Our Wellington Trip

 

At the begining of the year our 9R Social Studies class decided we wanted to take a trip to Auckland and visit places of interest from our studies. Then the Lockdown's hit and we were grounded. When we got back in April I put it to our class that we go to Wellington at the end of the year. They all agreed and it was all on from that point onwards. Eight months of looking for money and booking everything. On Monday 16 Nov twenty students and five adults left our college at 6am. We bused to Auckland and caught our flight to Wellington. For some of our students this was the first time on a plane. Once in Wellington we headed for the National Library and had a planned educational tour. 

That was fasinating and we got to see the original Treay of Waitangi. We checked into our accomodation at the YHA in the city which was perfect. On Tuesday we visited the Parliament Buildings where our Northland MP and past student Willow-Jean Prime met us and here is our photo with her. After Parliament we went onto Te Papa photo below, and had a great look around. On Wednesday our last day we took the students to Bowlarama for a fun morning before heading to the airport at 2pm and flying back to Auckland. The weather was a bit rough but the kids handled it well. Our driver was waiting and we headed straight back home to college arriving at 7.30pm. What an awesome trip we all had and what a great bunch of students to travel away with. Thank you 9R and our students from 9K & 9T you guys rock. 

Word Art - Posters

 In Term 3 our Social Studies class studied about Kiwi Culture, Kiwi Icons and all things related. In this Term 4 we are working on Being Global Minded. The students have put together word posters with as many words as they can think of that relates to what they are learning. Here is an example of a poster.

Keep New Zealand Beautiful

 Kia ora koutou, during the week 7-11 September the Nation celebrated our care and protection for Papatuanuku/ Mother Earth by way of cleaning her up. This is the second year our school has been involved and thanks to our Environmental Sustainability Management teacher Richard Higgins, he slits our small town of Kawakawa up by Street and we (classroom teachers) choose which one we want to take our students to and pick up all the rubbish. Our 9R Social Studies class chose Whitemans Road & Leonard Street and last Friday off we went with our high visability jackets, rubber gloves, rubbish bags and a yo ho ho. I think the students just liked being outdoors and walking around town. Here is a picture of our group and efforts. 

Student Cartoon Portraits/ Avatars

Kia ora, in Term 2 our students created their own avatars based on a selfie of their head and shoulder area. We mix up their Social Studies learning with cybersmart learning as we call it. This allows students a break from constant and focussed topic studies and gives them something exciting to create using cyber learning and other digital tools. Some of the protraits a very realistic and others are a light hearted look at themselves.

About Us

Kia ora Everyone 

This is a photo of our 9R Social Studies class taken in Term 1. We are currently studying Migration and we started this topic during the covid lockdown where the students joined through google meet every day.  As well as working on Migration they also spend a lesson per week with Whaea Kerry Boyd-Preece learning how to be Cybersmart as well as creates a lots of exciting digital work. They will be sharing some of their work through their own blog sites soon. 

   

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Welcome to the class blog of 9M, this is where we will share our learning and mahi.  Please drop by regularly to see what we are learning in class.