Inspirational New Zealanders

Our Inspirational New Zealander this week is John Britten. Click on the page tab above to see how we think he used the Key Competencies to help him achieve success.

Key Competency

For our Key Competency learning we are continuing to Manage Ourself and Relate to Others.

The task this week is to find the answer to the following problem.

How many squares are on a chessboard?

Best of luck!!

Key Competencies

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Today we integrated the Key Competencies Managing Self, Relating To Others, and Using Language Symbols and Texts.

Mr Baylis gave us a copy of the Hieroglyphic alphabet with some letters missing. In pairs we had to create a picture for the missing letters, and create a message for our pair to interpret.

Check it out below and create your own Hieroglyphic message for a partner to solve.

Key Competencies - Managing Self/Relating To Others

The next step in our study on Managing Self and Relating to Others is to understand how these concepts work together and interrelate.

Mr Baylis set a task down for the class. In groups of 8 we had to get from one side of the classroom to the other without touching the floor and only using 3 chairs. It was a challenging task, and in the end Mr Baylis had to help us a little bit by giving us an extra chair per group. Check out how we went.

 

We then reflected on the task and generated some ideas from 3 headings we were given. Here they are.

What was easy?

- holding on to boys and girls and chairs

- it was easy when we held on to each other.

What was hard?

- getting everyone on the chairs

- when we had less chairs

- moving the chairs and having 3 people on one chair

- getting the chairs to the other side

- holding on to each other

- staying on the chairs with three other people

What would you change next time?

- have stools instead of chairs

- the amount of people in a team.

- that you're allowed to go back for other people

- holding on, not touching the floor, and throwing the chair forward

Our Very Special Skype Call

Exciting times!!! Yesterday (Tuesday 12th April) we were fortunate to have a webinar via Skype with Professor Toni Krasnic.

He shared with us some wonderful tips and ideas on how to become better learners, tying in with our Key Competency Managing Self.

The information was so valuable we decided to kind of use Toni's CLM + SOS method to best gain meaning.

First we split into 5 groups, compared our individual notes and wrote our ideas down on paper.

 

We then split into 2 groups and recorded the group ideas onto 1 piece of paper. Removing any ideas that were repeated.

And finally we transferred the ideas onto the computer through the smartboard.

Here is our final mind map highlighting the Key Ideas Room 1 obtained from our Skype call with Professor Toni Krasnic. We would like to say once again a big thank you to Toni, and we hope you enjoy our final mind map.

 

Key Competencies - Relating to Others

This morning we discussed as a class what the Key Competency Relating to Others means to us. This is the second Key Competency we will be focussing on in Room 1 alongside Managing Self.

We initially wrote our ideas on the smartboard, then using the software programme XMind, we turned them into a mind map that is below.

A big thankyou to Caitlyn and James who designed the look of our Relating to Others mindmap.