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!

Council Think Tank - 2010 Lynmore School council - Term 3

Here we are, in a council meeting at Lynmore School`s Library, during Term 3, 2010 and a few of councillors delivering their reports to their buddy class.   Photos taken by Mr Ryves Hunt, A.P.  of the Think Tank meeting in the Library.    Brainstorming, Venn diagrams to compare and contrast...all wonderful thinking and co-operating to overcome challenges at the school.



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This, has got to be one of the greatest ways for some people to record some of their learning journal.   I have up-loaded the code for Sir Ken Robinson`s presentation about the shift in paradigm in education, on another blog./www.classblogmeister.com/blog_edit.php?userid=167810.   They are brilliant and better still, very soon they are going to provide a PDF on how they were developed.   You can buy a copy of them on-line as well so I`ll get one of those.
I`m thinking I can introduce them with mind-maps and other sorts of graphic organisers.   I`ll get lots of copies once I get a copy of the original so the kids can have their own.
Brilliant!   I love them.