Visual Language

Merit 2017 leadership House Captain #5

The second thing the house captains need to do in the morning is put out the bins. By this I mean the house bins, the ones for the challenge we created. Firstly we need the keys, as the place where they are put is locked. We open the gate and, taking one to two bins each, wheel them out to the front of room 11 where they spend the rest of the day until the other group of house captains responsible for putting the flags and bins away, puts them away.

The care values I show while doing this are Active Thinking by actually remembering to do it and Respect by respecting the school because we are encouraging students to clean up the school.

Merit 2017 leadership House Captain #4

Every morning Tracy, Amelia, Sophie and I put out the flags and bins. When we get to school we do the flags together, sometimes just with 2 or 3 of us. First we open both doors to the  radio room, then we get out the flags and take them to the flag poles(they're not exactly flag poles but I don't know what to call them). We then put them up (there are 6 of them), before closing the door and going to either to the bins of go back to class.

The care values I show when doing this are Community by working together and Active Thinking by each doing the same amount so we finish at roughly the same time.

Leadership Writing Article

In writing I have been learning to use a wide range of punctuation appropriately and with increasing accuracy like . , ! ? “”
- colon :
- semi-colon ;
- hyphen -
- parentheses ( )
- brackets [ ]
- ellipses ...

I have been especially focusing on using parentheses and semi-colon. I have highlighted these in green where I have used them as well as other punctuation that I changed because it was used incorrectly. Here is a piece of my writing that shows this:

Leadership is a skill of being able to motivate people/teams to work towards a goal.The six traits of an effective leader are integrity, resilient, trustworthy, goal focused, motivational and active thinker. My key leadership role for 2017 is a House Captain(for Rimu). We lead the houses and organise games and activities for the school. This year we are doing a project to contribute to the school, motivating people to pick up rubbish and not litter the school grounds.

One leadership trait of an effective leader is motivational. Being motivational means you are able to give people reasons for doing something and inspire them to do it. An amazing example of a leader that has shown they are motivational is Richie Mccaw. He has motivated people not just in New Zealand but around the world to play and support rugby by leading the All Blacks to victory many times. As a house captain it is very important to be motivational as we need to lead our houses and get them interested in how their house does. I am going to become more motivational by improving my public speaking; it is definitely not my strong point. Leading by example is also a possible way to show I am motivational. Another vital trait for a house captain is trustworthy.

Being Trustworthy is an important skill for any leader. It is being reliable to do what is needed or right. Sir Edmund Hillary showed he could be relied upon to keep his word by showing he could climb Mt Everest like he said he would. Being Trustworthy is an extremely important trait for a house captain to have. We are trusted to do things such as running games and organising some parts of events. I will try to finish things when I say I will and run games as successfully as possible. I need to remember to put out the flags with the other house captains. As a house captain, another trait I will definitely need to show is active thinker.

Being an Active Thinker is about being able to problem solve and think creatively. Peter Jackson has shown that he is an active thinker by thinking creatively in his movies, such as the hobbit. As a movie director, he also needs to be able to problem solve in the event of anything going wrong. It is critical for a house captain to also be an active thinker, as often we have to quickly think of an interesting game to run, or occasionally think of something to say on the spot. I might also need to problem solve at any time. I’ll try to think of engaging games to run, come up with good ideas, and, of course, problem solve. Having good problem solving skills is vital.

Finally, I will show motivational by inspiring my house; as well as improving my public speaking of course! I’ll be an active thinker by thinking creatively, and problem solving. Most importantly, I’ll be Trustworthy by running games as well as I can, and remember to do things I say I will. As I’ve already covered, these three traits, as well as the other three, are necessary to be sure of being successful house captain.

Merit 2017 Leadership House Captain #3

On Wednesday we had the Run, bike, run at westlake park. All the students from year 4 to 8 went. As a house captain I had to run a game. Amelia and I ran multiple games of french cricket.
In the run, bike run I did individual. We had to run around the main lake once, bike around the field and both lakes, and finally run around the field. I came second in the 12yr old girls.

Thre care values I showed were Active Thinking by running a succsessful game and Community by helping the other house captains with their games.

Merit 2017 #3

On Thursday instead of going to tech I went to the swim trials at jelly park. I competed in freestyle and backstroke. I came third in both events. What we did first once we got there was do the roll, then we went inside. I already had togs on underneath so, unlike some people, I didn't have to get changed. 

After a little while, we had some time to do a warm up in the pool. I practised dives and also swam a couple of lengths.

The care values I showed were Excellence by trying my best and Community by cheering other people.

Merit 2017 leadership House Captain #2

This week Mrs McLeod was taking the student leaders for leadership. First the house captains finished the slideshow we created to share the rubbish bin challenge with the rest of the school. We are going to share this at assembly next Monday(at the full school assembly). We practiced by sharing our idea with the rest of the student leaders. The chrome cast wasn't working very well. After that we played a game called Hotseat. In this game one person sits on a chair in front of everyone else. They are assigned a character to act as. Everyone else asks them questions that they answer in character. I was the Big Bad wolf. Some other characters were Shrek, Little Red Riding hood and the Easter bunny.

The care values I showed  were Active Thinking in the game by thinking quickly to come up with answers to questions and also Community by working with the other house captains on the slide.

Merit 2017 #2

On Friday I did buddy program. We got  to meet our new buddies for 2017. First we all went to a classroom, 7 to each. Then we were all given 2-3 kids. First my group played with the Lego, then we all went outside and played on the playground. After that we tried  out some games without equipment, like sneak up granny and tricky tag.

The care values I showed were Community and Respect by listening to what the juniors said and involving them.

Merit 2017 #1

This week was the first week of technology. The group I am in is doing textiles and design first. Since it is the first week we spent most of the time setting goals for what we want to achieve during tech this year. I want to basically learn as much stuff about the subjects as possible.

We also started mandarin. It is in a different building with different teachers. We learnt about Chinese new year and a bit about spring festival. The colour red is important to Chinese people.

The care value I showed was active thinking by trying to learn more mandarin and remember most of the words.

Merit 2017 Leadership House Captain #1

This year I am a House captain. Today we watched a video about ideas for what project we will work on for the year.

Our idea is that to motivate people to pick up rubbish we would have a house competition. There is going to be four bins one for each house. They will be coloured according to house colours. We might fundraise for money to run it. Also have bonus rounds where tickets are hidden and students can earn house points for their house by finding it. This would motivate people to actually look for rubbish.

The care value I showed was active thinking by thinking of how to do our idea and community by working with the other house captains.

Term 1 Integrated Learning

We have been learning all about What makes a good leader.

 Here is a link to the Leadership modelling book. 

We identified that good leaders show 6 main character traits. These are integrity, trustworthy, motivational, active thinking, resilient and goal focused.

The leadership trait that I think I show the most is active thinker because if something doesn't work I try something else.

The leadership trait I would most like to develop is Motivational because I would like to motivate people more.

Something NEW I have learned about leadership is the leadership traits and what they mean.

The SOLO level that I reached during this unit of learning is extended abstract because in my exposition I evaluated the effectiveness of two leaders.

(see slide 2 of the leadership modelling book for this) 

My next step in learning about leadership is to apply everything that I have learned about leadership to my own leadership roles.