At the beginning of August 60 students and 4 staff (Honor, Alby, Phil and Allen) headed off to Kaipoi Blue Skies to attend Hornby's Next Steps Camp (Leadership Camp). Its a three day camp where students test themselves, step outside the box and work with people they may not have had anything to do with prior.
The most important session that came from this was the Mana Horomaka session. This came about because we were concerned about the level of pride that students were demonstrating in school presently. We wanted to inspire them to hold their heads high, have pride in the school that they represent and not to be afraid to take risks.
We got the students to look at the barriers that were holding them back from having pride, below is a list of things they came up with. Many of the barriers are things that they themselves could actually change, while other barriers are things that we don't have control over eg school rebuild.
We got the students to then do a Y diagram of what they would like Hornby to 'Look' , "Sound' and 'Feel' like and they then had to place these ideas onto the cut out letters of Hornby Pride and Mana Horomaka that you can see below
The third and find step in the session where the Mana Horomaka posters. Prior to camp I contacted 10 former students who were willing to put their name and face to support the project. They sent me a quote that represented their reasons for being proud to have come from Hornby.
After showing them the ones from former students we asked the current students to make ones of their own and a couple of what they produced is below
Now we are back at school we have set up a Mana Horomaka committee that is responsible for now using student voice to help promote the message and assist in building that Pride school wide. We have presented back to the school and am now looking at introducing Mana Horomaka awards for the end of each term for both Senior and Junior students
