Kia Ora!

 Hi Everyone,

We are the students of Room 11 for 2022. 

24 Funny, charismatic and bubbly learners ready to see what 2022 holds.

Keep an eye on our class blog for all the learning we'll be sharing throughout the year.

ONLINE CERTIFICATES FOR WEEK 4.

 Hi All,

Here are the certificates for the hard-working and well deserved students from Room 11 this week.

Malo

"I AM Affirmations" By Room 11

Movie Title: I AM affirmations 

Created by: Room 11

School: Glen Taylor School

Synopsis: By beginning to think more positively, we learn to believe in ourselves and work towards fulfilling our full individual potentials.

Week 1, Term 4!

Hi Everyone,

Can't believe we're already in Term 4!

Well, we're still learning online and our learners are still working hard and producing some great work. This term, our learn, create, share focus is on CELEBRATIONS! 

With IDENTITY being our Inquiry focus for the year, we've decided that this term is about CELEBRATING US! Term 1 had a heavy focus on ACCEPTANCE, Term 2 was BELONGING and term 3 was focused on CONNECTIONS! This week is about CELEBRATING US and all the wonderful things that make US who we are today.

For writing, we looked at descriptive writing but in a slightly different way. We wrote down words of affirmations about ourselves and created videos about us. 

Here are 2 videos from our very own Catherine A and Destiny F. Enjoy :)

More Student Work from Online Learning!

 Hi Everyone,

Check out some of the great work R11 students completed in Week 10 of online learning.

For literacy, we are looking at cultural history and legends from the Pacific and around the world and for learn, create, share - we are looking at values.

Enjoy :)

What do you meme?

For our google meet sessions, R11 has a challenge to complete. This is to make our calls engaging and fun.

This weeks challenge was inspired by a teacher on tiktok - What do you meme? Basically it's a collection of funny animal photos our teacher chooses and the students must come up with the captions. The best caption is then published alongside the photo.

Here's room 11's "What do you meme?" slide deck.

Enjoy :)

Lockdown Learning by Room 11!

Hey Everyone,

I'm going to share some of the amazing learning tasks Room 11 students have been working on during lockdown. You'll find below some Daily 5 tasks and a Cybersmart challenge completed by Tracey, Catherine & Sar Yar Chan.

We hope everyone is staying in their bubbles and taking care of themselves.

Feel free to check out individual student blogs (you can find the links to their blogs on the right panel) and post a comment on some of the informative and amazing work they've produced. 

Regards,

Room 11 champions!

Bike Skills of Room 11

 Hi Everyone,

Today our class went for our first bike skills lesson. We have an amazing bike track at school and each class has an opportunity to use. We went through the helmet safety first (with our teacher Mrs Tupou Fonua) and help from our classroom expert on bikes - Dontae.

Here are some photos for you to enjoy.

Day 1, Term 3!

Where has the year gone?

We're back for Term 3 and ready for some new learning. Every morning before the school bell rings, we come into class and complete our Quick Write that Mirs Tupou-Fonua writes up on the board. Here are the early birds enjoying a good talanoa with each other and working on our quick write piece of writing.

Tamariki Korero - 1/7/2021

 Week 9.

One more week to go before the end of Term 2. Our school is having Tamariki Korero. This is an opportunity for students to lead a talanoa/conversation about their learning with their Whanau. They share and talk about the artwork displayed around the class, their class sites they created for camp (including content about camp the learners had researched about) and their LCS passion projects.

Here is a photo of some of our learners sharing about their learning journey so far for 2021, with their lovely mothers.

Senior Camp on Kawau Island!

 In Week 4 (Monday 24th of May - Friday 28th of May), the Y7&8 classes from GTS went to Kawau Island for our Senior School Camp. We absolutely loved it. For many of us, it was our first time away from home so it was frightening but the FUN times outweighed that.

We got to go kayaking, sailing, raft-building, orienteering, rock-climbing and abseiling. 

