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Final task for 2013.....

The final blog task for 2013 is to find and share a video, image or idea that falls into one of two categories.
I have given you a prompt of one video for each category - You dont need to find a video clip - it can be something off the net or you could create it yourself....

Category one - Innovation or Creativity


 Category two - Thought provoking

Strategic Planning Meeting

Here is a notice going out tomorrow about our Strategic Planning Meeting 

(make sure you check out the video below also!)

Sacred Heart School, Petone

STRATEGIC PLANNING MEETING

As you would have read in the invite your child gave you – our school Strategic Planning Meeting is being held at Sacred Heart on the 30^th October (6:30pm).

Our strategic plan is used to set the direction of the school for the next three years, school management sets our annual goals based on what the community decides to put into the strategic plan.  A few examples of ideas that were raised and given support at the last meeting, and subsequently followed through in the Strategic Plan or in direct changes in practice are:

     1.           High standards of literacy and numeracy/thorough basis in core subjects

Over the past 3 years the BoT and School Management have continued to focus on the performance of all students in Reading, Writing and Mathematics. We have had a literacy focus for staff professional development and this year have extended our middle literacy block to two hours.

     2.      Longer Reporting to Parents meetings

Our reporting to parents meetings have changed from 10 to 15 minute slots. We have had staff meetings dedicated to ensuring we have clear and accurate reports.

      3.     Cultural Understanding and Participation

We have continued to explore the cultures within our school, we are now celebrating more language weeks and have plans to continue to bring the cultures of all students into the day to day life of our school

To ensure that you come to the meeting fully prepared – the main areas of discussion are outlined below. We will be working in smaller groups and discussing each. Feel free to bring some notes to the meeting.

If you have any questions about the Strategic Planning Meeting, feel free to contact Liz or Chris.

      A.      What do our students need in order to reach their potential?

      B.      What learning experiences would you like for our students?

      C.       What are the skills and attributes that all Sacred Heart students should have before leaving SHP?

      D.       What is the school doing well?

 

      E.        What could the school do better?

      F.        What are the most important things to focus on for the next 3 years?

How to make chocolate from nothing...

Telling our stories II

Here is a video telling the story of an often maligned superstar of the rugby codes: Sonny Bill WIlliams.

Telling our stories....

A quick clip telling our story as a nation (and linking to the Americas Cup... One more win....)

100 word challenge prompt

Make sure you craft and recraft your writing well - this week anyone who completes will be linked to the 100wc website...

100 Word Challenge

The 100 Word Challenge is a worldwide weekly creative writing challenge for students under 16 years of age. Each week a prompt is given, which can be a picture or a series of individual words and the students can use up to 100 words to write a creative piece. This will be posted on our class blog and then linked to the 100 Word Challenge blog. 

A link to see what the 100 word challenge prompt is on the right of this post.

Get stuck in - Everyone who completes a 100Word Challenge will recieve 200 points.

FORCES OF NATURE PROJECT

CHECK OUT THE TAB ABOVE FOR ALL INFORMATION ABOUT THE PROJECT!


DUE: 20^th August 2013

This project is focused on our current Inquiry unit - Forces of Nature. At school our two classes (Pūkeko and Kākāpō) will be working on a range of topics from thunder and lightning to cloud formation and earthquakes. This project will be presented in the form of a speech. You are to conduct your own research and plan your work under your own headings. Your speech is to be between 2 min 30 sec and 3 minutes long.

This project is to be focused on either:

·      A single natural event (eg: Boxing Day Tsunami, 1931 Napier Earthquake, Haiti 2010 Earthquake, Hurricane Katrina,)

·      A specific feature of our natural world (eg: Pink and White Terraces, Minerals, Southern Lights Aurora Australis).

The project is not to be based on a topic that we have been working on in class.

You will be assessed on your ability to:

·      Research effectively, providing an interesting topic and informative content

·      Write an effective speech that is well structured (introduces key ideas early, repeats key messages, has a good flow of ideas) and has a balance of facts, comments, specific and global details, opinion and reflection.

·      Use language features / presentation aids to capture and retain the audiences attention

(language features of rhyme, metaphor, simile, hyperbole and more!)

·      Use an appropriate and engaging tone with variation of pace (including hesitations, pauses, silences), volume and emphasis as well as facial and body language.

You are being given this project before the holidays – currently you have 5 weeks to prepare your speech. It is advisable to get started on your research in the holidays – if you have any questions over the holidays you can email me and I will get back asap (chris@sacredheartpetone.school.nz). I will be checking in with each student at the end of Week 1 (Friday 2^nd August) to make sure that sufficient progress is being made.

There will be information, links and small videos going online at www.mrtheobald.blogspot.com to give you more information about what you need to do to achieve well in this project.

Again, I will encourage all students to use the time before school from 8:30-9:00 to work on their projects for the first three weeks of Term 3. You can utilize resources that we have at school – netbooks, paper for making speech cards, library etc.

IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR QUERIES PLEASE ASK FOR HELP NOW!!!

Topic:
Planned Date Finished	Actual Date Finished	Task	Notes
		Research
		Speech Writing
		Practice
		Practice
20th AUGUST		PRESENT

Our Inquiry focus for next week?

3WLC

Our Journal Writing focus for this week.... Week 9

We will complete a number of journal prompts based on this clip - What can you see, think, wonder?

Here is an interesting link...

In response to some derogatory statements that were made by soldiers and officers, the leader of the Australian Army released this statement...

What are your thoughts? We will discuss in class later this week.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/8797666/Army-chief-becomes-unlikely-feminist-hero

School open today...

BUT.... You may choose to keep your kids at home if you have the option! 

The following text was sent out to as many people as possible this morning

Kia Ora, 

Due to the severe weather,   and power outages you may select to keep your children home today. We will have some staff at school to care for any children who have to come to school. 

Take care and wrap up warm! (esp if you still have no power!). 

Sacred Heart Petone. 

Who has a F&P or Elba washing machine at home?

Intermediate Running Squad 2013

Here we are again in 2013.... Thanks to Oscar for putting the clip together!

Quadblogging this week - Week 4

Our Quadblogging challenge for this week...

We are back in Cornwall this week - Check out the following blog: http://tamarpupil.blog.com/ 

We did struggle to comment on this blog last time. You will need to log into the blog using the following details:

email address is: cpssubscriber@hotmail.com

the password is: Constantine (note the capital C).

Its a class from Constantine Primary School in Cornwall, UK.

Quadblogging in Week 3

Our Quadblogging challenge for this week...

Our Quadblogging challenge for this week...

We are in our second round of quadblogging so would be great if all Kakapo students could please post some Komments on this blogsite:

http://hsringwood56mandm.global2.vic.edu.au/

Its a class from Holy Spirit Community School, Ringwood.

What are you going to give?

Check out this video - We will SEE, THINK, WONDER about this in class discussion soon... Feel free to leave comments to get the conversation going.

Mila - our new Kakapite.

We welcome Maria Zwart into our class this term!!!

In the almost as exciting basket - we have also had a cat - Mila - that has started to persistently come into class. We tried keeping her out yesterday but she wouldn't give up. 

Due to her persistence (and cuteness) we have allowed her today, and have set up some cat rules to make sure that the everyone is still focused on their work! 

We will see how it goes!!