INTRODUCING KAREN SONG

Karen is very happy to join the Greymouth and Westport Campuses as the Learning Leader. She and her family have been living in Cambodia where she was serving as Acting Principal and Curriculum Specialist at an international elementary school. She and her husband have four children, three boys and a girl, who are ages 15, 12, and 10 year-old twins. Before living in Cambodia, her family spent two years living in the United States and four years living in Thailand. Karen is currently a student herself, working on her doctoral degree in Educational Change and Leadership from the University of Southern California. A fun fact about Karen is that even though she has four children, they only have two birthdays each year. Her first two were born on the same day three years apart!

USTUBE

USTube is up and running again in 2019. Here are the first videos demonstrating continued student growth and expertise as they continue to immerse themselves in a second language - Spanish. 

GIANNI

Gianni is starting to feel very comfortable in his new school. We went to Nelson for athletics and he participated in all activities and had fun doing so. Yesterday Gianni decided to have a turn at being the teacher. He stood in front of the class and wrote his instructions for baking, turned back to them, and pointed his finger. He enjoys watching zoom classes where he points his finger at the students and tells them to do their work.

REGIONAL ATHLETICS PRACTICE

NOT THE REGIONAL ATHLETICS DAY

Meanwhile, on the West Coast of the South Island, on Wednesday 3 April Greymouth, bathed in sunshine took the opportunity to host themselves in a ¨NOT the Regional Athletics Day¨.

The Y3-6 students who are exploring Change in different contexts during 2019, created some new games by changing up some old ones. The new games include; Scatterbat, Target Throw, Bounce-it Roll-it Hit-it and Ten Pin Toilet Rolls.

They invited some guest athletes to join them and had an awesome afternoon of fun, frivolity and sportsmanship.