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The Adventures of Rūma Ono

Nau mai haere mai. Here you will find a celebration of many of our adventures in Room 6. Remember to check back often.

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Kia ora koutou, nau mai haere mai to our 2023 adventures.

by Sean Minhinnick

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The future of teaching looks bright!

by Sean Minhinnick

Today the students were doing the teaching in Rūma Ono.

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Class visit to the St Kilda Pétanque Club

by Sean Minhinnick

We all had the exciting opportunity to learn a new sport with some local legends.

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Financial literacy in Room 6

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By Layla Wainwright

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Persuasive Speeches

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By Quinn Holt

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Tahuna represents at the Dunedin Schools Triathlon

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By Abi Crowley

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Positives and negative integers

by Sean Minhinnick

Over the first two weeks of the term we've been focusing on a specific mathematics skill and using materials to support us with our understanding of it Smith.

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"I do believe something very magical happens when you read a good book" J K Rowling

by Sean Minhinnick

We're one week into our Novel Study in R6 and I can see what J K Rowling is talking about.

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Athletics Day

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By Abi Crowley

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Cycle safety in Rūma Ono

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Over the first half of term four we will be learning how to ride our bikes safely.

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Recapping Term 3!

by Sean Minhinnick

By Layla Wainwright Ioane

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The world is Ada's stage

by Sean Minhinnick

While most students are relaxing over the holidays, Ada Silva is working harder than ever, performing in Taieri Musical's production of Frozen Jr and The Lion King Jr.

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Snow White ... With A Twist Live!!

by Sean Minhinnick

After 8 weeks of hard work we all came together to produce a spectacular pantomime performance!

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Chalk Angles

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We took our geometry work outside today to draw and label angles.

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Our Lit Quiz team - 4th at Nationals!!

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After months of trials, winning a regional competition, fundraising and practices we finally made it to Wellington.

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Otago Classics Quiz 2023

by Sean Minhinnick

Congratulations to our two Tahuna Classics teams who competed in the 2023 Dunedin Intermediate and Junior Classics Quiz.

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Chess Power Regionals

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Tahuna sent a strong team to the Chess Power Regionals.

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Critical feedback from our PBL expert

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This week Hannah Geary brought her performing arts experience back to Tahuna to help develop our pantomime.

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Tahuna Represents at the Otago Regional Aerobics Championship

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By Addison Cope (R6)

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Rūma Ono's visit to the Art Gallery

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Today we headed to the Ōtepoti Barrett Art Gallery to learn about and make beautiful art!

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Diving in the hall

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Yes, you read that right.....

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Getting to know our clients

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Our pantomime project is being designed for our clients; the young ones at St Kilda Kindergarten.

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Nau mai haere mai

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Today we welcomed our new student teacher - Ben Major

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Our Term 2 legends - Addison Cope and Max Wooffindin

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Ngā mihi to our Term Two Merit Award Winners!

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Aleiyah's Matariki Art

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By Aleiyah Gielen

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Abi's Matariki ornament

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By Abi Crowley

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Mātauranga Māori Week highlights

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With so much going on throughout this amazing week, I thought I'd let the pictures tell the story.

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Matariki Celebration Night

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By Ada Silva

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Congrats to the Tahuna 1st XI

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An impressive display of teamwork, game sense and individual skill, saw our football team convincingly take out their game against Oamaru Intermediate School.

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Our worm farms

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Here's a photo gallery of our final prototypes for worm farms at Tahuna.

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Haere rā and good luck Miss Murphy

by Sean Minhinnick

After around a term with us we say farewell to Miss Murphy.

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Our Rūma Ono Census

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To launch our statistics unit we conducted our own census.

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Critical feedback on our second prototypes

by Sean Minhinnick

A key part of the design process is to evaluate the design, then improve and redesign: and that is exactly what we did in Room 6 today.

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Six medals won!!! Go Sophia!

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We have a talented martial arts athlete in Rūma Ono - have a read about her amazing recent achievements.

