Rubbish Clean Up

Sea to Source

Last week Room 10 completed their own stream monitoring of our local river. We started at the sea, by the ASB aquatic center and following the stream up to Walsh Park. We completed 4 different assessments, looking at the clarity, temperature, flow, human impact and creatures in the stream. We observed that the sea area was in very poor conditions, as was our second stop near the pools. As we walk further up, the stream got clearer and more creatures were found. Our next job is to think about what we can do to improve the water quality near the sea. Check out the photos of our trip...

Easy Park Stream Monitoring

Here are some photos from our class trip to Easby Park to conduct some stream montioring tests.

Writing Survey

Market day walk around

Market day

Add to our Water padlet

Dance

Miss Omundsen has been doing body percussion with Room 10. Students had to produce a rhythm that included some of the 5 body percussion; CLAP, STOMP, CLICK, CHEST, MOUTH.
They share these last week to the class. Having Kaboom was such an inspiration.
Miss Omundsen also showed the class a cool link were you can try doing this online too, give it a go at home on https://www.incredibox.com/

Growing mould on bread

With Miss Omundsen (Our student teacher), we went over to the Science Room to do an experiment. 

The students were finding out if moisture makes a difference to mould growth.

Last week, they were looking at the right to a warm dry home, as they had identifying that many New Zelanders are living in unhealthy, disgusting, damp homes.
There was a bit of excitement as Harry's group tried to dry their bread in the microwave, and smoke started coming out.

Finlay predicts the damp bread will produce the most mould as the temperature and moisture will make the mould grow more quickly.

Can you spot the burnt bread in the photo?

Volunteer weeding

Last Thursday, Miss Bibby took 12 keen weeders over to the preschool to volunteer weeding their front garden. Their enthusiasm and work rate was incredible and I was very proud of them weeding the whole garden in such a short time. What a positive way to be helping in our community and the First Years Preschool really appreciated it. Here a a few pics of our amazing volunteers..

Syndicate Assembly run by Room 10

Last Thursday, Room 10 ran the fortnightly syndicate assembly
The lovely Annie and Eva were running the programme and did a fantastic job speaking. A big thank you to Maddie who introduced our Persuasive Plastic videos. Also, another thank you to Meila, Brook, Saphire and Maddie who were up the front helping with the sign language for our National Anthem.

Maddies introduction

Sign language for our National Anthem

Love Eva's shocked face, video worked!

I was very proud to share Nikita, Ella, Meg, Melia and Zoe, Sapphire and Brooks group videos on their persuasive anti plastic videos.




What a great end to the assembly, by practicing our Haka powhiri, run by Uther and Sapphire. We were all very impressed by your leadership running this Sapphire, Ka pai!!

Sapphire leading the Haka powhiri

Persuasive Videos

Our school has a focus on reducing the rubbish in our school. We found out this rubbish mainly comes from all the plastic in our lunchboxes. As we have been learning about writing persuasive techniques, we decided to make some videos to put to good use our new persuasive writing skills. We took photos around the school and then tried to persuade other students that we need to help.

See if you can find a rhetorical question, facts and statistics, group of three, emotive language or repetition?!!

By Zoe's Group

By Nikita's Group

By Jonty's Groups

By Bayley's group

By Chiara's group

By Harry's group

Tynker

Today in ICT we used the Tynker website to develop our coding skills.
Check out these videos to see how they added characters, backgrounds, music and speech..

Persuasive Techniques

We have been learning to write persuasive sentences, using repetition, exaggeration, facts and
statistics, rhetorical questions, groups of three and emotive language. We are trying to persuade students in our school to bring less plastic in their lunch boxes, can you guess which persuasive techniques are used in each of the following sentences?

1. The rubbish at our school is disgusting, gross and unnecessary. Jack and Phuc

2. Is all that plastic in your lunchbox necessary? Baeden and Tana

3. Imagine being a school field, imagine being a school field covered in plastic, imagine being a school field that is dying. Bayley and Finlay

4. Do you want your lunch to be a source of plastic for dying sea life?

Meila and Chiara

5. If you drop one more bit of plastic you are going to kill every fish in the sea. Savanna and Hannah

6. Stop dropping rubbish or our school will turn into a dump. Kyle

7. Up to 60% of the rubbish that ends up in our schools skip, could be recycled. Harry

8. Do you want to be responsible for killing a turtle, just because you couldn’t be bothered putting away your muesli bar wrapper?

Annie and Meg

9. Do you remember when our school had no plastic on our grounds? Do you remember what it was like to walk freely without seeing any rubbish? Do you want to be able to walk without stepping on rubbish?

Zoe and Saphire

10.Our school is full of rubbish and we need to change that, it is sad to see how much there is, come on make a change.

Danni and Becs

Cupcakes and Syndicate assembly

This term we are starting syndicate assemblies to come together as a group, share our learning and celebrate successes. In this photo we are celebrating all the people who has made it in to their sporting rep teams! Congrats to Nikita and Rebecca who are in the Hockey rep team.

Today we also were selling cupcakes to raise money for the SPCA. Here is Meg selling her amazing cupcakes.

