Yaldhurst Model School Speech Finals

On Friday 11th September our school Whare Hui was filled with excited and expectant students. Who was going to surprise us? Who was going to persuade us? Who was going to win?

Each class put forward their best three students (well expect Mr M and Miss B, who couldn't quite count) to share their persuasive speech. Te Kakano students were sharing poems as this was the beginning of their speech journey.

In Totara we had worked hard and listened to everyone's speeches. They were all so good it was a difficult decision but the three chosen had the highest marks.

Well done Jedi, Julia and Eze for all your hard work and effort in writing and practising. You did Totara proud on the day.

You will be able to see each speech on our personal blogs by the end of the week. However we do have the winning performances here to share so check them out.

 Here they are with their winning certificates. From left to right 1st, 2nd & 3rd. Kai pai to you all!

Self Management Time Reflections

What a wonderful improvement Totara have made as they work on becoming independent self managers. As YMS Heroes we need to be able to get on with our work and take ownership for it.

Today we completed our 3rd self management time. Check out the number of us who have really stepped up in our self management. (Please note 6 students leave the class for a maths group for half an hour so they aren't expected to complete everything).

So many ticks!! Go Totara.

At the end of each self management time we sit down as a class and reflect on our learning. The questions we have to answer are: What did we do and what can we do better tomorrow.

Listen to some of us sharing our reflections.

Spelling Time