Mannequin challenge! Room 1

Congratulations Year 8s ! MISS YOU ALL

Cricket Wednesdays and Tuakana Teina

What a busy Wednesday we had with cricket in the morning with wonderful cricket skills coaches and then tuakana teina in the afternoon where we were split into house teams and rotated around a variety of activities.

Week 8

Just a few reminders about events coming up :

Graduation Evening - 6th Dec at 7pm.  Invitations went home last week, see you all there.

Rainbows End - 8th Dec. All students that have given regular service to the school ( road patrol, office monitors etc )

Te Rapa Pools trip - 13th Dec.  A days trip to the pools - forms need to be back asap if you haven't already,

RED CROSS First Aid and Safety Course

Today Room 1 was fully involved in a day of learning First Aid and Safety.  Thanks to Red Cross and Caroline we learnt a lot!

Calf Club Day

Last Friday was the annual calf club day for Te Aroha schools.  It was our pleasure to host it this year.  Room 1 had Ollie, Leah, Sharneet, Hunter and Jess all participating with calves.  Special mention to Sharneet who won grand champion with her calf!

Term 4

Welcome back to Term 4.

We have an exciting term ahead and lots to look forward to!

• This week we started social dancing which we will do twice a week in the lead up to our Year 8 Graduation evening.  A letter will be coming home shortly with all the details.
• School Athletics is in Week 4 and we are busy practising for all the events that we will be taking part in.
• Rainbows End for all those students who have helped out over the year with extra responsibilities.
• Te Rapa Pools trip.
• First Aid day course for all classrooms.

Award Winning Video

Well done Kurtis and his team who created the winning video that got shown at the school movie night.  We will upload his video this week.  Room 1 had a sneak preview last Wednesday.  Awesome work boys!

Week 6 Winter Olympics and Stanley Olympics

This week will be a crazy, busy and extremely fun week.  We have 32 students off to Winter Olympics at Totara Springs camp in Matamata for four days and we have 45 students who are remaining at school for Stanley Olympics.
The photos below show the students practising for the cheer next Thursday night at camp.  Stanley Olympics students are off to the Windows Walk on Weds and Jump on Friday.  What an exciting week ahead!

Cross Country 2016

Well done to everyone in Room 1 that completed in the annual school cross country yesterday.  It was a beautiful day after all our training in the rain and the mud!
Awesome work to everyone that tried their best on the course.

Our T2 ART project

Thanks to Kurtis L for putting this together and Brodie for finishing off :) .

Chrome Book Trolley!

A HUGE thank you to Luka in our class for designing a solution to out chrome book trolley mess. Every day our chrome book trolley cords were a terrible disaster and Luka was given the challenge to fix it all up and find a solution.
He had a couple of attempts and his final solution has been amazing.  It is still going strong and it is so easy to plug in our chrome books now.  Thanks to Leah for helping him out as well.  They have even sorted out the trolleys in Rm 2 and 3.

Term 3

Welcome back to Term Three.
We have lots on this term with cross country, speeches and Winter/Stanley Olympics !

Week 2: ICAS English testing
Week 4: Cross Country, ICAS maths and class speeches
Week 5: Speech finals
Week 6: Winter/Stanley Olympics

We presented our Art Work to the school in assembly on Friday and we will finalise the project and put it on our blog this week.

NZ PAINTERS

Yesterday we had a whole day of ART - all term we have been studying NZ painters and planning out our art pieces.  We researched into a painter that we liked and identified what they do different to other painters.  We used this as inspiration into our own painting.

Room 1 Gymnastics

Congratulations to Sarah and Caitlin who participated in the Hamilton City Gymsports competition on Sunday.  Sarah ended up in first place overall in her grade and Caitlin 3rd in her grade.  Well done girls.

Tough Guy and Gal Challenge

Last Friday we had half of Room1 out competing in the Tough Guy and Gal challenge.  It was a 3km course for Year 5-8.  Well done to those that completed.  It definitely looked like it was a MUDDY challenge!

MY TIME

Room 1 began MYtime this term - learning about an area of interest that we are passionate about.  We have people working in garage band, cooking, learning a language, art skills, sports skills and the video above is the work of Jono who is programming a robot to draw what he asks of it.  Very exciting!

Geometry

This term for mathematics we are learning about geometry.  This week we were exploring nets  -  what a 3D shape looks like flat and then using the net to create the shape.

No Bells by Kurtis L

On May the 4th Room 1,2,3 had a social experiment around our reliance on bells on Room 4-13. we had to write down everything they did either before morning tea/lunch or just before morning tea/lunch finished. here is a good example by Kurtis L.

No Bells

by Kurtis Large

What if the bells randomly stop working? How would we cope? How would you know? What if the clock even stopped working? Well that's what we thought. A experiment that triggered these 5-11 year old students. We stopped all the bells on May the 4th 2016 at Stanley Ave school. A experiment that made us think differently. The results were unusual.

“Is morning tea yet” asked one of the students even though it was only 5 minutes to morning tea. All the 6-7 year old kids are yapping away while reading. The kid is still begging to go to morning tea, just about getting on his knees.

“Time to pack up” yelled the teacher. Then the chaos started. Children yelling at each other, fighting over toys to put away. After 2-3 minutes of this they finally settled down and sat on the mat. The teacher went on about stuff I can’t quite remember. It was about 5 minutes past morning tea when the teacher finally gave up and sent the children outside.

The children definitely acted different to what I thought. Most of them didn’t even realised the bell apart from one. I learnt that they are VERY trustworthy on the bell and if they didn’t even have a teacher to remind them, they would have worked right through morning tea and lunch. I personally think that bells should not be removed because the students are too reliant on the bell. 

Math - Problem Solving Thursdays

Every Thursday we work with different buddies in our class to solve math problems.  This is us in action!

Congratulations

Well done Leah for winning Intermediate Girls cup and Hunter for winning the Senior Boys cup for swimming.

Awesome work you two!

CAMP 2016

Thanks everyone for a great camp week - we had a blast!  We experienced kayaking, archery, water slides, raft building, team games, swimming, Maungatautari Sanctuary mountain tour, Te Waihou walk (Blue Springs), cycling at the Avantidrome.
We will be posting on our blogs when we are back into school.
 Here is a couple of photos from our week.