Our service learning project

We have now completed our $100 challenge! I am immensely proud of my class! They have ROCKED! The garden is finished, holes were dug by the boys, posts painted, weeds removed! Great job Team! 

Last day put ups!

Week 1 Term 4

Practicing DROP, COVER, HOLD today. 

Rm 7 and Rm 6

Loyalty 

Lena

Well done Lena for getting your bronze koru today. 

Well done Neve

Hard work and dedication!

Service project Room 6

This week we are working on our service project! Today the boys got to dig holes and concrete in the posts for our passion fruit plants to climb on. 

Rebecca and Jacob wonder about Child Labour.

Their key question to explore: How does a child go from their home to being forced to work at a cacao plantation?

Trips to far away places

Today Courtney told us all about her recent trip to Europe! We had plenty of questions and enjoyed Courtney tell us all about the fabulous places she visited! Thanks! 

Sales day for Burnin' Beads

A very successful business venture for Rm 6. We are now in the process of choosing an area of the school to develop! Well done team! 

SongFest 2015

Zipporah and Courtney

inquiry questions - lets just think about this

Today we began thinking deeply about exploring our wonderings from our recent thinking. We have been watching clips on Cacao bean plantations and child trafficking on the Ivory Coast of Africa. The students are beginning to explore in pairs their own questions. Yes, we've been thinking HARD about what is going on in the world.

Courtney returns from her travels

Today we welcome Courtney back from her month long travels in Europe! She is full of stories and we are envious of her trip! Welcome back Courtney, we've missed you! 

Burnin' Beads Advertisement.

A very impressive advertising trailer made to show just how awesome our $100 challenge is. Today, the first day of our official sales saw us make over $300 for our service project. I am VERY proud of the students efforts, enthusiasm and  energy displayed during this project! More for sale tomorrow.

Making Choices about career pathways.

Jack




Annika




Aramina


Casey




Courtney



Emily



Ivy



Kyla



Lena



Mason



Katie




Neve



Siennah



Rebecca



Richa



Sarah



Stara



Amber

Quality control

$100 Challenge review time!

zookeeper interview

This term the students have been looking at what they need to do to achieve their chosen careers. They have been exploring the website Careers NZ to see what they need to study and in line with our inquiry topic this term, the earning potential of that career. This is Jack's interview.

Sharing our quick writes.

Today we welcomed Ms Parker and Room 11 to our learning space. 

For the next week we are going to be working on our quick writes with the objective of sharing them together next Thursday. There was a mixture of excited chatter and nervous laughter as the two classes got to n ow each other. Together they debated pictures to write about and used very persuasive language to convince the rest of the group to choose their age to spend time writing about.  Thanks for the visit  Rm 11, see you next week!