The end of the year and on to new beginnings!

So, it's not only our Year 6 Graduates off to new and exciting adventures - I am also leaving Hay Park School.

I have had the privilege of being a part of this community for many years. Hunter spoke about the importance of Hay Park's community in her graduation speech and I have to agree - he tangata, he tangata, he tangata. It is the people.

To the Hay Park Community, I'd like to say thank you for allowing me to be part of your lives and to learn along side you all.

To our Hay Park students and especially McCahon Class I would like to encourage you with this whakatauki -

Ko te pae tawhiti whaaia kia tata, ko te pae tata whakamaua kia tina
Seek out distant horizons, and cherish those you attain.

Look for new challenges and be proud of what you achieve - you all have such exciting futures ahead of you!

Hei konā mai,
Kama

Year 6 Graduation - 2015!

Where has Term 4 gone?!
Yesterday we had our Year 6 Graduation celebration - thank you to everyone who helped us have a successful afternoon!

Mary's Blog Post: PB4L - Being safe in the playground

This is my video created by me ( Mary ).
This video is about how to be safe on the playground.
I uploaded this video on youtube other wise here is the link.
Mary's Video on how to be safe on the play ground.
I hope you have learnt from this video like as they say "treat others as they wanted to be treated".

WAIKOWHAI INTERMEDIATE FUN DAY WINNERS!

That's right! We won Waikowhai Intermediate's Fun Day today - organised and run by the fantastic Waikowhai Student Council.
Unfortunately we could only send six students, but those who went have done us really proud!
Tino pai rawa team!


Here's what they had to say:

HAY PARK SCHOOL WAIKOWHAI INTERMEDIATE FUN DAY WINNERS!

Arnav, Mary, Hati, Lolo, Peter and Nisha have competed in the fun day at Waikowhai Intermediate school. After doing the activities we had a little prize giving, and we have WON!
So our prizes for coming first in this fun day activity were:

• Certificates for encouraging others and participating. 
• $100 for the school (we will meet as a class and decide what to spend it on)!

The activities we participated in were: Crazy dodgeball (Waiwa), Scooter Game (travelwise), Taste Testing Food (Kaiwise) and other activities.

CyberSmart AND PB4L: Protecting Your Privacy Online

Our CyberSmart AND PB4L focus this week has been about being a safe learner online. Our SODA task this morning, with Mrs Wright was to list ways we can protect our privacy while online.
Simeon had some great ideas:

We all shared our ideas on the padlet below - have a look to see what we thought...

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Highlights from Week 5: The Viewer - Creating Images and Soundscapes - Damien's Post

Description:
In this week we have been learning about a book called The Viewer - the illustrator is Shaun Tan ,
we are working on one of the scenes which is 'the restless sleep', (spoiler alert!)
...it is the part where he dropped of the old toy thing and when he was shocked of the images. As you see in our photo our actor is lying down in a restless sleep he is feeling a Dark Presence nearby.

This is  Our recorder of our sound effects but it isnt that goo

Highlights from Week 5: The Viewer - Creating Images and Soundscapes - Toma's Post

Hola senioritas and senioras! This week we are reviewing on a book called....
THE VIEWER
This book hooks everyone in and it is created by the mysterious minds of Shaun Tan! Beware..........

Here is the link for the soundscapes all created by me and my buddies voices and the resources around us:

Highlights from Week 5: The Viewer - Creating Images and Soundscapes - Arnav's Post

This week we have been focusing on the viewer (a book) by Shaun Tan So there was phrase that was "he was having a restless sleep", this means that we have seen something that we can not get it out of our head. So Tristan (the boy) had looked at some photos that terrified him, and he thought that it will come true. So we had to act that out. This is me having a restless sleep, I  worked with my friend Shahid to photograph and to edit this photo.

This link is the sound scape!

Please leave a comment below!

The Viewer: Should Tristan look at through the machine again?

Should Tristan look through the viewer again? Here's what we thought...

