Collaborating with Room 20

Exciting learning going on between the Room 15 teachers and the Room 20 learners !!! The room 15 teachers are buddied up with the room 20 learners in order to learn, create and share all their findings regarding Matariki.  They are now doing presentations about their own constellations to share with us all.  Ka pai!!!

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School Gymsport Festival

Ishita attended a multi-school competition at Tristar gym on Thursday. She earnt a second place with a 9.0 vault, a 8.9 for beam and an 8.3.  Way to pursue excellence. Tino pai Ishita.

Baking Cupcakes

One hard working maths group worked with Marleen this week to create the most delicious cupcakes. Thank you to Isaac, Pooja, Sara, Mary and Max. YUM!

Landform Presentations

Over the last couple of weeks teams have been working very hard to construct their self directed landform presentations.  Today we started our presentations.  Next step . . . peer and self assessment.

Have you ever touched a piece of space?

Room 15 had a very special guest when gemologist, Mr Mohammed Ali came to visit us with his red metal box filled with precious gems.  Inside this box were sapphires of every colour, emeralds, rubies, opals, amethyst and diamonds.  We touched everything! Including a 10 carat black diamond.  New research suggests that black diamonds may come from diamond encrusted asteroid impact sites in the Central African Repulic and Brasil, so have you ever touched a piece of space? We have.

Georgia O' Keeffe

Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was an American artist known as the mother of American moderism. She is best known for her paintings of enlarged flowers. We are finding inspiration in the art work of Georgia O'Keefe and reinterpreting it for ourselves. Here Room 15 is examining our flowers and enlarging them and using tissue paper combined with glue to represent our ideas.

Joe Sullivan, Olympian

What an amazing close to Health Week. Olympian Joe Sullivan came to talk to us. His message? Never give up and don't let anyone tell you that you can't achieve your goal! Joe Sullivan definitely has a growth mindset! We all got a chance to touch a real Olympic medal, a gold one. It was big, shiny and heavy. Have you touched an Olympic medal? We have!