Term 2
Science Fair is underway!
Room 6 has been learning to conduct and carry out experiments for our science fair. Students have all been given term calendars so they can visually see what needs to be done by when.
Miss Steffensen our student teacher has been busy teaching the class over the last few weeks and will be completing her posting and time with us at the end of week 5. We have all enjoyed her teaching and thank her for all her efforts with the class. Miss Steffenson will be posted at a different school for the last half of her masters year so we wish her all the very best.
We have had a number of expert coaches in to take a specific sporting code for us this term. The students have all really enjoyed a varied P.E program which introduces them to lots of sports which they may wish to carry on playing this year or next.
Our electives and sports options have also started this term (Every Friday) and again the students have had an opportunity to choose an area of interest to learn more about, taught by lots of different teachers in the school.
Our school cross-country is coming up in Week 6. We will be using Tahuna park as our venue. Students have been having daily fitness sessions which have helped them work towards increasing their fitness level. The top 10 boys and top 10 girls across the school will go through to compete in the Ariki cup race later in the term.
Important Dates coming up;
-Weeks 4,5,6 students will be conducting their science fair experiments at home, collecting data, photos, and observations.
-Week 6 Tuesday 5th June Cross Country (Postponement day will be Thursday 7th June)
-Week 7 Positive Puberty Parent Meeting Tuesday 5th June 7 pm
-Week 8 Thursday 21st June Science Day Trip with Room 14 and R3
-Week 10 Friday 6th July Merit Assembly.
Homework Routines continue;
-Spelling Weekly
-20mins of reading each night/ This can be put towards students reading badges program
-Science Fair (Check the calendar expectations)
-Mathletics (20mins twice a week)
Mrs. Stuart has just come back from a trip to China. We were looking at her photos and some of them were very smoggy. As a class, we discussed how to reduce pollution in China. Here is some of our writing...
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Room 6 has been writing persuasive arguments about 'should babies be allowed to be called Anzac'. Currently there is a law in place that prevents parents from using this name. Read through some of our argument writing and then decide for yourself.
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Over the next few weeks we will be learning about Hockey for P.E. We will have teaching sessions run by some Y8 students.
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Room 6 has been using robots as part of their mapping and maths units this term.
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Bang! Bang! Bang! The target drops. Yay! Air rifles are amazing.
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On Monday the 12 of February room 6 went out to Tirohanga for 3 days. We traveled by bus and we reached the camp about half an hour later.
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Some kids heard that there was a creek near there school camp that had big huge yabbies..
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Ice Hockey: This week classes have had an introduction lesson to playing Ice hockey.
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Tahuna values are interwoven throughout the classroom programmes and everyday school life. They are also a big part of our reward and acknowledgement system.
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Room 6 has been involved in 'Get NZ writing' which is an initiative from Warehouse Stationary. They have linked classrooms across NZ with a buddy class. Each class has been tasked to write a series of sentences exploring the use of metaphors and descriptive language.
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