GOLD SELF MANAGERS

Congratulations to our first four GOLD SELF MANAGERS! Well done kids!!!

                                  

                                 

NGA MATAPONO - OUR BELIEFS

Nga Matapono is our Beliefs at Riverdale School.  By the time we leave Riverdale, we should be a Self Manager, Competent, Creative, and Effective Communicator

This term's main focus is on being a Self Manager.  We get to move our pins for a variety of reasons.  Some examples of what we might get to move our pin for include:  getting our jobs done quickly in the morning, pack up after ourselves, get our work done quickly, listen carefully to the teacher and put our rubbish in the bin.

Jacob P got to move his Self Manager pin yesterday when he was tidying up after he finished using a game.  Look how happy he is!

We like to look at where we are on our pins.  We set ourselves little goals and talk to our friends about where we are at.  Setting goals and working towards achieving them is part of being a Self Manager.

OUR CLASS RULES

 

On Tuesday, Ms Udy read us a story called the Tree House Treaty.  It is a story about how two groups of children make a set of rules to fix any arguments that happen in the tree house that they made.

                    

We decided that our classroom was a little bit like the tree house in the story.  We thought that maybe our classroom needs some rules too so we can all be safe and happy at school.  Each whanau class got together and brainstormed all our ideas of rules that we could come up.  There was a LOT of rules.

We came back together and shared our thinking with the other kids.  Some of the kids noticed that some of the rules we came up were very similar.  We decided to condense our list of rules down to 5 rules that cover pretty much everything we do.
   

Our rules are:

• Be respectful of people and our environment

• Use your manners

• Be kind and caring

• Be a self manager

• Be Brave!  Keep trying!  You can do it!

We wondered how we could make our rules special to us. We came up with the idea of making a korowai. Mrs Ruawai showed us the korowai that Mrs Peck wears for special occasions. Each child has coloured in a feather. Every feature is different and unique, just like us! Mrs Lunn has begun to put the feathers together to make it into a korowai. We are going to put the rules on the tāniko - the woven panel that holds the features together. It'll be almost like we are wrapped up in the rules that will keep us safe and happy at school.

We can't wait until our korowai is finished!

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