Another exciting Term is underway for our Year 7 students - their last as Year 7's before they move on as Year 8 next year. We have our term topic "pARTicipate" underway. This is an integrated PBL focus of the ARTS and Literacy.

Our focus for this PBL integrated theme is around Fairytales. All classes have been involved in a number of ignitor activities in dance, drama and music as well as looking at Fairytales for our writing.  Collaboration and communication will be two major focuses for our classes this term. Students will be undertaking a range of activities, team challenges and experiences where skills in working with others including negotiation, compromise and contributing will be important. Our expectations of students to continue to display our school values - PERK - Perseverance, Excellence, Respect and Kindness - will be reinforced and explicitly referred to in all we do.

As part of our theme PBL this term every class will work as a team to plan, create, write, act, film, dance and use their talents and skills to put together a performance for our local contributing schools in Week 8. Amadeo has been working with our classes looking at using science to create "magic" in our shows and performance techniques.  Next week we will have  local performer Hayley Lyndon in to talk to our students about performing and sharing her experiences and advice. She has been the lead in many local productions, and most recently in the Highlights show. 

Next week we move into the start of our EOTC activity for this term when our Long Beach rock climbing and team building day gets underway. This is always a highlight of the year as students challenge themselves to achieve their goal on the rock climbing. Thank you to all parents and caregivers who are able to come and assist on this day. Classes will be emailed on the morning of their trip if the weather is in doubt and a postponement date will be sorted.

Ngā mihi nui

Lisa Dixon

On Behalf of the Year 7 Team