Merit Evidence: Librarian

Today I went to Librarian, I took a laptop with me. I walked through the door and greeted Mrs Ward. I sat down with the laptop opened up the "Library Suggestion Box," then I looked through it a few times to make sure it was right. After that I checked with Mrs Ward to make sure it was good, then I sent it out. After I was finished I asked Mrs Ward if she needed any help with anything else, she didn't. So I sat down and did some reading until the bell, then I went back to class.

The learner quality I showed was resilience because kept checking to form to make sure it was correct.

Merit Evidence: Deputy Head Girl

On Monday we had a leadership meeting. The first thing that we did was talk about the book that we were going to read. Then we read we read the first chapter, the chapter was about how nobody likes a goody two shoes. It also talked about how you've got to be equally fun and responsible. If you have more responsibility than fun you're most likely to come across as a goody two shoes. But if you are equally fun and equally responsible then you are less likely to be a goody two shoes or be labeled as a goody two shoes. Then we all split off into our groups I'm working with the Heads and Deputy's group. 

We then talked about what we needed to do to finish off our preparation for our poster competition idea.

The learner quality I used was collaborate because I was taking part in the conversation and I was also putting forward ideas.

Teaching the Juniors new games

Today Alicia and I were lucky enough to be able to teach the juniors new games. The first few kids we got were really excited to play the games, first we introduced ourselves and learnt their names. 

Then we had a tennis ball and were teaching them how to catch and throw the ball. After that we played duck duck goose, tricky tag, octopus and heads down thumbs up.

Then we had our next lot of kids, this time there were five. We started off introducing ourselves and learning there names again. Then we played the same games as we did before. Since we had spare time we asked for their suggestions on games, we got cat and mouse so we played that. After the game it was time to head back, so the juniors said thanks and goodbye and we headed back to class for lunch.

Merit Evidence: Food Forest

For the past couple of days the year eights were lucky enough to help Mr McAven in the Food Forest. First we went to the Food Forest and did some weeding we used some secateurs (search it up) and some hedge clippers, we used them to cut the weeds out. The people that didn't have them used their muscles to get the weeds out.

Eventually we cleared it up and it looked BEAUTIFUL.

The next day we went to the maize maze (the corn place) and harvested the corn. Some of us harvested the corn, the people with the hedge clippers cut the (really long) weeds and a few people were on the trailer stomping the weeds down. I swapped round the different jobs. First I got some hedge clippers and cut up all the weeds, then I pulled out some corn and last I stomped on the trailer.

I really enjoyed gardening with Mr McAven.

Merit Evidence: Librarian

Yesterday I had my librarian duty, I turned up and it was my first day. I'm the ICT guru, my first job was to create a online library suggestion box. I created it on google forms, I sat in the library for the whole of lunch and created it. It was really difficult but I experimented with the different tools and figured out how to do it. Mrs Ward was really glad with how it turned out and I will send it to the school next week. My next job is to create a new Library site that people can access from home. 

I really love working in the library.

The learner quality I showed was resilience because I didn't give when I was finding things hard on the computer. 

Merit Evidence: Deputy Head Girl

On Monday I was one of the few people who was lucky enough to run assembly. There were only three of us, the head students and one of us was away. We had a computer each and had the assembly script on our screens and were practicing. We kept practicing until we had to leave so we knew our lines really well. 

At assembly I got to stand up on stage and say my lines, at first I was really nervous but after my first line it felt just like a normal thing to do. After the assembly I was really confident that I could do it again.

The leaner quality I showed was communicate because I communicated with the other head students about the assembly. 

Leadership

WALT describe the traits of an effective leader
My SOLO level is Multistructual
Over the past few weeks we have been learning about how to be a better leader, the traits that we came with were the traits we thought leaders should have.

1. Integrity
2. Trustworthy
3. Resilient
4. Active Thinker
5. Goal-Focused 
6. Motivational

Here is an example of the map that we completed about one of the leaders we researched: Nancy Wake

 My next step is to compare and contrast the traits of different leaders.

Merit Evidence: Jellie Park

On Friday the whole school went to Jellie Park. When I got to school I was told that the Head Girl was away so I had to do the speech for her, and as smart as I am I forgot the paper with the speech on it. But luckily I had already remembered it off by heart and the Head Boy had it with him so we were prepared. When we arrived at Jellie Park I found out that the student leaders got to sit away from the other students and we got a whole chair to ourselves, which I thought was pretty cool because all of the other students had to bunch up really tight because there wasn't enough room. The two Sports Coodinators did the first speech, then the House Points Coodinators, then us. I was quite nervous but once I started I wasn't too nervous. Then once we'd finished I was really relieved and we could start the races. First was the width races, I wasn't in any of them so just helped sort the kickboards and watched some of the races. Then we played a couple of house games eg. madness. After that we went outside with the Kākano students and had some lunch, I got to see my friend who was helping the Kākano teachers with the event. After lunch we went back inside to do the length races which I was in. I was so nervous I was shaking because I hadn't done swimming in a while. It was finally my race, freestyle. I came third which I was really proud of. Then I did backstroke and I came third again which I was also really proud of. Then we finished up with the relays and Miss O's class won again. Then once everyone was changed back into their clothes we hopped on the buses and left for school. But some of the buses didn't come so we were waiting for ages outside for them. Then they finally came and we got on and headed back to school and by the time we got back it was 4:00. 

The learner quality I showed was resilience because when the buses didn't come I didn't complain I just waited and listened to the teachers.

Merit Evidence: Deputy Head Girl

On Wednesday we had our second leadership meeting of the year, it was held in the hall. We were told to bring a computer and one of us a book. Mr Ladbrook got on the stage and showed us an example of public speaking, here are a few tips.

- Speak slowly

- Look up at the end of a sentence

- You don't have to look at the audience, look at the back of the room so it gives the illusion that you are looking at the audience.

- Learn your speech off by heart just incase you forget the paper version.

- Take your time, it's not a race.

Then we got to have a go, we only had time for a few people and I didn't really feel like doing it but Mr Ladbrook convinced me to get on stage and once I'd done it I felt confident about public speaking. After that we went off in our groups eg. heads and deputys, sports coordinators, rata house captains and cultural ambassadors. I went with my group and we practiced the speech that the heads were going to do on Friday, (Jellie Park) the deputys had to practice as well just in case the heads were away. After that we finished up and went back to class to join back up with the rest of the year 7&8's. 

The learner quality I showed was resilience because I didn't give up even when I was nervous about public speaking.

Women in WW1 ( NZ Identity )