Yea! We got our kid fix today as we visited two level one docile schools near Auckland. The first school, Panmure Bridge School had a wonderful assembly where the children performed a Haka to welcome us. Then two students took each member of the GSE team for a tour of the school. That was a really endearing touch. Our time was focused on the students and was precious. I (Melanie) was toured by Leila and Suliasi, both year 6. One more quiet, the other a total ham and both as sweet as can be. They showed off their desks, blog and creative videos, favorite art, and then we explored this blog and the Mixbook.com site together. They were so excited to see new things and love all that Internet and blogging offers to express themselves.The second school, Tamaki Primary, was an equally great experience. After learning about the school's curriculum and teaching techniques, we visited classrooms to observe. I was in a grade 6 class watching as student's worked on essays about marae and then how to post them to a blog.
After lunch at the Grange Golf Club with our Remuera hosts Tony, Richard, David and Gus, we visited Living Cell Technologies who are doing amazing and life-changing work to reduce insulin usage in diabetics. It is in the early phases, but they are having great success with their clinical trials and announced today that they have entered into an agreement to raise $3 million through a placement of shares to Otsuka Pharmaceutical Factory, Inc., the research and manufacturing arm of the Otsuka group of companies.
The future is looking very bright!!
