Week One Challenge

In Waka Whanake we are starting the year by completing co-operative challenges. By doing these challenges we hope to build lots of skills that we will need during the year.

 We need to learn how to:

·        Create a plan

·        Solve problems and work together with different people

·        Take sensible risks

·        Ask questions

·        Research a problem

·        Share ideas

·        Reflect and evaluate our plans

In Waka Whanake we aim to be Curious, Confident and Co-operative learners.

In Week One we completed our first challenge in groups of 4. Miss Fraser and Mrs Mason gave us 2 pieces of A2 paper and challenged us to get our whole team from one side of the hall to the other without touching the floor. We thought it was going to be impossible!

First we brainstormed in our groups. We had to all agree on a plan we thought would work. We wrote and drew our plan on a piece of paper. This was quite tricky and we learnt to listen to all of our team members.

After lunch, we went to the hall and put our plans into action! There were very different and creative ideas.

 

 

Some of our plans worked really well and other plans needed changing. In the end, we all made it across to the other side of the hall. Back in class we reflected on our plans. We thought about what worked well, what didn’t work so well and what we would do differently next time.

We learnt that you have to listen to everyone in your team and make sure everyone gets the chance to share their opinion. We also learnt that the first idea isn't always the right idea so we have to negotiate and modify our plans.