A Reflection of Our Akomanga Kaihanga Journey During Term 2

  Akomanga Kaihanga Journey

                          

Hi My Name is Cherry Bacia, I'm a year 10 and I'm studying in Tamaki College. Today, I'm going to reflect our Akomanga Kaihanga Journey Group Projects and this happens during term 2. On our group projects we got  team got four members and the name of our team is "Visual Arts" and the people in my team are Leanah, David, Neveah and me.

My team's main idea is "how might we make our school a more vibrant space?". Our point is that we want to make our school more colourful like the other places or just like other schools, we want to make students in our school to be happy, inspired by showing the result of our project challenge, also we make our school more vibrant by painting benches around school. The resources that we used to make our school more vibrant space are paint, aprons, brushes, and drop cloths.

Our design thinking process that we took to answer our how might we question are to "Ideate" and "Prototype". To define our challenge, we had to come up with ideas as a group on how we could make our school environmentally friendly and vibrant. We use ideate because the process we used to figure out what we wanted our project to be about was brainstorming amongst ourselves and each coming up with different ideas that we could implement, and our prototype is that we had to write a proposal for Neil during our prototyping process. We had to make a comparison between the Glen Innes benches and the benches we have around the school for the proposal. Our original project was completely reworked, which was an unexpected outcome. Initially, we planned to hold a competition between houses, with the winning designs being painted on bins throughout the school. Due to lack of time, we chose to concentrate on making our school more colourful.

We were overjoyed because we received positive feedback from students, staff, caretakers, and teachers. We hadn't expected the students to like it, so we decided to paint all of our school's benches in the future or during present. We just need some improvements just like better time management, more participation in group discussions and activities, but our key learning skills is how to write a proposal and how to paint over timber.

When it came time for our showcase, I was so nervous because I knew we needed to be positive when we presented, but I wasn't presented when I read our project. Our families, on the other side, were incredibly proud of us because we did everything we could to demonstrate to them that their children can make our dreams come true and that we are doing the right thing, just like the other groups. We want to make our parents proud, just as we want to make ourselves proud.

We could improve our teamwork and communication skills so that we can complete some group project work on time, and maybe ask someone in our group to help us work out what to do so that we can do it better. We also want to improve is our confidence because we are very shy in front of others and to each other as a team.

Overall, the first rotation of project-based learning during term 2 taught me that we can even help each other as a team and that we need more time to work on our tasks. We also need to improve our shyness into being a positive person or a positive team so that we can do better than we did before. It is important for us to learn these things because they provide us with help and allow us to get to know each other better. Helping yourself is a key word in developing confidence and Dream is also an important word in realising your dreams.

Blog Post Two: The Akomanga Kaihanga Showcase: Team Island Skittles

On Thursday 23rd July from 5pm - 7pm, you and your team presented to an audience of parents, staff and stakeholders your projects.  If you were away for any of it, you need to talk to members of your team to help you with your blogpost - your blogpost could be interview questions and answers of your team about the showcase (see example at the end).

In your SHOWCASE  blog post, you need to include the following:

Questions

Write your blogpost here!

Describe the order of events.  Discuss the speeches and waiata at the start of the evening.  How do you think it went? Describe your part in the presentations.  What did you do? What were the order in presentation?  What did your team members do? What was the atmosphere like (to you)?  Do you think the audience understood your message? What feedback did you get on your presentation from the audience? Reflection What did you do well? What did you team do well? What would you want to do differently next time? Why? Overall, how did you feel about the showcase?  What did you learn from the whole process of planning and presenting about yourself?  What capabilities did you learn? Explain your answer. What advice would you give to yourself if you could turn back time to before the planning and presentations.

If I’m describing the events I would say in one work was perfect because the speech and the waiata at the start of that evening was very good because we make an effort of it and we make our parents proud and they will always support us no matter what is our decision in our life. In my part of our presentation, I did the speech and I also helped my team. The order in our presentation was Mary was presenting the whole team, David was talking about the challenges that we did, then Leanah and Paikea was doing our planning which is behind the scenes, then Mathew was doing the Outcomes and the last one was me so I’m doing the Reflection and the capabilities that we gained. Atmosphere was like to me as I did my best and I’m doing everything to help my parents. I’m sure that the audience likes/loves our presentation. The feedback that we got for our presentation that was from the audience was good and many more (but I can’t remember some of the feedback). Reflection While we are presenting our group project we did our best even though we are nervous and we work as a team and that’s the team that went well for all of us. For me what I want to do differently next time is having a music club because I know that every child/children have good voices and they can do more better if they try to do the music club. Overall, I feel that I’m happy and proud because we really did our best, we never give up and if I’m given a chance we would like to do is music club next time because we all have good voice that the others don’t know about. The capabilities that I learned were cooperation because as a team we always need to cooperate with a group and work together. If I’m giving myself advice it would be never give up and if I know what I want, I will achieve it and I will be goal oriented. My other advice is that let’s all fight our problems and always think positive because God has blessings that they always give to us.

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.