Farewell Michaela

Today we farewelled Michaela who is leaving Oaklands to attend school at Rangiora Borough. Here is a video to remind us of her.

Art Work

Serena and Sylvia have created these beautiful pieces of art for the More FM "Let the Kids Paint the House" Competition.

We interview Kelsey and Thornton

We interview Kelsey and Thornton about our old class goal , we ask them questions about how they are going from our class goal.

All about Oliver

Kaley's Learning: Kaley's Comparison

Kaley's Learning: Kaleys Comparison: listen to ‘Kaley's Comparison of how a good learner gives effort and how she compares ’ on Audioboo

Conflict Unit

In Social Sciences and Health this term we have been exploring the concept of Conflict. In this unit we have been exploring answers to these questions:

• How good are Oaklands students at dealing with conflict?
• What is the difference between a disagreement and conflict?
• What are effective ways of dealing with conflict?
• Can conflict ever be a good thing?

To get the students engaged in the topic I showed them some statistics about how Oaklands students dealt with conflict last year. These included the number of verbal and physical assaults. If you have watched to the previous, Isabella and the other students were shocked by the statistics. 

So after showing the statistics, the members of Room 9 have been investigating how much conflict is in the playground this year and using this information to learn about graphing. 

As an answer to the third question, all of the Year 7 and 8s are peer mediators where they are gaining practical experience at helping others to solve disagreements and conflict.

After this investigation the students will decide what they are going to do about improving this situation so that all Oaklands students can resolve conflict in a positive and effective way. So watch this space for what ideas they come up with.

Isabella explains her feelings and thoughts about the conflict at Oaklands.

We interview Isabella her thoughts of conflict at Oaklands School

Slideshow of the Swimming Sports

Finlay's all about me video

In our class, we have been doing an I - movie video, telling people about us , here is Finlay's for example: