Certificate Winners, and the Year 6's America's Cup Trip

 

Congratulations to our certificate winners this week - Charlotte, Levi, Phoenix and Carlos. We are proud of your achievements - keep up the good work!

The Year 6's had a fantastic time at the America's Cup village on Wednesday. Thank you so much to our family members who came along as parent helpers. Without you, we couldn't do trips like this. Please see some photos of our learners in action above!

Some photos from our Community Clean-up at Oakley Creek will be coming out shortly - stay tuned. We are kaitiaki for our environment, and we made a positive difference to our area by tidying up locally.

Lots of us are excited about the children's market at the Mt Albert Community Hall tomorrow morning. See if you can come along, and support our youth!

Have a great weekend everyone.

Tui Street Tales Ponder 5

 

Please give a detailed response in the comments, based on the story we are reading!

Kauri Assembly - and some special people to celebrate

     

We have had a huge week in Room 8 - I am predicting that there will be some tired faces in our class tomorrow afternoon.

Congratulations to Christian and Liberty, who received certificates this week. 

We have a very exciting week coming up next week, with the trip to Oakley Creek, and our Year 6's going on an America's Cup trip also!

See you all tomorrow - remember your swimming togs! 

Certificate winners to end our week

 

Congratulations to Daerue and Rita, who were awarded with Duffy Caught Being Good certificates this week. Sadly we didn't have an assembly, but we celebrated their achievements in class.

Have a wonderful weekend everyone.

Our students showing their pride!

 

Our boys showed their support for their team today, before the Blues take on the mighty Highlanders on Sunday afternoon.

It was a pleasant surprise, and they were more than happy to pose for a photo.

Who do you think will win this weekend's big game? For our rugby fans, make a prediction - which player will stand out? What do you think the score will be? Why will the Highlanders win?

Remember to keep comments appropriate, and written to a high standard (I know we are excited about the game, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't be sensible when we are blogging to our global audience.)

Our Ponder for today

 On this week's edition of Kea Kids News, we learned that our Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern, regularly reads letters sent to her by school children all over the country!

In fact, letters from young kaitiaki persuaded her to begin a new project, to protect something very special in New Zealand waters. This links to the Young Ocean Explorers work we have been doing during Inquiry time.

Your Ponder for today:

'How did young people manage to stand strong, and  make a positive impact on our marine life?'

To answer this key question:

- Watch the clip 

- EITHER answer this key question on your blog as a blog post 

OR

create an article review, where you preview the article on stuff.co.nz using Screencastify. During your review, make sure you answer the key question for your audience.

You will achieve success if you:

- provide some background information to explain what your task was

- Present (in writing, or speaking) a detailed answer to our key question, based on evidence from the text.

- include      - one adverb     - one strong sentence starter        - 100% correct full stops and capital letters

Follow this link to find the article.

A recap of our successful week

A big welcome to Saint Pius X Catholic School and Mangapapa School, who have been viewing and commenting on our blogs this week! Room 8 and their teacher (Mr Moore) are delighted to have a wide audience to share our work with. It also gives us the opportunity to learn from each other and from your feedback. A big thank you also to Room 25. We have valued your positive, thoughtful, questioning comments on our posts this week. We finish our swimming sessions this week. Luckily, the team will be back in Term 4. Well done to all Room 8 students who were committed to taking part, despite some challenging weather. You showed real manawanuitanga - and you will be safer in the water as a result of all you have learned. Have an amazing weekend everybody. Who knows - maybe I will see some of you at Eden Park for the big game this weekend! (Go the Highlanders!) Stay tuned this afternoon for our certificates for this week (there is no assembly today.)