sell Worm Tea! (Team Kahu, Year Six) from Edendale Primary School on Vimeo.

Ten Common Grammar Mistakes

I will definitely be trying out some of these!  Great game ideas to help children learn when to use certain words etc eg they're, their, there

https://funnytimes.com/20010131/

2014 Term Four Week Three

What did Team Kahu get up to this week?

We cooked green bananas to get a taste of Pacific (fish and) chips!

We journeyed around the Pacific on a magical flying carpet ride (thanks to Google Earth)!

We heard the road safety messages presented by Share the Road, ahead of the major sport event, The Cycle Tour of Southland!

And we were excited to hear back from NZ author, Susan Brocker!