Gymnastics

This term for physical education the students of room 13 have been improving their coordination, flexibility, confidence and skill in the different disciplines of gymnastics. Some students were filmed showing what they could do.

Also as a final performance piece the students were put into groups and created a routine that showed off their abilities. Here they are:

The Sound of Taonga Pūoro

Over the last few days room 13 has been exploring a number of taonga pūoro, Māori instruments that utilise the voice of Tawhirimatea (god of the wind). We made porotītī (left) and purerehua (right). It was a real learning experience as we worked with different sizes, shapes and string types.

It's all about the money.

Today in Room 13 we had a visit from Vane from the ASB get wise programme. He was teaching us how to be financially literate. He talked to us about ways we could earn money and how we could save money.

Ways to earn:
Chores
Neighbourhood Jobs
Sell and Trade
Business

Words of wisdom:
"Saving is like training, the earlier you start the better you get"
"Eftpos Card: You can only take out the amount of money you put in"
"Credit Cards: Money belongs to the bank, which you have to pay back and you get charged interest"
"When spending my money this is what I do, spend some on you and save some too. Yeah!" 

Syndicate Assembly Week 7

Inter-zone Cross Country

·      Training on Wednesday and Friday @ 12.30pm

·      Notices to be returned to Mr. McKay ASAP

Building site (NEW library)

·      Make sure you stay clear of the building site.  There may be vehicles coming in and out of the school grounds as well, so keep an eye out when in the playground

ICAS Spelling

·      Due to the CZ Football tournament being postponed we will have the ICAS Spelling test after lunch today

FINISHING

·      Make sure you are ‘finishing’ all of your tasks so that you have lots of wonderful work to show your parents at the ‘Celebration of learning’ evening, which is in the last week of the term.

Wet weather

·      Just a reminder about choosing sensible inside activities during wet playtimes and lunchtimes.  No swapping of classrooms allowed.

Visitor

·      Each Y5/6 class will be having a visit from Vane, ASB financial literacy, on Thursday.  Remember to display our Muritai School value of ‘Respect’ when he is here with us.

Kapa Haka performance group

·      Return notices to Mr. Chadwick ASAP

·      Bring a plastic bag to school so that a ‘uniform pack’ can be put together

CZ Football

·      Training on Wednesday at lunchtime.  Bring your full kit (boots, shin guards etc.)

·      CZ Tournament now to be held on Thursday due to postponement

HOWIE Value awards

·      Congratulations to the following students who received a ‘Curiosity’ award today:  Sophia Cave, Ruby Wells, Luke Thompson and Sandy Ross

Science of Sound

One of the tasks for last weeks home learning was to create an instrument that had 2 or more differing pitches. The challenge in class this week was then to combine the different instrument sounds into a Orchestra. We had to have some quick learning about the types of instruments present in an orchestra and why they are grouped as they are into Wind, Strings and Percussion. We then grouped our selves and followed the basic instructions of our conductor to create the following rendition of Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.

Syndicate Assembly Week 6

·      Countdown cards

There have been some issues surrounding the ‘trading’ of these cards at school.  We ask that you keep the cards at home.

·      Central Zone Cross Country

The CZ cross-country event has been postponed till Thursday because of the weather conditions

·      Inside Play

-We will be having some wet weather throughout the rest of the term and it will be important that you choose ‘sensible and quiet activities’ while inside during playtime
and lunchtime

-There is to be NO swapping of classrooms during inside playtime and lunchtimes

·      Library Awards

Congratulations to Rachel Vass who has received the GOLD library award

·      Kapa Haka

The Kapa Haka performance group will be performing at Randwick School in a couple of weeks in preparation for the interschool Kapa Haka event at the end of the term.

·      ‘Crazy Looms’

There have been a lot of students bringing the ‘crazy loom’ bands to school, which is fine.   However they have been a bit of a distraction for a few students.  If the ‘crazy loom’ bands become too much of a distraction, then we will ask that they be kept at home.

·      40hour Famine

Any booklets and money is to be returned to the office ASAP

·      HOWIE Value Awards

Congratulations to the following students who received the CURIOSITY award today: Chelsea Summers, Saxon Forbes and Charlotte McFarlane

Sound overload

Speeches

This week has seen the students all use their own personal sound instruments, their voices, to present their speeches to the class. We heard speeches on whistling, zoo's, conspiracy theories, football, moreporks and Bali to name just a few. The standard this year was very high and it has been very difficult to choose the class finalists who will compete in the syndicate semi-finals. However the students who will represent Room 13 this year are:

Year 6
Evie Richardson - Phobia's
Sam Woolley - Whistling

Year 5
Zoe Inskeep - Zoo's
Amy Schoenborn - Rabbits

Strike
We were also lucky enough to have Strike come and perform at school. As always they put on an amazingly immersive percussion performance that had the whole school feeling the beat. They used a variety of traditional (drums etc.) and non traditional instruments (fire, fizzy cans) to put together their cacophony of beats. Some students were even lucky enough to be included in the show.

Syndicate Assembly Week 5

 ICAS Science

·      The ICAS Science test will be held on Wednesday in Room 16 at 11am

CZ Cross Country

·      Cross-country training continues (Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday).  Make sure you come to the trainings if you are in the Central Zone team

·      CZ Cross Country event is next Tuesday (pp. Thursday)

Peer Mediators

·      You are doing a great job!  There will be a training at lunchtime on Wednesday

Reports

·      The reports are being written and you will receive them at the end of this term.

Waterpolo

·      The Naenae pool is closed and this means that the season will officially start in Term 3

Kapa Haka

·      The Kapa Haka performance group will be performing in the evening of the last Wednesday of the term. A notice will go home this week.

CZ Football

·      There is still no date for the postponed Central Zone football tournament

·      Training for the Y5/6 Boys is on Wednesday and the Y5/6 Girls on Friday

Library

·      There is still some work being done in the library so look out for the ‘Library Open or Closed sign’ each day

Howie Value awards: Excellence award

·      Congratulations to the following students…YOU ARE EXECLLENT!:  Angus Flynn, Molly Mathewson, Sophie Van Rooyen, Halina Smith and Lucy Dungan