Mrs G and Baby Avery Visit

Mrs G surprised us all with a visit a few weeks ago. It was wonderful to see her again and for us to get the chance to meet Baby Avery, what a handsome wee chap. We also got to enjoy an ice block and some game time outside.

Term 4 Physical Education Assessment: Athletics and the art of running, jumping and throwing

Term 4 Maths Assessment: Position and Orientation

Learning Intention: Locate positions on a treasure map using the major compass directions.

Reading activity in Term 4 for "The Hulk" Reading Group

School Journal Activity Based on "The Great Barrier Reef-See it While you Can" Explanation Writing Learning Intention: Skim and Scan to find key words Success Criteria: Answer questions relating to the text by finding key words Use facts that we have found to create a Google Slide Show

Term 3 Physical Education Assessment- Jump Jam

Learning Intention: We are learning to participate in regular physical activity to improve our fitness levels.

Term 3 Art Assessment: Pastel Jigsaw inspired by Warren Pohatu

Learning Intention: To create a piece of visual art that depicts Aotearoa’s native flora and fauna

Success Criteria:

• Replicate and enlarge a small image to become a large image.
• Reproduce similar colors, shades and tones, using pastels.
• Recreate the original artwork.

This is what the student's of A5 completed

This is the original

Term 3 Maths Assessment: Measurement (Time)

Learning Intention: We are learning to tell time using both analogue and digital time.

Francis's Speech

Tapa Cloth

Learning Intention: We ave been learning to demonstrate geometrical translations in the form of a tapa cloth.

Success Criteria: 

- Show an example of reflection, rotation, translation and tessellation

- Use traditional island designs

- Use traditional colours of a tapa cloth

Te Reo Assessment

Learning Intention: We are learning to understand and use some familiar food vocabulary and recognise and use some sentences often used about food.

Success Criteria:

- I can understand some familiar words about food when I hear them

- I can say some familiar words about food

- I can write some familiar words about food.

SOLO Cause and Effect Map- Salman and Francis

Learning Intention: We are learning to use a cause and effect map to analyse an environmental issue causing harm to a habitat.

Te Puia IMovie- Francis, Courtney, Phoebe and Kate

Learning Intention: We are learning to use the IMovie Ipad app to demonstrate a learning experience we have had.

Francis Cross Country Reflection

Cross Country

Learning Intention: Participate in and describe how our body responds to regular and vigorous physical activity in a range of environments.

The Great Debate . . . Green vs. Yellow!

As part of our persuasive writing unit this term, we have been working hard to create persuasive debate arguments for our given colour.  In this debate, one team had to persuade us that yellow was better, where the other team was persuading us of green.

Learning Intention:

We are learning to write a persuasive text

Success Criteria:

1. Have at least 3 strong arguments with back up explanations.
2. Use paragraphs to order our arguments
3. Use emotive language

Francis's Photo on Tuesday, 9 May 2017

Wacky Hair Day!!!

Wacky hair day to raise money for the Westpack Chopper.

Francis Symmetry

Maori Assessment Term 1- School Haka

Learning Intention- We are learning to perform the school Haka with mana.

Success Criteria- We will know we have met the learning intention when. . . 

• we use distinct actions
• we use correct pronunciation
• we perform with passion and flare

Term 1 SOLO Taxonomy Topic- Living Things

Our focus in term 1 has been on living things. Part of this was looking at the life processes of living things and why these are so important. We focused our time looking at the Tuatara, investigating the living processes that enable them to live their life here in Aotearoa. To do this, we used the MRS GREN acronym: M-ovement, R-eproduction, S-ensitivity, G-rowth, R-espiration, E-xtretion and N-utrition.

SOLO Level	Comment- Francis and Awatea
Uni/Multistructural	I have put you two between unistructural and multistructural because for many of your life processes you only have one idea, however others you have explained briefly why these occur. Next Step: To develop your thinking, I would like to see you come up with several ideas for each section and then try to explain why these occur.

Analysing Data

The Flash analysing multivariate data from the Census in School nz