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| Wed, 09-07-2005 - 5:28am |
My daughter's IT teacher sent a present home with her today- the school made their own mini documentary on making the school a better place and my daughter was one of the presenters for the item. I couldnt go along to the school the night it was shown because I was at the hospital dealing with Nat yet again- so he burned it to CD and sent me a copy.
It's so cool, the kids interviewed the other kids at the school to find out who likes being there and who doesnt and they found out that kids like school less as they get older, so they interviewed the older kids to find out why that was and asked what they think would make school a better place. Annelise would do her presenter bit and then say "now we cross live to so and so who is out on the playground..." That person would say her bit and then "and now its back to you, Annelise..."
well I thought it was a very nice thing for her teacher to do, anyway.


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What a neat thing for the teacher to do for a parent Ven.
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I wish I could see her documentary. Also can you tell us a bit more about it. What some of the kids had to say, what you DD thought and felt while making her film and how she feels about it now that it is finished.
What a great project!!!Hugs,
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How sweet of him to send you a CD, that one's a keeper !
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yes I am- and I know her IT teacher is very proud of her as well, he couldnt wait for me to see what the kids had done- the kids helped put the whole thing together on the computers as well- and was as disappointed as I was that I couldnt make it.
Annelise is in year 6- her last year of primary school so moves on to Intermediate next year. I think she will be missed at her current school.
I would send it to you but its 219 mbs- even compressed to .rar format its still 208 mbs.
The kids said they liked school less as they got older because they got called names more often and that made them feel bad about school and they said that other kids threatened to hurt them more often and they didnt like that either. They said school would be a better place if kids could learn to respect each other and each other's property and not be mean to anyone else.
The film was made as part of a CARE (Care And Respect Each other) programme running in many schools which encourages the children themselves to identify the problems and come up with solutions.
Annelise was surprised she was chosen as a presenter- she co-presented with another boy but being a girl she didnt think he did a very good job and you could see her in the background while he did his bit trying not to mouth the words he was reading.
She represented the school at the Young Leaders conference held in our capital recently and she volunteers at the school once a week as a peer mediator- two kids do this everyday, they wear bright jackets and hang out on the playground, the idea being if there is a problem, kids are more likely to approach other kids than they are adults and the peer mediators are less likely to trivialise the problems as an adult would often do. The system works because the little problems are dealt with before they become bigger problems.
I dont know that she felt proud to be a part of this as much as she felt priviledged to get the opportunity to show off in front of the camera! lol
my daughter has her dumb moments too...
part of her homework was she was given a list of words and had to write about each- then in brackets it had (a paragraph)
She told me she knows what a graph is but she doesnt know what a paragraph looks like. Well I couldnt help it, I laughed so much I had tears running down my face- my son came in to see what was so funny and I couldnt get my breath to tell him so I wrote it down and he had the same reaction. Poor Annelise got so upset she was hitting me and throwing things at me but I was laughing too much to do anything about it. In the end she threw her homework book away and sulked on the bed.
Much later, her big brother showed her a page of text and explained what a paragraph was and she finally admitted she could see why it was funny. It was kind of like the time we were driving into town and she is sitting in the car, looking out the window then out of the blue she asks "which side is the country side?"
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