School Values

Quote of the day: 
"Price is what you pay. Values is what you get." 

Tena Koutou everyone,

Welcome back! Today in this blog post, I willl be talking about my school's vision and values! Let's get to it!

So during the past few weeks each hub in the school has been learning about our school's vision and values. We have been talking about what they mean, what they do to help us and what we can do to be a role model of them and use them in our daily lives. My school's 4 (Four) values are: 
Integrity
Compassion
Service
Respect.
Here is a little bit about each of them.

Integrity: Integrity is where you do things without being asked and don't mind if you get noticed for it or not. Integrity is always being Honest to others in every way you possibly can.

Compassion: Compassion is where people go out of their comfort zone and go and help others with anything that is stressing them out or something like that. 

Service: Service is where you go and lend a hand to communities, schools and other groups if they need any help. 

Respect: Respect is where you respect your teachers and peers in everything you do across every day. It can also be respecting someone for what they did that was great. 

Now that you know a bit about my school's values, lets move onto my school's vision. This vision is a long one and takes time to learn and undertstand it but when you know it off by heart you will get a deep understanding and be very confident to speak it to a big group of people. The vision is:

"Choosing to be an Innovative Catholic Learning Community that Inspires and Empowers learners to succeed." 

The vision above means that we as a school want to inspire and empowers others to succeed in everything they do as well as being an innovative Learning Community. 

Does you school have values and a school vision?

Term 1, Week 3, Free Choice- Kaupeka Digi Awards!

Quote of the day: (Chosen by me!)
"Never underestimate the power of dreams and the influence of the Human Spirit. We are all in this notion together. The potential for greatness lives with-in each of us. "

Hello and welcome back to 2019! I hope you guys have had a great first few weeks of the new year. Before I start to get into today's blog, I will be telling you guys that every time I do a blog post, the starting of it will be with a quote. The qoute will fit into the theme of the blog! Anyway, let's begin!

Today in this lovely deep thought-out blog post, I will be talking to all the people that are reading this blog post about the Kaupeka's Digi Awards. Let's begin!

Through out Term 1 of 2019, our PBL topic is "What is Greatness?" (PBL= Project Based Learning.) Over the term we will be talking about Greatness, Who we think shows Greatness the most, Some Greatness activites and then our final thing- our Kaupeka Digi Award project that fits in the theme of Greatness. 

For the Kaupeka Digi Awards, we will be using the criteria and the rubrics of the Canterbury Digi Awards. We will be judged on all the things that are included in the rubrics and then the best out of everyone in Kaupeka who fits into all the requirments will win a prize and one of the placings.  The catergorys that we can enter into are: Storytelling, Commercial, Coding, Open and Website. We also can enter with people in our group or by ourselves. I am doing a website with my friend Samantha. We will be including a video about Greatness and how we can show it in school time, Some info on Greatness and what it is, Some coding animations about Greatness and some detailed Google Drawings around Greatness. We have a clear plan on what we each of us have to do and are ready to face the big challenge that is coming ahead really soon.

At the end of the term, we will have our own Kaupeka Digi Awards were we have a look at everyone's entries and applause everyone who did a great job out of their chosen catergory as well as winning that certain place with the prize. 

Have you ever particpated in some sort of Digi Awards before? If so, what category did you enter in and did you win? If you haven't, why not face your fear and give it a go. I am 100% sure you will like it!!. 

Credit: Success quotes