Learning In The Making Conference 2017

On the 26th and 27th of September, every student at Ngatea Primary School attended the Learning In The Making Conference. The Learning In The Making Conference is held over two days. On these two days, students have the opportunity to attend eight different workshops held by different teachers, students and parents. This year, all of the year 7&8 students were expected to run a workshop on anything they chose. Some even chose to run up to 5 workshops. There were over 200 workshops available - varying from arts and crafts to sports activities. This year, other schools attended - Te Kowhai on Tuesday and Sunnyhills on Wednesday. On the morning of each day, the senior students had a keynote speaker. On each day was a different speaker - on Tuesday, the seniors listened to Mark Osborne, who talked about things you will need to know before you leave school, and the leadership qualities we needed to learn. On Wednesday, the seniors listened to Justine Driver, the principal of Sunnyhills School talked about what it meant to be “Googley”. Ms Driver worked at Google for a few years, and she talked about what Google was about - the leadership, and the ability to make change that Google believed in. On Tuesday, the juniors had Mrs Douglas read them a story. On Wednesday, Miss Coles took the juniors to do some jump jam.

Each day there was four breakouts - On Tuesday A, B, C and D and on Wednesday E, F, G and H. In each 50-minute breakout, there was a workshop.
Overall the Learning In The Making Conference was a success. All the students really enjoyed it, and are all looking forward to it next year! As a Year 8, I will surely miss it!