“Good morning everyone!” Mrs Fawler said as the principal of The Gardens School. “Could everyone please stand u-“ oh! I didn’t see you there! I see that you are a new student at The Gardens School! “Chanel be quiet!” The teacher said, “Meet me at morning tea” I said and once we got sent off I saw her but she looked a bit lost… “hey!” She waved and then we went to go to morning tea.
“Do you want to see the chickens up there near the garden?” “You have chickens?!” Yeah, it kinda sounds funny, they’re Mrs Davies, she teaches the piwaks and tui’s. I told her to look up to the traffic lights below the library, “red means eat your morning tea, orange means clean up your area if you have finished eating and green means you raise your hand and when the teacher who is on duty says you can go you put away your lunch. This is where we eat each lunch and morning tea, this area is called Central Park. After the bell rang we went to the bleaches and the teachers told us where to go. In fact, I was in the same lab as her in middle block! The teacher gave us our follow up and then we flew off to the sdl space. She wasn’t here for a few days so I helped her catch up after our follow up. I asked if she wanted to go to the makerspace and build something. When we finished eating and got told that we were allowed to go she had her shoe laces untied! Not soon after she fell! I told her to come with me and we went to the triage first aiders. They put the spray onto her grazed knee and then put a plaster on it and she looked happier than ever.
It was getting closer to the end of the day and for her first day of school she did way better than me. The next day she had p.e and somehow she already knew to get changed and was all set for p.e at the end of the day, she was on a roll! She told me she didn’t have breakfast this morning because she had woken up later than she normally does, luckily we have breakfast club! This is for children who didn’t have time to have breakfast in the morning so they made it so that everyone can start the day with breakfast and not an empty stomach. It was a Friday and her mother got her lunch from the kakapo cafe since her mother knew she wouldn’t have time to make lunch. I was making the lunches for my job and once I saw her name on one of the serving bags I was proud that she already knew what to do. When she was doing her job application I saw that she signed up for and once they announced the job applications, I heard her name and she got accepted! Later on she asked, “what is this badge that I received at the assembly?” It was her wings badge, “It means WONDER, INNOVATIVE, NURTURE AND SUCCEED”. Then it was 45 more minutes until it was the end of the day. She had to go to a meeting because she was In pasifika AND band!!
She was really focused and independent during self directed learning time (SDL). She has already settled in and made some new friends! It was very delightful how she was staying on top of work and doesn’t need to go to work it out club, in fact she goes to house games every friday because of this reason. If you received news about having a new a new person coming into your group, what would you do and how would you act?