THE BEEP TEST

On Wednesday afternoon Nepia House went out on to the field for the Beep Test. The girls went first, followed by the boys.
Well done to Tom, Leo and Dylan who made it to Level 9!

Maori Language Week Movie

Here is Room 10s Te Reo Movie. In the short film we were required to show the use of one or more of the '50 Fun Phrases' for Maori Language Week 2016.

In the movie we used the following phrases in context...see if you can pick them out!

Ira! - Look at that!
Tau Ke Aotearoa! - Awesome New Zealand!
E oma! - Run!
Kia manawanui! - Hang in there!
Kaua e mate weke mate ururoa! - Don't die like an octopus, die like a hammer head shark!

Te Reo Movie in Room 10

For Te Reo room 10 have been practising using some common phrases. Today they made a short film using some of the phrases. Here's a sneak peak of what's to come...Mate Puru Putangitangi - Death in Paradise!

First Run on the Cross Country Course

Nepia Class Debates

Today we held our Nepia inter- class debates.
Room 10's speakers were Finn Grant, Daisy Phillips and Holly Renwick. The moot was that "Social Media does more harm than good." We were on the negative team and, with Molly and Max's help, had come up with some great arguments!
Unfortunately  the judges decided in Room 7's favour - but overall what a great team effort from Room 10.

Music in Room 10

Today in music we had the pleasure of listening to three performances.

The first performance was Holly, Molly and Daisy performing Bad Moon Rising.

The second performance was Joe on the drums.

The third performance was James playing a Greenday song on the guitar.

Room 10 Debates

Today Room 10 did an absolutely fabulous job with their debates. Today we heard all 5 debates and the standard was great!
Our topics were:
"You should have a License to own a drone."
"Competition is a good thing."
"Police in NZ should be armed."
"School Uniforms are important."
"Children today don't know how to play."

Kiwi O

This afternoon Rooms 5 and 10 took part in a Kiwi O (orienteering) session. Several students had orienteered before, but for a few students it was their first time trying out this sport.
So today it was all about getting around HNI as quickly and accurately as possible! After the initial run most had one or two more attempts - either doing the course in the opposite direction or even trying it from memory!

Matariki Kite Flying

This afternoon Room 10 and the rest of HNI went out on the field and flew (or attempted to fly...) our Matariki Kites! The students have been learning about Matariki and have spent 2 weeks designing and creating their own kites. They did a fantastic job! The conditions were perfect - lots of wind! After 40min of flying the skies opened up and it poured with rain - it was time to head back inside. Joe's large kite made for a good umbrella though....!!

Joe's large kite sheltering Mrs Burch from the rain!

                                       

Drama in Room 10!

This week the students in room 10 have been putting their acting skills to the test! Here's a couple of photos of the plays that were performed to the class and also some of the students having a go at the drama game 'freeze tag'!

Group Work In Maths

For maths in room 10 have been finishing up our transformation topic. The last 2 sessions the students were working in small groups through a task on scale factors and areas of rectangles - and investigating the relationship between the two. Each group worked really well together, there were some great maths discussions happening and through lots of investigation we came up with the generalisation that 'whatever the scale factor you enlarge your rectangle by, the area is enlarged by the square of the scale factor'.

Name Skeleton Art

For art in room 10 we have been making 'Name Skeletons' as part of our inquiry topic 'The Incredible Human Machine'. You'll notice the torso for each skeleton is different - it's their names reflected! Along with a torso, arm bones, hands and skull, they had to include 4 other features, one of which had to be a headpiece or hat. They all turned out great!

Reading in Week 4

This week we are reading a story written by Jack Lasenby from a very OLD School Journal - 1992!!
We are looking at how the author gets us thinking about social issues and how he makes us understand those issues from a certain perspective!

Week 3

This week Room 10 has been

• in Literacy finishing our learning about writing recounts and begun looking at persuasive texts. We have also been practising evaluating the reliability of a text.  One skill we focused on was triangulating our online research by cross-checking with other trusted sites. We found out that not all websites can be trusted - no matter how good they look! Also Mrs Burch had a fun lesson with plays and drama!
• In Maths looking at transformation. Transformation includes, translation, rotation, reflection and enlargement. Mrs Goodwin had us looking at flags of the world that had Rotational symmetry.

• In Inquiry focusing on different body systems - working through their project in pairs. This afternoon we looked into the human body through this BBC website

Body systems jigsaw

We also sat two e-asttle tests this week; one in reading and one in maths!

Getting ready for Camp.

Thank you so much to the parents and students of Room 10 for their efforts getting us all ready for camp next week. Here's to a fun, challenging and successful few days!
I have really enjoyed reading through the comments made by parents on the students' pre-camp responsibility sheet. Here are a few of them:

It was to have my nightly drink made for me.

Could we please have one of these every week? We have had an extremely helpful person at our home this week.

He is very good at making his lunch!

Keep it up! (in reference to a tidy bedroom!)

Bedroom a bit messy but much improved.

Loved my cup of tea:)

It has great seeing ****** practice cleaning up after himself this week.

Thanks for a great week!