Thank you RI for your commitments to Service Week 2020!!

Service Week—Room 5 

This year, for Service Week, Room 5 came up with the idea to start a book drive. We collected books, wrote quotes, and sent three of our students (Wayne Zhuang, Milla Steele and Mary Malkova) to an after-school care centre, which is located at St Mary’s Catholic School.

TH4NK Y0U F0R 4N 4M4Z1NG Y34R. You helped us through out the year to fundraise for amazing causes. have a great rest of the year.

Every class has committed to do something for 2020 Service Week!!😁

Thank you for completing the google doc about what classes are doing for service week. We appreciate it a lot thank you again for getting involved. these are the things that classes are doing. We encourage every class to send us some photos.😁 

Room Service Initiative

1	Pick up rubbish each day after lunch
2	reading to kids at the play school down the road
3	Support Staff Service- tagging a staff member for DAKs
4	Helping John Smyth/David
5	Organising a Book Drive. All donations will be compiled and handed over to an After School Care Center, which is at St Mary's school in Ellerslie.
6	Setting up new chromebooks
7	Candy Cane Grams
8	Special Coffees for Teachers
9	Raffle- proceeds to St Johns
10	Welcome card to refugees and tunnel tidy up

Room Service Initiative

11	Bake sale
12	Cake Sale (Friday)
13	Shoe shining/Food bank drive
14	Guess the lollies/Crafts sale - donations to Starship. Cards and truffles for Local Fire Department
15	Food drive to gift to the city mission
16	Lemonade Stand and Bake Sale Dec 1st proceeds to Make a Wish
17	Car Wash
18	Cleaning  Class Lunch Containers
19	Thank you cards and baking for teachers
20	Uniform repairs

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21	Gift baskets for the staff  - will join with Rm 19 for this/ Giving away toys and clothing to charity
22	Jobs for teachers
23	Spring Cleaning up the Hub - inside and out Weeding native bark garden
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26	Cleaning chromebooks that are not being replaced.
27	Offering to Clean Classroom Desks
28	Random Acts of Kindness
29	Bake sale on Thursday 3 December with proceeds going to SPCA.
30	Shoebox Christmas

- The Social Changency

      

By today (Friday the 20th of November) we have already got more than half of the classes activities that they want to do for Service Week! Thank you so much and don't forget to keep spreading the message about this upcoming week. If you haven't already talk with your class about what you would like to do to get involved 💓

- The Social Changency 

New Service Week Video!!!!

 

Please get involved.

Monday 30 November until Friday 4 December.

Be kind to everyone and offer help whenever you can and any day can be a day to give service.

<3

The Social Changency

The new change in 2020

 Check out the messages on this video from UNESCO.

What a year 2020 has been.......

Pink Shirt Day Friday 16 October

 Friday 16 October at our school will be joining in with other NZ schools and organisations to celebrate Pink Shirt Day!

Watch this video for more information and the to understand the reason it is happening. The video was produced by some awesome teachers from our school. 

Check out this website for more information.

Our massive peace sign to mark the end of Peace Week at our school

 

We did it!!

It was the vision of The Social Changency to get lots of students involved so we could form a giant peace sign and we could get our Principal to use a drone camera to record it.

This was recorded on Friday 25 September to mark the close of Peace Week at our school - Remuera Intermediate School in Auckland New Zealand.

 

Peace Messages and Drawings on the School Playground for 'Random Acts of Kindness' Wednesday

'Random Acts Of Kindness' Wednesday went so well! It ended in an unexpected but awesome situation! It started with one person on their knees drawing peace signs on the court, and ended with more than fifty other people doing the same. 

Let's just let the pictures explain themselves - 

Peace Poetry

 Students were invited to listen to some relaxing music and were given the following instructions.

• Take the time to create an original poem.

• You are free to use any type of poetic style.

Here are some of the poetry written by students from our school.

By Zoe and Alice

Peace poem

Peace is the calm wind

Peace is the flowing water

Peace is the endless green grass

Peace is laughing and having fun with family

Peace is the birds flying high

Peace is cherishing every moment of your life

Peace is lambs frolicking along the spring floor

Peace is a field of vibrant flower waiting to bloom

Peace is spending time with pets

Playing and laughing with peers

Enjoying every moment of life

Always look at the positive

Cherishing the time you spend with pets

Everyone should be peaceful

Peace Poem

Peace like the water

Always peaceful like the tree

Hanging in the wind

By Arthur Thayaparan

By Sophie P

Peace Poem

Peace is the wind soft and serene,

Peace is the river flowing softly

Peace is the birds, flying high

Peace is a bundle of colors.

Peace is what makes us aware of our surroundings,

Peace is a field of flowers waiting to bloom

Peace is the rain tapping on the window 

Peace is cherishing  every moment 

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Peace

Hear the water fall

Imagine somewhere you like

Take a big deep breath

By Haruki Lee

Peace

What is the meaning of peace. What is peace.

And I am here to tell you about the meaning of peace,

what is the importance of peace and

why we need peace in our daily lives.

I am here to uncover these questions and share my opinion

of the definition of peace with you.

Now firstly, what is peace. I think that peace is not war like

or violent because it is horrifying and cruel,

peace is not words that harm others,

peace is free from disturbance and tranquillity.

The killing of George Floyd who is a 46 year old man was

filmed by inhabitants of Minneapolis, America.

And the pandemic of his death is because of racism.

And black, lives, matter.

This is not peace.

By Matthew...

Thank you so much to all those students that participated and shared their peace poems.

We are grateful to all of you.

On Monday, the 21st of September, we posted our new video, How To Be Hopeful: How To Be Happy 4.

We really hope you like it!!!!

Random Acts of Kindness Wednesday

 On Wednesday of Peace Week (22 Sept) at R.I, we will be holding a random acts of kindness day! 

We sent out a Google Form to all the students at Remuera Intermediate, asking them if they would like to be assigned a 'random act of kindness', so they could potentially make someone's day. 

We were really glad to have received so many yes responses within only two days. We sent assigned 'random act of kindness' things to all the people who were willing to make someone's day, through gmail. What really made OUR day was the fact that a couple of people even replied to our 'assignment gmails' to them! It's heartwarming to realise how much some people cared, and the level of importance they gave to The Social Changency's goal, which is always to change your surroundings for the better, through little things or big.

We look forward to seeing even more 'random acts of kindnesses' on Wednesday!

- Washma