What energy moves you around the field?

  Left foot, right foot, arms pumping propelling you forward. How does it feel to run?

What is the name of the energy you used to move around the field?  How is that energy created?

What would be your top three adjectives to describe the feeling as you move around the field? How do you get yourself from the cricket pitch to the goals posts?

What does it take to fly?

As you get ready to make your jump what are you thinking about ?  How do you motivate yourself to make your leap?  

What energy are you using to move your body through the air?

Have a look at yourself mid flight?  What do you think about your form ? ?  How can you fly further?  What will you do next time?

Potential vs Kinetic Energy

Designing a paper plane is a tricky process if you wish to beat your classmates in a paper plane flying contest. There are many designs to consider and throwing techniques.  What has worked best for you?

What is potential energy?  What stage of paper plane making demonstrates potential energy? When does potential energy change into kinetic energy?

What kind of energy do you use to make the plane fly??

The Stump

What is a stump? In this case the stump on our back field was created when our beloved Gum tree was chopped down. Why was the stump left on the back field? How did it escape the chop? What fun games could a stump be used for? In the case of our stump, it was turned into a missile when rolled down the roly poly hill and in to the neighbour's fence. Some of the boys noticed the problem and decided that the stump better leave our back field, for the sake of younger children and the fences.

What goes on in a classroom with 1:1 devices?

Room 25 paid us a visit to have a look for themselves. They asked questions, they looked at what the current year 5s and 6s are doing, they checked out all the different things they might have a chance to do next year. I wonder what they thought of it all. Are they intrigued? What did you tell them? What advice would you give to anyone thinking about joining a digital classroom?

Is it soccer or is it football?

Do you enjoy football? We had the opportunity to get a taste of the game with our coach, Brendan. We ran through the drills, played some games and had a lot of fun.

NZ ShakeOut

Have you ever been in an earthquake?  On October 15th at 9:15am, NWS participate in the NZ ShakeOut earthquake drill.  Many of us are from Auckland and have never experienced an earthquake but some of us like Mr Bermingham have experiences both big and small earthquakes.

Mr Bermingham shared some of his experiences with us and we've all practices the stop, drop and cover drill which may be the thing which keeps us safe during a quake.

Are you a Mrs Trunchbull or a Miss Honey?

 
Tania
  
Kira

Israr 


 Ingrid

 
Andrea

 
Hareem


Max