Syndicate Assembly Week 4

Earthquake

·      Everyone did a great job on Friday when the earthquake hit during the school assembly.  Everyone remained calm, got into the ‘turtle’ and listened for instructions.  

Sport

·      Y5/6 Girls and Boys CZ Hockey Teams have been announced and a notice is gong home today.  The Boys’ team practice will be on Wednesday @ 1pm and the Girls’ team practice will be on Thursday @ 1pm.

·      ASB Girls Soccer Festival permission slips are to be returned to Mr. McMillan ASAP.

 

Speeches

·      Speeches are to be completed and practiced this week.  Students will be expected to present their speech to their class next week.  Make sure you have a copy of the speech at school so that you can practice it during writing sessions.

Wearable Art

·      Most students have made their mask and they look FANTASTIC.  Students need to start creating their wearable art next week, if not already.

Homework Club

·      Mr. Chadwick will be running a homework club each Wednesday from 3pm till 4.30pm.  The focus for the homework club will be speech preparation, wearable art and inquiry learning.  It will begin this Wednesday and will run for three consecutive Wednesday’s. 

Citizenship (C.A.R.E)

·      ‘Manaaki whenua, manaaki tangata, haere whakamua’

 Care for the land, care for the people, go forward

There have been issues, recently, at morning tea and lunchtime where students have been playing games e.g. soccer and the people have been ending up frustrated, upset or annoyed.  It is important to remember the whakatauki (proverb) that reminds us of our responsibility to be ‘good citizens’ and to care for each other.  You need to be more considerate of others, especially those that are younger.   This is the week of the ‘Citizenship award’. 

Bling Bling!

What an action packed week making Wearable Arts masks has been. After much work the final touches have been added and now they have pride of place on room 13's wall. Check out the fantastic finished masks that add some extra bling to our classroom!

Making a maskly mess!

This week room 13 has continued the hard work on our masks. We have shaped our masks with cardboard, paper and tape and paper mâchéing over the top. We are painting them and adding any bling to create an amazing finished piece.

The faces behind the masks!

This week room 13 has been focussing on our wearable arts masks. We have finished designing them and have moved onto our construction phase. This has involved shaping our masks with cardboard, paper and tape and paper mâchéing over the top. The masks are really starting to look good and I can't wait till we get to painting them.

Syndicate Assembly Week 2

Speeches and Wearable Art

Remember to keep up with all of your work throughout the next few weeks.  The ‘timeline’ has been emailed to all families and is also on the class blogs.

Sports

Hockey – Mr. McMillan is taking names for all Y5 & Y6 girls and boys who are interested in playing in the Central Zone Hockey tournament which is in Week 8

Netball – The Central Zone netball tournament is next week (Week 3).  4 teams will represent Muritai at the tournament: 2 Year 6 teams, 1 Year 5 team and 1 boy’s team.

Cricket – Mr. McMillan will be running a few training sessions later in the term in preparation for games in Term 4

Homework Club

Mr. Chadwick will be holding a ‘Homework Club’ each Wednesday afternoon from 3pm-4.30pm, beginning next week

Mask Making

Some reminders about your mask making.  There are 3 simple steps:

1.     Design

2.     Construct

3.     Decorate

*If you need any help with ideas for your mask see Ms. Berry

Responsibility

We expect a high level of responsibility from everyone.  There is a lot happening this term and we expect all students to ‘step up’ and take responsibility for their assignments.  If you need help/support let us know.

Oh no! What do I have to wear?

This week has been a very busy first week back with all the students now started with their inquiry, wearable arts and speeches.

Speeches are well underway with students all having chosen a topic, researched information and started the difficult task of writing it.

Our big Inquiry unit is underway with students using their laptop time to create a title page and finding photos to inspire costume ideas.

