What is the Kaupeka Hub About?

In the Kaupeka Hub we have 66 people who are all year 7/8's. In the Kaupeka Hub we have an open space learning area with cushions, whiteboard tables, high tables and TVs on the wall. We use Chromebooks for most of our work and we can chrome cast onto them to show our work. Here is a link to my week two timetable, Timetable. PBL stands for Project Based Learning one of the things we did for it was a political campaign and the party I was in which was called The Right Party was the second most popular party. The party that won was called The Positive Party, but they had to have a coalition with The Right Party and The Black and White Party. At the end of the year you would know what collaborating means and how to do it because you have to work in groups with people you don't normally work with. My favourite space is the breakout space because you can go in it to work in a group or individually, if you want a quiet space. My proudest moment of this year was when we had to finish all are work to get to go to Flip Out. In the Kaupeka hub we normally work in groups and we have to try and work with most people in our hub.

Is your school like this?

My Political Party's Campaign

At St Francis we elected a Prime Minister because we made political party's and the party I was in, was called The Right Party. We then formed a coalition with The Positive Party and The Black and White Party. The Positive Party had the most votes so they didn't need many more votes. I learnt that in politics you have to do a lot more to try and get people to vote for you and that you have to do lots of things to campaign. I think we should of thought of more important things to get people to vote for us and to take more time to campaign. I think we did the poster best as well as designing our logo. It was also the thing that I most enjoyed doing. I didn't enjoy going around the hubs telling everyone what we aim to do. If we do it I would want to choose our party's instead of the teachers choosing them.

Would you enjoy doing something like this?

Giving back to the community

In the Kaupeka Hub, we were put into groups of four or five and we had a group in the community that we had to focus on. The group we got was neighbours. Doing this the most important thing we learnt was how to collaborate well with each other. I think we should of spent more time writing the letter and making the form. We worked best when we were figuring out how we would learn how to help the neighbours of our school. The part I most enjoyed was going out of school to deliver the letters to our neighbours. The thing I didn't enjoy was when we had to sit with our group when we're eating and having to answer questions. If we could change it to make it more enjoyable I would want to sit with my friends everyday instead of sitting in our community groups.

What would you want to change?

Flip Out

At the end of Term Three everyone who had finished all their work got to go to Flip Out for a fun morning. I enjoyed Flip Out because we got a whole day out of school doing things I enjoyed. Before we left Flip Out we took a picture with some people doing a flip in the front of the picture. I hope we have another day out of school for people who have finished all their work because everyone tries to get their work finished. After Flip Out we went to Technology because it was a Monday. I was finishing my pillow that day in sewing. 

Would you have enjoyed doing things like that?