Assembly Awards/Badges - Week 5 T2 2017

We had a number of students from Room 9 receive awards at assembly today.

Emma - Cross Country (1st Yr 7 girl)

Alyssa - Cross Country (3rd Yr 7 girl)

Room 9 (awarded to Tanzi our class leader) - Cross Country (Overall top Yr 7 class)

Dylan - Cross Country (1st Yr 7 boy)

We also had Brock, Jess, Kaitlyn, Josh and Ethan receive their first REP badge. These students received their Excellence REP badge for earning 30 excellence REP cards.

Group Points - Week 3 & 4 T2 2017

Over the last two weeks we have spent a lot of our time out of the classroom at the pool for our swimming lessons so we combined the group points for the last two weeks. Well done to the Spicy Golden Chicken Wings who took out the last two weeks with a massive 1100 points. Our REP of the week is Zek and Tiger.

Last Session of Swimming

On Friday we had our final session of swimming at the Graham Condon Pool. Over the last two weeks of swimming all students have shown a lot of REP so we decided that we would finish our final session with a big game of dodgeball before heading back to school.

Water Safety

At swimming today we covered how to be safe in the water. The students were put through different scenarios and what to do if your are put into a dangerous situation while in the water. This was a great learning experience for everyone involved.

REP Badges - Week 3 T2 2017

Well done to Em who received her first REP badge at assembly on Tuesday. She received her Excellence badge for getting 30 Excellence REP cards.

Assembly Awards - Week 3 T2 2017

Well done to the students from Room 9 who won awards at Assembly on Tuesday.

Dylan, Emma and JB - Swimming
Josh and Drelyn - Youthtown Super 10's

Te Reo Lessons

This term we are completing school wide Te Reo lessons. With the focus on improving pronunciation and growing our confidence to incorporate the language into everyday life.

Big thanks goes to Mr Leys and Miss Bull for creating great resources to help with our learning of Te Reo.

Here is a clip of us learning the alphabet through a Waiata.

We watch this clip below as an igniter for our learning around pronunciation. This was a very engaging clip.

Swimming Lessons Begin

Today all Year 7's started swimming lessons at the Graham Condon Pool. Students were assessed and put into groups for future lessons - our swimming programme will be running everyday (apart from Tuesdays) for the next two weeks.

It was great to see students showing REP in the community.

The Tim Tam Slam T2 2017

In writing we have started to look at procedural writing. We have been focussing on writing instructions that are clear and sequenced in chronological order.

We used the Tim Tam Slam as an igniter to engage us in our procedural writing. Once we had completed our writing we followed our instructions and completed the Tim Tam Slam.

This proved to be a very engaging, yummy and messy activity.

                                         

Group Points - Week 1 & 2 T2 2017

Start of a new term means the start of a new group points competition. We changed desk groups at the start of week 1 and got straight into the competition. The last two weeks have been close with only 50 points separating first and second.

Week 1 - Team Wildfire and REP of the Week: Emma.

Week 2 - Fantastic Four and REP of the Week: Kaitlyn.

Tech Update T2 2017

This term for tech we have the majority of Room 9 in Science and a handful of students in Cooking/Garden to Table.

It has been great to see so many students receiving REP at Tech cards.

Basketball with Room 3

This term in PE we are looking at basketball. We will be looking at all the different skills involved in basketball and putting them into gameplay.

For this unit we will be working with Room 3. We had our first session today and were introduced to basketball and started to look at how to dribble.

Cross Country 2017

Well done to all students who competed in the school cross country today. It was awesome to see the students in Room 9 showing REP especially perseverance throughout the race.

Room 9 came first in both the boys and girls races and these students got a top 10 placing:

Year 7 Boys:

Dylan (1st)
JB (8th)
Zek (9th)
Drelyn (10th)

Year 7 Girls

Emma (1st)
Alyssa (3rd)