Narrative Assessment - Eye on Nature

Narrative Assessment - Eye on Nature

Learner:   Toni                                                Learning Coach:  Mrs Croll                     Date:  4 April 2017                                          Learning Area:  Science

Learning Experience: On Tuesday 28th March, Toni attended the Eye on Nature event at the Auckland Botanic Gardens.   The purpose of this trip was to provide Toni with a variety of learning opportunities so that she may gain a deep understanding and appreciation of the fundamental processes that support life on the planet and to become a guardian of his living environment.

4Cs and Key Competencies: Collaborating with others to create a healthy lunchbox and solve a food-plant activity. Finding answers to his  curiosities through exploration and questions.   Toni learned how to hold a fish correctly so that it is not damaged.  Then, he may return it to the sea if he doesn’t need to keep it.   Developing his capabilities as a scientist by grouping plants, animals and other living things into science-based classifications. Toni learned about several  butterflies and their preferred habitat, as well as participating in a game to match the flower with the fruit, e.g. pea. Toni went on a bush walk and was introduced to a variety of native birds and the trees.  He learned which trees the birds  liked to feed from and live in.

Next Steps: Share his learning with an audience, e.g. blog post, hui presentation Investigate an area of interest in an iExplore Support environmental activities around the school

Learner: Toni                    Learning coach: Margaret Patrick         Date: June, 2016

Learning Area:   Swimming                                                           Narrative Learning story

Learning Observed

Toni has been attending swimming lessons at the Otara Community pool over the last 8 weeks. Over the 8 weeks he connected with his tutor Tui and built a trusting relationship with her. He collaborated and cooperated with her requests consistently.  Toni was able to propel himself forward independently at the start of his first class and was grouped accordingly. His first goal was to focus on creating rocket arms and swimming kicking while blowing bubbles into the water.  He progressed to using a kickboard and being capable of using over arm stroking with his face into the water and rolling to breathe. At the same time Toni was learning to float on his back. During his last class Toni was able to collaborate with the others in his group and float on his back, arms outstretched linked to make a star shape and float for 40secs. At his evaluation session Toni demonstrated that he was capable of swimming using overarm freestyle and kicking for 10 meters. During the Water Safety week he enjoyed the sensation of floating using a life jacket and joined in and contributed to his group forming a ladder and huddle replicating what a group of survivors would do in the ocean to keep warm. It was unfortunate that Pranjal missed some lessons as he needed to rebuild confidence in his previous learnt skills but when he attended he used his self managing skills organising his swimming gear.

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Using a kickboard rolling onto his side, breathing then stroking arms high and touching his ears and kicking face in the water for 3 strokes and repeating. Floating on his back with a kickboard on his front and using backstroke arms high and touching his ears then grasping his kickboard. Swimming freestyle with rolling and breathing 15 meters. Swimming  backstroke independently using arm strokes every 5 kicks.   Family taking him to the local pools so he can keep up skills and enjoy the water.

Toni, Tristan, Seline & Alesha's Connected Challenge Learning Story

Learners: Toni, Tristan, Seline & Alesha     Learning Coach: T.Dillner            Date: 5.2.16

Learning Area: iExperience - Relating to Others

Learning Observed

This term our focus is on how we can be connected citizens. To introduce this, the Learning Coaches set up a series of challenges for the learners to complete. Each challenge was worth a different amount of points and the teams had to work together to get the highest amount to win. One task was to get all team members to cross the ‘Nile River’ (the width of one netball court) using only three hoops. Toni, Tristan, Seline & Alesha had to discuss ways to make this work before attempting it. They needed to think about how their words, actions, attitudes and ideas impacting the success of the team. Each learner was able to act in a collaborative way in order to achieve the joint goal of crossing the ‘river’. They were capable of devising a method to connect their strengths and remain safe from the Nile Crocodiles!

Evidence of learning

Next Learning Steps

Swap roles so other members of the team retrieve or replace the hoops. Make a point to do some iDevelop learning with one of their team members and build this relationship.