Celebration Assembly 3 June

Well done Room 2 and Ruma Whitu for your amazing Celebration Assembly yesterday. The range and quality of learning you shared was superb. I've put photos up on the school facebook page for everyone to enjoy. Well done those of you who received Principal's Awards for excellence - keep up the awesome learning.

Any parents who want high resoluation copies of the photos email me the title and I'll get them to you.

Mathletics Achievement

We've just had our first report on our usage of Mathletics. I must say, it is simply stunning to see the difference this online tool is making for our senior mathematicians. 

Below is a table summarising the usage and the amount of 'points' students are collecting as a whole when they get answers correct in the system. The star improvers is an interesting statistic, as it shows where students improved their results from trying things more than once.

Well done to the students and Linda, Kelly and Nathan for their great work with Mathletics.

Good example of our school value ACHIEVE - ANGITU in my view!

Term One 2011
School Curriculum Points	34493
Total School Certificates	193
Star Improvers*	617
Curriculum Summary
School Average First Score	70%
School Average High Score	94%
School Average Improvement	34%
Top Students in School - congratulations lads!!
First	Harley
Second	Carlito
Third	Kalani

*  Where a student has repeated a curriculum activity (answering a different set of questions) and improved their score

Week 6 Awards

Here is a shot of our assembly awards for this week. Congratulations to everyone who is always saying 'I can' and making a difference to their learning!

Assembly Item - Always Try Your Best

During Friday's athletics sports I was inspired by our students and staff. This event was a wonderful chance for our students to show their talents and passion for achieving and striving to be their best. I was also impressed with how well our students supported one another during the events. There is nothing quite like an entire school cheering each other on!

Below are some photos of Burnham School students trying their best to achieve during our athletics sports:

This led me to wondering, what is the relationship between how hard you try for something, and the chances you have for achieving it? I did a web search and found some really useful quotes about the importance of trying your best and being motivated. Here is a quote for you to consider, please put your own ideas as comments to this post below:

"Winning isn't everything, but wanting to win is."  by Vince Lombardi from Inspirational-Quotes.info 

What does this mean for your learning and how can you use this to help you?


(Click here to view more shots from athletics...)