Keeping New Zealand Clean

On Friday afternoon last week the whole school headed out to participate in Keeping New Zealand Clean. Totara and Matai headed down the road to the Yaldhurst Domain. We were all excited about helping out and not really sure what we would find. A few of us were hoping that we wouldn't have to pick up anything to gross like dog poo. (Luckily we didn't).

It was a lot of fun and we picked up a LOT of rubbish. It felt really great to have participated in keeping our wonderful community clean.


Keeping Yaldhurst Clean on PhotoPeach

Dog Safety

Do you know what to do when you see an angry dog? Do you know how to pat a dog? You might think you do but YMS students definitely do.

Last Thursday Yaldhurst students had 45 minutes with the Christchurch City Council Dog Safety team learning all about how to be safe around dogs. Te Pihinga went along unsure of what they were going to learn but boy were they excited when they saw Baxter the dog.

Baxter helped us learn how to do the right thing around dogs. Even those with dogs learnt a new thing or two. Mika showed us her skills in picking up doggy doo and Pania and Xavier showed us how to pat a dog correctly.

It really was a wonderful time. Thanks Christchurch City Council for putting on a great learning time for us.

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.

Self Managers!

Yesterday Totara were self managers at writing time. We had to complete 3 things and tick them off as we completed them.

At the end of the time we reflected on how we self managed. Most of us felt we self managed well. 

Here is our high tech tracking system.

We will continue to work on improving our output at self management time.