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June 2015

Student Led Google Apps Summit

June 10th, 2015|

GAFE Student Summit

On August 12 some of our LH1 learners and Learning Coaches will be attending the first annual Learner Google Apps for Education Summit at Hobsonville Point Primary School.  A #oresome opportunity to COLLABORATE with others.  The tickets have already sold out!  We are super proud to announce that all 8 of our learners […]

May 2015

Festival of Cultural Sharing

May 22nd, 2015|

As part of our school-wide term focus of ‘Connect’, our school visited the Fo Guang Shan in Stancombe Road.  The learners were able to participate in a number of different activities throughout the temple, focussed around the 3 Good Deeds and 4 Givings. Our learners have also entered writing and colouring competitions as part of […]

National Young Leaders Day

May 21st, 2015|

All Year 6 learners went to the National Young Leaders Day at the Vodafone Events Centre. This was a fantastic opportunity for our senior learners to listen and learn from inspirational speakers.   We are lucky enough to be able to offer all our Year 6 learners the opportunity to attend NZ’s premier youth leadership conference, […]

LH2 goes moo!

May 15th, 2015|

It was fantastic to see the first learning adventure occurring outside of our school on Friday, despite of the weather. Learning Habitat 2 learners visited a working farm in Clevedon as a part of their investigations into ‘making connections’. My thanks to both the learners and the parents that helped on Friday. It is great […]

NZSL Week

May 7th, 2015|

The week of May 4th-May 8th is the New Zealand Sign Language week and our school celebrated and shared with the theme: Connect – Celebrate – Communicate. See the presentation here for more details. Our deaf learners were exceptional, really shining as they lead the morning huis and both entertained us and […]

LIFE Education

May 7th, 2015|

The Life Education Mobile Classroom was on-site on May 4-5th. The classroom is air-conditioned and equipped with sight, sound and aroma technologies and three-dimensional film technology that make learning in the mobile classrooms, a fascinating experience.

All learners had two sessions in the classroom with the Life Education educator. The topic that the educator […]

OrmPS Team Newbies

May 1st, 2015|

Mrs Adele Hickey works with our English Language learners. She works with individuals and small groups to accelerate their progress in their learning English. Adele is a qualified teacher with many years experience.

Miss Rozina Ben has also joined our team to work with a learner in Habitat Two. Rozina has a Certificate in Learning Support and will be […]

April 2015

ANZAC- lest we forget…

April 25th, 2015|

Leading up to and after ANZAC day all of our learners have been immersed in learning experiences to help them better understand this important day. In addition, Mr Dyer lead our school in an emotive ceremony of remembrance. Some of our learners laid the wreaths that they created together in their habitats. […]

Learner Lead Clubs

April 25th, 2015|

As part of our ‘WeInteract’ time during iBreaks, OrmPS is pleased to add some exciting experiences.  This term has seen the start of our ‘clubs’ in our school. The clubs have been devised by some learners in Habitat One. The learners had to develop, pitch and recruit successfully in order to lead one of the […]

Learning Pathways- connecting with families

April 21st, 2015|

Every learner at OrmPS has a Learning Pathway (all our staff too!).  You may know these better as ‘ePortfolios’ but to us they are much more than that.  The Learning Pathways are a place to put artefacts of learning, but they are also a place for learners to reflect, assessments to be held, learning coaches […]