Sailing

Our morning on the Fox 2 was lots of fun. The children learnt heaps from the 6 experiences sailors who worked with each watch. Being at the helm was a highlight for many...

Stars on stage...

Room 19, you were all brilliant in today's performance of Ali Baba, what a treat the parents are in for...

Awesome fun at Top Team

What a blast we had at Top Team on Friday. Fabulous teamwork, a great positive attitude and lots of water!

We had to fill this hallow pole, blocking the holes so that as little water as possible could escape.

Finding our way through the maze...

This bucket has holes!

Third place overall, well done Team 19!

Getting Spooky

What fun we are having this week creating decorations for the Quiz Night on Saturday. The theme for the night is Halloween and we are transforming the doors into spooky creatures...

Self directed literacy

Room 19 have hit the ground running this term, with great self directed learning. We are underway with a new approach to learning in literacy, with the students deciding what they are going to do when.

Room 19's jelly and ice cream

We've just had an exciting two weeks in room 19, mainly around the jelly and ice cream! On Wednesday the 5-8s would purchase a ticket in the morning before coming back at lunch to collect their jelly, ice cream and sprinkles! Last Thursday the juniors did the same, and that's what these awesome pictures are about.

Nearly at speech delivery time

Room 19 have been working really well on speech researching and writing. We are looking forward to hearing many wonderful speeches next week.

A few are still finishing speeches off and need to be working on these at home.

Most are at the stage of practising their speech delivery. We have talked about what makes a great delivery, good pace - not too fast, effective use of pauses, some hand gestures, lots of eye contact...

Practice, practice, practice is what is needed over the next few days at home, in front of a mirror, the family pet, a parent or sibling. 

If there was a competition for the most carefully made cue cards...

Finishing touches, nearly there...

The practice begins...

Preparing for our snow experience...

Over the next four weeks we will be learning about different aspects of the mountain environment. First up we looked at what to wear. After discussion, reading and recording, we headed outside to play 'dress the invisible skier'. Some made good choices and some needed to rethink.

Not sure that those psychedelic nylon leggings from the '90s will get group approval? 

Careful selections are made, hunting for a merino or polyester base layer.

'Mr Invisible' looks all set for the slopes, good choices team!

You are fabulous!

Wow, Room 19, what fabulous design and creativity skills you have... 6 'Highly  Commended' awards at Cantamath. Big congratulations to Beth, Dom, Georgia, Tahlia, Julia and Flynn.

Awesome Cantamath Entries

Wow, Room 19, I was so impressed by your Cantamath entries. Here are just a few ...

Dylan's geometry game.

Tahlia's cute maths model.

Dom's written project on maths in music

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Julia's stunning model.

It's speech writing time...

Next week we will start writing speeches for our Year 7 & 8 speech competition. This week we are looking at examples of good speeches and picking them apart to work out what features we should include in our own.

Today we watched a speech given by a Year 13 student, Joshua Losefa. The features we identified were:

• he had a real purpose
• used repetition
• gave lots of examples, told stories
• used pauses effectively
• knew his speech really well, lots of eye contact
• used hand gestures

At home, start brainstorming speech topic ideas.

Slippers take shape...

We had a wonderfully soapy time last week creating our felt slippers. This week we finish the shaping and add the design. Can't wait for you to see the finished result!

Go the Master Chefs

Today the school got together to wish our Maggi Kitchen Countdown regional finalist team all the best at their upcoming competition. Our team are one of 12 representing the South Island. We hope their spinach and feta crepes with a spicy salsa wow the judges; the sure do sound scrumptious! What's more, three of them come from Room 19 ... go girls!!! All the best Ella, Beth, Lucy and Georgia.