Our Colab Target

Hello Everyone,

I hope you all have had a good holiday. For my holiday, I spent the first week in Kuratau, and the second week catching up with friends. I was very lucky and got lots of Easter Eggs, from family, friends and the Easter Bunny.  Here is some writing to inform you of what Colab has been doing recently.

I have had an excellent start to Term 2. For the first two days, we completed 5 fun activities, that was an introduction to Colab’s Target. The Target is what we aim to achieve. There are 6 areas of the target.

The first area is Collaboration. For Collaboration, my group and I did Breakout EDU which is a really challenging activity where you need to crack codes, find clues and keys to ‘Breakout’. This was so much fun, and really helped us be amazing collaborators.

The second area is Creativity. For this area we were challenged to invent something unique with a paper clip - and give it a new purpose. This was fun, and you really had to be imaginative.

Thirdly, we aim to have a growth mindset. For this activity, we listened to podcasts, read articles and studied pictures to gather information about how to create a growth mindset. Then, we presented our information. My group chose to present using a play.

In Colab, it is important to be curious researchers who have an impact. This was our fourth area. We did an activity called moonshot thinking. This is where you take a huge problem, one that has existed for centuries, or is up to a global scale. You use a crazy idea and combine with breakthrough technology, and you have a solution. In the activity, we pitched an idea that could be an incredible solution.

Lastly but most definitely not least is Knowing yourself as a Learner. For this activity we looked at kids in different scenarios-there was one that was relatable for everybody. We had to give them advice. To summarise at the end we wrote down 5 things that we should do as learners.

You might be wondering, ‘Hey, where’s the sixth area?’ Well, that’s where it’s down to us. The teachers cannot decide what criteria we’re missing, and neither can I! I wonder if you have any ideas for our final area of our target? So, this is what Colab and I have been doing. Thank you for reading this, please comment below.