2022 Duffy Role Model Assembly with Jack Tame

A few things stood out for me today when New Zealand journalist, Jack Tame, visited Ruapotaka School today as the special guest at our Duffy Assembly: 

1: Jack looks just as cool as our students good in the same royal blue we have for our school uniform, 

2: Jack speaks really good te reo Maori, and 

3: Jack is a very friendly and charismatic person. 

For those of you who don't know, Jack Tame is a famous New Zealander whose face you may have seen on tv. He was on Breakfast TV, lead the national news and even had a spot on Shortland Street. Jack's role as a journalist has taken him around Aotearoa and MANY other countries. Antarctica sounded like the most surprising place because it's not an easy place to get to, so it was even more exciting to hear he was able to use a helicopter while he was there. 

There is absolutely no doubt that Jack captured everyone's attention when he spoke about his travels and the famous people he'd met - Jay Z, Rihanna, Beyonce, Sonny Bill Williams, All Blacks, Warriors just to name a few. There were a few ooh's and ahh's from the students. 

What was even better listening to than Jack's list of famous people he'd met, was hearing how he got there and that was through reading. Jack loved reading the news in the morning before school and would read at night before he went to sleep. 

"I loved being transformed to the places I would read about"

"If you want to do some of the cool things I've done, read!"

We enjoyed meeting a famous kiwi. He took time to even come to each class for a photo. Big ups to today's prefect speakers, and Mrs T and Miss Clarken for setting up today's assembly. 

2022 Tongan Language Week at Ruapotaka School

Malo e lelei! 

The pics and video below are of Room 1 and Ruapotaka School celebrating Tongan Language Week. 

We hope you enjoy viewing these as much as we enjoyed learning about Tonga! 

Please note, video is currently only accessible by Ruapotaka School accounts only

Cybersmart Challenge #20, Email Etiquette and PB4L Respect

Today we learnt how to comment on Google Docs in different ways. For this task we had to make a comment on a random fact, comment a suggestion for a synonym of a word, write a positive thoughtful helpful comment and add in an action request for a friend. Below you can see my screenshots of my work. I found this task to be so fun and I learnt how easy it is to use commenting in Google Docs. 

Yesterday, Mr Goodwin joined in on our morning check in session. He lead a lesson on email etiquette. I enjoyed the lesson because it was another opportunity for my class to practise good habits when communicating formally and digitally. 

Our PB4L focus this week was showing Respect for others, ourselves and environment, in the context of Distance Learning. This is just as important as being face to face because we have to be clear in our actions and words, especially while online. Here are some things we are tying to show while learning from home: