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1.I don't have any ideas.
2.We have to think about it.
3.Which ones are better and which are not.
It will not let me log in so I will do a blog.
By kern.

Information video on the two minute drop off zone

Check out our information video, that was presented to the senior school at assembly last week.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQh3kfzwyjE

Waiting to present to the Kauri syndicate.

Sign designs so far ......

Engineers need to keep deadlines, otherwise they are costing other people involved in the Engineering process time and money. Our goal from last week was to have our signs ready. It is really important to keep to our timeline otherwise we will run out of time to submit our entry.

After a little bit of editing that is needed, we will be asking Whaea Jackie to choose the sign which sends the most effective message.

USE THE PMI (positive, minus, Interesting) strategy on each of the signs above to make a comment on what you think about each of the signs. 


WHICH SIGN IF ANY, DO YOU THINK GIVES THE MOST EFFECTIVE MESSAGE?

Meeting Constable Carl

Constable Carl sharing his expertise with the group.

Listening attentively to advice!

Constable Carl mentioned how it was really important to remind parents about the safety of their children around cars on a consistent basis.

This gave the team some good ideas on other things that they could do to encourage positive behaviours in addition to the sign that we are hoping to have made for school.

Ideas so far .....

1. In addition to the teacher and two children on road patrol, we could have an additional child on patrol at the two minute drop off zone.

2. A reminder in the means of a small paper version of our sign, could be placed under the wiper blades of individual cars who continue to park at the two minute drop off zone.

3. Have the sign that we finally create printed onto the back of the road patrol jackets.

WHAT OTHER IDEAS DO YOU HAVE? 


WHAT DO WE NEED TO CONSIDER WHEN COMING UP WITH OTHER SOLUTIONS? 


HOW DO WE  DECIDE WHICH ONES TO CHOOSE?


PLEASE POST YOUR COMMENTS.

School Vote

Hi guys,

How did your meeting with Constable Karl go today? Did he give you some feedback on your signs??

I hear you're having to have to redo the vote for the school slogan. Why do you think it is important to do the vote again?

What is the difference between a poster and a sign

The difference between a poster and a sign is that a poster can have a picture and title.But a sign only has a title and no picture.A poster has lots of colours like red,green,orange and a sign only has about two colours like white and blue and you cant really say please on a P2 sign because people won't listen.


By James.

Goal this week

To CREATE your sign on a word document, and make the changes we talked about when looking at each of your draft signs.

You need to have these ready for Wednesday to show PC Carl will be coming in to speak with us.

The Slogan from the senior school voting had STOP, DROP AND GO as the most popular slogan, however because we missed the GET OUT, GET IN slogan we will need to redo the voting sometime this week.

If you do not have a printer, email me your work before Wednesday and I will get these printed in colour for you.

The difference between a poster and a sign.

Posters are made by you drawing them on a piece of paper,they have lots of colours,pictures and lots of writing.

Signs are made on the computer,are very simple, are BOLD and they also have only 3 or 4 colours.

A sign and a poster

The difference between a sign and a poster is a sign tells you something clearly and a poster has lots of detail. A poster usally has pictures that are colourful and a sign usally has black and white pictures. A sign is simple.

Your goal this week

To create a  sign 

for the two minute drop off zone. Read the blog post made on Tuesday and Wednesday

Presentation to Senior school

He whetu koutou  You are all stars!) The presentation was fantastic, and what a huge round of applause you received. I am sure you received lots of encouraging feedback from your teachers and classmates. I have recorded you on video, however I am having trouble uploading this to the blog. I will continue to persevere!

Remember to post your comments to questions, as we are also collecting evidence on how our learning is developing.

Presentation at Friday's Assembly

Hi Guys,

Fantastic effort in creating your video. It was wonderful to see each of you have a part in it. You should be very proud of all the hard work you're doing. I know the school is going to love it when you present this Friday at the assembly. If you're feeling nervous that's okay. Just remember to go over your lines as practicing will make a big difference.

It was also great having the discussion at lunch today about the positives, negatives and interesting parts of the video. Keep those in mind for the next video you make.

Good luck with the design of your signs. Remember how we spoke about keeping it SIMPLE so that it is easy to understand. I look forward to seeing your designs when they are ready!

What is the difference between a poster and a sign

A few of you have made some great posters for the drop off zone.

The two images below are examples of how a sign can look.

COMPARE the poster and the signs. HOW are they different?

Anwser's for Marisha

1.I am not so sure if we are going to get the rest of the school involved, we haven't talked about it lately.

2.The video is going well.  All we have to do now is put it all together.

Yvette

Our information wall in the school foyer

This is where we live.

Children using the map in the foyer

Part of the Engineers thinking process we went through

Some information about the walking school bus

The completed information wall on our project

photo for Julia

Marisha, our fabulous Engineer!

What we found out

What we have found out from our travel habits survey.

Most children that live within walking distance to school are walking.

There are a large number of children that live quite far away and have to travel to school by car.

This means that we need to encourage parents to use the two minute drop off zone correctly and encourage them to change their behavior on how close they park near school, before school and straight after school.

Designing your drop off sign

We are very lucky that school will be supporting the Engineering group in creating a sign for the two minute drop off zone. We are waiting back from Constable Carl who has also taken an interest in our project.

In the meantime, YOUR GOAL THIS WEEK is to come up with your designs of what our sign could look like.

Your tips are:
Think about the 'catchy slogan' you would like to use
Think about the colours for you sign (What colours are used in other road signs?).

REMEMBER WE WILL NOW MEET ON WEDNESDAY LUNCHTIMES.

Slogans

Hi Guys,

Welcome back from your break. Hope you are all feeling relaxed and recharged and ready to get back into finishing off our engineering project. You all have some great ideas on the slogans for the two minute drop off zone. Are you still going to get the rest of the school involved by having a survey?? I think it's a great idea.

How's the video coming along? What did you all do during your catch up today with Ara today?

Cheers,
Marisha