Fiafia HipHop Group 2025

  

Congratulations to all the students, teachers, and tutors for your incredible efforts in

making our event a success. I am especially proud of the HipHop Group 2025; every 

single student lit up the stage and performed like absolute stars. Your energy, dedication, 

and talent wowed the crowd and made the evening unforgettable. Thank you to everyone 

who played a big part in bringing this night to life; your hard work and passion truly shone

 through. Well done, everyone!

Adobe Generated Images

 

Adobe Firefly uses AI (artificial intelligence) to help generate images just by typing in a description, like “a city at sunset.” It’s designed to be easy and safe to use, even for students. To use it, you can go to the Adobe Firefly website, log in with an Adobe account (many schools provide one), and start typing your ideas. The AI then creates images based on your words. It’s a fun and powerful way to bring creative ideas to life without needing advanced art or design skills. In our staff meeting, Matt and Fiona from Manaiakalani showed us how this can work in our classes with our students. 

Our school Inquiry this term is " JOY".  Our team's inquiry question is "What brings you JOY at home, at school, and in your community? The students have to use  Adobe to create 3 images of  Joy at home and school, and in the community. All the students were able to do this. Some of the students figure out how to get the right images they need to be clear about what they wrote, or add more details to get the images the students wanted.  These are Aniitah's images; she has also learned to animate parts of the images. 

Aniitahs Blog

Teacher Only Day "Mana" (Matua Les Hoerara)

Today, we welcomed guest speaker Matua Les Hoerara from the Ngāti Pāoa Iwi Trust, who delivered a presentation on ‘He Aute’ — a project supported by the Ministry of Education. The focus of the session was on exploring meaningful ways to engage with our tamariki.

"Mana"

 

While the ability to self-regulate can be one aspect, mana is a much broader and deeper concept. It encompasses authority, prestige, spiritual strength, influence, and integrity. Mana reflects both inherent and earned power — it’s about the presence and impact a person carries through who they are and how they act.

Mana can be gained in several ways:

• Acquired: Through personal achievements, education, scholarships, leadership, and acts of reciprocity such as giving koha.

• Inherited: Passed down through whakapapa (genealogy), connecting individuals to their ancestral lineage.

• Through Diplomacy: Demonstrated through effective communication, collaboration, and the ability to maintain respectful relationships.

However, mana can also be diminished. It may be compromised through negative behavior, showing disrespect, or failing to meet cultural responsibilities, such as neglecting koha or time commitments. Maintaining mana requires ongoing integrity and accountability.

Maths Inquiry Focus Term 2

 

Room 10 was a hive of collaborative learning today! Students tackled math problems in groups, their voices buzzing with concentration and encouragement. Multiplication tables became their secret weapon, allowing them to whiz through problems involving familiar numbers. For trickier word problems, they switched gears to the reliable repeated addition strategy. The key was in the wording – students became detectives, searching for clues like "altogether" or "in total" to identify if repeated addition was the best approach. The supportive atmosphere meant no one was left behind. If someone stumbled, a classmate was there to offer a friendly reminder or share their own thought process. By the end of the lesson, not only had they conquered the math problems, but their teamwork and communication skills were outstanding!

 

Teacher Only Day.

The day began with a captivating Panmure Bridge School Kapa Haka Group performance. Then to the Tamaki College Samoan cultural dance group, enriching the atmosphere with vibrant traditions.

Teachers then gathered in various workshops following the performances to learn from their peers, sharing best practices and innovative teaching methods. The collaborative spirit and cultural celebrations made it a wonderful and enriching experience for all involved.

My first workshop was Animating Poetry. I see how incredibly time-consuming animating can be due to the meticulous process of creating each frame. Hundreds of thousands of images are produced for just a few seconds of animation. This detailed work requires patience, precision and fine-tuning to achieve smooth and lifelike motion​. My animation is of a tui flying into my Google slides and into the sky of the image of a tranquil garden.

TOD Panmure Bridge School

The teacher-only day was a great event highlighted by an inspiring keynote speaker, Dr Craig Hansen who shared insights on artificial intelligence, illustrating how innovative AI applications can transform educational practices. His presentation was filled with mind-blowing information, showcasing how AI can personalize learning experiences, enhance student engagement, and streamline administrative tasks. His expertise and vision for AI's role in education inspired the audience to possibly integrate these technologies into their teaching methods.

Maths Inquiry Focus Term 1 2024

Inquiry into Maths 2024

How do I engage and support our less confident learners to show their understanding of word problems?

 

Team 4 Art Rotations.

Team 4 had so much fun during our Art Works Rotations. We made music beats, dances, photography and painting. In Ms Tumahai's class, we go to paint an emoji of how we were feeling at the time. 

Inquiry Action Plan

 

Fake food budget photoshop

 Task Description: today in Cybersmart we learned how to use Remove.bg to create our own photoshopped images. Here is a fake image of me drinking a coffee at the Coffee Club. 

About me in Google Draw

                              

This week, during our cyber smart lesson with Mr Goodwin,  Room 11 learnt how to use google draw. We learnt to resize images, use different shapes and fonts, and use google search to find images that relate to who we are.