Room 3 Glenavon School 2015: November 2015

Differencez between schoolz (Indonesia and here edition)

Hi my name is Nantan. I just moved to New Zealand 4 months ago. I moved here because my Mom wants to study again, so I came with her. My sister and I go to a new school called Glenavon School in Blockhouse Bay, Auckland, New Zealand. Now I want to share my experience learning in other country with you.

My school

In my school, we learn things in different ways. We learn in groups with different activities in each group, in average there are three groups our class has 3 groups we learn in groups because it is sorted by the test marks if the test marks are high you get into the highest group/ the third group if you get low marks you get in the lowest group that’s the first one, in every group it’s different because the group level is not the same.

The courses here are also different from Indonesia the courses are these. The courses those are different than Indonesia are the handwriting and the term topic activity. In the term topic activity we have to use our entire learned math like measurement, and volume, our term topic activity is for example making house models for the term topic design and build. We have made house models our math and measurements are useful for measuring and figuring how much area is required and our crafts and arts are useful to help build the house what it looks like what more do you need for more needs and arts is useful for painting the house and designing the floor plan so it looks good and easy to see and to follow and to know the house better.

In class we also use some special equipment for learning and making things easier and to have some fun. We usually learn with computer for our follow up activity like e ako math and kiwi kids news homework. Follow up activity is when after you do some math with the teacher you get a sheet for learning and then you do it in your book then you stick the sheet into your book. We use the computers / I pad quite often because there are math games on the I pad and e ako math on the computer. There is a drawer under each desk so you don’t need to bring heaps of things in your bag only a lunch box, computers for looking at the internet for the additional learning and math games, and a shelf for math games and math resources, and also a rainy day box for when it’s raining at morning tea or lunch we can get a math game or bop it game. And we have a swimming pool for swimming every Friday or Monday for my room and there is a good and clean library and you can borrow a book for a week in the class we have 5 computers and in the cubby there are 3 I pads for math games and internet searching or YouTube or sometimes video games.

The daily activities here are also different from Indonesia. There is no assembly in the court in the morning, at morning tea and lunch you have to eat your food first and the canteen only opens at morning tea then after the second bell we go play anything but I usually just walk and talk and. There is a special assembly on Friday, where the rooms get a turn at hosting the assembly, there are just dance, plays, challenges and so much fun, and there is a honor badges assembly for about every 2 weeks for the years 7&8, they give honor badges to year 7&8’s for academics, art, citizenship, and innovation. And if they get enough honors they will get an honor badge that is the ultimate honor at the end of the year.

My friends….

Here even the friends are different from Indonesia here. The biggest difference of the classmates here is the kindness and the ease to get more friends. Also bullying is not allowed so there are no bullies and the people are friendlier. But sometimes they like mocking so bad they get in trouble. Boys and girls play along nicely because they are peaceful and they are friendly, the background is very diverse my friends are from different countries that mean they are from different ethnics like Joshua is from Samoa that means he is Samoan, Raekwon is from New Zealand that means he is Maori. They mostly speak English but some islanders from other classes speak Samoan or another language like Tongan, Sophie and Jaice both communicate with Chinese. The religions are mostly Christian, but, there are some that are Islam.

My teachers…

Here the teachers are also different. What makes the teachers different are teachers do free talk to students, they also get involved in things like soccer most of the times, they are improper that means they don’t wear uniform, they are very kind and helpful, for example like when Ahmad kicked my ball into the creek, MR. Hunte climbed the fence and got it back, and they really mean what they say. The same is they teach people and sometimes gets angry, till they send the whole class on detention.

Closing

I like schools here and schools in Indonesia and also it feels amazing going to school here with the kind friends and the nice teachers that go on patrol every morning tea and lunch, in the end I just want to say thank you for reading readers and goodbye.