Learning to Live and Learn

Learning to Live and Learn at St. Joseph’s Catholic School, Takapuna

Our Main Concept for Terms 2’s Learning is:  Movement

The Big Question we are pursuing in our Inquiry is:          

What role does movement have in our lives?

The Essential Questions we are using to help us with our Inquiry are:

How can I explore and discover aspects of physical movement?    How can I express myself through movement?              What can I learn about movement? 

Our emphases, this term, in developing the Key Competencies of the NZ Curriculum are as follows:

Managing Self                             Self Control         Patience                                           Self Discipline

Relating to Others                             React positively       Have courage to apologise to others with sincerity.

Participating and Contributing    Take turns           Do our bit for the good of the group.          Work together to create our school show

Thinking                                     Create new ideas                                                                       Take time to think before I act.

Using language, symbols & text. Develop and use appropriate language to solve problems.      Use your words to solve problems

Managing our behaviour using OAR  /  BED

Be accountable, responsible and take ownership for our actions.

Muck Up /  Own Up /  Put it Right  /  Move on

What you have read above, is a brief outline of important learning happening this term. You may like to adopt some of this learning in your home environment so that we work together for the good of our children. Please ask your child’s teacher for further information, if you wish to know more.

http://www.fluency21.com/fluencies.cfm   This is an interesting website which provides food for thought about the priorities needed for educating our children.