Rūma Ono Newsletter

Room 6 recently had an awesome and extremely fascinating visit to the Dunedin Wastewater Treatment Plant.

Now I've got that tune in your heads, read on to learn about Rūma Ono's biking adventures

Throughout term three we've been exploring the concept of kaitiakitanga, which culminated in our focus on Tahuna's history.

By Madeline Hage-Sleiman

Our term 3 project is exploring the idea that kaitiakitanga is an important concept for us to understand and that we are all kaitiaki of the past (guardians of the past).

By Chris Jenks

By Miika Phillips

In Room 6 we've been looking at forces and how they create energy (either push or pull). We set a challenge to try and slow down the impact of gravitational force.

We examined capillary action in Room 6 today.

Congratulations Maddy Macaulay on your amazing achievement of earning a gold reading badge!

In our class we're using Banqer to inspire the students to be knowledgeable, curious, creative, and confident with money.

In Rūma Ono we're lucky enough to have Miss Hayward as a student teacher. She will be with us every Wednesday during term one and for a block of six weeks in term two.

Hunter McLean and Madeline Hage-Sleiman have been voted by their peers as Class Councillors for Rūma Ono in 2022.

In week 1 we were lucky to have mini tech sessions with each of our tech teachers to give our tamariki a little idea about what they will be doing in tech this year.

This year we've been developing our skating skills down at Marlow Park. To celebrate a great year we all headed down to the Thomas Burns Skate Park for some fun.

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

On Wednesday we wore a wig or styled a funky hairdo to support Kiwi kids with cancer.

By Charley Grubb

By Maddy Macaulay

By Maddy Macaulay

We've been working hard over the last few weeks conducting our own statistical investigations, which yielded some very interesting results.

We've been busy designing and building air cannons and linking their firing to Newton's laws of motion.

Our science term kicked off with an investigation designed to test the student's observation skills.

Helping others and ourselves is one of the keys to having a successful day.

Rūma Ono's first group of fitness badge recipients... woop, woop!

Work. Fun. Work.

As a subject Maths can cause some students to worry, but we're working hard to make maths fun, engaging, creative and hands on for everyone.

While on duty I snapped a few of the Room 6 kids enjoying the bright sunshine at Tahuna, catching up with friends and making new friends.