Enlighten Me!
Our students have rounded off their learning about "Light" this week by sharing the key understandings they have made.
Light
Our big question is "What is Light", what forms does it come in and how does it travel? We have now finished our learning around this theme and students have reflected on their main learning. You can see some of their thinking below.
"All the Primary colours together make brown, blue and yellow make green, blue and red make purple, and red and yellow make orange."
"A convex mirror makes you look upside down until you are really close, then it bounces back at you that you're the right way again."
"When you use a prism and white light you can make a rainbow."
"When a laser is pointed onto glass eg TVs, it bounces in an angle and the opposite way through and stops bouncing when it doesn't see a mirror"
Awards from this Week's Assembly.
Congratulations to the students below who received our first Bronze Award, Principal's Awards, or Bucket Filler Awards at last Monday's Assembly.
Congratulations to Blaire, Kingston, Mason and Axel.
Mason and Axel received their Bucket Filler for helping set up the Yr 1-3 Cross Country last Friday.
Cross Country
Congratulations to the following people who had a placing at the Kōmingo Cross County held last Friday.
The results are:
Year 5 Boys
Harri Brown
Clyde Brew
Riley Gale
Nate Mitchell
Caleb Horne
Year 5 Girls
Lily Redding
Blaire Wiringi
Charlotte Bebbington
Lucy Bebbington
Alanya Veendrick
Year 6 Boys
Beau Taylor
Kieran Hayes
Copper Baxter
Zyen Maher
Mikkel Jensen
Year 6 Girls
Roma Fruean
Oraynab Ikhtiari
Ester Xia
Megan Siave
Katherine Ma
The Year 5/6 students who did not attend the Cross Country helped out at the Yr 1-3 Fun Run. They helped set up the course, operated the parachute, hurdles and hoops obstacles, and then cleaned up the course. Many of our students ran the course with the younger students to support them. They all did an awesome job at being role models and showing their CARE Values.
Bully Free NZ Week:
We have been participating in learning in class and activities in our break times this week. Many students took part in the pink wheels activity on Tuesday, and have been making kindness chains and bully free posters. Today is "Pink Shirt Day" where students came wearing as much pink as possible as a message that we don't accept bullying and want to be upstanders.
In our learning we have been:
- discussing what an upstander is
- showing how to be one
- identifying different ways we can be kind to others
- learning about the history of Pink Shirt Day
- designing a bully free t-shirt
- design a kindness poster
- create a video teaching others how to be an upstander.
You will see some photos below of chalk drawings of anti bullying messages, done by Oaklands students this week.
School Production - The Stars of Matariki
We are getting into our practices for our school production in Week 10 of this term. We have commenced learning the Dance and learning the song we will be singing. Students are reading the script in their Reading workshops, and at Red and Feed so they can become familiar with the story as a whole and especially the part that Yr 5-6 are telling.
Next up we will be investigating how to make Maori kites for our performance and how we will light them up for the darkness of the set. Fun creative times ahead.
We are asking that students have dark-coloured tops and bottoms to wear for the performance, and then we will make luminous decorations to go over the top to represent our part of the story. Dark means black or navy blue, long sleeved and long pants eg tights, track pants etc. If you have questions about this please contact the team.
Our students are being divided into 3 performance groups, one for each night of the production (Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday 26, 27 and 28 June). We are putting all siblings in a family on the same night to assist families. This information will be available to you soon.
Wishing you all a great weekend.
The Kōmingo 5-6 Teachers
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