What's my story?

The patterns of my country.

My personality and my passions.

Words important and meaningful in my culture.

That which I value.

Meaningful words...

Room 3 have been answering one of their big questions this term; "What's my story?"

We have looked at the patterns, colours and shapes of our cultures, what we value, thought about who we are and what kind of personality we have, looked at our motivations and passions and thought of words that are important to us and our culture.

Courageous

Share

Tomodachi - friend

dad

Honest

Peace 

Help

Hope

Have a go day!

This week, Ilam School enjoyed a 'Have a go!' day organised by Chris from Canterbury Sport. Years 3 to 6 children enjoyed practising skills in a variety of sports such as rugby, soccer and softball. The 2016 Ilam School House captains also ran stations as part of the day. 

There was a lot of planning to be done beforehand. House Captains had to think about how to give instructions to children of different ages, including their peers. They also had to plan for modifying games in order to meet the needs of different ages and different skill levels. They had to learn how to give instructions and use strategies to ensure everyone understood the rules of the games.

House Captains organised games such as Wizards & Elves, Teddy Tag, Ant Hospital and King Ball. They learnt a lot from the experience and worked hard all day to make their events enjoyable for each group. A huge well done to all of the House Captains this year! 

Challenges: They test our thinking and our persistence!

This week, Room 3 children were given the challenge of creating an interesting paper structure. No one was allowed to touch the structure, only look at it from different angles. It was very challenging and tested most people's perseverance. Some people grasped it quite quickly, but the majority - including Miss Cocks, found it difficult to work out.  Miss Cocks recorded the language we were using when faced with this challenge. Some of the language was positive and some of it wasn't.  Some of us persevered with the challenge, and some of us didn't. We were quite surprised by some of the things we had said. As a group, we are going to spend some time looking at our mindsets when faced with a challenge and understand how our mindset and our attitude can be affected in different ways and how we can have control over how we choose to approach something.