September blogger of the Month ~ HANNAH

September's blogger of the month goes to Hannah from Room 10.
Not only did Hannah blog all her tasks, but she always remembers to proofread. Hannah's blogs are often reflective and have a real honesty.
I also really like how Hannah makes an effort to respond to comments on her blog. A great way to keep the communication going.

Check out Hannah's blog for yourself, and remember to keep the conversation going by adding a positive, thoughtful comment or question.

Hannah's Inquiry Project - How do natural disasters occur?

Hannah learned about Natural Disasters, in her presentation she explained Tornadoes, and Volcanoes.

Well done Hannah

Blogger(s) of the Month.

May's monthly blogger was a very hard decision for Mrs Parker and Mrs Raj. So much so, that we decided two people could share the crown. Both Hannah & Ilalio shared their learning consistently throughout the month, including additions from their own learning and exploration. Be sure to watch Ilalio's video from last terms survival inquiry topic, it shows great acting, and editing of the action timed to music. Hannah's recount from our Rocky Shore trip and reflections of her learning are insightful and honest. Remember a reflective learner is a responsible learner, on the path to success. You can find our other Room 10 blogs here Congratulations Hannah & Ilalio! Keep Blogging everyone! Mrs Parker & Mrs Raj.

Week 11 - Celebrating Learning

What a wonderful way to end the school term.
On Monday Mrs Raj and Mrs Parker were delighted with the students who had handed in some of their Rangitoto Home Learning Challenge. 









We had our final Basketball Lesson with Coach Steph on Tuesday, where we were able to apply all of our dribbling, bouncing and passing skills in some quick fire games. 

Everyone played really well, displaying great teamwork and real talent! Jack thanked Coach Steph on behalf of Glenbrae and told her that the thing he liked best was learning how to spin the ball on his finger. 

We were spoilt with two Duffy presentations this week. A theatre, and a storyteller.
They were great fun, and asked for lots of participation. We enjoyed being an active audience. 
Nunia, thanked the Duffy Theatre on behalf of the School, and Hannah thanked the Storyteller. 

On Thursday we had a busy day finishing off our inquiry learning projects, and got to have fun reflecting on and celebrating our successes from the term. 

The lunch time special event involved a netball game between students and teachers. All of the school came to watch, it was a fantastic atmosphere with everyone cheering! It proved that Glenbrae certainly has talent! 

After lunch we had our final assembly which we proudly presented. Our wonderful MC's were Jerome and Gemima. 
We opened with our Room 10 Pepeha, then treated the audience to a Samoan Sasa performance. 
Awards were given to Edwina, Nunia, Alex, Eseki and Erina for their keen learning and role model behaviour while on our recent class trips. 
Eseki and Alex spoke on behalf of the class to share what and how we learned during the term, then Hannah shared her beautiful voice with us in a song. 
Finally Edwina led the school in our Karakia before we were dismissed for the Easter Holidays. 

Happy Holidays everyone. Keep reading. Keep asking questions. And most of all keep BLOGGING. 

Ka kite ano
Mrs Parker. 

Room 10's Pepeha

Tēna Koutou

Ko Maungarei to mātou maunga

Ko Waimakoia to mātou awa

Ko Glenbrae to mātou kura

No Glen Innes ahau,

engari he tauira ahua o te Ao Whanui

Ko Whaea Parker

me Whaea Raj o mātou kaiako

No ako manga Tekau ahau

Tēna koutou tena koutou

tena koutou katoa

Hello!

Our mountain is Mt Wellington

Our river is Tamaki River

We are from Glenbrae School

We live in Glen Innes

but we are student’s of the world.

Mrs Parker 

and Mrs Raj are our teachers. 

I am from Room Ten

Greetings to all.

Hannah's Long Bay recount

On Monday the 7th of April, 2014, rooms 9 & 10 went aaaaalllll the way up North to go to a beautiful beach, Long Bay. We went there to learn about what to do when we are in the wild and how we do things. As the bus driver dropped us off at the beach, a lady who turned out to be Sarah, led us to a little fale where three other instructors were. There was Sarah, Morag, James and another Sarah. There were three different activities we had to do. We were also put into three different groups. My groups first activity was with Sarah. We were learning how to pitch tents and cook sausages, camping style c: She took our group while the other groups went with their instructors. First, we had to get the instructions off her to start pitching and cooking. We started off with the pitching. We were split into three groups. My group and I started pitching our tent and tried to beat the other groups. And happily, we beat them at pitching it and taking it down, putting them neatly back in the bag. Secondly, we started cooking our sausages. My partner was my friend, Eseki. She and I had a sausage each and we cooked them on a pan. We were told what to do BEFORE we had to start cooking our sausages. When she finished explaining EVERYTHING, we started frying our sausages. We sat in somewhat we call a 'circle' with frying pans for every partner. It didn't take that long for our sausages to be cooked. It only took like 10 minutes for it to cook and then we eat it.  When my partner and I's sausages were cooked we ate them with bread and tomato sauce. It was definitely delicious !

The next activity we did was the stretches with Morag. Stretches are something we use to help someone with an injury when we are hiking in the wild. But first, we had to remember what we need. Like a whistle, hat, rain jacket, first aid and a lot more. We had relays at first, we had to run down to the other end and grab one thing from the box that we need when we are in the wild. It was really crack up because whenever I ran, I always ended up doing a little trip. We kept on doing that until we actually got the chance to make stretches with long, thick sticks and a few warm, strong sweaters. There were two groups and we had to work on our own, how to make the stretches. But we got some help from our instructor and our group teacher. We worked, worked and worked to try and make it 'till  we finally did it. When it was properly made, we started carrying people one by one on the stretcher and act like they had an injury that we are trying to save. Everyone had a turn, especially our teacher AND instructor. It was hilarious ! 

