Celebrating Diwali through drama and designing rangoli patterns

It's the Indian festival of Diwali at the moment. To celebrate, we've been learning about the story behind Diwali, and Rama and Sita's exile from their kingdom and then their return with the help of Hanuman, king of the monkeys. We acted it out and also wrote about some of the main characters in the legend...

           Ravana

His ten heads swinging and snapping, his twenty arms flailing wildly, the demon king launched himself into the battle!  Ten of his twenty glowing red eyes searching for Rama. I need to kill that man he thought. He kept moving though because he knew that if he stopped the monkey army would sooner or later find his weakness.  Suddenly he saw Rama.  He sprinted towards him and started slashing at him with ten sharp swords! Rama responded immediately and with the battle raging around them they fought their own battle.  Ravana fought like, a demon.

By Hugo M

We've also been designing rangoli art to celebrate Diwali. We had to show how we could transform 2D shapes by doing some tessellation, rotation, reflection and translation.


Some of us made videos to show this maths learning instead of art.

Fitness Baseline Data

As part of our Healthy Body, Healthy Mind Inquiry, we have been gathering some baseline data. We have chosen our "Health Groups" and will be working together to improve our fitness over the next 10 weeks.

We did a beep test and have recorded our resting pulse and pulse after exercise.

We have used the LEARN framework to set health goals for ourselves.

L: Learn to give ourselves feedback
E: Exercise
A: Attitude
R: Rest
N: Nutrition

Athletics Training

Yesterday we started training for our WBS Athletics (next Friday 27th October). We did long jump, sprinting, throwing quoits and throwing vortex. Our Inquiry is called, "Healthy Body, Healthy Mind?" and we are looking forward to our summer of fitness. 

Road Patrol in Sunny Term 4

We have had a great sunny start to the Term! We have also had a great start to road patrol  with our road patrollers always punctually ready to go out and serve our school.

Check out the new schedule in class!

Nutrition: Jamie Oliver

As part of our "Healthy Body, Healthy Mind?" Inquiry we are learning about healthy eating. To spark our thinking we watched videos about Jamie Oliver’s Food Revolution. They were so shocking, surprising and fascinating! 

Dave the Chicken: Travelling Tales

By Alastair

This is a Travelling Tale named "Dave the Chicken" created by 5 schools from around the world. This was made by students from schools in Bahrain, USA, Columbia and New Zealand.  

Students from the senior area at Worser Bay School created the beginning of the story. 

This was the beginning of the story written by Alastair: Once there was a chicken called Dave. Dave liked bread and silver beat. Dave lived in a farm with 700 other chickens. There owner was fat and liked staying in bed and eating chocolates. One day Percy the cow accidentally stood on Rosie the crow. And the farmer threw a news paper at her. 

  

By Parker

By Haare

Dave the Chicken by Lachlan

By Lucas

One of our learners attributes is "I am connected." We are aiming to connect globally so that we have a better understanding of the world around us: 

Holiday Story Writing Competition!

Happy Holidays everyone!

As we mentioned at the end of last term, the Social Group is running a 'STORY WRITING COMPETITION' over the holidays.

The entries are due on Friday October 20th (Friday, Week 1). These can be emailed to ajames@worserbay.school.nz or give your story to Anna in Matariki.

There are no rules to this competition! Try your best and have fun!