Today we put our communication, team work, logical thinking and map using skills to the test in a mystery skype challenge. This involved being paired up with a school somewhere in New Zealand and asking each other yes and no questions and racing to identify the other school. We had to use Google Maps to search for the school and it was really important that we worked as a team and listened to each other so that we didn't ask the same questions or silly questions.
We didn't win, but we did have a huge amount of fun. We were teamed up with a city school in Auckland. We really liked them and are going to stay in contact with them. They were quite different from us - a much bigger school, they wore a uniform, they were in the city. We spent time after the challenge finding out about each other and introducing ourselves.
During the challenge we all had roles - such as ambassadors (these people did the talking on skype), directors (these people keep everything orderly and everyone on task), detectives (these people did all the searching on Google Maps), the reporters (they ran the questions to the directors and ambassadors). We also had a scribe - who wrote all the things we found out up on the board, and a photographer who captured the learning and fun we were having.
Everyone was really engaged with their learning and learnt a lot from the experience.
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| Hollie and Troy were our Ambassadors |
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| Millie was a Director |
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| Aylah kept track of everything we found out |
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| Arlo was a Detective using Google Maps |
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| These are the Ambassadors from St Heliers School |
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