WALHT self assess our work against a writing blog rubric.

WALHT self assess our work against a writing blog rubric.


Ms Brand's authors have been fortunate to receive a copy of Whaea Petra's (Tamaki Primary) blog rubric. Thank you for sharing, Whaea Petra.  This rubric has been adapted by many teachers within the Manaiakalani Cluster schools, but I believe the origin was started at a Point England school.

This rubric really made us think about our work before we just published it to our blog.

Using this in class today we have marked Emma Re's writing.  Special shout out to Emma for being so brave and sharing her work with the class as we built our knowledge in marking rubrics. We were also able to compare and contrast our results and justify our thinking.  We were also able to practice our concept of kindness and empathy as we were able to make connections that Emma is one of our peers and we were critiquing her work, so how could we do that in a positive way?

Now we are all assessing our own work against the blogging rubric criteria. Look out for our new and improved blog posts today.

This is a great tool that will definitely help us in all our future learning.

From Ms Brand's authors.

Our amazing Movie Presenters

Jacqueline and Dinesan did an amazing job presenting our movie: How to be a CyberSmart Ninja at the 2015 Manaiakalani Film Festival.

Not only were these two convincing actors in our movie, they also showed what excellent presenters they were by writing their own scripts to introduce our film.

Tino pai!  We are so proud of them and look forward to seeing what 'on screen' and 'on stage' adventures they have in the near future.

LH9 Teachers
Mrs Harduar, Mrs Purcell, and Ms Brand

What should I share online? What should I not share?

We can share just about everything online, but should we?  
We have the tools to learn online now we are  bringing what we know about what we can share online and what we really shouldn't.

Great learning conversations overheard with Mrs Grant...
I would share my favourite learning on the blog.
I wouldn't share my last name.
Some things we might keep private (age, how many brothers and sisters we have)
Some things we will definitely keep private (Our full name, home address).
I might put my pets name up there because if my pet got lost people might be able to help me find them.

We had great discussions about what we should keep private and what we could put online.  We then had a discussion about what websites we could share on.  We decided that we could share information on website that we knew who owned them, but we still weren't going to share our private information on those sites. If we are not sure we would ask our parents or our teachers.

Today we did a lot of THINKING, CONNECTING, REFLECTING, and being SELF AWARE about our online digital footprint.