This week Panmure Bridge School hosted some visitors from Te Koromiko Swannanoa School in Christchurch. Our amazing team of students ambassadors did an outstanding job sharing the work they have been doing. We were very proud of their confidence when speaking and thought they reflected our PBS values when they showed our guests around our school.
LI: To create a collage of images or short movie that reflects my time at camp
Our camp at Kokako Lodge in Hunua was very fun and exciting. My collage shows what activities we have done at camp. I chose these photos because it was a lot to do with the activities.
My favourite part of camp was the wall climb and raft building because I got to engadge with my group and share my ideas.
This is the image I created using the Adobe Express. I found this activity challenging because it was hard to create what you wanted it to be, We had to use all the things that were in the text to create a old and abandoned alley way. These where the stuff we had to use for it to look like this. narrow, dirty old, decaying buildings. rain-slicked cobblestones gas lamps. Rusty fire escapes Colorful graffiti rot. The words that are coloured Bold are the important words. but I found it fun because we got to create our own Alley way.
Something I learnt when using prompts for AI is that we use it so we can understand it.
LI: To identify and understand how descriptive language is used to create a clear picture of a setting in a text.
This is the image I created with Adobe Express. I found that creating this was difficult because it was always creating completely different things or it would’ve changed nothing at all and just gave it worst graphics, it was fun because I learnt how AI reacts to certain prompts you task it with and to learn how clever AI is currently.
LI: To understand that everyone has a role to play when we are working in groups
Donyal has shared with us what reading looks like in LS2. Today our task was about the kuaka. What learning looks like in LS2, We always share ideas to each other. The responsibility of the leader is to manage everyone to be on task and ask everyone their ideas. What helped me that everyone share their idea and that me more knowledge. The most important part is that everybody was one task and they were on task.
The Kuaka, the kuaka is a bird that migrates when the whether changes. And the other task was dot to dot, we had to put words that matches the Kuaka. Then you had to do line’s that matches the word, this is a example location and journey then you do a line, and you write, they go from New Zealand to Alaska.
LI: To understand that everyone has a role to play when we are working in groups.
Hasna has created this post to explain how working in a group is helping her to make stronger connections to the learning.
In LS2 we learn best when we learn with and from each other to help us with our learning and help us with communicating with our other classmates. What your responsibility as a group member is to always help other be included and help our group with their work. How working in a group helped you understand more about the kuaka because they all gave information about the Kuaka that they know and we create them into ideas. Why talking to others about your learning is important because it can tell us more about the information we are learning about and to help us communicate. Something I enjoyed is that I can work with my group and have some fun with them.
LI: To understand what Kauri dieback is and how it spreads.
For this assignment, Beniz and Angie used their smart searching skills to understand what kauri dieback is and how to prevent it from spreading.
Kauri dieback is a disease that has the potential to kill Kauri trees. Unfortunately, there is no known solution to this issue. When a Kauri tree have the Kauri Dieback. The disease starves the tree and kills it. When a tree die and fallen, the disease can spread to other trees nearby. Did you know that kauri dieback is something that can be carried by humans and then spread to the trees? So, next time you go to a Kauri forest, remember to clean your shoes before going in.
Beniz and Angie enjoyed this activity because it introduced them to new things.
LI: To use our smart searching skills to find out who Samuel Marsden was and what he is known for.
For this assignment, Angie used her smart searching skills to create a information paragraph about Samuel Marsden. Samuel Marsden was a priest in the Church of England. He arrived in the Bay of Islands in 1814, during a journey that also included Ruatara. Marsden established the first Christian mission in New Zealand in 1814.
Angie found this activity challenging as it she got challenged to learn facts all together about Samuel Marsden, but enjoyed it because she learned something new.
After looking at an excerpt from Samuel Marsden’s diary we realised he must have travelled along the Tamaki awa past our school. We used our learning from the Learn staff meeting and Adobe Express to change an image of Maungarei and our coastline to the sights he saw on his journey that were described in his diary. Below is the orignal image we used and an example of the changes we made.
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LI: To use nature to create a collaborative image of the Hunua Falls.
One of our collaborative challenges to help strengthen our group connections was to create a picture of the Hunua Falls in our activity groups using the leaves, sticks, stones that could be found on the ground. We think we did a great job!