'Feeling Good and Thriving'

We believe that wellbeing is at the heart of education. Positive wellbeing is vital for student success and is strongly linked to learning and the implementation of the New Zealand Curriculum.

Our teachers have a planned approach to wellbeing that incorporates all the dimensions of the Wellbeing Framework. Teachers support students to develop skills that help them to strengthen their relationships, build positive emotions, enhance personal resilience, promote mindfulness, and encourage them to feel good and thrive.

Please find below an update from our teams regarding how they have been using our Wellbeing Framework to support their students recently.

Māunu

The Māunu Team had a busy Term 2 finding out about the relationship between the sun, the moon and the Earth and how these affect our daily lives. It was a great topic that captured the learners’ interest and inspired many wonderings that we needed to investigate. We had lots of fun sharing our new learning with whānau in creative ways - solar oven-cooked nachos, Imovies, moonscapes, dioramas, a giant rocket ship, sun collages, information reports... to name some! 

Kōraho

Our team were very enthusiastic and motivated by our Inquiry unit on Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. A visit to the Refuse and Recycling Plant in Bromley was a highlight and the children were able to use their learning to create a variety of outcomes to share with their whanau. Children were able to choose to work with others or on their own and were very proud to share their results on the day of our school-wide Inquiry celebration. This was a wonderful positive way to end the term.

Pīrere

We were impressed by the enthusiasm shown for our Inquiry unit on Oceans. Following a visit to the International Antarctic centre earlier in the term, all of our learners produced an item to share with whānau during our whole school celebration.

Part of the shared learning was our papier mache artworks, created by every individual in the team. Not only did learners confidently share with whānau but with their peers, creating a positive end to the term.

Kātua

The last week of term 2 saw our students proudly presenting their inquiries around cause and effect. Students were able to work individually or with a partner. Our team used ‘Jamboard’ to help us identify what they wanted to learn about and our frontloading lessons were based around their four top choices, (wellbeing, environment, sport, and animals). After this students were supported to write an inquiry question using SOLO Taxonomy verbs, this was key to ensuring their inquiry was engaging and facilitated purposeful learning. 

Following our Kahukura focus on creativity - we encouraged, supported, and modeled creativity to present learning. We had very positive feedback from whānau and our students loved sharing their learning with you all on our Inquiry open morning.