Ti Kouka QR Code Project Completed

Finally! My QR code project is done. I had an idea to create a QR code to link information about the cabbage trees at Burnside High School. I was really excited to get the help from three students from the Kapahaka group who recorded the voice over. The information is from the City Council website. The older photo is from the last harvest on the farmland before the school was built circa 1960.

The QR codes are laminated and attached to the seats by the cabbage trees. Feel free to wander past and scan them or perhaps try this one below.  If this link is broken and it doesn't connect to the video
here is the VIMEO LINK

Remembering Nelson Mandela - A Great Totara has fallen in the forest.

There are many inspirational quotes that are attributed to Nelson Mandela. There are two of these below. For many people he has always been known as an old man. He was 72 when he was released from prison on February 11th, 1990. But many others remember him as a younger man, and he was when he was imprisoned for 27 years. President Obama said today "he makes me want to be a better man". Because of him, we are all inspired to be better people.

Images from Huffington Post

Year 9 Top Team Competiton

Last week all the Year 9 students took part in a Top Team events day. South Division colour is red which is why the boys below are dressed in red.

Shaun, Emerson and friend.

Making the world an Awesome place by 9SBd

Today Mr Stokes and myself had the exciting job of teaching 9SBd, because their usual fabulous teacher,Ms McColl, was away. We watched two clips from blogs and then wrote our own suggestions for ways to make the world an awesome place.
  Ways to make the World/Christchurch/Burnside High School
                                   AWESOME
Some suggestions for school 
 Any hair colour we want/teachers have a treasure box with things in it we can get when we are good/free wifi/no uniform/ Free food/able to choose some of our classes so we met different people/later start to school or early finish/you can eat in class/a period of free time so you can do something you really like(20%Google time)/order lunch/listen to music when you work/stop bullying/more sporting opportunities for kids with disabilities
 Some suggestions for Christchurch
 More stuff for people our age to do/theme park/more ice cream shops/more youth centres/amusement parks/something better than going to the mall every weekend 
Some awesome inventions for the future 
 teleporter/time travel/cancer cure/cars that run on water/pet robots/portable airbag - so if you are in an accident you don’t get injured/clothes printer/robot miners/anti bullying software/a machine to transform carbon dioxide into oxygen to weaken the effects of global warming/a lawnmower powered by lawnclippings/a cellphone which projects a keypad and screen

 (we watched kidpresident http://msheenglish.blogspot.co.nz/2013/12/a-pep-talk-from-kid-president-to-you.html from the Ti Kouka blog and Cyborg kid http://theshedbhs.blogspot.co.nz/search/label/Technology from The Shed blog)

Thanks 9SBd - You all were AWESOME!
Ms H and Mr Stokes

A Pep Talk from Kid President to You

Felix Baumgartner's supersonic freefall from 128k' - Mission Highlights

Is presenting your speech in class as scary as this??

Dinovember - Creative parents bring kids’ dinosaurs to life each night

Two Creative parents in Kansas City have created Dinovember where they create Dinosaur adventures for their children to discover in the morning.Keeping children's imagination alive-Fantastic!