Farewell Year 8's

At our Leavers Lunch the year 8 students watched short clips that the school made to say good-bye to them.  Here are some comments made to the group, click on each link to hear what they had to say.  You can go to the year 8's individual blogs to hear comments specific to them.

Wendy                Vern             Mrs Ealam           Ken           Mrs Miekle       Miss Wilson      Anusshika

Xander      Julie       Mrs Wallace       Mrs Carruthers    Jo       Judy    Lisa        Mrs Armstrong

Mrs P        Mrs Hahn     Mrs Bailey

Mannequin Challenge

Today we held mannequin challenges.  This is when people freeze in a position and someone moves around videoing them.  We had a lot of fun working together, listening to each others ideas and creating an overall theme for our videos.  Our greatest challenge was not to laugh!  Below is a video which is absolutely NOT a normal day on our playground for room 6.

Skiing

The seniors were able to go skiing at Porters Ski Area.  We had an incredible day and considered it a huge success with no bones broken!

Pac the Police Dog

Our topic this term is on Amazing Animals.  We had a visit from Pac the police dog, Constable Damian O'Kane and Jess.  They talked to us about Pac and showed us how clever he is.  Room 6 are learning to take notes, so we used this opportunity to practise our note taking and then summarise our notes in the format of an information report.  Check out the photos and Blake's report.

Kawa of Care

The Kawa of Care is so important throughout our class on a daily basis.
Due to having some new students join our classroom at the beginning of this
term we have revisited the importance of the Kawa of Care.

We are constantly learning about the 'Kawa of Care' so that we can act in
Cybersmart ways with our Chromebooks and when we are learning online. The children choose three instructions from the 'Kawa of Care' agreement and created a super hero comic strip using the three instructions, to teach others about the Kawa of Care.

Here are a couple of examples of the children's work... Check out their personal blogs too.

Train Safety

We came up with some rules for when you're around trains.  We needed to create a video to explain at least one of the rules.  Here is a video one group made and Ella edited. 

Wheels Week

To help the school learn all the road safety messages this week we have brought our 'wheels' to school and being riding around 'Wheel Town', designed by Room 6.  Every child has a license and will receive demerit points if caught disobeying the road signs.

Harrison is holding the 'GO' sign.    Lily has traffic stopped for a train.   Zoe & Mackley at the top are slowing down around the bend and Police Office Alex is looking out for trouble with his stop sign!

Train Safety

Our whole school has a focus on Road Safety this week.  Our class are focussing on safety around trains.  We have viewed lots of information, such as songs, posters, websites and video clips to learn about how to be safe around trains.  We each came up with 5 rules.  Here is Alex's poster:

ANZAC Ceremony

Our class our organising a Remembrance Ceremony next week at school.  We all made posters to invite community members along.  Here is Ella's.

We look forward to seeing you all there!

Soldier Timeline

In class we have been researching some of our ANZAC soldiers, finding out their stories.  We have been displaying our initial findings on a timeline.  Here is Anahera's timeline:

School Kit 'Walking with an ANZAC'

Room 6 explored the School Kit 'Walking with an ANZAC' today.  We were intrigued by how authentic they have made the reproductions of the items and are excited to begin discovering the story behind each item.
                            

         

ANZAC Posters

In Room Six we have begun our topic on ANZAC day.  We already know varying amounts about ANZAC day, but the junior classes don't know much!  We have created interactive posters to share with our juniors to help them learn.  Take a look at Liam's and Harrisons' below.

Word Art

Over the last 2 weeks we have been writing positive words to describe each other.  We used these words to make some word art.  Here are some examples of what we created.

Student Blogs

Check out our individual student blogs.   The links are on the left side of this blog, just click on a name and go to their blog.

ASB Get Wise

We had a visitor from the 'ASB Get Wise' programme come and teach us about financial literacy.  We learned about the concept of earning, spending wisely and saving.
We played a game where our stick figures went on holiday to Fiji.  We needed to make decisions about how to pay for things like accomodation and tickets, choosing to either use cash or credit card.  We also needed to decide which deal would be the best. 
We found it quite stressful at times, but enjoyed it!  We learned to ask lots of questions and research the deals.

Midland Line Athletics 2018

Yesterday we had our Midland Line Athletics in Greymouth.  The children all gave it their best effort and produced some great results!

Year 7 Boys begin their sprints.

Jayden clearing the high jump.

Will Ben make it?

Harrison flying.

Ryan doing the high jump.

Does Miro's other leg go over?

Reagan at the discus

Chloe-Rose throws the discus.

Pet Day 2018

           

 

We recently held our annual pet day.  Each child completes a pet project on one of their pets or a pet they would love to own.  On the day pets are brought along to be judged, and the students participate in workshops.  The winners of each category receive amazing prizes from our wonderful sponsors, thank you!

This is Mia's information report on her horse, which was part of her pet project.  She also completed an outstanding poster too.

Fair Go Ad Awards

In room 6 we participated in the Fair Go Ad Awards.  We chose a special place and designed a video about why the place is special to us.  We needed to make sure our message was clear, and it could only be 30 seconds long.  Here is an example from one of the groups.
Next time we need to make sure we plan the videos in detail before filming.

El Gregoe

Today we were privileged to have El Gregoe back at our school for another entertaining show.  He impressed us with his magic and ventriloquism.  El Gregoe's message to us all was to treat others how we wish to be treated. 

Spelling Relay

We got outside and enjoyed the sun!  In relay teams each member had to run down to the other end of the court and look at their spelling list.  Then they ran back and wrote the word down correctly before handing the pen over to the next runner.  The winning team had the most words recorded after 5 minutes.