Tech Time!

We were very excited to start our Tech programme today!  We have been divided up into four groups, and will rotate through four activities:  Hard Materials (woodwork), Soft Materials (sewing), Food Technology (cooking) and we'll each make a CO2 car.  We thoroughly enjoyed our first day, and are very much looking forward to the rest of the programme.

Turbos!

We were so lucky to receive a visit from the Manawatu Turbos rugby team today!  The team decided that on their day off, they would visit some local schools.  We played some crazy games and had heaps of fun.  Go the Turbos!

Be More Awesome!

Want to be more awesome?  Use this short video for inspiration!

The Lost Thing - Creative Thinking

At the end of last term, we read the picture book 'The Lost Thing', by Shaun Tan.  This weird and wacky story is all about a boy who befriends a creature that appears to be lost.  Using this book as inspiration, we designed our own 'Lost Things'.  What a creative bunch we are!

Term 3 Inquiry

This term, our inquiry is:

SURVIVAL: AGAINST THE ODDS

Our first job was to think about what we thought this meant.  Here is a sample of our first ideas:

Following this, we did lots of talking in groups and as a class.  Eventually we agreed on the following definition of our inquiry:

SURVIVE: to stay alive

AGAINST THE ODDS: to achieve something
remarkable when your chances are slim

We are looking forward to getting stuck into our learning!

Buddy Class - Inquiry Sharing

Now that our inquiry work has all finished for the term, it was time to share our learning with our Buddy Class.  We were very impressed with the amazing animations that our buddies have been working on!

And we were pretty proud to be able to share our Medieval Europe projects too!

Disco Highlights!

What an awesome time we had at the disco!  Check out the photos:

Congratulations to the Student Council who did an excellent job of organising and running the discos. Well done team!