Blake Foundation

At the beginning of the year, Teachers attended PD and were introduced to the Blake Foundation.  They were all so excited about the opportunities this could offer students at Ohaeawai School so the Blake Foundation was invited to our school.  This was such a magic opportunity for our students to see technology in action and using it to experience being totally immersed in a new and meaningful learning environment they would have never been able to experience before.

Today students were able to view and learn about what makes a healthy and unhealthy marine environment.

Technology opens the eyes and the hearts of our students so they can experience and learn both in and about environments that are important to us now and in the future.  Sustainable change must come from the heart.

Sphero Racing Movie

Here is an inspirational movie Team Awa made as a result of their Sphero racing.

We hope you enjoy!

 

Team Awa's Sphero Racing

We have been learning about the America's Cup. We have done lots of learning about the teams, the history of the cup and how the boats race. 

We have done lots of different learning and activities to help our understanding. Here are some of our results from the Sphero races. 

Team Awa's Sphero Racing Recounts

We have been learning about the America's Cup. We have done lots of learning about the teams, the history of the cup and how the boats race. 

We have done lots of different learning and activities to help our learning. Here is some of our writing.

 By Dan

 By Nakita

 By Nate

 By Connor

 By Rakai

By Kole

Team Awa's Sphero Racing Recounts

We have been learning about the America's Cup. We have done lots of learning about the teams, the history of the cup and how the boats race. 

We have done lots of different learning and activities to help our learning. Here is some of our writing.

Waste Wise with Anouk

Today we had Anouk come and visit Ohaeawai School to share with us some Waste Wise tips and tricks.

We had a chat about the different sorts of rubbish that we make and discussed how we can reduce our waste in different ways and that this is essential for our environment.

Here are Anouks 5 R's to Reduce

Reuse - Choose thing that can be reused multiple times.

Refuse - Say NO to things you don't need.

Remake - Use old items to make something new.

Rot - Compost food scraps as these don't need to go to landfill

Repair - Fix things that are broken rather than just throwing them away.

We also talked about the need to Recycle and to recycle correctly, by checking the numbers on the plastics and not scrunching up paper.  This was especially important as we are all going to have a turn at being Team Awa's  'Waste Wise Warriors' 

Thanks Anouk for all your sharing.  We also had some great races to help us practice our recycling skills.

Self Portraits using Crayon and Dye

Miss Stewart and Mrs Henderson taught us how to draw our faces and get our facial features in the right place. We used crayon and dye to complete our portraits. Here they are.