One of the Family

Yesterday the RSPCA and Norm Hewitt brought their One of the Family presentation to school. The presentation shared Norm's journey through life and how he overcame adversity when he was young to achieve success. There was a strong message of breaking the cycle of domestic violence. Along the way we laughed, we cried and we laughed some more ... for 90 minutes! He even managed to teach Mr Rodger and Mrs Inwood some snazzy dance moves! Check them out on You Tube.

Athletics

We had a fabulous athletics day, lots of wonderful performances. Have just looked through the videos of sprint finals, technology is a wonderful thing; a number of the places have now been corrected! Photos below of Room 19 in action at high jump and sprints.

Grace takes flight

12 years girls sprint start.

12 year old boys take off.

Go Sam!

Latham powers towards the finish line.

Arms give extra lift.

Thomas takes off in the staff / student relay, won by the student teachers. Beckenham staff came 4th!

Sabine clears another jump.

Impressive style Jess.

Latham flies!

And the front on view.

Robotics

Today we started our science interchange programme. First up robotics. Mission 1 was to design a robot to carry Woof through a minefield, following the mine-free path, until he was safely home. We used remote control to manoeuvre our robots. We learnt a lot about putting a robot together, some still need fine tuning ... then it's Mission 2; 'Put on at brakes!'

Woof makes it safely through the minefield thanks to the great robot design and control of his engineers.





Nearly there!
 

Concept designs for our clocks.

This term we are making papier mache clocks. Today we started the process by coming up with some concepts. Creativity was bouncing around the room. There is a week to mull over and keep dreaming up design ideas. Next Wednesday we'll be finalising our designs.

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Congratulations

A big well done to Joe, Grace and Danielle for their superb speech deliveries today. Danielle was our star, taking our first place for 2012. A very entertaining speech that she is not going to put into action in the classroom! Topic: Procrastination, a word that we can all spell now, thanks to Danielle :-)

Mrs Radcliffe, who helped judge the speeches, with the three proud placegetters.

Big Day!

I was so proud of our Room 19ers today. We started the day with our 10 speech finalists each sharing 30 secs of their speech to impress the judges (the rest of the class). We would of have been happy for any of them to represent our class; well done and good luck to Joe, Danielle and Grace. Overall the standard of speeches this year was impressive, lots of great content and confident presentations. Well done everyone.

Next up was House Picnic. The House Captains and their helpers did a superb job of organising games and motivating and directing the younger children.

We finished with the finals of the talent quest - a big afternoon of performance. Well done Sabine, Briana, Grace, Teille and Ruby. You were all gorgeous and your talent shone.

One very proud teacher signing off!

 

Visitors from Chile

Today we got the chance to chat with students from Chile in our Spanish class. They shared a couple of dances from their country and Grace demonstrated the long poi on our behalf. After that we went outside to ask questions and compare life in our countries. They eat dinner at 10pm!