Thank you for your positive, thoughtful and helpful comments

Thank you for writing such positive, thoughtful and helpful blog comments on your child's blog last week as part of their homework.  It has been awesome to read your quality blog comments.  Here are a few examples:

Please feel free to comment about your child's learning at any time on their personal blog!  If you would like to know more or have any questions, please ask through your child or by leaving a comment on this whānau blog.

Manaiakalani Film Festival 2016

Do you want to come and watch the evening showcase of the Manaiakalani Film Festival?  It's happening next Wednesday, 9th November, at Hoyts Sylvia Park from 6:30pm to 8:30pm.  Our Room 10 movie, Gotta Read 'Em All, will be shown at this event.

Your children will watch one of the daytime sessions as a school group. However, the movies at the evening showcase are a selection from all the Manaiakalani schools.  If you would like to go to this event, please book tickets through this film festival information page. The tickets cost $2 each.  If you call your group Ruapotaka, we will be seated together.  You will need to make your own way to Sylvia Park and back home again.

Separate notes will go home to the families of our two presenters.

Quality blog comments

Your amazing children are creating short videos using their Chromebooks to share why and how blog-commenting is important to them. Here are two finished examples.




As part of their learning at home next week, they will ask you to check out their blog and write a quality blog comment about one of their blog posts.

There are still opportunities for you to do some Chromebook training with Yayleen, Manaiakalani's Whānau Learning Kaiarahi, if you would like your child to bring their Chromebook home more often.

What happening in Term 4?

Our netballers training with the Silver Ferns

What's happening this week!

Further whānau training!

Two more families have taken the opportunity to do some whānau training with Yayleen to learn more about Chromebooks and support learning at home. Fantastic!

Pupuke and Solomone are really excited that they can take their Chromebooks home more often.

There is a little bit of a problem with Chromebooks coming home at the moment, however. Although we are now back at Ruapotaka and working out of the library, the Chromebook cases are in Room 10 and will have to stay there until the asbestos risk is removed.