Term 3 Week 2

Kia ora koutou,

I hope you have all had a lovely weekend and have enjoyed this amazing sunshine we are having!

Room 12 has a very jam packed week ahead. On the Friday of this week we are running the school assembly. I have put the responsibility of organising the assembly onto the kids so I am very excited to see what they come up with! We would be delighted if you could all come along on Friday to watch, assemblies normally start around 2pm but I can confirm the time closer to the date.

I hope that you all received your children’s reports on Friday. Please can these come back to school tomorrow (Monday) as I would like to have them handy for the three-way conferences on Tuesday and Wednesday. I would really like for all parents to come in and see what your children have been doing over the past two terms. They will be leading the interviews so it is a good opportunity for you to see what they are capable of. It is also a great time to clarify any things in their reports that you may be unsure of. The sign up for interviews is on www.schoolinterviews.co.nz and our school code is J78RP. If you are unable to make it during the times that are stated, please let me know and I can set up another time that would work better for you.

We had our first week using the Modern Learn Environment to it’s full potential this week and the children responded to it really well. Being able to combine with Room 13 and work collaboratively makes for a lot more variety in the children’s learning but also opportunity for us as teachers to teach to student’s identified needs. We are excited to see what else we can achieve throughout the term.

I look forward to seeing you all throughout the week if you can make it.

Nga mihi nui

G.A.T.E math workshop

G.A.T.E stands for Gifted and Talented Education .

Me and Marco as well as Max and Zak from room 13 went to Motueka High School for a math conference/mathex practice. Once we got there we went to the room that the year 8's (Ethan, Dylan, Ellie and Nathan) were going to practice in to discuss what we where going to do. Then we went to Mark's room and split up into groups of three or four and did some 'warm' up most of us aced this here is a question we answered in mathex

Puss and Boots are 2 different cats. Their combined weight is 7.2 kg. Puss weighs 3 times as much as Boots. What is the weight of Puss?

The weight is 1.8kg  for us that was the easiest question so you can probably imagine how hard it was.


By Daniel