Walker Learning Workshop

Today we hosted over thirty educators from Wellington, Whanganui, Levin and the Wairarapa.

Shona Bass from Melbourne presented an excellent workshop on Learning Through Play and all the junior school teachers were lucky enough to attend.

Our staffroom took on a new look.

Student Writing

Some classes at Redwood School love to play The Game of Awesome.
We get wacky ideas and put them together to make up stories.

Some students in Room 19 wrote stories using the prompts -
catman, hacking the internet,  the reeking sewers and  blue tongue


This is Ngaru's story:

There was a little grumpy kitten in London. One day he got lost and ended up in a nuclear plant. He jumped into mutating acid, that's how he became Cat-man. Two days after, cat-man went for a walk. In the blink of an eye cat-man got kidnapped and went through this disgusting, gross, mouldy and

reeking sewer. Then when he got up, cat-man was tied to a chair. He could see someone hacking into the internet. Cat-man got so mad he broke the chair and ripped out the man's blue tongue.

And this is Lucy's story:

Once upon a time in Pennsylvania, at the nuclear power plan a tiny yellow kitten was walking near the toxic waste barrels and inhaled the toxic smells.  Suddenly the tiny kitten’s tail started to shrink and it started to walk on its legs.  Thus was born Cat-man!

Cat-man became a social outcast and was forced to retreat to the sewers.  When he first entered the sewers, the smell was so over-powering that Cat-man’s tongue turned blue! 

A few years later Cat-man started to live in the sewers.  He had installed lighting and electricity.  He had also installed a TV and computer.  The last step was to hack into Pennsylvania’s internet and get it into the sewer.  First he had to sneak into a local home and get their internet number. 

At the fall of the sun and the rise of the moon, Cat-man hurried down an alleyway and POW! He butted a pesky stray cat away!  He scampered in through a cat flap and peeked at the internet number, grabbed some food and shot through the cat flap back into the night.  A few cat minutes later …. Cat-man sat down at the computer and munched a bag of chips, typed in the internet number and watched Netflix.