In their groups, the students and their peer mentors had the task of rolling a large die and going to the room/community group they land on to complete a task. I am representing Textiles, Hard Materials, and Food Technology. For Textiles, students need to stitch a button onto a piece of fabric and make sure it's secure; Hard Materials, they are identifying native trees, their leaves, and what the finished wood looks like, using a bunch of pictures; for Food Technology, they are separating egg white from the yolk.
I was a little out of sorts for set up as it hadn't all been explained to me. I had to quickly gather the resources for the Textile's task and set everything up in C1 - a Food Tech room.
Students are coming around in quite large groups. I have had four groups at a time and then one or two groups. It's quite hard to manage all the different tasks when there are a lot of groups in at once. I think one group pretended to separate the egg yolk and got the sticker from me in the melee that was ensuing!!! I'm trying to be vigilant.
The kids all seem to be enjoying the tasks and mostly supporting one another!
Next time, I think it may help to have two teachers in here - not sure if that's viable in terms of relief.
This was the very quick set up that I managed to do in the time given. The Hard Materials task was on the teacher's bench at the front and the egg and button tasks were on the first two table groups.
It’s that time of year again!! Apart from the Sing off, this would have to be my favourite inter-mountain event. JHE has organised this year for student umpires and for V and I to step in where needed. Once again, I don't think I will participate in the staff vs students final - I'm too broken and cannot afford an injury!
As the lead Mountain teacher, I have been around to all the Maungatautari Waananga Akotahi to encourage students to participate and give them the details of the games. The lead students were awesome last Tuesday when I was away - helping to run Mountain assembly, handing out certificates and also talking about the upcoming games.
Maungatautari start off against Pirongia on Monday.
