Environmental Expo - Thank You

Here is a message Sue received from the organiser of this event:

Dear Sue,
 
Thank you so much for making Ecoexpo New Zealand's inaugural event such a success.  We were  quite overwhelmed to see so many children take part in The Wearable Art show and also the quality of the garments, you really were the stars of the weekend. We are already planning the next event and the creative juices are flowing once again to see how we can make the next one even more spectacular.  I will be in touch with you when those thoughts have been formalised.  I would love the opportunity to come and visit your school and see some of the other initiatives you have under taken with regards to "saving our planet".
 
We have now calculated that slightly more than 4,000 people attended the Expo over the 2 days. And from the information we gathered through our survey we now know that over 90% of the survey respondents felt the event was either very good or good and that 74% have said they would attend the next Eco Expo.
 
We will have a series of photo's of the Expo appearing on our website shortly, also we are just getting some copies of The Wearable Art show made - they are not professional, Kim videoed it for our personal record but I will get a copy to you when they are completed.
 
Thank you once again Sue, you must be very proud of your students.
   
 
Kind regards
 
Anita Ritchie
 
For the EcoExpo New Zealand Team of Kim, Anita, Glen and Deryn.

Feedback for Sheldon and Alvin

We think that you have found some good information. Next time you could summarise the main points because it got kinda bouring. They needed to be more descriptive with the google searches that they did. next time you need to sort out who is going to say what. They really consintrated on their question on the subject of pollution.

Lucys & Berties inquiry sharing

Lucy: Should practice the words a bit more. Nice and loud. Try not to read the whole page, summarise a bit.

Bertie: Well practice/spoken. Maybe next time use a bit more expression. Nice and loud.

Overall feedback: It was good how they had interesting facts that still was about their question. Easy to follow with columns that are well spread out. Try to change the words into your own. Quality info. You presented it well.

How they organised their work:
It was easy to follow with the columns. It was good use of google docs.

Feedback

Feed back On emma and Nicky's power point

Interesting pictures

Good information they can understand some of the hard words need to change some of the words so they understand it better and know what there talking about.

Liked your presentation
Easy to understand

Didn’t explain why it is bad

Needed to search what temperatures they were talking about.

Jason and Nick feedback for Global warming

It was very good because of:

• how they have they have good info to use when they answer the qestion.
• how they showed the websites that they found.
• how they had the links set up beside the info that they found from that websites 

Next steps would probably to let Jason have a go at talking a saying what they are up to, and spread your information out more so it is easier to read and sort out. Plus start by sharing your question to show what you were looking for.

Feedback for the sharing of inquiry information - Elise and Daniel C

Elise: she did not say all of one of the sub question she just went blah blah blah instead of saying it all out.

Both: they wrote out all of there information really well and they talked really clearly. For each sub question they have made a separate chart for it so that you know that it is a new sub question, they have a box for the changes form the past and another one for now.

Things that they need to do better=
Elise: next time I think Elise should make sure that she says all of the sub question so that we don’t have to read it ourselves because that wasn’t what the sharing was for.

Feedback for the sharing of inquiry information - Matt, Daniel K & Sam

Sam: he read and spoke really clearly. He made sure that the whole class was listening before he talked.

Matt: He fixed the mistakes that he made, he read and spoke really clearly

Daniel K: he needs to tell the other people in his group that he needs to have a time to talk.

All: they made sure that they showed us all of the websites. It was good that they organized it in a google doc. They showed us what we might lose by caring on how we are. They made it sound like a good thing that the world is going to warm up.

Things that they need to do better=
All: they need to make sure that they make sure that everyone gets the same amount of time to talk in the group because Daniel K didn’t get to talk that much at all.

Feedback for the sharing of inquiry information - Clare

Both: They got a lot of information in their information organizer. They made sure that they .

Things that they need to do better=
Both: they didn’t change some of the words we could tell that they hadn’t changed it because they couldn’t pronounce them very well.

Clare: you need to make sure that you know how to pronounce the words so that we all know what she is talking about. I know that you-bin didn’t want to talk you need to make sure that she talks to get her English better.

My S.L.C by Lucy

I think my S.L.C went great. Because I got some great feedback from my mum I taught her some maths stratergies

I didn't get to do everything because my brothers had his S.L.C to. So next time I could shortine my SLC down or even take it home and share it with her.

I really enjoyed my S.L.C because I felt good about doing it and it made me feel really good about what I had learn't.

My favourite part of my S.L.C was when I showed her my maths stratiges.

When I showed her something and she asked me a qustion I could always tell her the anwser.

By Lucy.

From Richard and Deb (Elise's Parents)

I really enjoyed the Jigsaw Night. And didn't relise how much work you guys are doing in class!

We are going to Amercia Tommorrow and we all getting really excited!!!

Deb is going to the girls lunch today with Elise.

I probaly won't see you but Deb might today.

Deb and Richard(Elise's parents)

Sheldons Mums feedback for J.O.L

I found the Jigsaw of Learning to be outstanding alot of planning and organizing the quality of the work was very high. Most of the students were very confident and happy about sharing their work.

Well done team 14

Jigsaw of learning

Hi Team 14 - What a fantastic evening the other night. Great to see so many talented musicians, poets, actors and artists, you really should be proud of yourselves and well done to Rob & Claire for letting the kids get on with it. We're looking forward to further events with Team 14 throughout 2007.

Cheers Howard