How to....

Rooms 3 (Y5 /6), 4 (Y1) and 5 (Y2) came together to make iStopMotion animations showing others how to learn something with their buddy.

The Big Idea was to show our buddies how to use iStopMotion.

Learning Steps:
1. Spend 5 - 10 minutes to plan your idea. (Have a back up plan in case the first does not work or you have extra time)
2. Check in with a teacher to see if your plan is practical, possible and positive
3. Start creating your animation.
4. Publish your work on your blog
5. Be ready to share

Some movies by Year 1 & Year 5 / 6 students:

Coby and Angus:

Juliet and Travis:


Oliver and Lucas:


Mason and Shila:


Riley and Zoe:


Hunter and Vegas:


Grace and Katie:




Some movies by Year 2 & Year 5 / 6 students:

Production: 'Little Red Rocking Hood'

The teachers from Rooms 3, 4 and 5 worked collaboratively and made some adaptions to the 'Rock Opera: Little Red Rocking Hood' written by Jeffrey Leask as part of our school production this term. Throughout the practices the students had to use the virtues of Resilience, Co-operation, Confidence, Creativity and Enthusiasm whilst working towards Excellence.

Congratulations to all the students for stunning performances! You made us proud!

Stage decor created by Azarnia Williams:

Afternoon performance:

Evening Performance:

A buddy reads to us

We really like our buddy reading time with Room 3. Today we got an extra surprise when one of our buddies came over and said he will read to us and it was not even buddy reading time! He read the book to us with expression and we would like to read like him one day.

Birds...

Mr Taylor read the story 'Pukeko' to Room 4. They then discussed different kinds of birds. 

Afterwards students drew a picture of their favourite bird and talked about what they did.

'Little Red Rocking Hood' Matinee Performance

After a lot of practice throughout the term we presented our production, 'Little Red Rocking Hood' to our family and friends for the first time today. 

We are looking forward to sharing our production with you on Wednesday and Thursday evening.

Let's Paint

Our students continued their painting experiences / learning from earlier in the term with our Art Teacher, Whaea Jude.

They used paint, brushes, cotton buds and finger tips to practise creating line and dot art.

They then applied these skills to create original art works on wooden panels to beautify our school environment.

Find it...

We did a mathematics activity as part of the Measurement 'Position and Orientation' strand where students hid a picture and then had to give instructions to their buddy to find it using words like under, over, between... 

Term Reflection, Feedback and Feed forward with KidsedchatNZ

A great end to this term's KidsedchatNZ in which our students displayed excellence with their tuakana / teina relationships.

Q1 What was the most interesting thing that you have learned in Term Three?

Q2 What are some of the challenges that you faced this term?

Q4 What were your proudest moments as a learner this term?

Q5 Thinking about your learning, what would you like to improve in Term Four?

Q7 Think about a success you had in Term Three.  What was the key to your success?

Q8 If you could describe Term Three in 3 words, what would those words be?