Our work presented at the Worser Bay Boating Club!

The Worser Bay Boating Club is having a revamp. Part of this is making the club an educational facility.

As a starting point, they are presenting some of our Marine Inquiries and Penguin house designs to be enjoyed by the public and members of the club.

Check them out!

Hooked into the story! After lunch shared reading

In some our base groups we have been doing some shared reading of chapter books after lunch.

We do this to relax and unwind after lunch, as well as being exposed to different types of stories and even more vocabulary. At the moment we are reading

- The Pied Piper by Russell Brand

- Red Dog by Louie de Bernieres

Some of us are even having a go at reading them to the class!

More Poetry

More Poetry

Megan went to Tautoru to share her poem and help the kids reading it.  
She stayed on to help out some writers.  
Beautiful poem Megan, lovely leadership and a great example of a Tuakana Teina relationship!

Sailing poem

Sea of diamond

Calm waves across the sea                                                                                                                                      

Splashes

Children having fun

Sails blowing left right

Tugging on masts

Little giggling

Boats tumbling upside down

Jellyfish blobbing

Boats boats

                                    

                                           by Megan

EZ Cricket and Trapping Workshop coming up!

Cricket!

Next Wednesday all of our year 5 and 6 students will be playing Cricket in the Eastern Zone Tournament. It is a great day in which all of our kids get a taste of the Eastern Zone competitions. They get to meet a whole lot of new kids, practice their growth mindset skills and even play some Cricket! This year we have entered 8 teams, 3 in the competitive grade and 5 in the social!

Kids are looking forward to it!




One of last year’s teams.

We are seeking at least 6 helpers for the day. Please email Nicola to indicate your availability.



Trapping Workshop

We are hosting other schools in the Miramar area on Wednesday next week who are interested in making their schools predator free.




Successful trappers from 2017


The event will be hosted by Darren van Hoof from Zealandia, supported by Joakim from Te Motu Kairangi reforestation group and teachers from the schools attending.


It’s a good opportunity for us to share some of the great work underway here which might inspire others to follow on.

Learning about the Powhiri

Tomorrow we have our powhiri. We have been practising parts of it together: the karanga (women's welcome), the haka and waiata (songs). We have also discussed some of the different stages of the powhiri together and made posters. The six stages we focused on were:
 - karanga and haka (welcome call and dance)
 - whaikorero (speeches)
 - waiata (songs)
 - koha (gift)
 - hongi (sharing of breath)
 - hakari (feast).

Waterslide Chaos: Travelling Tales

This is our first Travelling Tale of the year. This Travelling Tale was created by 5 schools around the world. It started in the USA then it was passed onto a class in the Netherlands then Canada, Ethiopia and finally to us here in New Zealand. Thank you to all of the students who helped to create this. 

I am a Thinker: Questioning!

This term our Learner Attribute we have been focussing on is 'I am a Thinker'. Within that we have been learning about questioning - even questioning ABOUT questioning!


What makes a good question? 
Today we tried to improve the following questions:

What makes a bad question?

What distinguishes a good question from a bad one?

Are there some questions which are better than others?

Is Where better than How?

Is Which better than Why?

How can we develop a question?
How can we DRAFT, CRAFT, EDIT and SHAPE a question?
Can we further develop a question to make it better?

What did Wellington look like? Who doesn’t have enough in New Zealand? Where is Te Reo Maori spoken? How can we look after people better? Who invented the light bulb? What happens when a new factory begins making something in an area?

Some of us have moved ourselves up the Maunga. The Maunga represents where we evaluate ourselves to be in our Learning Journey. Currently we are focussing on questioning so as you feel you grow in your knowledge and strength of questioning, you can climb up the mountain (maunga).