Argumentation- Why do we have to do exercise?

Learning Journal

People achieving excellence

In Ruma Toru we have been talking about discrimination. It all started with Anne Frank and a reading about the Moriori. Kayle asked about slavery and what we learned about shocked us. We didn't understand how people could be so unfair, so we decided we needed to do something to make sure people didn't make the same mistakes as the past.


But, what can we do? I hear you ask!

Well, we can demonstrate excellence and success, throughout a cross section of people so that everyone will begin to understand that ALL people can be great. No matter where they come from, what colour they are, how old they are, or how they grew up. 

But what is excellence or success? We had a chat about what we consider to be success.

We did some research about different people we thought were excellent. The research was a bit tricky, but we got there in the end.

Karn, Mariko and Jack interviewed Karn's Nan, Tracey too!


Here is some of our work. You can come and see it close up in Ruma Toru's Gallery of Modern Works.

Coggle brainstorms

We found a new cool way to brainstorm collaboratively. 

It's called coggle.   You don't need to join up or pay for anything and it makes it easy to add your ideas to other people's.  we used it for the first time today to see if it was going to be easy. It took us about 20 seconds to work out how to use it.  Then it made our ideas come out faster because we didn't need to wait for Sally to write everything. 

You can find Coggle on the internet and it's pretty easy to use. Give it a go!