Money money money must be funny...it is a rich man's world!!

I am getting more and more excited about our Math journey for next year.
My focus this year is to get more students excited about taking math.
So I am opening this for what people previously called the students of concern, and I will by taylor-making a program for these students - bringing in the Young Enterprises work and a little bit of math as well.
Then I would also love to challenge the students who wrote the Algebra external in year 12 to do some more calculus next year in year 13, so I am hoping to have a year 13 CALCULUS group in the second semester of year 13.
I broke the math up into semesters. Look at the links to my options day presentations.


https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1H2wVv0ix-w_EfzV_saPH0mhYV3tOSWliUoNVDKoZKTU/edit?usp=sharing



https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1eRW8Gg8Ux3PTaxhfdamMbdWwM3tr9IWk5P-CYkzZzaI/edit?usp=sharing


https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1nKE7HMNnOYByKulUThgwJZTUGPm37_sSLjeTMy-d4No/edit?usp=sharing

Kindness

This week (as we all know) is Maori week as well as Keep New Zealand Beautiful week.  Lots of fun activities were planned by our school and it is weeks like these that I am so privileged, and so often reminded by how wonderful it is to be teaching at Bay Of Islands College in Kawakawa.  Not only do we have the most amazing team of teachers, supporting and helping each other to survive, but we also have students who EMBRACE being Maori and EMBRACE their culture. Students went out during this whole week to collect rubbish from all the streets in Kawakawa, enjoying doing their part in : Keep New Zealand beautiful. (I wish we could have this happening at least once in a fortnight.)

I am so absolutely blessed to be part of this awesome community of learning. Where students still run to class, and where students are genuinely disappointed and upset if the ask you:  "Whaea, when do we have math? " and I answer: "we don't have math today" to which the respond:".aaaaw NO!! this is a bad day!!"

I had a wonderful moment in the coffee shop, PBK (Pure Bliss Kitchen) (in Moerewa...a must go to) when this beautiful older lady approached me with the words: "Kia Ora, and who are you? you are so beautiful, thanks for blessing our town with your beautiful light" This is why I love living in this area. People are still so "real" and caring, and people who speak their mind, and say it as it is, those people are my tribe, and my favorite kind of people.