Blog Post One: Planning and preparing for Akomanga Kaihanga Showcase: Team Island Skittles

From Monday to part of Thursday, we spent the majority of time in EP6 planning for the showcase.  This is important for you to write about so that we can learn from it and hopefully improve the process next time.

In your PLANNING AND PREPARATION blogpost, you need to include the following:

Questions	Write your blogpost here!
All about the poster! What...was the plan for your poster?  Who came up with plan/layout of the poster and why did they come up with that plan? Did the poster plan/layout change over the course of the planning days?  Why and how? Who was in-charge of the different parts of the poster? Why were they in charge of that part? What were the successes in your planning (name at least one)? (things that went well) What were the challenges in your planning (name at least one)? (things that could have been done better) Reflection:  Before it was sent to be printed, were you happy with your contribution to the poster?  Were you happy with the final poster itself?  Explain your answer. Video planning and table set-up! What...was the plan for your video and/or table set-up?  Who came up with plan/layout and why did they come up with that plan? Who was in-charge of the different parts of the poster? Why were they in charge of that part? Reflection:  Before it was sent to be printed, were you happy with your contribution to the poster?  Were you happy with the final poster itself?  Explain your answer.	The plan for our poster is water safety. Water Safety is something that we work together to teach children know how to swim and they can save themselves from drowning. One of our members suggested it and we chose to do water safety because we want children to know how to swim safely and properly so that they can show their skills in a proper way and to be confident. Yes, because this is for children’s safety and we plan it carefully and we’ve decided that we are doing the posters and some other ideas that we do to make everything work. We also share the pamphlets to tell them what plan we are doing for the children and maybe some of the teenagers don't know how to swim so that’s why we are here to teach them and support them. In our team we had different parts for the poster we had Leanah and she is doing organising meetings, Paikea she’s doing note taker, David he’s doing writing survey and then me I’m doing time keeper, then Mathew is doing Spokesperson and the last one was Mary and she’s doing the Scrum Master. We are in charge of that part so that we can work it done earlier and we work as a team and we battle as one. The success in our planning is that we share ideas, we work as a team, we never give up and all of us do the collaboration and cooperation. The challenges in our planning was that we are challenging ourselves and to get to know more better who we really are and that’s the challenge that we did and to also learn how to swim and how to teach children how to swim. Yes, I’m happy with my contribution because we just did our best as we could and we always think positive. Even though it’s hard to do it we need to have inspiration to finish it on time and our inspiration was our family because they give us strength and love. Video planning and table set-up! Our plan for the video and the table set-up is just simple because we just all put the pictures in the presentation and the table set-up is just colour blue. In our team we had different parts for the poster we had Leanah and she is doing organising meetings, Paikea she’s doing note taker, David he’s doing writing survey and then me I’m doing time keeper, then Mathew is doing Spokesperson and the last one was Mary and she’s doing the Scrum Master. We are in charge of that part so that we can work it done earlier and we work as a team and we battle as one. Yes, I’m very happy because we are already getting there to help some students learn how to swim and we really did our best. Even though it’s hard but we never give up, we fight as a team and we will finish it also as a team.