Wearable arts themes have been chosen and masks/costumes are now starting to be designed. To help the students think about how costumes could be made and how materials can be attached or linked to each other we held a costume challenge. The students had to work together in groups to create a wearable artwork out of the materials provided. See the results below:

For Your Information

Term 3

This term is going to be a very busy one with plenty of opportunities for students to continue to achieve. There will be a Lost Civilisations inquiry unit, speeches, ICAS Mathematics and English, Arts Splash choir, gymnastics, the Wearable Arts and also netball and hockey sporting competitions. Students will need to continue to display the CARE code, making the most of these opportunities.

Wearable Arts

This years Wearable Arts is connected to our inquiry; Lost Civilisations. We have 3 different themes that will be thoroughly introduced to the students this week. The making  of the wearable arts will be a mixture of at home and school. We will have a full mask making week as well as 2 finishing off days later in the term for costumes. The following is the current timetable for this process:

By the end of Week1

Students will have chosen a theme.

By the end of Week2

Students will have designed a Wearable Art and know what materials they need.

By the end of Week3

Have created their mask in class.

By the end of Week5

They will have started their costume at home.

By the end of Week6

Have finished their costume.

Inquiry

This terms inquiry is Lost Civilisations. Over the term we will be completing a number of pieces of work that will be compiled into a typed and bound finished product. Each week students will have an expectation to complete certain pieces of work that might need to be finished at home.  This inquiry links to the wearable arts show and is designed to create wonderment and excitement in the mystical world around them.

Homework

The homework structure this term will be a mixture of speech homework (research, development and preparation) and also wearable arts. Hope they can keep up with the basics.

Please note there is no assigned homework this week as this is the reward that the students have earned.

Speeches

Our literacy focus will be on speeches. This year the students will also be doing a mihimihi/pepeha to introduce themselves before their speech. The following is the current timetable for this process:

By the end of Week1

Students will have chosen a speech topic. Students will have written an interesting and catchy introduction in class. Students will have an understanding of what goes into their pepeha.

By the end of Week3

Students need to have developed research questions and done the research that will help them in their speech. Students will have written the main part of their speech. 

By the end of Week4

Students will have everything prepared and have thoroughly practiced their speech. 

By the end of Week5

Students will have performed their speech in class.

Stationary

Now that we are half way through the year there are a number of students who require more stationery. The students have all done a stocktake of their current stationary and know what items they require. Please discuss with your child whether they have the required stationery to be prepared for each lesson.

Syndicate Assembly Week 10

Table Tennis

·      Finals Week

And the 3^rd/4^th playoff winners are…

Year 5/6 Girls:
Nina - 3rd
Paige - 4th

Year 5 Boys:
Monty - 3rd
Bennett - 4th

Year 6 Boys:
Matthew - 3rd
Lachlan - 4th

Shoe/Jacket Drive

·      Well done and thank you to all those who have donated items of clothing and shoes.  If you have any further donations please continue to put them in the box by the office.

BP Challenge

·      Congratulations to the Y5/6 Muritai School Team (Eden, Bennett, Andrew and Pablo) for doing an awesome job at the BP Challenge.  The team competed in two challenges.  They came 1st in the first ‘mystery’ challenge and 2^nd in the second ‘mystery’ challenge.

Regional Cross Country Championships

·      The event will be held at Rathkele College in Masterton on Tuesday.

PODIUM RESULTS: Charlotte Humphrys – 3^rd Year 5 Girls, Macey Caughley – 1^st Year 6 Girls, Maya Hahn – 2^nd Year 8 Girls.  All of the Muritai School students who competed (10 in total) did a great job.

Term 2 Celebration

·      To celebrate the achievements of the term we will be having an ‘End of term celebration’.  This involves the students choosing from the following activities: a movie, electronic gaming, board/card games and dance/music.  It will take place on Friday, after morning tea until lunchtime.  If the students want to bring anything for the celebration e.g. electronics, they need to have parental permission first.  Each class will also be having a shared lunch, their teacher will instruct the students as to what they should bring.

Toi ataahua - beautiful art

In room 13 we have been exploring the story of Ranginui and Papatuanuku and how Ruaumoko became the god of earthquakes and volcanoes. 

