Harry's Blog

Learners: Harry, Ziell, Joshua & Tristan Learning Coach:   Stephanie Hooker          Date: 24 August 2016 Learning Area:          iExplore                                          Key Competency:     Participating and Contributing NZC AO:                    Level 2 Language Features: uses a large and increasing bank of high-frequency, topic-specific, and personal-content words to make meaning & shows an increasing knowledge of the conventions of text Learning Observed In iExplore today we worked collaboratively in small groups to share and record our w...

Learner: Harry & Aarav Learning Coach:   Stephanie Hooker          Date: 8 August 2016 Learning Area:          iDevelop (Harry) & iExplore (Aarav)                                           Key Competency:     Participating & Contributing NZC AO:                    Level 2 English: Listening, Reading & Viewing ‘Processes & Strategies’- selects and reads texts for enjoyment and personal fulfilment & recognises connections between oral, written, and visual language & selects and uses sources of information (meaning, structure, visual and gr...

Learner: Harry Lang                                                             Date: October 2015 Learning Area: Project Based iExplore              Learning Coach: John Dyer                  Learning Observed Harry and the Yoyos are on a mission to make our school a better place to learn and play. Over the past 2 weeks we have been researching, brainstorming and planning projects to carry out during Term 4 and beyond. There has been much excitement about the projects and how we can bring some of them to life. One of the projects Harry ...

Learner: Harry L          Learning Coach: Bex Remington         Date: 1 April 2015 Learning Area: iExplore - Rocks Learning Observed One of the first activities the learners of Habitat 1 took part in was painting a rock that would be placed somewhere in the school grounds.  The rocks were painted and have been waiting for their placement.  Today we decided it was time to put the rocks in their place.  Harry was excited about finding somewhere for his rock.  The habitat chose to put them around the trees in our front garden.  When Harry took his rock out he wasn’t sure which tree to choose.  He asked me where he should put it and I told him the choice was completely his.  He finally chose to put his rock near his friends and in a place he could ‘still see it.’ Evidence of learning These are pictures of Harry finding a space in the garden for his roc...