Week 2, Term 2

Term One Reflection and More

Hey parents and students....

Thanks for an enjoyable term of good work and fun. I've really had a great time! In room 18 we've read one of the greatest stories of all time, The Hobbit, by the masterful JRR Tolkien. The kids almost all rated it an 'Excellence!' Whilst the goals/purposes of reading this story included it being a great exemplar of written language skills, to extend our vocabulary and to explore inference, the most important one in my opinion was to foster the love of a marvellous story. Room 18 agreed that we achieved our goals!

Also this term we have explored our own families, our learning styles and goals. This has been in the form of a variety of tasks of which I have the pleasure of marking over the holidays....looks like it'll be a big job!

Speeches were largely very successful and the kids are relieved that they're over I think! Some were extremely well written and some extremely well delivered - a few were both. Efolios have started and the kids quality feedback comment plus rating are in them (along with all their assessment to date - which is most of it!). Congratulations to Eleanor, Sian and Atea for being our Year 8 finalists.

In maths we have looked at place value, worked on number, fractions, decimals and percentages. We have also had a close look at strategies for working out addition and subtraction equations....more next term!

Mostly though, Ms South and I are excitedly awaiting Camp Bentzon. This is one of the high lights of our year....we hope you parents enjoy your quiet week at home too! Work in the kids books in preparation is of a very high quality for most - well done! Thanks so much to those parents who are coming with us - I'm sure you won't forget it!

Have an awesome holidays all - keep safe.... Mrs K

I Have A Dream!!!

Room 18 have been putting together an "I Have A Dream" book.

This book has things like our own personal flag, where we design a flag that represents us; a family tree, a dream job and lots more things to do with ourselves.

We have been exploring who we are, what our strengths and weaknesses are as well as our experiences. In this way we can decide where we are going to in life, including some of our dream jobs which are to become a great artist, a great firefighter or a life saving vet.

We have also been looking at what kind of learner we are and what tools we can use to extend our thinking.

Beach clean up!!!!

The year 7&8's went to Kariotahi beach a couple of weeks ago and cleaned up the beach.

We collected a significant amount of rubbish.

We also had a sand castle competition, there was a hippo, giant fish, mermaid and heaps more. We rode some wicked waves.

We got taught to surf by professional surfers, and they kindly shouted everyone a sausage.

DARE

Yay - once more we are lucky enough to have the mighty Constable Andy instructing our children in Drug Abuse Resistance Education or Decision-Making Assertiveness Responsibility Esteem.....

Parents - The students have a letter which requires your input please (by Wed 30 March), oh, and they also have homework - to complete a Past, Present and Future page in their DARE book (by end of term)....

Please do this well students, we really want Constable Andy to come to Camp in a great mood :-)

Handwriting!!

Hi Team

If handwriting is really important to you because you're not too good at it OR you want to be BETTER!!! come see Mrs K for some extra help....

Farewell to Ms R - See you back soon!

Room 18 say "Come back soon" to Ms Remington - our best ever PE teacher, gone for a short time to teach at Auckland University. We hope to have Ms R back in time to come to the famous Camp Bentzon (Kawau Island) with us!