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The Viewer: Capturing Restless Sleep

We are using Shaun Tan's 'The Viewer' to support our Writing. Today we captured photos of a 'restless sleep' which Tristan (the main character) has after seeing the images through the viewer he found.
We'll be posting more of our learning here and on our blogs.
Listen to Hati and Johan explain what they were doing in the photo below.

** Photo and audio to follow (the boys are working on it!)

Just Breathe

This morning for our SODA Task we watched this great video about managing anger. We picked out the key message and added our 'take-away'. You can read them on the padlet below.

 

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We're back from Camp!

Kia ora whanau! We're back from our 3 days @ MERC in Long Bay. We had an amazing time and we have plenty of things to share so stay tuned!

Week 5: eLearning Parent Workshops (Ako Hiko)

Kia ora whānau!
This week we had our parent workshops which is one of the steps needed so we can take our Chromebooks home - thank you to all who came!
We had a challenge for our parents which they had to complete without any technology - it was pretty tricky!
The key message was about actively monitoring us when we're using any digital device and talking to us about what we are doing online.

Reading in McCahon Class

We're loving our new learning space! The best part is that we can spread out through the makerspace and the new library when other classes aren't using it.

Below are a few photos Mrs Kingston snapped inbetween Reading Workshops.

Week One Done!

We've had a busy start to the year!

Miss Kim from Auckland University has joined us and will be with us in Week 2 and then 2 days a week for the rest of the term. We're lucky to have another teacher in our class who loves using digital learning tools as much as we do!

Here's a look at McCahon Class 2015.

We're in for an exciting year!

Welcome to McCahon Class 2015!

2 more sleeps! 

I hope everyone in McCahon Class have had a wonderful holiday and
that you're as ready for school as I am!

I'm looking forward to seeing all those fabulous smiles on Monday; hearing about the exciting places you went, the books you read and most importantly hearing how excited you are about your learning this year in McCahon.

Watch this short clip: what 3 words come to mind after viewing the animation?

It's going to be an exciting year!

2014 Year 6 Graduation Celebration

Yesterday we celebrated our Year 6s graduating from primary school. 

They had a graduation afternoon tea with whanau and other people who have helped them achieve all that they have during their time at Hay Park School, and they also shared some of their favourite memories and how HPS is special to them.

Here is a link to the collaborative film we worked on together. 

Tino pai rawa Year 6!

On a personal note, many of our Year 6s I have taught since they were Year 3...and some from Year 2! It has been a privilege to learn alongside such an amazing group of young people! I hope their intermediate schools realise just how lucky they are to have them next year.

To the HPS graduating class of 2014, you will be missed!
I wish you every luck next year and please take the time to pop in and say hi - I'd love you to stay in touch!

Snag Golf with Issac and Swimming Begins!

We had a fun 4 weeks with Isaac and developing our golf skills (thanks to Mrs Galloway and Sport Auckland!)

For the next 5 weeks we are swimming at Cameron Pools. 

Don't forget your swimming kit on Wednesdays!

Carleece's Blog Post About the Ako Hiko Trust Launch (22 October 2014)

Hi,

Bloggers from all over the world!

Tonight kids from Hay Park School have been chosen to represent Hay Park School in the Ako HIko Launch. We have been given an opportunity to build up our confidence with a special person named Andrew Patterson, we asked him questions that we were not that sure about. 

However in the end we got all our questions answered, we have been looking forward to this day ever since we got our notices, from our wonderful teachers who motivate us to come to school everyday!

International Language Week Celebration and We Say Goodbye to Miss Drabble

What an awesome day @ HPS! We all looked amazing in our clothes representing our different cultures. Joshua won the prize for best dressed in McCahon Class (did Mrs Aikman get a photo Joshua?).
Sadly, we said goodbye to Miss Drabble :(

We surprised her with lots of pats on the back and a lot of love...and cake too :)
Miss Drabble worked really hard and taught us so much. Hopefully she will visit when she has time, though we know she will be very busy with university.

Below are some photos from today.

Have a great weekend everyone!