Carmen's breakthrough exhibition writing

• What part of your exhibition are you most proud of?

That we finished the musical almost perfectly and that we put all the props on very fast.

I loved that everyone knew their lines off by heart and performed perfectly.  

• What area of the graduate profile do you think you have grown the most? and Why? (Building Learning Capacity, Making Meaning, Collaboration, Breakthrough

I mostly got better at collaborating so now I can make choices about when to collaborate with others and when to work on my own. I listen to and I am respectful of others ideas when they are different to my own. I am able to collaborate with my team to delegate jobs so that we are more efficient.

What feedback did you get from visitors last night?

My parents said wow what a great performance good work Carmen.

• What part of your exhibition would you have done differently?

I would have faced the audience and not the actors in the classroom. Also I would have talked clearer and learned Jacks line's off by heart. (because he was away)

• Who would you like to thank for supporting you in your breakthrough learning?

I thank Curie for being there as a director with me.

Amy for writing an amazing script and helping me on my long hard directing job.

Whaea Nin for organizing the musical and making things happen.

Maddy and Riley for letting me and Curie sing with them.

All the parents for helping make this musical a success.

Carmen's breakthrough exhibition reflection

• What part of your exhibition are you most proud of?

That we finished the musical almost perfectly and that we put all the props on very fast.

I loved that everyone knew their lines off by heart and performed perfectly.  

• What area of the graduate profile do you think you have grown the most? And Why? (Building Learning Capacity, Making Meaning, Collaboration, Breakthrough

I mostly got better at collaborating with others and trying very hard to finish the musical.

• What feedback did you get from visitors last night?

My parents said wow what a great performance good work Carmen.

• What part of your exhibition would you have done differently?

I would have faced the audience and not the actors in the classroom. Also I would have talked clearer and learned Jacks line's off by heart. (because he was away)

• Who would you like to thank for supporting you in your breakthrough learning?

I thank Curie for being there as a director with me.

Amy for writing an amazing script and helping me on my long hard directing job.

Whaea Nin for organising the musical and making things happen.

Maddy and Riley for letting me and Curie sing with them.

All the parents for helping make this musical a success.

  

The dancer's perfecting their routine while I directed. 

We're going on a field trip!

Some of the learners from Hub 8 wrote this wonderful letter to ask for permission for a field trip we are planning for our concept learning. It's an awesome sample of collaborative persuasive letter writing.

23 May 2016

Dear Miss Martin,

We are writing to you because we need permission to go to Mission Bay on the 9th of June 2016.

We chose as a hub that collaboration is the learner quality  that we need to work on the most. Then we looked at a range of places and Mission Bay had most the votes, so we decided that we would go to Mission Bay.

The trip is for our concept learning and we believe this trip will strengthen our ability to work collaboratively within a group of people who we usually don't work with. It will also construct new relationships with our fellow classmates.

We are currently collaboratively working on the E.O.T.C, R.A.M’s and the organisation of the transport to Mission Bay, including plan and lastly, a race in the fountain with our mini wakas. We had built these mini-wakas for this specific reason for our concept learning as well.

The things we did to plan to go to Mission Bay were that we had to make a healthy lunch and  decided on what collaborative games we were going to play. Also we went on a  preparational trip to the Wetlands so we know what to expect, here we had practiced playing our own collaborative games.

Once we have your approval we will write and send letters to the parents to inform them of the coming trip. We are really looking forward to getting permission to go to Mission Bay. This will be such a great learning opportunity.

Yours sincerely,

Learning Hub 8.

(Written by Shanya, Austen, Carmen, Brittany and Isaac)

Carmen's Inforgraphic

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Carmen's Goldilocks tale

Carmen created this version of Goldilocks, she's found a creative way to present her work and used images really effectively. 

Carmen and Brooklyn

On Wednesday I took home Brooklyn I was so happy. My sister Brooke ran up to me then tripped over on the field but she was okay.

Then me, Brooke and Brooklyn stayed at home and watched a movie called Arthur and The Invisibles. Then at 7:40 we hopped into bed and read a book for 20 minutes it was called the Unicorn Hunter and we read it with my kitten, Leo who curled up and slept on Brooklyn’s face and woke us up at 3 in the morning!

Wow what a first day. Ka mau te wehi. Awesome!!

Kia ora e te whānau

An artist at work

Looking forward to seeing more art work this year. Christian.

Theatre sports alive in Hub 8

We definitely have some amazing actors quick to respond great to understand. But most important of them all , collaboration was alive in hub 8 inclusive and respectful.  

Yoga

Stretching and making aeroplanes with our bodies seems to be harder than we thought
It looks like we may need to visit this yoga thing again.

Can't wait to see what we are doing tomorrow a waka is what we need to do.