This term Ormiston proudly hosted the Using Technology Better conference. Educators from all over New Zealand gathered to learn how to best use technology with their students. Teams of educators, including Ormiston Learning Coaches, attended a variety of workshops ran by Google certified teachers Mike Reading from Australia and Alice Keeler from California. The workshops […]
#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 […]
Ormiston Primary School is fundraising for our school playground. You have the opportunity to purchase an Entertainment Book or a digital version. The Entertainment Books are valid for 14 months.
The Entertainment Books cost $65.00 and can be purchased at the office or online https://www.entertainmentbook.co.nz/orderbooks/9294w45
These books contain vouchers up to the value of $20,000. Huge discounts […]
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 […]
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. […]
Our Official Opening was a roaring success! We were pleased to see so many of our whanau, our special invited guests, our Establishment Board of Trustees, our #oresome speaker William Pike (Young New Zealander of the Year Finalist, Adventurer & Author http://williampike.co.nz/ who’s mantra is “All passion, no limits”), our super amazing Educators and of course our learners. […]
LH1 went to the zoo in Week 2 and had a super fantastic learning adventure.
As part of their learning this term the learners are exploring animals, habitats, adaptations and innovation. They will all be designing an animal habitat for a real or imaginary animal by drawing it, making it, digitizing it or localising it. So, […]
Marae Learning Adventure-
We visited the Umupuia Marae on June 18-19, located in Maraetai. The Marae is the home of our local iwi, Ngāi Tai and we want to strengthen our connections with them. The iwi was involved in our opening day blessing in February. The iwi are an important part of our community and it […]
Learner Led Conferences:
In addition to the reports which our Learning Coaches for the learners who have been with us since Term 1 (available online in the learner’s learning pathway), all learners and their families had an individual ‘Learner Led Conference’ in Week 11 with a Learning Coach. Thanks to all the families that attended their […]
