Final post of the year

Paturangi and his Dad worked on this for three days to a week to restore this table saw and planer. Their next project is go-kart!

Final post of the year

Paturangi and his Dad worked on this for three days to a week to restore this table saw and planer. Their next project is go-kart!

Careers Days: Additional pics

Careers: Stay Home Mum

Some positives and negatives of being a stay home Mum!

Careers: Pilot

Jack presenting his Airline Pilot board.

Careers Expo

Performing arts: Keyboard

Jack and Callum making music!

Water Survival

Thanks Mr Holland for teaching us some water survival skills. Techniques for floating were great.

Visual Art: Stilt Houses

Mrs Packer has been hard at work with the students to complete their Stilt Houses for the Art Exhibition on Monday 2nd December at 7pm. Head along and check it out!

Cameron is nearly finished:

Kayley showing her Maori art skills:

Brain maps!

Felicity and Darcy share their Brain Maps.

What do you think about?

First Rm17 to 3 STARS!

A big congratulations to Zara for achieving Green, Blue and Red STARS and heading towards her GOLD STAR!!

Water Polo

Rm 17 vs Rm 18 at Nayland pool this afternoon.

Morning Warm Up: Chain Tag

Amazing teamwork demonstrated by room 17 this morning!

Chain tag to start the day. Circulating oxygen through the body is essential to kicking off the day successfully.

Camp Menu Suggestions

Created with Padlet

Padlet

Created with Padlet

The new chess set

The boys trying out the new chessboard during lunchtime.

Homework: Week 7

Argument writing: Research

Darlene and Punakirangi exchange high fives after finding evidence for their argument.

Arts competition: String and wind

Congratulations to Zara for coming third in ukelele and third equal in saxophone.
Well done!!

Life Education Bus: The Body Systems

Session 2/3
We took a look at different parts of our body and their function(s).
The brain has an estimated 70 000 thoughts A DAY!

Life Education bus: Stress

Stress: Physical, mental, emotional pressure.
Solution: Share some kindness.
Zac: watch Funny YouTube clips
Zara: smile, share a joke
Maia: talk to an older sibling

Homework due 16th August

Gravity Homework

Thanks Zara for the amazing homework!! Well done!!

Maori Language Week

Te Reo Maori

As part of Maori language week Rm17 decided to create Maori place name posters that were phonetically spelled.  This means sounding out the word and writing it in an English equivalent to help pronounce Maori words correctly.

Film Camp

Film Camp 2013

After the great success with Rock Camp over the last two years, the
Playhouse has decided to host the very first FILMCAMP in the second week of
the October school holidays (Monday 7th till 11th ).

The camp is limited to 15 students aged between 9 and 15 and runs daily
from 9 till 4pm at the Playhouse. Participants will script, produce, film,
edit and screen their film over week, with help of Nic Roland as their main
tutor. Nic has a degree in Film and Media from Otago University is an ex
TVNZ News Editor and director, with extensive experience as a Television
and short film producer.

All aspects of making a movie are addressed during the week including
costume design, makeup, acting method, lighting, film history and
distribution. Kids will have a chance to film and edit their film over the
week with a grand screening of their work on the Friday Night to parents
friends and family.

This is a great chance for any young film maker, actor/actress, camera
person, editor, set and costume designer, makeup artist or general film
enthusiast to build new skills, meet like minded people and actually make a
movie!

The camp costs $350 for the week, which includes 3 meals a day plus
tutoring. For more information please call Nic Roland on 5402985 or email
at theplayhousecafenz@gmail.com.

Homework Term 3, Week 2

Homework – “Project Gravity”

Compare Sir Isaac Newton’s theory of gravity to our every day knowledge of gravity.

Investigate who Sir Isaac was and illustrate one of his laws of gravity using annotated (pictures with labels) diagrams.

Compare gravity with magnetism then display this information using a Venn diagram.

Invent a story (with elements of truth in it) of a time, related to gravity, when gravity or lack of it caused you to have an accident.

Explain why this was.

Prepare a PMI that considers the issue of gravity. Issue “Life without gravity”  - what would be positive, negative and interesting!

Present your project on A2 sized card.

Presentations will be graded on both content and quality.

Note: Due 9th^th August!

Dr Seuss

Today you are you! That is truer than true! There is no one alive who is you-er than you!

Expressive writing: How to be a dog.

Expressive writing this morning: Mr Rays sad attempt at dog drawing with our supercool ideas :)

Science Fair!!!