Resilience

This little chick demonstrates amazing resilience just at the start of it's early life. What messages can we learn through this as we all learn to develop our own resilience?

End of term Movie reward

Preschool visit

Today we visited First Years Preschool today to celebrate the end of our learning about Matariki. This was postponed from last term, and we were excited to finally be able to go. It started with a waiata and then the students goal was to communicate effectively with young people to complete weaving a sea creature. Below are some photos from our visit.

Showcase

"Showquest is the new national music, dance and drama showcase for schools, organised by Rockquest Promotions, replacing Stage Challenge. 

Students chose to create performances around themes that were important to them, such as war, body image and ocean pollution." Read the whole stuff link here

Hannah was a major part of our showcase, as she choreographed the main "pollution" dance, as well as participating in the dance. Ella was also a turtle dancer, and unfortunately Nikita was injured and unable to dance on the night. Savanna was the lighting and music specialist. It was an amazing performance, and I was lucky to go along and watch, here are a few snips from there dance...

Poetry finals

Waiting to recite

Well done to Ella, Maddie, Annie (couldn't compete), Bayley who represented our class in the syndicate poetry finals. A massive congrats to Bayley who will be representing Nikau in the school poetry final this Tuesday!!

Fortball

Today we learnt a new game, which is based on the new craze, Fortnite. The game is a mixture of Capture the flag and Rob the nest.

Comment on what you thought about the game, and what we could adjust or improve for next time??

Check out the video to see the action...

Room 7 and 9's Career Expo

Room 9

Room 9

Today we were lucky enough to go to both Room 7 and Room 9's career expo. There were some great sharing of learning, presentations and it was pleasing to see the effort and time, many students put it their work.

Room 7

Room 7

Room 7

Room 9

Room 8 Career Expo

Today we went to see Room 8's Career Expo. They did presentations on the people they interviewed. Here are some snaps from our visit...

Matariki

While finding out more about Matariki, we started watching this video, only to discover it was Saphire's Uncle in Wellington!!
Watch to learn more about the Matariki celebration

Career Expo Photos

Maddie

Students investigated a chosen career they were interested in, or was an option given during their career quest or strengths quiz. Skills and qualities needed for the job were presented as well as information about what they did in the job, hours work, likelihood of getting the job, training and of course the pay.
Check out some photos from our expo, where the other syndicates class came to share in our learning and gain more knowledge about other job choices...

Mat

Harry

Tana

Jazz's poster

Savanna, Annie and Jonty

Other classes arrive

Meila, Jamie, Finlay and Kenneth

Nikita and Rebecca

Kenneth

Zoe and Saphire

Meg's art stand

Expo action

Miss Smith from Room 8 

Careers Expo

Here is a quick walk around our Careers expo...

Girls dance

Another example of our hands dance moving, by Brook, Zoe and Saphire

Thursday Boris

Caption this...

Wednesday Boris

Caption this

Hand dance moving

Students have begun to share their hand dances that are now moving.
They had to try and include jumps, reaches, different levels and body parts, turns or spins, all whilst moving in rhythm.
Check out some of their excellent efforts...



Matt and Finlay



Jack and Jonty

Tuesday Boris

Caption this....

Endball Comp

Jonty doing the tip off

Today our class participated in the knock out tournament at lunch time. We got better as the games went on, but unfortunately were knocked out. Room 10 had a focus to work on passing and space, some progress was made on this, we need to keep working on this!! Height also was challenged as some opposition players towered over us. Great effort Room 10, good luck for the loser round.

Caption This...

Looking for the best caption to go with Boris the Bear's after school adventures.
Don't forget to put your name!!

Reading choice

Black ferns at school

Saphire, Rebecca and Zoe playing in the Rugby tournament

Saphire in the news

Jonty with the Black Ferns world cup trophy

Week 3 Dance

Students in Room 10 have been learning a simple hand action. They have now transformed that by adding some dance techniques, jumping, reaching, turning and adding different levels.
Check out some of their progress below..

Here is the original hand dance...


Here are some of the dances with the dance techniques added...

Week 3 reading

Spelling rule week 3

Watch this video to understand this weeks spelling rule - carefully check the exceptions to this rule

Girls Rippa Tournament

Today Rebecca, Maddie, Annie, Saphire, Zoe and Savanna participated in the girls Rippa tournament. The schools that participated were NIS, NCG, BIS, Parklands and Waimea. Rebecca and Annie were in WIS Silver and versed Maddie's team WIS Black in the Finals. WIS Silver ended up coming 2nd and Wis Black came first. The score was 5-2. It was super fun and a good opportunity to get outside and play in a fun tournament. Everyone did a really good job!! 

Written Maddie and Rebecca

Spelling rule 1 : Y to ies

Watch this video for more help learning this weeks spelling rule

Week 2 reading choice

Brain dissection

Amy explaining all the parts to Rebecca, Saphire and Zoe

Today we had an amazing Science session with Amy Cornelisen, dissecting pigs brains. It was
amazing to see all the parts we have been studying this term in really life. I was very proud of how of mature our students were, great questioning and inquisitiveness!!
The beaming smiles on the students faces said it all, check out the pics and video...