After that activity, we had lunch back in the fale. We met everyone else there with food gripped in their hands and putting it in their mouth like there life depended on it. I ate 'till I was full when it came to last 40 minutes that we had. During that 40 minutes, my group went on a bush walk with James. When we met him, he told us that he was pretty much ... lazy. So, WE had to do all the work with a little bit of his help. We took our maps and discussed which way the leader will take us and I was the first leader. I made my first steps and we headed up to where the water was. We had to stop there, and James told me to choose a different person to be the new leader. I chose Eseki. She led us to where she wanted us to go. We went almost to the top of the mountain we were on. But, during that walk, different people has been having turns being the leader. I really enjoyed that walk. I learnt about different islands that we saw during the walk. We also saw the Rangitoto island during the walk, too. It was really fun !

Finally, it came to the very last minute of our trip. That was when we had to go back to school and head home. We sang a little song before we left and said our goodbyes. I was really fascinated with the views I saw. It was really beautiful. I felt free, again. I also learnt how to make really steady stretches, how to pitch a tent properly, how to cook sausages and how to read a map when you are going somewhere far. I really enjoyed that day and I hope we get to go there again.

By Hannah.
Read more of Hannah's blogs here 

Week 8 Friday Flash

Another superstar week in the world of Glenbrae. So much learning and a few exciting extra-curricular activities too. 

Garden Club... 
We discovered a few of our students had green thumbs in the Monday Garden Club, they made a fantastic job of weeding and tidying our school gardens. 

I wonder what wonderful things we can grow this year!


Festival of Education...
Several of our students also enjoyed a trip to the Festival of Education to showcase their learning. A huge thank you to Lennyx, Hannah, Danielle, Te Puawai, Edwina, Jerome, Mrs Raj and Mrs Elia who gave up their Saturday to share how and what we are learning at the Festival of Education. 

Literacy Learning .... 

In literacy we are currently learning about Information Reports. 
To help get us started the Kiwi reading group successfully analysed an information report to locate all of the features. Well Done! 
I look forward to seeing these features showing up in our writing too. 








Celebrations.... 
A huge congratulations to our Certificate Recipients this week: 

Jack - Working independently and improving work using feedback. 

Atelaite - Working well and asking good questions in reading. 

Molimauola - Producing quality work in reading 

Siosifa - working independently and focusing his learning. 

Eseki - working diligently and producing high quality writing 

We also had a bonanza in the wonderhoop this week with 11 names being drawn!

Blogger of the Month... 

In case you hadn't checked it out yet, February's Blogger of the Month was Edwina!

You can catch her blog here or see the updates live on the front page of our class site

March Blogger of the Month is soon to be announced so keep blogging and watch this space! 

Coming up.... 

As part of our Survival in the Wild inquiry this term we are learning about how to prepare for bush walk, information about medicinal plants, native birds, plants, insects and animals. 
Next week we are going on a trip to the Zoo to learn more about the native bush, and the following week we will be going to Long Bay on the North Shore to learn about outdoor survival skills. Stay tuned, for more updates on our learning. 

An Explanation - Socially Responsible People

My explanation of what it takes to be a socially responsible person in our community.

It takes a lot more than one thing to become a socially responsible person. One needs to have the confidence, leadership, kindness, friendliness, and the support of others to be the most socially responsible person EVER!

To be a socially responsible person, it is important to work with others. Everyone is a member of the big family - the community. Fai tatou mea fa’atasi. O tatou o le fanau o le Atua. In our community, we’re a family and always a family. In our community, we don’t only say hi and give each other kisses on the cheek. We also help each other, support each other and love one another. All of this sort of stuff is what is needed to be a socially responsible person. We need to start putting it together. No more fights, swearing, bullying. For goodness sake, we’re children of God! We were sent here to follow Him, do the right things and be socially responsible.

If you want to be a socially responsible person, you need to have the respect, honesty, self direction, responsibility and most importantly, self management skills. Disagreements or fights are not answers to problems we face. Socially responsible persons treat others the way they want to be treated.

Just manage yourself. Do the right thing. Be a role model, be a socially responsible person. Influence others to do the same.

By Hannah

Friday Flash - Week three in Glenbrae's Room 10

It's been an absolute heatwave this week, with our temperature chart reaching highs of 27 and overnight lows ranging from 14 to 20 degrees. Thank goodness for our midday swims to help us keep cool!

We have been learning a lot about responsibilities and being good role model this week. We had two peer mediator sessions, learning about how help our classmates and younger school members to resolve tensions and play fairly.

Original Picture (left)
Our puzzle enlargement (right)

We also did some amazing explanation writing on How to be a Socially Responsible Person. Please check our individual blogs to read what we learnt about and shared. 


We started some pencil sketching this week. Our focus was enlarging an image, and using shading. We were each given a small piece of a puzzle. We had to enlarge this onto a bigger piece of green paper. So far it is looking good, we will finish these pieces off next week. 







This week our wonder hoop winners were Baden, Nganga, Anthony, Hannah & Ilalio. WELL DONE! And congratulations to everyone else who was in the running. We also talked about the probability of our name being drawn depending on how many entries we had. 

Our Soccer session with Ben

Hooray! Today was another lesson of football with Ben. For warm up we had a race. Then we started our lesson. He taught us how to dribble the soccer ball and how to do the scissors step. We practiced that for a while and then we went onto a game of football. It was the same teams, Outlaws vs Bulldogs. We only had five minutes of the game because some people took a long time to listen, so we just had a five minute game. 

While the game was on everyone had really good kicks, and passes. The best kick was from our mate Jerome. We felt sad when we heard we only had 20 seconds left, then the time was up. Ben went over the juggling, dribbling and scissors skills again. I can’t wait till our lesson next week!!!

By Hannah