We are now creating artworks that show a part of the story.

 

Maori Language Week

Ka tīmata Te Wiki o Te Reo Māori i tenei ra - Māori Language Week started today.

Ko ngā ingoa Māori te kaupapa o tenei wiki - The focus of this week is Māori names.

He titiro atu a te Kura o Muritai ki ngā ingoa Māori o ngā wāhi ki runga i a Eastbourne me Te Whanganui-a-Tara - At Muritai School we are looking at the Māori place names we have in Eastbourne and Wellington.

Ko wai ngā ingoa Māori i mohio koe? - What names do you know?

Windy Wellington

Some writing about the recent storm which wrecked so much havoc around Wellington!

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STORM RECOUNT

THURSDAY 5:00 PM: The storm begins to rain medium amounts.

FRIDAY 8:00 AM: The storm is now raining/hailing heavily.

FRIDAY 8:05 AM: I decide not to go to school because of weather.

FRIDAY 9:00 AM-ish: Mum checks email to see if school is cancelled, it is.

FRIDAY 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM: The storm is still raining/hailing heavily, I’m still playing on the computer.

FRIDAY 8:00 PM: The storm makes the power go out, Dad gets torches and candles.

FRIDAY 9:00 PM: Bedtime, The storm is still raging.

The next day at about 10:00 AM, Dad, Mum and I took a drive around Eastbourne. It was still very cold and windy but it wasn’t raining. There was lots of debris around the beaches and water was smashing up against the sea wall and even flowing onto the road where there wasn’t a sea wall. The only damage to my house was that my gate to muritai road fell down but that was falling apart anyway. We spent most of the rest of the day at home.

By Joshua
Version 1

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The Wild Storm

It all started on Thursday the 20th of June and My Aunty Anna, Mum and I were sitting at the table having potato fritters and lemonade when the lights started to flicker my first thought was to get a couple of torches, candles and a box of matches my mum and my Aunty were in the middle of a conversation when the power went out. We all scrambled for torches and each other we were lucky because we were prepared. Mum thought the gas fire would stay on but it didn’t because it needs electricity to start and turn off. We waited half an hour to see if the electricity would come back on but it didn’t and we also started to get cold so we went to bed using candles. My Aunty was the first one in bed then it was me and then it was Mum. I had a really good night sleep because there was nothing making a noise like the fridge normally does. The next morning we had power and mum said the power came on at twelve thirty.

Overall we survived the storm.  

By Bridget  

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Caught in the storm

The storm started last friday and ended on sunday. This horrendous rain storm tore down trees smashed up houses and left buildings powerless! Lots of trees fall down and debris was left everywhere. My friend suzie was affected by the trees falling down a huge tree fall down of her driveway so her dad had to try hard and lift it of her driveway. Tree branches snapped everywhere causing damage to things they landed on. The houses on the edge of days bay and the start of sunshine bay where smashed. One house had lovely french doors but because of the storm they were all smashed! Rubbish bins were thrown around  like paper on the pavement and 160 kilowatts of wind smashed against houses. Power outages affected most of Eastbourne and stayed out until 1.00am. People used torches, candles and fires to see during the power outages. I hope you survived the storm!!!

By Sofya

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 The  Horrendous  Storm  hits  Wellington.

Boom! The lights. “What's happening,” shouts harry (my brother.)

We have had a power cut. “We are having a strom”said mum. Since we have gas we can cook. But people still say oh come over we have power. But mum said no. And we were fine.We had hot milo, tea and I read my book by candlelight.

On Friday we still had no power. My dad got dressed and walked down to get the shuttle because there were no ferries. A While after he came back and showed us the photos he took and we saw the beach on the road. Rocks were all over the road ,no cars could drive through it was so deep. The interislander couldn't dock  because of the weather.

On friday we found out that school was closed. so dad asked for a ride to work.We picked up the watkins who didn’t have power either. Mike took his car which was hannahs too, to work so they were car  less too. Mum dropped off dad at work . Then she heard the road was closed to get into eastbourne...

