Rainbows End Trip for GTS Leaders.

Thursday 23rd November

GTS leaders spent the day at Rainbows End as a reward for their hard work throughout the year.

"You reap what you sow" - put in the effort & time and get rewarded for the hard work. 

Thank you GTS leaders.

Film #5 - Ballers

Ballers!

This group included Seth, Quinton, TJ, Loto & Raymon. This film was a bout a young boy who loved Basketball but he wasn't great at playing it. He came across a couple of boys who tried to outshine him, but with help from his friend, they trained hard and he proved those boys wrong! Check out Ballers.

Film #4 - Be Courageous

Be Courageous!

This group included PoLu, Leetia, Praize, Marcus & Nia. It's about a student who was selected to perform on behalf of the class. He was nervous about it, did not get support from his Mother but his best friend encouraged him to do it anyway. After he performed, he felt proud of himself & so was his Mother.

Film #3 - Resilience

Resilience - GTS X-Factor

This group included Dadak-Su, Amy, Honey and Christian. The film is about a student who auditioned in GTS X-Factor but unfortunately did not make it through the first round. After some time, he returned and turned his dream into reality. Be resilient like Dadak-Su!

Film #2 - Types of Students

Types of Students

This group includes Loto, Ethan, Quinton, Raymon, TJ & Seth. It's a comedy film about the types of students we might come across in our classes. All for laughs & giggles. Enjoy!

Film #1 - Perseverance by the 'Unpopular Crew'

'Perseverance' by the Unpopular Crew

This group included Kelly, Ibtisam, Saphire, Tua and Mondray. This film is about Persevering in everything you do and if you are struggling - reach out to people. The only way to get support is if you open up and talk about it. We hope you enjoy our film and see the positive message we want to share with you all.

Tamaki College Experience Day for Y8 students

On Wednesday the 30th of August 2017. The Year 8 students spent the day down at Tamaki College for a 'college experience day'. Students were fortunate to experience what it would be like for them next year at high school. We had some current Y9 students who finished from GTS last year look after us for the day!


Here are a few photos of our day.

Maritime Museum Trip

Tuesday 29th August - Room 7, 11 and 12 made their way down to the viaduct and spent the day at the Maritime Museum.

Have a look at our photos - definitely a great place to visit.

Whiz Kids Program

Today, we had our first out of five WhizKids science sessions. 25 Y4-8 students is part of this program and it will run till the end of the term - once a week.

Our focus for today was the 'Fizz Inflator'. Jess from Baradene College was our science facilitator. We had an awesome time experimenting and learning about gases, liquid and solids. Check out our photos!

 Left photo: GTS Whiz Kids

Right photo: Jess watching Davis and Zafar perform their experiment

Top Photo: Lucky's face lit with excitement as the carbon dioxide inflates the balloon.




Right photo: Mondray and Tua observing their balloon.

BNZ Closed for good day

We had the awesome team from BNZ come into school to talk about financial literacy with some of our classes.

Here's a few photos of Marie & Natasha working with Room 11.

Term 3 Powhiri

Here are some photos from our Term 3 Powhiri. The purpose of this Powhiri was to welcome new students and Whanau into the GTS learning community. 

We also give thanks to the wider members of the community who gave generous donations toward our school KapaHaka uniforms. GTS appreciates you all.

We had amazing performances from the KapaHaka and our world famous Pasifika Pearls.

One of the best Powhiri's GTS has experienced - I must say.

Blessing of our Kapa Haka Uniforms

Today we had Papa Big and the Ruapotoka Marae come to school and bless our new Kapa Haka uniforms. Our school Kapa Haka performed a couple of waiata's. Great to see more involvement from the community through sharing Tikanga Maori experience.

Our GTS Manaiakalani ambassador - Room 11's very own HONEY!

This morning at Somerville School, Honey went on behalf of GTS to present her Inquiry research for the term. Being the Manaiakalani ambassador, every term, she meets with the other ambassadors and present their inquiry research to each other, their teachers and very important members of the Manaiakalani trust.

Here is Honey presenting this morning. We're proud of you Honey!!!!

Miss Tupou's Connect 4 Digital Immersion PLG

Mondray's Inquiry presentation from Term 2.

Room 11 Novel Study HOLES by Louis Sacher

Student-Led Conference

Thursday 27th July - GTS had their annual Student-Led Conference. Our families were excited and happy to see what their children have been learning throughout the year. Students shared their learning goals and their learning on their digital devices. 

An awesome & successful night. Here are some photos of Room 11 students with their whanau.

Amy's Inquiry presentation for Term 2.

Here's a look at one of our student's imovie presentation of her Inquiry findings this term.

Room 11's Fundraising Ideas for our trip.

Tutira Mai

Week 8 of Term 2, GTS entered the Tutira Mai ALLBLACKS competition. We conducted a video together as a class singing the waiata on the courts. Check it out!

Trend-setter Amy!

For PB4L, we currently have a system going where you earn a wrist band when you display the school values a certain number of times. First wrist (white coloured) band is earned when you're caught displaying school values 200 times.

Here's Room 11's very own - Amy with her third wrist band (blue coloured)...she's also the first in the SCHOOL to get to the third band! Woohoo...

We're PROUD of you Amy!

Technology at Tamaki College

Here's one of Rm 11's students Dadak-Su showing us what he made at technology - a log truck!

You should be dancing!

Top Tip for Chromebook by Dadak-Su

Dadak-Su shares his top tip for his Chromebook

Procedural Writing: How to make a chocolate Hedgehog slice

Room 11 has been learning about Procedural Writing. To make things more engaging, we agreed to 'make something' then write the procedure for making it. So, we made Miss Tupou's infamous chocolate hedgehog slice. We worked in groups, all hands in and successfully made our desserts. Rating from Mr Herlihy and other teacher's ranged from 8.5+ out of 10.

Top photo: Miss Tupou and some of Rm 11 students trying their chocolate hedgehog slices.


Right photo: Hedgehog slice from one of the groups. Sliced and given to Mr Herlihy.


Bottom photo: Photo of hedgehog before being sliced up.

The Girl and the Fox.

Term 2, Week 1: The Girl and The Fox.

For our Writing this week, Room 11 watched a short story film called 'The Girl and the Fox'. Our learning intention was to "Identify the main events in the film". After listing down the main events (8 in total), we chose 3-4 of the events to write a 'rich descriptive' short narrative on.

Check out some of our writing

Room 11's Writing

GTS Culture Festival 2K17

On Thursday 30th March - Glen Taylor School broke it down on stage performing cultural dances and songs for family and friends. We had 8 different groups ranging from MAORI, MON (BURMESE), HAWAIIAN, ZUMBA, SAMOAN, TONGAN, COOK ISLAND, FIJIAN AND KAPA HAKA.

Guess who that baby is?

An ice-breaker we used in our class was the game "Guess who that baby is?" - fun activity to play with the class early in the year :)...enjoy!

River Talk

Thursday 02 March 2017

On Thursday Glen Taylor school walked down to Elstree River to see a special event. There were a lot of schools there from GI. There were people who travelled from over seas and other countries to help promote the importance of protecting the river. The drummers from Te Oro came to play the drums too and we had other performers from the islands. We watched a few performances that were really interesting too.