Congrats to the Capable Whanau!

We have 6 Learning Habitats this year:

LH1- Years 2-3 with Mrs Moopanar, Mr Dyer, Miss Morgan, Mrs Lavakula and Miss Benz

LH2- Our New Entrants with Miss Hans, Mrs Jacob and Miss Blake

LH3- Years 3-4 with Miss Aeranga, Mr Davidson, Miss Barber and Miss Kay

LH4- Years 1-2 with Mrs Patrick/Mrs Hickey, Mrs Lennon, Mr Morrow and Miss Bachu

LH5- KDEC Learning Habitat with Mrs Kobayashi & Ms Francis and Mrs Whilford, Miss Vili and interpretors

LH6- Years 4,5 & 6 with Mrs Pearson, Miss Love, Mrs Croll and Mrs G (this is the Marama hub at Ormiston Junior College)

ELL Team- Karyn Patterson, Ivy Uy, Donna Telfer, May Paraha and Kiki Walton

Our SLT is now Heath McNeil -Leader of Learning, Diana Wilkes, Associate Leader of Learning, Koral Doidge-Executive Officer and Cassandra Everts- Office Administrator

Every Monday, Thursday and Friday we have a leadership programme which is called Trans-fo-minds- and it is held in the OrmPS Te Manawa. On Monday’s their is an activity called dance persona which is where we learn to dance and become more comfortable when doing a performance. On a Thursday there is an activity called penorama.  At penorama we learn to write a story and get creative with our imagination. Currently we are writing about dreams and with just 2 dreams we can make a story. Finally on Friday we have something called mind-craft which is basically a activity where we learn to do arts and craft. We learnt to express our drawing and creative skills.  By Shreya K

MANDARIN LANGUAGE LEARNING

Hi i’m Ash and every Wednesday I go to Mandarin Classes ! My Mandarin classes go from 3pm-4pm in Ormiston Primaries Te Manawa! At Mandarin classes we learn different poems and numbers and how to make sentences . I really enjoy doing  Mandarin classes as I get to learn a new language and it will be easier to communicate with others who don’t understand english ! I find this program really helps me in loads of ways such as , it makes it easier to learn other languages , we get the opportunity to communicate with others and it is really FUN ! We get textbooks and workbooks included for $80 per term!If Wednesday dosen’t work for you , you can always go to the Tuesday session! I hope you know now about Mandarin classes that run in Ormiston Primary School and all the benefits it includes for only $80 !

XIE – XIE!

This is a Picture of 1 of our Textbooks!

Who are we?

Leon, Justin V, Aleena and Jasmine

What do us learner leaders do??

We discuss plans to help younger learners become efficient learners and manage their time wisely. We are also role models for the next generation of learners.

What we do to improve the school?

We are being to support Mrs Doidge in the reception area so Learning Coaches get a break. We also support younger learners in their learning and participate in learning projects across the school.  In addition, we are leaders in our Being #oresome groups which are vertical groups of learners in our school who learn about our PB4L approach together.  For example, last week we learned about ‘Curious Playing’ together.

What do our Being #oresome groups do?

We learn about our different vision principles and how we can use them as a school. Our #Oresome groups discuss and come up with ideas of how we can use PB4L when we’re learning, moving, meeting, playing, eating and well being.

What does it mean to be #oresome?

It encourages us to know that we all are learning coaches and learners. Being #Oresome encourages us to be leaders and it helps us remember that you can be a role model and a leader without being told and even if people don’t think you are.

When do we have them?

We have them on Friday every two weeks. Each learner is in a PB4L group with a few learning coaches in their group. This helps us to collaborate with other people and share our knowledge with them too.

The English Language Learner’s support team are now very busy working in habitats supporting the development of language. Learners are being supported both individually and in small groups in all of our Learning Habitats.   We have recently purchased a lot of specific resources to help us support learning English and make this learning fun.  Each week the English Language Assistants are spending time developing their skills to help support our learners acquisition of English easier.  Look out for our #oresome new English Learners pages in our Learning Habitat Websites!

See LH2 Blog for more:)

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Da Vinci imagined and was extremely curious.

He envisioned many ideas before the technology to build them actually existed.

Curiosity is an important  habit to foster  when we a living in a world that is changing so quickly.

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