Tuesday, September 28, 2021

Book Character Day at Makaraka School

Today we got to dress up as our favourite book characters and donate money to the Salvation Army. Eilidh and Malia (from Tawhirimatea) organised this event as part of their Aurora Leadership learning. They did a fantastic job promoting the event, running the parade and getting people to share their love of reading with others. Well done girls! 

There were lots of different characters from a wide variety of books. We got to have a parade to show off our costumes to each other. After the parade we paired up with somebody from a different year group and got to complete some buddy reading. All the staff were impressed with how engaged all the learners were. 

Have a look at some of the photos below. I wonder if you can recognise anyone? 

Wednesday, September 1, 2021

Impromptu Speeches on our Google Meet today...

It was lovely seeing these wonderful Tanemahuta children on our Google Meet. 



We spent some time working on Impromptu Speeches. Each person got to choose a random number from below, and then had a moment to think about the prompt before sharing their ideas. I am very impressed how everyone gave it a go! Some people enjoyed it so much that they went 2 or 3 times!


I wonder if you could make this into a game to play at home?