To be continued

By Eva

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The storm

Day 1

It was thursday 5.00 after school my mum,granddad,emma and i were on our way out of swimming lessons when it all happened.The wind was so strong trees were about to collapse and it was pouring down with rain i knew something big was going to happen.

my dad was on his way home with my aunty from the airport because she was here for a holiday and staying with us for a few nights.When they came home a few minutes after we started hearing strong wind gusts whistling around the house and through the chimney the trees were banging loudly against the house.My dog was petrified of all the noise she started jumping up on everyones laps and shaking.This went on for quite a while.

We were watching t.v when suddenly all the lights and power went out but luckily enogh we had some candles and torches set out.It took us a long time to settle down but finally we fell asleep.

Day 2

I woke up very early to the sound of the t.v and all the lights being on.After a while everyone woke up and we began our day.My mum had a text from the school saying school was off.Me and emma were invited to milly griffths house as me and emma were running through the school we could not belive all the destruction done to the trees.

A few hours later we decided to go for a walk along the waterfront at that time the wind was still very strong and cold so we went home to put some warmer clothes on.As we were making our way down there so much sand and debris scatterd along the wreck and rest of the road.millys dog pepper was off the leash most of the walk so at some points we were all very scared that one of the big waves was going

This was my first storm and it was extremely scary.

Grace version1!

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The Storm

I’m at ballet the lights keep flickering and the wind is blowing threw a crack in the window. Leaves are blowing around everywhere outside.

My Dad comes to pick me up at 8:00pm. We're on our way home a sign falls over and almost hits the car, we drive a bit further along the road, and we see that a big metal slide down door has almost blown of a building and is hanging by the edge. When we get to Point Howard we see and hear the huge waves crashing against the side of the road. We drive through big puddles.

When we get home the powers gone out and the only light is coming from the fire place. I run upstairs to my room and search under my bed for my torch. There is a leak in the wall and a puddle of water on the ground next to my bed.

I go up to my mum and Dad’s room, on the top floor, it stands on tall metal beams and is shaking from the strong wind. Down stairs it’s really noisy our huge windows are shaking and flexing.

We decide it’s too noisy to sleep upstairs so we bring our stuff downstairs to the spare room. There is only one window down here so it’s much quieter down here. Sadly I have to sleep on the floor on some cushions from the couch in my sleeping bag.

The next morning I wake up at 6:00am. I quickly run over to the light switch and flick it on nothing happens. So I go upstairs it’s still really noisy. Later Mummy gets a text saying school is closed.

Later on at lunchtime the power comes back on. We turn on the TV and watch to news. It shows house that have had their roofs ripped off and windows that have been smashed. It has been the worst storm since the Wahine Storm.

By Rosie Owles

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SWS

The Wellington polar blast was a super destructive storm. It went for a week and it

Day 1

I was watching the news today when I heard there was a polar blast coming to Wellington. Today was just wind and rain that meant I couldn't go outside, so that was a boring day.

Day 2

Today the storm was getting more violent but the storm was still just wind and rain. On the news it said it was going to snow on Friday but it was very unlikely to snow. As the polar blast approached  the temperature dropped.

Day 3

The deadly storm was now getting more dangerous. On the news it said the storm was showing damage. It was getting more violent there’s now incredibly strong winds and battering rain. No one can stop the storm now.

Day 4

Now Wellington is getting a real battering the road is flooded, The beach is ending up on the road, the Kaitaki was ripped from its railings, the road is closed at high tide the road is closed. the power has just gone out and anything near the sea would of wreaked.

Day 5

I was a little bit sad that it didn’t snow today but school was canceled so that made me happy. No one could believe the destruction but all the yucky stuff ie behind us now so that is good.

Day 6

Every Saturday sport was canceled so I was a little bummed. The storm was getting weaker but it is still making unthinkably weather to work in.

Day 7

Today was had a tiny amount of rain but in the afternoon was sunny.

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KAI