Ashmira, Jessica, Johanna and Divya's Trash to Flash Learning Story

Learners: Ashmira, Jessica, Johanna & Divya      Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: Term 4, Week 6-10

Learning Area: iExperience - Technology

Learning Observed and Vision Principles

In the second half of Term 4, all of the OrmPS learners have been participating in Trash to Flash - turning old used items into something new and usable. All of the LH1 learners began this journey by spending time looking on the LH1 Pinterest account. Everyone selected a category that they were the most interested in. Ashmira, Jessica, Johanna and Divya all selected Girls Fashion. They were curious about making an infinity scarf out of old t-shirts. However, before they could make this, they had to go through a test run with the Design Thinking Process. As a group, all of the Girl’s Fashion and Pets & Animals learners made ladybug fridge magnets. The girls then took the template we used as a larger group and the personalised it to their infinity scarf creation, demonstrating their capability with understanding the design process. Collaboratively, they shared this template and filled it in on Google Slides.

Evidence of learning

Ashmira, Jessica, Johanna and Divya with Neha, Taanvi and Jahnavi with their prototype Ladybird Magnets. The infinity scarf Design Thinking Process presentation.

Next Learning Steps

Add some photos to your blog of your final creation in Week 10. Reflect on how successful your planning was, as well as how well you felt your final product turned out. Make another prototype showing changes and improvements to the design.

Ashmira, Divya, Jessica, Johanna, Jasonta & Aleena's Ko Te Pu Learning Story

Learners: Ashmira, Divya, Jessica, Jasonta, Johanna & Aleena     Learning Coach: T.Dillner           Date: 14.10.15

Learning Area: The Arts - Music (Preparing for OrmPS Official Opening)

Learning Observed and Vision Principles

For the Ormiston Primary School official opening the learners in LH1 had to learn a waiata with actions. To prepare for this, some of the NZSL Club members and Deaf learners spent some of their iBreaks working on the signs so they would be able to teach it. Ashmira, Divya, Johanna, Jessica, Jasonta and Aleena all chose to lead LH1 in the song Ko Te Pu. The video below shows that they are developing their capabilities in both learning new signs, and communicating these to a wider range of people. All of these girls demonstrated curiosity regarding the fact that they chose to spend their iBreak time learning new signs and opting to have the extra time to prepare. They are also showing the at OrmPS we value the official languages of Aotearoa New Zealand, by honouring the connection to Te Reo Maori and NZSL in this song.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Lead the habitat regularly in our practices. Do an iExplore around other songs or poems that connect English and NZSL or Te Reo and NZSL.

Google Summit Learning Story- August 2015

Learners:  Aleena, Kavisha & Jessica                          Learning Coach: DWilkes

Learning Area: Technology and KCs                            Date: Aug 12, 2015

Learning Observed

Aleena, Kavisha and Jessica made us all proud when they represented us at the first ever Student Google Summit on Aug 12 at Hobsonville Point Primary School.  They were joined by hundreds of other learners from around Auckland and facilitated and participated in some exciting workshops about learning with digital technologies.  There was a lot of work leading up to this day.  First the girls met with Ms Wilkes to express their interest, brainstorm what they could present and then write and submit their pitch to the GEGNZ.  They demonstrated passion, commitment and skills while meeting their deadline.  This was their pitch: Using Google Sites for our Learning Pathways We are going to be presenting our Learning Pathways. Our learning pathways are in Google Sites. Every learner at OrmPS has a Learning Pathway, even all of our Learning Coaches. We like using Google sites because it has some features that some site makers don't for example: In Google sites you can edit the background on the site so that it won't be all blank, we can embed docs and other online artefacts, put in pictures, link out to our learning, share with our learning coaches and families and so much more! Come and learn with us on our learning pathways journey. They were of course successful and were added to the programme.  They then had to create their presentation and including a fun kahoot game as well.  The learners decided it would be great if they could practice their workshops the day before to iron out any crinkles and so they were able to facilitate their workshops for the rest of the habitat.  Amidst technical difficulties they persevered and responded to feedback making some small changes to improve their presentation.  On the big day the girls demonstrated confidence and resilience when many devices couldn’t access the internet.  We were very proud of the way they solved problems, remained calm, positive and supported the participants.  Way to go Aleena, Kaivsha and Jessica!

Evidence of learning

Trial run of workshop with LH1 learners = success! Aleena, Kavisha & Jessica intro Learning Pathways   OrmPS Girls working the crowd!     Kavisha & Aleena with Peanut             The OrmPS Crew at the end of Google Summit

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Jessica, Kavisha and Aleena showed they could relate well with others both in their collaborative effort in creating and facilitating their presentation and in responding to feedback.  They participated and contributed, managing themselves in 3 other sessions on the day and took their learning back to OrmPS to share with others.  They showed curiosity in the google cardboard session and made connections to prior knowledge.  They were capable at solving problems when there were technical difficulties and constantly collaborated to maximise their own learning and that of others.

Next Learning Steps

start thinking about their presentation for next year write a blog post about their experience teach family members some new skills/tricks they learned

Jessica's iDevelop Literacy Learning Story

Learner: Jessica F            Learning Coach: Bex Remington            Date: 1 April 2015

Learning Area: iDevelop - Literacy: Reading

Learning Observed

During our literacy session, learners are able to choose from a range of independent activities. I have noticed the Jessica enjoys the free writing choice.  She is able to choose her topic of writing and how the writing is presented.  She tends to write narrative stories and can write for a sustained amount of time.  I have noticed that Jessica likes to write while she is sitting in a group and she shares in the small group to get even more ideas.  When I asked Jessica to share a piece of writing with me she was excited to share a poem that she had just written.

Evidence of learning

This is Jessica sharing her poem:

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

Jessica enjoys writing and demonstrates the ability to understand language, symbols and text. She is happy to share her writing with others and use some of their ideas which means she understands how to relate to others. She is developing her capability in writing and it will be exciting to see her written work change and grow as the year goes on.

Next Learning Steps

To share her writing with a wider audience To create collaborative pieces of writing with other people in her group Begin using different genres of writing other than narrative

Jessica's Narrative Assessment- Digital Citizenship - 12.03.15

Learner: Jessica                        Learning Coach: DiWilkes            Date: 12.03.15

Learning Area:  Social Sciences / Key Competencies

Learning Observed

Today, Jessica was selected for a special ‘capability corner’ session in order to upskill some learners in our habitat as experts.  Jessica demonstrated a natural affinity for using digital technologies and can discuss what makes a good digital citizen and what we should avoid doing online to be safe.  She can explain what her ‘digital footprint’ is and how to keep it positive.  She spent some time navigating to her Learning Pathway and blog and was able to explain to others new ways to access this.  Jessica also contributed to her blog and added to her iReflection document.

Evidence of learning

Key Competencies/Vision Principles

During this session Jessica demonstrated she was highly capable at navigating our Google Apps for Education platform, easily accessing her Learning Pathway, her blog and various documents in her google drive.  She managed herself well and collaborated with others to offer help, generate ideas and seek clarification.

Next Learning Steps

complete her ‘digital footprint’ image in google docs write a weekly blog post on a topic of her choosing upload video to Youtube, create a Photopeach and/or iMovie