Monday, 31 August 2015

Recount about our fantastic car wash

Saturday’s Car Wash.



On Saturday 22nd August 2015, some year 7 and 8 students and other students came to Glenbrae to help wash cars and fundraise money for our school camp. I woke up at 6:44am and had a shower, when I was dressed I told my parents and brothers to hurry because the car wash started at 8:00am and it was past 7:30am. I was watching Hotel Transylvania and it was 8:05am then my dad drove the van to the front. It took us 30 minutes to drive to school, but we stopped at the shops to buy a tray of drinks.


When we got to school and entered the school parking, Mr Nath was told us to park near the school pool. The kids 


waited for us to hop out of the van, before they started washing, I joined in with them and got wet. Only 4 students were allowed at one vehicle but 7 students were washing our van, I joined in with them. Then Mrs Tofa called all the students including me and told us that only 4 students were allowed a 1 vehicle.


We had a lot of vans and cars to wash and we only had 3 construction vehicles. Some of the students had to leave because they were busy. Other students came and helped us out when they finished their rugby games. Miss Tuia, our Kiwican teacher and Mr Nath, one of our staff offered the us a sausage sizzle each.


When it was nearly time for us to end our car wash, we waited for Mrs Tofa our coordinator to calculate the amount of money we raised while we started packing up the equipments. We raised $910.00 altogether. Most of the money was from the car wash. Parents came to pick their kids up when the other kids walked home, my dad picked me, my mum and my brothers. We were all exhausted and glad that it was over.

Tuesday, 18 August 2015

Mrs Tofa at PB4L Confernce 2015

This year I had the opportunity to attend the 2015 PB4L conference held at Sky City from Thursday 13 to Saturday 15 of August. It was a great opportunity to learn from other schools and also listen to Professors who started the Positive behaviour for learning move.

In the United States it is called PBIS (Positive behaviour in schools) and we call is PB4L in New Zealand (Positive behaviour for learning).

The conference had over 500 participants from school all around New Zealand. There were primary schools, colleges, RTLB teachers, police who work in the community and also university lecturers present.

One of my great learning moments was from Aotea College in Wellington who had a very effective Home School Partnership with their community and whanau.

Now I am back at school and excited to share my learning with our students and also our teachers so we can all work together to make our school a SAFE AND HAPPY LEARNING COMMUNITY.



Also had the opportunity to hear from Hon Hekia Parata





Thursday, 6 August 2015

Aarmione's quiz about our class novel 'A new song in the land'.

Well I read the novel to you guys everyday but I still got one question wrong in Aarmione's quiz about our class novel 'A new song in the land'. Give it a go on this link http://www.quizyourfriends.com/take-quiz.php?id=1508060146502498&eml&

Great questions Aarmione really got me thinking.

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