Worser Bay School: What are we excited about?

We were asked what we were proud of or excited about at Worser Bay School. This is what we said... 

Red and Black Warriors Movie Trailer

Come and see our music performance tonight and tomorrow evening. The shows kick off at 5.45! 

The Diaries of our School.....

Today in a Quick Writer, we wrote diary entries from inanimate objects around our school. We were trying to understand and empathise how different objects might feel! Check these out....


Book's DiaryDear Diary,Oh my spine is always getting ripped off .My pages getting stuck together because I'm wet.My pages are getting ripped up. By Avery and Jasmine


Speaker’s diary

I have been quite tired the last few days because all these kids have been cranking up my volume all the way up! Quite stubborn. They don’t understand that I can’t play their loud music forever. IT HURTS! :( By Yoshi and Elliot


Bell's Diary

Dear Diary,

Everyday I get rung. I'm a bell and I always just get hit and it hurts my body. I make a very annoying sound to back people off and scare them away! They use me for alot of things like the art celebration. I feel sick!

By Ziya and Chris


Bin's DiaryDear dumb diary,I always get grossed out with people's food in my mouth but my two best friends called Mr Yellow and Mr Blue (I’m Mr Red), there always so clean inside them. I get dirty. I used to be the cleanest the children make my so dirty but why do they? Is it a habit or am I supposed to be dirty not clean?By Rhosyn, Olivia and Stella


Bells diary.

Dear Diary, Oww I hate being a bell all day U get smacked by a stick and not cared about.How I miss my friends they just rip us apart and I keep getting moved.Every time they just drop me on the ground I have a life to live too you know.I wonder why kids do not care about me not even adults care about me .By Keir and Hunter J


Doors diary

Dear Diary,

Every day people are slamming me left and right, it is horrible. But today somebody decides to walk right into me! People are so inconsiderate these days. But now that I think about it, what if they are forgetting me? I feel so horrible.By Nuala and Octavia


School bags diary

Dear Diary, Ugh hanging on a hook all night till I'm took to school. I'm thrown in the boot of the car thats my transport it should be more fancy.

By Greta and Caleb

Morning Tea Time PALS

Today at Morning Tea it was very rainy, so we went up to Autahi and played with them.

Megan and Chris played a game of HEADS DOWN, THUMBS UP and the Megan kept getting picked!

Joni and Greta played a medical game with some of the little kids. All of the kids used their imagination. We had fun pretending to be little pets and humans. There were quite a few cats, and two horses!

We are growing our Leadership by helping the juniors and by spending time with the youngest kids in the school we are practicing our patience. Because younger kids have a fresh imagination, you never know what they are going to do so it requires lots of patience!

We are learning how to work WITH the little kids rather than bossing them around. We liked watching the kids play and understand things about their personalities and anything really about them.

We enjoyed just going down there and getting to see the classroom where we started off at school.

By Greta, Chris, Joni and Megan

Student Led Workshops

Our Decimal Workshop
We think this workshop has been good for us because we have been able to share our ideas with others. If someone does not know much about something they could come to watch and they will know more when they leave the workshop.
How it has been effective for us
It is probably effective for us as we have been sharing what we know with others so when they leave they can feel like they have learnt something. It feels really good because you have just taught them something and they are happy. Now, we think that this is a really good method of teaching others.

by Hadley and Theo 

Subtraction

Lately the children have been running math workshops. We have been doing a workshop around subtraction and different strategies. We encouraged students to show their thinking in more than one way. 

By Daisy and Kate

"We ran a workshop about fractions, percentages and decimals"

Binary Code

Flynn: Henry explained very well and he helped me learn.
Ruby: Henry was really clear when he taught us about binary code. I give him a five out of five.
Orla: Today Henry ran a binary number workshop he gave us a worksheet and told us that only 1 counts and not 0 and that you can do it with our her pictures as long as there is a key to understand it. The lesson was fun and I learnt a new thing.
Yasmin: Henry ran a binary number talk it was really fun and Henry was really helpful and he made it fun for us
Neale (Henry's Dad): Henry has been teaching me at home.

The Hero's Journey: The Musical

We are all been working really hard on our Musical Festival pieces for the Arts Celebration!

In Literacy we were creating our own Fantasy Lands, and characters who took on different roles. We learnt about the mythic structure of the Hero's Journey. Much to our surprise, we noticed this same Mythic structure is used in multiple different movies, stories and tales.

For our Music Festival - get ready to see the Hero journey from their Ordinary World, undergoing trials and crisis, in order to overcome and get the metaphorical 'treasure', before returning back to their ordinary world as the better and greater version of themselves.

We will tell this story through  movement, acting and of course music.
We have all chosen different parts of the story to be involved in and have made a visual planner on the side of our wall.



We can't wait to see you next Wednesday and Thursday evenings!

Student Led Music Festival

The Art Celebration/ Music Festival is starting to come together. All of the ideas come from our students. We have been linking our music, dance and drama to imaginary worlds. In the photos below, we are making up a fight scene dance. We are thinking about different levels. We also teamed up with another group so that we could learn each other's dances.