Duffy Theater (Encouraging children to read)

Strike Performance ( musical group) 2nd September

 Today students  explored and identified how sound is made and changed as they listened and responded to the elements of music.

Strike was a medallist in the 2012 New Zealander of the Year Awards, in the “Local Heroes” category, for their youth mentoring programs involving workshops, leadership training and high-end performance. Strike regularly tour throughout the world presenting their unique and exhilarating performances - they have performed with groups as diverse as the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra, Royal New Zealand Ballet, Hayley Westenra and Kora. 2015 sees Strike touring their new show - John Psathas’ ’Between Zero and One’ extensively throughout New Zealand and China Since 1997, Strike have performed their ‘Strike to Schools’ programme to over 1.2 million students nationwide.
Touring nationally and internationally throughout the year, Strike has earned the tag as one of New Zealand’s hardest working musical groups.

MOTAT Trip (28th August)

We had fun and exciting learning experience at MOTAT today. We saw different types of planes and  their engines. We learnt about the forces of flight, like the thrust, weight, drag and  Lift. Also we had fun doing some hands on activities looking at the different forces and air pressure.

Maths Challenge Wed ( Country code)/ Thursday (Relationship)

• Relationships can be quite mathematical!
  
• 􏰀  A family tree is a mathematics network. 
  

Timoti was able to find reationships in the challenge of the day.

Country Code breaker  Champion  Bailey

• Student’s like codes.
  
• 􏰀  This serves as an introduction to codes.
  
• 􏰀  The key is given and is quite straightforward to use. 
  

Maths Challenge 2 Choc Blocks.

• This work is an attempt to relate multiplication to food!! 
  

Maths Challenge Monday

 Focus: Partitions
(Partition the numbers and find all the natural numbers which add together to get the given number).
Today we worked in pairs to solve maths questions.  It was fun and we are looking forward to the Tuesday challenge.

Get Firewise

Today Firefighter Mat came to speak to us. He taught us how to keep ourselves safe from the fire.
He spoke to us about the safe meeting place where you and your family will meet if there is fire in your home. He spoke about having fire alarms in the bedrooms, hallway and the lounge. Mat told us about Get down, get low and get out-Fast.