Room 18: Orienteering Excellence!

Orienteering 

Excitement 

Hits SPS!

Kevisharne & Sione run to find clues.

The kindly folk from Auckland Orienteering have returned in 2013 to provide the students of Room 18 with another fantastic learning experience.

Students learn how to read maps, find the correction direction and interact with others in a new situation.

Orienteering forces the students to use most of their Key Competencies: thinking, relating to others, managing self. 

The students had to navigate a course around SPS and check off clues on their maps to find success.

Anahere & Pornphan take gold after finding all the clues first.

Room 18 is once again making it happen!

Room 18: The Next Level!

Room 18: Squash Festival

Room 18 Change Festival:

The Squash Encounter

Most Room 18 students had never heard of the fast-paced game of squash. Most had never even seen it even on a sports highlight reel.

 

Starr and Elijah battle it out on the court

But when it was offered to the Room 18 students as both a sporting and learning experience, they took the opportunity like falcons to the sky; soaring and riding the blue air of success!

The students were grateful to Auckland Squash for the experience, and many took up the offer of a free introduction to the game at the Panmure Squash Club.

Room 18 is once again making it happen!

Room 18: The Next Level!

Room 18 Speech Challenge, 2013!

Room 18

Speech Challenge, 2013!

Zed gave a powerful speech.

Annaleigh gave a powerful speech about how children should walk to school.

The focus on change continues! New learning, new understandings, and new experiences!

The students are learning to cope with change and speaking in front of the class is a new and exciting one!

Starr gave a powerful speech!

The students took to speeches like white on rice and embraced the challenge. As a part of the writing programme, students have been practising their persuasive writing, and learning to present it in a verbal form.

Sione wants children to not bring gum to school!

Otolose and Sione beat a very tough field to earn the right to represent Room 18 at the SPS Speech Championships. Their dedication to their new craft is first rate.

Otolose delivers a powerful speech against bullying

Room 18 is once again making it happen!

Room 18: Change!

Change!

The focus on change continues! New learning, new understanding: change!

The students are learning what it is to contemplate, experience, and understand change!

Room 18 is once again making it happen!

They will, by the end of Term 3, be able to answer the question, "How can I tell a story about change through film?' 

Room 18: The Next Level!

Room 18: Time for Change

Time for Change!

Otolose brainstorms about change.

Room 18 have taken to their new Inquiry focus of 'Change' like ducks to water! They are examining how change affects their lives and how they can also understand the world and society around them.

The students are examining what change is and how it is everywhere. 

Room 18 will be making a class short film later in the term, entirely composed of their own ideas; using skills that they will learn in the coming weeks.  They will be able to answer the question, "How can I tell a story about change through film?' 

Room 18 looks forward to a creative and constructive Term 3!

Room 18: The Next Level!