Sports Activator- Rippa Rugby

Last Thursday we had Greer extending our skills for the Rippa Rugby Tournament.

It was great to see the sun out shining after a few days of wet and cold weather. We got straight into it with a game of seaweed where fast running and stepping were keys to winning. Next we worked on our passing. We practiced passing from both sides focusing on using the power from our hips. We then played a fun game where we followed Greer's actions until she said "ball"! Then it was a race to see who could grab the ball first. It was a lot of fun and we all showed our competitive streaks! We also spent time practicing our stepping and dodging. Then it was time to put all our skills together with a game of rippa. It was a fast paced game and we found that teamwork was an important part of winning. We look forward to using these skills next week in Balclutha at the rippa tournament.

Health-Kia Kaha

Today we finished our second of our two Kia Kaha sessions with Constable Gordon. She has taught us a lot about the way we talk to people and treat each other, both in person and online.

Cyber bullying is becoming more and more frequent across the world and we learned strategies to deal with this type of bullying which included; screenshot or save any evidence, not replying or deleting and messages and tell someone about it. also if you are bystander help the victim by telling an adult and standing up to the bully.

We are very grateful to have had Constable Gordon in to take us for lessons and we are sure we will   keep learning about anti bullying in the following lessons we have in class.

Morning Programme Week 4

Holly sharing pictures of her 4WD trip in the weekend

Alex sharing his dinky toys collection.

Anti-bullying Videos

This week is anti-bullying week in New Zealand and we have been creating videos to show what other schools can be doing to be a bully free school, just like us. 

Morning Programme Week 3

Brayden sharing his favourite song 'Paint the town green'

Ashley showing us how he can play the chanter

 

Alex showing us his Balclutha Kindergarten book

Ally telling us about why her family and freinds are her favourite. 

Morning Programme

Bree brought in Oscar for her Show and Tell morning programme.

Ashley sharing one of his favourite music videos for arts appreciation. 

Lachie sharing a postcard and picture from his nan and granddad

New Zealand Sign Language Week

This week is New Zealand Sign Language Week so we have been learning to sign our names, hello, goodbye and coming up with our own sentences.

Hui Ako Art

On Wednesday we all joined up for Hui Ako. In this session we were asked to design what we thought The Bird Woman looked like. We discussed what features she would have like; claws, feathers, scary eyes and a beak were some of the suggestions. The art work looked amazing and each bird woman looked different from the next. These drawings will help us decide what costumes The Bird Woman will wear.

Morning Programme

James sharing his song for Arts Appreciation. 

Amy sharing her lamb awards from the A & P Show for Show and Tell. 

Reciprocal reading sessions

This week our reading groups have been taking their own guided reading sessions. It has been great to see the groups participating and contributing which is our key competency this week.

The Alvin's having their guided reading session. 

The Simon's having their guided reading session.

Maths Hub

At the end of term 1 we bought a new resource called Maths Hub. Today the senior room started using this as part of our maths activities and linked this into our time unit. Students were able to find activities to go with the learning intentions they were working on. 

Brayden and James working on Maths Hub. 

Ally testing her time knowledge.

Lucy and Taylor testing themselves on their time knowledge.

What a marvellous resource this is! 

Term 2 Inquiry- Hui Ako

This term our inquiry focus is the Hui Ako - a performance held in Balclutha at the end of the term. At the moment we are tuning in and finding out about maori myths and legends and also experimenting with some dance choreography too. The children have been focusing on the Participating and Contributing key competency during this process.

Sports Activator- Tuesday 3 May

Greer came to teach us some rippa rugby skills on Tuesday last week. We practiced our passing, dodging, running, ripping, communicating and other team work skills. These skills will help us with our rippa rugby tournament on the 31st of May in Balclutha.

Careers Speakers- Brigid Clinton ~Lawyer~

We were lucky enough today to have Brigid Clinton from O'Malley & Co. Lawyers come and talk to the seniors about what being a lawyer involved.

We asked really good questions to find out more about her career. She told us what happened in the courtroom, what kind of lawyers for, how long you have to be in University for and also told us that she didn't know she wanted to be a lawyer when she left high school.

We found it interesting that she has talked to people that have had all sorts of problems going on in their lives and tried to help them through it.

Senior Room holidays

Using 'Google my maps'we plotted all the places we went in the holidays.

ICT Apps

Welcome back to term 2! Make sure you keep checking the blog every week for updates of what has been happening in the Senior Room. 


This afternoon the Senior and Middle room joined up to play around with some educational chrome apps to enhance and support their learning. Students could pair up or go solo while searching the Webstore for apps on their chromebooks. Students had to add the app to their computer so they had to be sure it was going to be worthwhile. They looked at reviews written by other people who had used the app and also the description of the app to choose whether the app was appropriate. Students did some investigating of the app and made sure they understood how to use the app properly. 

Once the students were 'experts' on their apps, we then came back as a class and went through the wide variety of apps that we had found. Students then chose an app they wanted to find out more about and we split off into smaller groups. The person who had found the app was now the teacher to the small groups if their app was one that got chosen. 

It was a rewarding experience for the children and hopefully they will be able to use the apps they found today and will continue to find to help support and enhance their learning.

Lachie and Brayden teaching a group about TypeScout!

Courtney teaching James how to use ScratchJr!

Amy teaching the boys all about Co-ordinate Drawer!

Lucy teaching a group about Typing World!