Element ary Dear Watson

Yeahaaa...the penny drops.   God bless you Sir Ken Robinson, for your work in The Element.
For years, I`ve heard my Mum in particular, talk about people being in their element. 
Now Sir Ken has taken it further for me and trillions of others, as outlined in his book, The Element.
Soooooo, back to work on Monday, with young children and I`m going to work REALLY hard to find their Element(s) - quick smart.   Some will and are, be obvious, others I`ll need to pull on all my skills and experience to find those, in others.
Thank you Sir Ken.   Thank you Lorraine for loaning me The book.   You are a gem.
I`m going to buy myself a copy to read again and again and again and have it available for others.    

How can we help?

In January 1978, I lived in Christchurch, after returning from 2 years O.E.   There were teachers coming out of the wood-work and I was fortunate to get relieving work at Phillipstown and Wainoni schools.   I spent the best part of a term and a half at Wainoni when Mr Bruce was Principal.   Here on the East-side of Rotorua, we are looking to adopt a school on the East-side of Christchurch to do what we can for and with them.   Initiative from Anne-Marie from Mokoia Intermediate and so our school council will be mobilising to get in behind this idea.   It would be great for me, if it was Wainoni that Lynmore could adopt as I`d love to make contact with that school again, after all these years.

The Bean Counters

Here are some shots of a group of councillors counting the money they collected from 24 classes at Lynmore Primary School, Rotorua.   They organised a mufti-day to raise funds to send to Denison State School, Emerald, Queensland, Aussie, to use towards fixing their library, damaged in the recent floods.

True ANZACs

Lynmore School council organised a mufti day, last Friday, (19.2.11), to raise funds for Denison State School, Emerald, Queensland, Aussie, to assist with fixing their damaged library, from the floods of January.   It raised A$200.00 for them.

We also heard from the Principal of Middle Kinglake primary school, Victoria, who lost 3 of their students in the Black Saturday fires of 2 years ago this week, that their new school was opened.   The Lynmore school council organised a coin trail and raised around $200.00 aussie dollars for them as well.   One of the school councillors visited Middle Kinglake school with her family and was shown around their temporary accommodation.   We congratulate the Middle Kinglake school community for their courage, faith and hard work and their belief that they would build a new school...and remember the lost children of those horrendous fires.   Mrs Cook, the Principal, also passed on her condolences for the victims and families of the latest earthquake that hit Christchurch on Tuesday.

The true ANZAC spirit lives on in the children.    

Merry Christmas from Wendy Elf

Coin trail and mufti day to raise funds for the miners` families

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So proud of the Lynmore School council, who organised a coin trail and mufti day to raise funds for the families of the miners, who have died in Pike River Coal mine, near Westport on the west coast of the south island, N.Z.

It`s everywhere, it`s everywhere!

Just been down town to have a look around.   Bumped into an old friend, from when I first went to Lynmore School in 1994.   This colleague used to work for Life Education Trust, as a teacher in the travelling classroom.   We caught up with what we have been doing...I shared how my own PD has been in ICT.   He asked who was taking the cluster in the contract we were in.   Bingo!   He knew our facillatator.   We talked on about the neat web 2.0 tools that are available for us and the kids with whom we share time and space.  
On the way home, I was thinking to myself, wow, this is the first time, I have spoken with someone else, outside of my school colleagues or those linked with school, about ICT.   To me, that seems a  big shift in my everyday learning.   I don`t expect to sit and chat about web 2.0 tools, outside the Warehouse.   Ha, ha!   I love it!