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R6 plays the beautiful game

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By Layla Wainwright

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ICAS Exams 2023

by Sean Minhinnick

This is a great opportunity for students looking for additional academic challenge, experience sitting exams, the opportunity for new challenges and to develop confidence in our Tahuna ākonga.

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Project Based Learning (PBL): The design process in action

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Our second prototypes are being constructed as we work towards our finished products.

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Diving our oceans in virtual reality

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Our students experienced VR videos filmed by New Zealand Geographic in marine environments around Aotearoa to understand our underwater environments and what threatens them.

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What a waste!

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This week we all got down and dirty while facing up to our waste problem in Rūma Ono and Tahuna.

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ICAS Exams 2023

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Looking for a challenge? This could be just the ticket!

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Once up-pawn a time

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The chess elective has taken off!

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Harakeke uses, tikanga and weaving

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We learned about harakeke and how it's uses and the tikanga around harvesting it have clear sustainability values for our whenua (land) and the environment.

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Tahuna's daily waste - it's a lot!

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So the question is ... how do we as waste minimisation agents, reduce the waste at Tahuna and promote a more sustainable future?

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Lego Education

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This week R6 students had the chance to explore finding engineering solutions to a real world problem with Lego Education.

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Rūma Ono's Term One Merit Award Winners!

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Congratulations to Cayden Seyb and Quinn Holt on your efforts, progress and achievement in T1!

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Haere ra Milo!

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Room 6 will miss you.

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Shared kai to celebrate Term 1

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Nā tō rourou, nā taku rourou ka ora ai te iwi / With your food basket and my food basket the people will thrive

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It's a dog's life

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Pippi's visit with us.

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Teeko Challenge

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We're just starting to learn about Teeko and how it can help us with our mathematical learning.

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Futsal: Season wrap

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Thank you for a fantastic season!

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Making 'lungs'

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We've been learning about body systems over the last few weeks and we had a go at replicating a little how the lungs operate.

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Lip Sync fun 'n' games

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By Addie Te Huna

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Lit Quiz Regionals!

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By Madeline Hage-Sleiman

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R6 success at the Otago Schools Swimming Champs

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Menzie Saker and Connor Horne both competed in the Otago Schools Swimming Champs.

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Awesome Orienteering

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By Menzie Saker

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All about fish🐟

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A poem by Hannah Collett, Mr Tait, Cayden Seyb, Jayden Cambridge and Lucia Sharma

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Introducing our student teacher: Zoë Murphy

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We're lucky to have Ms Murphy with us for the next few months.

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Block Run Success!

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Some very fast times were recorded on our first block run of the year.

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Futsal - Term 1

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Wednesday afternoons sees around 120 Tahuna students battling it out on the futsal court.

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Tirohanga - Day 3

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Tramp. Clean. Walls

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Tirohanga - Day 2

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Mines. Challenges. Horror

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Tirohanga - Day 1

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Excitement. Games. Glow Worms.

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We dream BIG in R6!

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We look to the sky, set our goals and watch our goals flourish through care, attention and hard work.

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Fingerprint writing

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As part of our Kaitiaki of Self unit (being guardians of ourselves) R6 students have been writing all about themselves in a really unique way.

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Literacy Games

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Remember scrabble? What about the 3 Second Rule? Game of Awesome? Boggle? Story Cubes? Hedbanz? Bananagrams? We've got them all, plus loads more to support our reading and writing work in Rūma Ono.

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Amputation? No problem :-)

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With just over a week to go till our camp, we thought it best we brush up on our first aid skills.

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Meet Rūma Ono's Class Councillors

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A big congratulations goes out to Abi Crowley and Connor Horne!

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Establishing a safe mathematical learning environment

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This week we have been discussing and co-constructing how we learn best in maths.

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The Sound of Music

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The music knowledge and ability in Room 6 was a pleasant surprise to me (and our music teacher Mrs Bowen Barrett).

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First lunch at Tahuna, our Tahuna tour and the t-shirt challenge

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Here are just a small selection of some of our adventures this week.

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A taste of tech

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Room Retallick 6 students had the opportunity to visit our technology classes and get to learn what each class offers. The kids were buzzing after!

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