Exploration Through Music, Garden to Table, Encourage Others (PB4L), Hauora Cards

Exploration Through Music

An opportunity for exploration within The Arts curriculum. Register at beginning of the year for performance midway through Term 3.

Why: Challenging children to take risks by learning a musical instrument and performing in front of an audience

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What: At Amberley School, Kowai hub (70 children) were given the choice of learning ukelele, glockenspiel or recorder. They have learnt 8 pieces of music ready to perform in front of a large audience at “Strike, Strum and Blow”next week at the Horncastle Arena, along with hundreds of other children from all around Canterbury.

How: 3 teachers have taken a group and an instrument each and have been teaching (and learning alongside!) the students once a week since term 1.

Garden to Table 

Celebrating from Garden to Table. http://www.gardentotable.org.nz/

Why: to understand the process from garden to table, where food comes from and how we grow, prepare and cook kai. Also, to involve community members.

What: Students learn through a garden session how to prepare soil, plant seeds, care and tend the plants, weeding, compost making, garden safety etc. Through a kitchen session students set a menu from produce they have grown, prepare and cook this to share together at a formal table setting. They then are part of the cleaning up process. This is supported by a range of community members, both in the garden and kitchen.

How: This is timetabled weekly for Years 2 - 6. It follows the national Garden to Table programme. Students garden 9-10:30, and cook 11-12:30. A kitchen and garden specialist are employed by the school to plan each session. Knowledge and skills are built on through the years within the programme.

Encourage Others (PB4L) 

We are at school to learn so making sure we work as a team to encourage, help and support one another in our learning is important.

Why:To teach how to positive contribute in differing situations

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What: Take part and contribute in a way that makes everyone achieve and feel valued

How:

• Make a Google Doc or Postit Wall of Encouraging Words and phrases?
• Brainstorm the different ways we can encourage one another
• Role Play

Hauora Cards

Why: When the children make these cards they have to identify things that they do, engage in and enjoy being part of. By sharing these things with other children, a connectedness between the children occurs.

What: As they enter the Senior Room at VHS, all the children create ‘Hauora Cards’- with a seasonal flavour. These cards are then used as the backbone of the homework programme. They are designed by kids, for kids and focus on doing activities that nurture and foster total health and wellbeing across the four walls of the Te Whare Tapa Wha - Social, Mental/Emotional, Spiritual and Physical wellbeing. The children have to identify what activity works on what domain of their well being.

How: The children can do their own card initially and then the card goes into a pool of all the other children's cards and every week everybody chooses a new card or cards to do during the week. Come Monday, they bring the ‘evidence’ to share, it may be a photo or a drawing, whatever suits them. The ‘evidence is then presented in a blown up book.