Friday 7th July

Class-ified School Kit

Yesterday was the day planned for our Skype session with our school we were matched with through School Kit. Unfortunately, their internet connection at their school wasn’t very good and we were unable to have our interaction. Luckily the Senior Room offered to give us an opportunity to use our skills we had been practicing to locate a mystery school. We each picked a random school in New Zealand and took turns asking questions through a Skype call to narrow down where our mystery school could be. Thanks to the Senior Room for helping us out. It was great to be able to use our questioning and Google mapping skills and it was a lot of fun.

Esther our Ambassador asking the questions.

Our detectives writing down questions to ask the Senior Room. 

Our responders using Google Maps to answers questions about our school. 

Thursday 22nd June

School kit- CLASS-fied

A few weeks ago we signed up for another Schoolkit resource. This time we are participating in a mystery skype styled challenge which pairs city and country classrooms across New Zealand. We have to do a photograph scavenger hunt where we collect photos like ‘Our classroom’ and ‘How we get to school’. In the last week of school we will have a skype chat with a mystery school in New Zealand. The aim of the game is to guess who our mystery school is before they guess us! We will need to find out four questions: Which island are they in? What region are they in? What town is their school in? What school are they? To prepare for this, we brushed up on our New Zealand geography skills. We mapped our all the different regions as well as finding landmarks in each region that could help us with our questioning. We look forward to our skype chat in the last week of school to find our who our mystery school is!