School Chickens
In term 3, LH2 had the opportunity to incubateand hatch baby chicks in the habitat lead by Miss Morgan. We had a variety of different eggs, some were even green! The learners thought that maybe the green eggs would be boys and the brown/white eggs would be girls, but we had to wait to […]
A Journey of Learning – jhack
Jhack is a competition supported by Microsoft and Manukau Institute of Technology.
It is an opportunity for young people to be involved in a series of programming challenges.
We have three Ormiston teams Competing in jhack.
Collaboration, Curiosity, Capability, Connectedness and now Constructing in our Challenge.
Our Challenge is to Construct an online game […]
We had a wonderful Collaborative Community Day in spite of the rain! Our learners collaborated in their Being #oresome groups to complete the Collaborative Community Day Challenge where their team goal is to show all they have learned about being COLLABORATIVE in the term as you complete the challenges. No collaboration = no points! It […]
In Term 2 and again in Term 4 our Learners lead a conference with their Hapu Learning Coach and their whanau. This is a really great way to nurture our home-school partnership and share the #oresome learning that our wonderful young people are engaging in.
The learners in LH1 and LH3 give a short presentation to […]
We hosted the first ever @GEGNZ Sparkshop at OrmPS on Saturday, My 28, 2016. Over 50 educators attended and participated.
What is a Sparkshop?
A Sparkshop is designed to “spark” inspiration in the practice of others. The event format is similar to an unconference with a twist.
Participants who are keen to pitch a Sparkshop were invited to add […]
#WOW! #oresome! Our very first Connected Community Day on April 15 was a roaring success! The learners, educators and community participated in a day of ‘connected’ learning experiences. Some examples included making Connected Meeting: connecting to make iMovies, Pic Collages etc., Connected Playing: connecting to play games with new equipment and Connected Moving: connecting in […]
We had another successful and fun evening on April 1st at our 2016 OrmPS Disco. The disco organisation was lead by Ashmira and Jasmine from LH3 with a heap of help from other learners.
The LH2 & LH4 learners dressed in their favourite superheroes so we saw everyone from Captain America and Batman to Princess Elsa […]
We had some great fun celebrating how far we have come on our PB4L journey and receiving ‘top marks’ on our external evaluation. The learning coaches received a bag of goodies in alignment with our PB4L actions and our 4Cs. Please see our PB4L Matrix here and our 2016 Action Plan here.
Mr Dyer, who is […]
The Learners in LH2 and LH4 were treated to a really immersive learning experience in Week 9 when Little Bo Beeps (http://littlebopeeps.co.nz/) travelling petting zoo visited our school. The learners were able to interact with a range of animals including:
a pig with 11 piglets
a rescued battery hen
a donkey
a pony
a calf
a goat
a rabbit
2 alpacas
The learners learned […]
Chris and Leanne from Edge Work (Auckland University of Technology) engaged our educators in some intense and valuable professional learning in Week 8. They are skilled facilitators who challenge the status quo and believe that the Future needs something different from education. Some of the key takeaways:
We need to meet to create rather than inform. […]
