Homework Challenge With A Difference
Dear Mrs Wright I decided I'd write a letter about my homework challenge. It is Design Your Own Giving Challenge. My plan was to sell feijoas and give the money to the missions. We collected [...]
Building Learning Power
What are the main muscle groups for powerful learning? –inquisitive, asks questions, adventurous, developing interests and passions –resilient: determined, robust, patient, focused –imaginative, ingenious, looking for links, dreamy –rational: methodical, analytical, sceptical –reflective: self-evaluative, looking [...]
Welcome to the Environment page.
We have a group of children who are our Enviro Ambassadors. They have been promoting putting our food waste in the worm bins to feed the worm farms. We have just carried out an [...]
More about Learning to Learn at St Joseph’s
BUILDING LEARNING POWER (based on work by Guy Claxton and others from the Centre For Real World Learning in Winchester, England.) At St Joseph's the teachers and learners like to use "learning muscles" to ensure that they work hard in order [...]
A Reflection for Busy Parents and Busy Children
If only I … Lord, I think about today and I come to a number of conclusions. If only: I had woken up and been a bit more positive. I had said “Yes” [...]
Team Work Pays Off
Eight girls all excited, turned up at the Rodney Netball Centre on Sunday 26th May. Our day was spent, playing four games of netball. We won two games, lost one and drew one which was [...]
Learning to Live and Learn
Mercy Values Tika – Justice Pono – Truth Aroha – Compassion Manaakitanga – Hospitality Tapu – Respect (of our Environment) We use our school values to help guide us in the choices we make in our learning and our behaviour. [...]
News from the “Friends”
Greetings from the Friends of St Joes. We've had a name change from the PTFA and have been going great guns this year. We meet the third Monday of every month for an hour and [...]
Learning to Learn at St Joseph’s
One of the Principles of the New Zealand Curriculum is Learning to learn: "The curriculum encourages all students to reflect on their own learning processes and to learn how to learn.” Most of us in [...]