Natasha Y's Blog

Learners: Shivin, Jared, Aimee & Natasha      Learning Coach: T.Dillner    Date: Term 4, Week 6-10 Learning Area: iExperience - Technology Learning Observed and Vision Principles In the second half of Term 4, all of the OrmPS learners have been participating in Trash to Flash - turning old used items into something new and usable. All of the LH1 learners began this journey by spending time looking on the LH1 Pinterest account. Everyone selected a category that they were the most interested in. Shivin, Jared, Aimee and Natasha all selected Pets & Animals. They were curious about making caterpillars out of used egg cartons. However, before they could make this, they had to go through a test run with the Design Thinking Process. As a group, all of the Girl’s Fashion and Pets & Animals learners made ladybug fridge magnets. The four learners then took the template we used as a larger group and the personalised it to their c...

Learner: Shreya, Sally, Natasha    Learning Coach:  N.Denuwara         Date: Term 4 Learning Area : Social Studies Learning Observed, Key Competencies/ Vision Principles Natasha  is participating in an iExperience session. This particular session focuses on learning about Rights, Responsibility and Citizenship. For this topic the learners are given the task of creating their own country. Today the first part of the task includes deciding on a name, emblem and motto for her country. To accomplish this task Natasha  has to use Key Competencies such as understanding language symbols and text . In order to create a name, emblem and motto for her country she has to show curiosity by researching how existing countries around the world got their names, emblems and mottos. By using the internet to research Natasha  shows that she is capable of using technology to execute a given task. Natasha  is also...

Learners: Shaun, Nehaal, Shreya, Natasha & Amin     Learning Coach: T.Dillner/K.McCann           Date: 16.10.15 Learning Area: iDevelop - Maths Learning Observed and Vision Principles In Maths, the Green group has recently been learning about fractions and how these can be represented as a shaded area of a whole or as a numerical value (decimal). Shaun, Nehaal, Shreya, Natasha and Amin were given a set of cards to make sets to represent all of the different ways to show a fractions value. They all showed that they were curious about this concept as they remained engaged with the task, giving their full attention to seeing it through to the end. All five learners had to collectively share their knowledge and collaboratively match all of the cards correctly. From this, they were able to see the connections between the different ways a fraction can be recorded. Evidence of learning Next Learn...

Learner: Genevieve, Aimee & Natasha                                     Learning Coach :DWilkes       Date:  Sept 2015- Week 8-10                                                      Learning Area: Technology Learning Observed For the past few weeks the learners have been engaged in an innovation station!  The learners were given the choice of 4 provocations which included: creating an Ormibot from scratch, designing an object in Tinkercad to print in the 3D printer, designing a Science experiment or...