GEGNZ Learner Summit - Auckland 2019

Finalising the presentation

Presenting at Matua Ngaru

Wow - 8 of our students were selected to head to Auckland to the GEGNZ Learner Summit at the beginning of August.
They spent 6 weeks working on a presentation about how to use the following Google tools:
My Maps, Tour Creator and Tour Builder to show a visual and interactive representation of their pepeha.

The team also got to attend other learner workshops that included music with Makey Makey, Ozobots and Sphero's.  We are excited to think we could be getting some of these to work with at WBS!

The Summit was held at a brand new school in Kumeu - Matua Ngaru.  It was very exciting to see such a future proofed school and the learners and teachers all came away with exciting new knowledge!

The team also met Suan Yeo - Head of Education at Google in Sydney and Michael Davidson who creates amazing Digital Breakouts that we use in class.

Many thanks to all of our parents, peers and staff that supported us in getting to this amazing opportunity!

Scintillating Science Fair Projects!

This term we had some independent learners who researched, explored and experimented and then got themselves ready for Science Fair!

This was work all done in their own time and we had 9 MLH entries.  The projects ranged from Holograms to Eggs and pretty much everything in between.

All of the entrants gave MLH a run down on their project and answered questions.  It was VERY interesting for us all!

We were lucky to have a science guru Dr Amber Dunn come in and judge for us and then a few of the projects went forward to the recent Tairawhiti Regional Science Fair.

Congratulations in our School Science Fair to:
Olivia - The Floating Egg (2nd)
Jett & Matai - Paper Planes (3rd)
and in the Regional Science Fair
Olivia - The Floating Egg (Silver)
Caitlyn & Kya - Waste Watchers (Silver - Technology)
Jett & Matai - Paper Planes (Bronze)