Global Citizens

Reading & discussing how we can become more effective global citizens to save Earth

Integrating adventure learning skills

Using the skills we've learnt during our adventure learning to create our 'book-in-a-bag' for literacy

Flick-it-on script

Brainstorming ideas for our flick-it-on script.... #excited

Classroom Design Plans

We had the challenge to design our classroom in the way we'd like it. We had to think about our learning spaces. Here are a couple of our plans.

Classroom design

Our first activity for the term is to decide what learning spaces we want & need & how we can create this space in our existing classroom :)

A recap of our trip to North Harbour Gymnastics :-)

Dancing Queen :-)

We decided to use Video Star to create a school wide dancing dvd to give to Ms K :-)  Here is a tiny, tiny snippet.......

Adventure Learning in Action

One of our groups are making bike ramps for our upcoming wheels day, and today they had extra volunteers helping them (including our Principal) :-)


Bike Ramps - Adventure Learning on PhotoPeach

Readers & Writers Festivsl

Cartooning with Stu Duval - what an awesome way to finish the Term!

Writing with Stu Duval

The Y5/6 GATE Writing session has begun with Stu Duval

Readers & writers week activity

Creating some great character book marks

Book characters

All dressed up ready for our character parade

Getting ready for Readers & writers fedtival

Working with rooms 11 & 19 to create art for our classroom doors :)

Student led maths session

Catherine getting ready to lead a lesson on using Pi to find the circumference of a circle

Quadblogging lesson

Room 11 teaching room 10 how to leave great messages when commenting on blogs :)

Collaborative writing

First step is listening to each others Alien stories then using our favourite parts to help in planning our collaborative story....

Book club meeting with a difference

Sharing in our book club meetings using various tools

Imagery in our writing

Sitting back to back while author reads their story & buddy illustrates what they hear - have their stories conjured up enough imagery?

Movie in a day challenge

Only 30min of filming left then onto editing!

Tennis cricket!

Our last tennis lesson - having a great time!

#kidschatnz

Rooms 10, 11 &19 taking part in kidschatnz

Saying good-bye to Mrs Ripley

Presenting Mrs Ripley with gold certificates from our students

Where in the world - Egypt

Taahier, Phillip & Sithumina sharing some interesting information on Egypt

Where in the world - Japan

Learning Japenese through group challenges

Where in the world - China

Antony, David & Jerway explaining how to count in Chinese

Te Reo

Jahvis & Tarian challenging the class to count further than 10 in Te Reo

Where in the world - Spain

Liam & Lachlan teaching us Spanish & Ashley ready to teach us a Spanish dance

Where in the world Japan

Solving codes.....

Where in the world... France

Caley sharing some great information if you're planning on traveling to France

Where in the world Sth Korea

Sophie, Brearna, Seoha & Catherine teaching Rm10 & 11 how to write their names in Korean

Where in the world Iran

Eesa & Aaron playing 'Simon says' in Farsi

Where in the world

Austin, Michael & James presenting their 'where in the world' lesson on Italy - it's quiz time!

Mouse in the house

Room 10 have a mouse in the house! Our humane trap is set.....

Castor Bay

Getting ready for kayaking