August 2015

Disco Dynamite!

August 9th, 2015|

We all had an amazing time at our first ever Disco.  Big congratulations to Ash and her helpers for organising, selling tickets and ensuring the night ran smoothly.  A big thank you to the Gupta family for their support on the night as well.  It was so wonderful to see our learners let their hair […]

Making connections at the Marae

August 9th, 2015|

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 […]

July 2015

OrmPS Learners Present…themselves!

July 3rd, 2015|

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 […]

June 2015

LH1 has some Farm Fun!

June 21st, 2015|

Reeves Farm

We went on a special learning adventure to a working Dairy Farm in Glenbrook on Tuesday 9 May 2015, as part of our studies around CONNECTING to our environment, people and places.  While there we got to:

observe and learn about farm animals and farm equipment
watch cows being milked / observe the dairy cow rotator […]

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

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 […]