Sunday, May 29, 2011

Life 101 by Mr. Reade

Each week, we have a special 'motto or life lesson'.
This is to be an encouragement to the children and to help them to be the best that they can be.

I f you missed the last few weeks here they are:

"What is in you will flow through you".

This lends itself to the idea that if you surround yourself in negativity, it has ways of becoming a part of our thoughts and words. It can affect those around us and ultimately spell disaster for us; therefore we must be surrounded by positivity and goodness in order to allow that to flow through our every being.

"You are what you believe".

This idea promotes the idea that if we have a dream, we should never give up on it. Work hard, knuckle down and set goals and we may harvest from that investment. We all have a seed of greatness within us and treated in the right manner (encouragement, self belief, motivation and passion), it can yeild awesome results.

"Our values guide our decisions and decide our success".

This thought just means that our value system is the core to our ability to succeed. If we are intent on cutting corners, cheating others, bad mouthing, giving up in tough times, then our ability to overcome adversary is severly compromised.

I am a huge believer that the children in my class are not a statistic, they are individuals with hopes and dreams. I see it as my job to help them (along with their families), to understand that they matter. That their input and participation in life will shape the world as we know it. As an adult, mentor, father, is this not our duty to support this idea?

Think about this, a lot of the worlds most influential people attribute their success to a parent, a simple idea or suggestion, a point in the right direction, a shoulder to cry on, a consistent supporter, a listener, an encourager, or even a teacher.

That means that I am in the business of developing 'History Makers'. "What an
honour"!!!

Monday, May 16, 2011

NYLD//11



Yesterday, we took a group of 12 young Apanui leaders to Rotorua for the annual 'National Young Leaders Day 2011'.


This event is designed to uplift, upskill and inspire our young people into embracing their leadership potential within their school and themselves. It consist of prominent and celebrity speakers giving testimonies of their own rise to leadership. The children are talked to about how to deal with difficulty and opposition.


As Mr Reade was unable to take these children this year, A huge thanks goes out to Mr Hamer and Mrs Moir who kindly stepped in to take the children to the conference. I would also like to extend my thanks to the Collier family for the use of their van to transport our leaders. Your kindness and generosity is part of the overall success of this great school. Thankyou!!

Welcome

A big welcome to Miss Brown, who is a student teacher from Awanuiarangi. She will be with us for 4 weeks learning the ropes about teaching.

We look forward to our time together and hope that she can take away great memories of our fantastic class.

(photo will follow shortly)

Monday, May 2, 2011

Meet Te Tirahou

Hi my name is Te Tirahou.

I like the bey Blades battle show

and my favourite fruit is oranges.


Here is a piece of my writing:


'Te Tirahou the tame tiger tackled the tatty tortoise'.