National Story Telling Week

This morning in Crew, we explored the importance of storytelling and how it helps develop our creativity, imagination, and brings the magic of words to life!

Ms. White shared her love for reading real-life texts that she can truly immerse herself in. Sharni-Mae agreed and mentioned she is currently reading a book about a young boy who lost his father in an airplane crash. From this, we decided to look at First News to see what interesting facts we could find, which might inspire stories. Mason found some information with regards to homelessness and Declan found that dogs can smell when we are unwell! Both would make a great fiction story!

SLC practice in MI

Our crew session today allowed us to start practising our Student Led Conference. We have worked really hard in our crew sessions, thinking about our howls, our beautiful work and our academic progress. We will continue to prepare for next week 🙂

Caring Crew

This week in Crew we have been exploring how to keep mentally as well as physically healthy. We explored the term mental health and how we can support this by using different strategies to overcome big feelings. One way we explored today was competing some seated yoga. It was a lot tricker than it looked!

Showing Kindness

With it being our first week back after the Christmas holidays, we have had lots of crew challenges to continue to develop our Be Kind HoWL. We particularly enjoyed the Jelly Baby challenge where we were challenged to look after our Jelly Baby, all day, without eating it! Some of the crew made it a safe space to ensure it was well looked after. Fortunately, five out of the six Jelly Babies survived, with Declan’s still going strong two days later!

Real life heroes!

We have been very fortunate to be lucky recipients of some presents from Santa’s helpers. Ecofficiency have been ever so generous and their wonderful staff have donated some amazing gifts for us to distribute to our school community. We feel so humbled and grateful by this very kind gesture.

Breakfast with Santa

We had a very special visit from Santa this morning, he joined us for a festive breakfast. However, he declined the offerings of food incase he couldn’t fit down the chimney on Christmas Eve!