Room 1 Science Display

Science Day

On the 16th of September our school had a science fair. All of the classes made their own
displays, which we hung up or placed somewhere in the assembly hall. Everyone had different
topics for their displays, that were based on something to do with science. Some of the topics
that the students did were... Static Electricity, Germ Testing, The Periodic Table and many more.

Thanks to Kaiah for the post!

Room 1 In Front of our Displays

School Cross Country

Well done to all runners who participated in the School Cross-Country on Friday. It was great to see our year 7 and 8 students try really hard. A special mention to Declan and Caitlin who won the 12 year old races. Good luck to all students involved in the MT Spa Cluster this Thursday. 

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.