The Red Hill Year 7 and 8's Go Flying...

A group of Year 7 and 8 students were lucky enough to take part in a special event with the Bluelight Franklin Group. (Police working together in our Community) We flew from the Ardmore hangers to Raglan, had lunch in Raglan and then flew back to Auckland via the Coromandel Peninsula. We had a fabulous time. It was a bit scary at first but once we were moving we became more confident. It was absolutely awesome........Thank you Constable Kylie for taking us. We are truly grateful!

Our Whakatauki Challenge.

Our Whakatauki from now until the end of the term is:

   

Kia tau tō atawhai.

(Instil your kindness)

Kindness is one of the keywords that students have shared across the school as part of the school expectations. We want our students to know how to be kind and receive kindness from others so this proverb will help us to explain the need to extend kindness to others and others will extend kindness to you.

We are trying to catch everyone being kind. Maybe you can catch someone being kind too.

The Chocolate Muffin Challenge.

In Amua Hub we have been working together to create an animated set of slides to show how we made muffins in the microwave. The recipe said to cook for 2 minutes however our microwave was super powerful so we had to only cook them for 1 1/2 minutes because Miss Castle couldn't adjust the heat setting. Even with the hick up the muffins were yummy!

Our Mainfreight Art Challenge.

In Amua Hub we have been talking about the topics and themes that we like to read and write about. We have been creating crayon and dye pieces to show our likes instead of using words. Can you tell what we like to read about?

Lyrics Wonderful Muffins.

Riley's Chocolate Muffin Experience.

In Amua Hub we have been making 2 minute Chocolate Muffins as part of our recount experiences. We were asked to work through the process of making our muffins and share it with others. It was yum!

2017 Camp Experience - Awhitu Environmental Camp NZ

Another successful camp experience with our tamaki!

Learning, team-building, communication, strengthening friendships and creating new friends were the many highlights of the week.

The weather challenged us towards to end of the week. However this encouraged the students to learn tolerance, self-management and cooperation within and amongst themselves:

Tolerance: Having to be confined in their cabins and to learn social interaction, even with students they do not regularly interact with.
Self-Management: Preparing and organising their belongings and property. Making attempts at drying their clothing, hanging their clothing in areas where they knew there would be wind and sun but not rain. Making make-shift clotheslines on chairs, patches of sunlight that would beam through the windows occasionally to dry their clothing.
Cooperation: Assisting those who were 'lazy' in positive and constructive ways. Instructing them to do things in a particular way, and if all failed, they would call their teachers.

All in all a great week and an enjoyable time. A well required rest needed by the students and the staff at the end of the week.