Golf skills

Today Murray Martin and Anne Putt came to our school and helped our students develop their golf skills. Because of the weather we learnt about putting in the community hall. Well done to Luke and Kaiah who won the overall putting challenge for Room 1!

Procedural Writing

This week In Room 1 for writing we have started our Procedural writing. Brylee and Zekiel completed a piece of writing on how to Putt a golf ball.

Title: Fore

Goal: How to putt in golf

Materials/Equipment: putter, golf ball, green

1. Take the flag out of the hole
2. Then walk around the green to look at the different angles
3. Next walk the line of the ball(between the ball and the hole)
4. Now line the ball up, this is where you visualise where the ball will go after you hit it
5. Twist the ball on the spot,this allows you to line the writing on the ball up with the hole
6. Go get your putter
7. Stand back and have a practise swing
8. Meanwhile you can approach the ball and put the putter behind the ball
9. Ensure the ball is between your feet, and the putter is resting on the green behind the ball
10. Finally your head stays down and use the same practise swing,lift putter back and swing through

Te Wiki O te Reo Maori 2015

It was great to see all classrooms learn different aspects of Te Ao Maori and share their learning in assembly on Friday. Room 1 learnt how to korero about where people are. We also learnt some kupu hou(new words) to help us.
Here is our short video showing how to say where people are.

Planting Trees

Today the student council planted 5 native trees at school, kindly donated by the Paper 4 Trees programme in conjunction with Shell Todd and Te Kahuri Nurseries.

Paper 4 Trees is a programme that was set up in 2008 to promote recycling in schools. Each class has a grey bin that they collect cardboard and paper in, that is then put in the big blue bins to be recycled. For every 2 cubic metres of paper and cardboard we recycle each year we receive 1 native tree. This is the equivalent to 8 large wheelie bins. 

This year we are aiming to recycle 20 cubic metres and have another 10 natives to plant!

Maths in Room 1

In maths the Pukeko group have been using tidy numbers and rounding and compensating to solve multiplication problems. Here are some videos that show how the strategy is used.

Academic Day

On Thursday of Week 8, Meg, Kaiah, Keifer, and Joe represented Auroa School at the annual Mt Spa cluster Academic day, held at Kaponga Primary School. There were quizzes based on general knowledge, sport, literacy, and maths. Kaiah and Joe took part in the spelling bee also. The students represented our school very well and we finished 4th overall.

DARE Programme

Room 1 are lucky enough to have Jono from the Stratford Police come and talk to us about making positive choices. He will be with Rooms 1 and 2 for the next few weeks.