On Wednesday night, we had to do a Burma Trail through the bushes and on Thursday night, we had a FIAFIA night. Our students were organised into groups and each group performed a dance performance and came up with a chant!

There was a big group of us who went. 12 teachers/staff members and 63 students. 

Here are some photos of how camp went for us!!!

Room 11 Chocolate Hedgehogs

 In Week 9, Room 11 learnt about Procedural/Instructional Writing. We studied the purpose of Instructional Writing, the structure of writing recipes and looked at including action verbs, linking words and precise vocabulary in our writing.

As an incentive, our class decided to make some chocolate hedgehog slices. We worked in groups, created our recipes and then on Wednesday, we spent the whole middle block making our slices.

Here are some photos of how our cooking day went.

Art Week for Week 6!

Fresh out of lockdown, Room 11 has is dedicating Week 6 to a week of ART & FUN!

Here is a glimpse at some of the awesome art work we have been working on.

1. Face Study Art - We had to sketch one half of our face with pencil (using techniques such as shading/blending), with a bit of colouring using coloured pencils.

2. Sandra Silberzweig Abstract Art - Created our abstract masterpieces incorporating elements of art such as lines, shapes and colour. Some of us included in our work cultural patterns & symbols.

3. Visual Pepeha - We wrote our pepeha and created a visual version of it.

4. Graffiti Name Wall Art - Used graffiti art to illustrate our names with a brick wall background effect.

5. Cultural Class Mural - Selected a symbol that represents our ethnicity and collated it with everybody else's work to create a class mural.

Tracey's cybersmart challenge task

 

For Week 3's cybersmart challenge, we had to take a screenshot of our class site, class blog, school site, and our own blog. We had to create a google drawing including all the 4 screenshots and add labels to it. Here is what I have created.

New Year, New Faces

 Hi Everyone,

We're back for another year of learning. We look forward to what 2021 has in store and we're excited for fun & new learning to take place in Room 11.

Let's hope 2021 will be better than 2020!

Enjoy all the fun we'll be sharing from our class :)

A Message from Glen Taylor School

 Hi Everyone,

A message from Glen Taylor School is a film created by Room 11 students. It is filled with inspirational quotes and words of wisdom to help you realise that you are special.

We hope that when you leave today, you are inspired and motivated to embrace your uniqueness and strive to succeed! Don’t let anyone stand in your way!

Go forth and conquer!

Kodi's LCS task

What's important to you

For LSC we had to make a list of up to 5-10 things that we would take with us if we had to suddenly leave home. I took photo's of things I would take then i wrote about why they would be important. There are also questions that we had to answer at the bottom that asked about thing we would miss most and things that are important to us.

The Nile River

In addition to the Pyramids and the Mummies, we have started looking at the Nile River. We've been reading about the advantages of the Nile and how this natural resource provided so much for the Ancient Egyptian Civilisation.

It provided many sources of food, transportation, agriculture and enabled possibilities of trade to occur.

Here is Rottpon's presentation on the River Nile. Enjoy Reading :)

Samoan Language Week 2020

GTS had a great experience with Samoan Language Week this year. Between the three senior classes (Rm 13, Rm 12 and Rm 11), we made 3 famous Samoan dishes.

On Tuesday, Rm 12 made Koko Alaisa for all of the three class. On Wednesday, Rm 13 made Pani Popo. On Thursday, Mrs Faalili and her family made an 'umu for the whole school, and on Friday, Rm 11 made Panikeke Mafolofola.

It was a week filled with Authentic Learning and everybody at Glen Taylor loved it!

Wint's Writing - Hope

Hope - by Wint

Is there any reason for me to live? I complain on the

longevous bench while I clutch myself away from the

glacial snow and my regrets. The lights behind me

rapidly turn off and on leaving me with undivulged

thoughts. The tulip reminded me of my brother.

He had a bright spirit and was always by my side.

He was suppose to be by my side forever. 

But everything didn't matter after he passed.

I sit here every day

thinking of our memories together… I had hope!