Successful Fundraising June 25, 2009

Thank you to the Best of the Best promoters for their donation.
Thank you also to the 30 people who rostered to waitered the event, removing and washing plates, as well as socialising and glimpsing bits of the event.

It was great and rewarding

S.T.A.R. term 2 INVENTIONS June 19, 2009

 Awesome chindogus! Maia helped me with the captions but I need your help for descriptions. To contribute, leave a comment, the page will be updated with it

Amber modelling Acacia's invention

 

Ryan's portable bookholder

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Michaela's "Get rid of your food-inator" (c)

 

 

Do you not like what’s on your plate?  With the “Get rid of your food-inator” you can secretly push your food through the hatch and down the pipe, into the dog’s bowl without anyone knowing!

SCM's chindogu

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sean modelling Cameron's invention

Amber's invention

Celebrating Gifted Awareness Week 14-20 June June 10, 2009

Maia's Chindogu invention

Check out this Moustache Brush and Beard Curler!
The Upper Clutha S.T.A.R. programme kids are creating Japanese Chindogu inventions – useless (or are they?). Click to see more of their works ( micronations) and what they think about S.T.A.R.

Danielle Nicholson, facilitator of the S.T.A.R. programme, is offering an information evening for interested parents and members of our community to share and discuss how we identify gifted children. Come along Wed 24th June, 7.00pm, room 12A, Wanaka Primary School.

The S.T.A.R. (Students Thinking Achieving Reaching ) programme enables children professionally assessed as gifted, to gather once a week for a programme designed to meet their emotional, ethical, social and academic needs. Research shows that gifted children learn in a different way, often need help to achieve, and thrive when they are working with like minded peers. This programme is administered by Central Otago REAP.

Children are born gifted – regardless of their socio-economic or cultural groups. The future of the S.T.A.R. programme is threatened by lack of funding – can you help save this valuable programme? Donations, big or small, can be made by contacting Central Otago REAP 0800 267 327 or admin@coreap.org.nz

Information evening ~ Wednesday 24th June June 9, 2009

For GIFTED AWARENESS WEEK, Danielle Nicholson will be offering an information evening on WEDNESDAY 24TH JUNE at 7pm in Room 12A for interested parents and members of our community to share and discuss the criteria behind the identification of ‘gifted’ children.

COMPETITION to celebrate Gifted Awareness Week June 8, 2009

(c) Tall Poppies

To celebrate Gifted Awareness Week (14 – 20 June 2009), the New Zealand Association for Gifted Children is running a competition to celebrate gifted kids, their families and professional educators. Click here to open Gifted Awareness Week Competition Flyer.

 The theme for our primary school children is The Tall Poppy:
Provide a story, poem or artwork (or a digital photo of an artwork) on this theme.

The theme for Parents of Gifted Children Living with a gifted child is…
Provide an artwork or short (less than 100 words) answer, poem, or story to this statement.

 Give it a go!  Win a $50 book voucher and your entry published!

S.T.A.R. students thoughts June 5, 2009

For those that would like to use the kids thoughts for applications and our blog site, here are the parental approved comments. Wow what amazing kids we have and isn’t it great to actually read what they really think about it ?

Click here to read S.T.A.R. student thoughts

Excursion To The Local Recycling Centre June 2, 2009

Helena says: We went to Wanaka Wastebusters for “The Meeting of the Minds” last week. (“The Meeting of the Minds” is a chance for us to catch up with other gifted students from Central Otago). The team at Wanaka Wastebusters work very hard! I could not believe how much rubbish was there – I was especially amazed by the amount of technological rubbish (such as computers and printers). The team showed us the process of recycling all sorts of rubbish. (This was very interesting) and how a single unsquashed plastic bottle with its lid on can make a half tonne crate of compressed plastic explode!

Danielle wrote: "Here are the photos Jilly took while we were at the Wastebusters---looking into the considerations inventors need to have made to ensure their invention does not have a major negative impact on the environment. We also viewed some socalled worthless items and how they could become valuable to us if adaptations were made."