Robotics

In Term 3 nine Year 6 students worked with Keryn Akers from the Wellington Loop, as well as students from St Bernard's School, Brooklyn and Thorndon School to learn how to program robots.  They then had to apply their learning and program the robots to do a variety of activities of their design.

Click on the words below to see what we created.

The Movie!!

Room 3 and Room 8 Softball

This term we have had some awesome people from Softball Wellington come in and work with us.  We have been learning how to throw the ball properly, how to run the bases, how to hit the ball off the T and how to field.  We have really enjoyed learning these new skills and working with the people from Softball Wellington.  We hope that they can come back again next year and teach us some more things.  We are going to work hard on our softball skills over the summer!

Kids Helping Kids Market - Sunday 19 November

We invite families to have a spring clean and to donate any unwanted household items for the Kids Helping Kids market stall at the fruit and veggie market on our school grounds between 9am and 1pm on Sunday 19 November. 

The year 6 Whanau-House Leaders will be running the stall which will be situated in the area outside the staffroom. 

Donated items should be sent to school by Friday 17 November and delivered to the staffroom. Please, no clothing or broken items. 

Unsold items will be available for sale between 2.30pm and 5.30pm on Wednesday 22 November – on the deck outside Room 7.

ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY - KORU CARE.

Kids Helping Kids Day

A huge thank you to everyone who participated in Kids Helping Kids Day today. Your donations, and all proceeds from the Kids Helping Kids Market on Sunday 19 November and Monday 20 November, will go to the Koru Care children's charity. 

Wearing hearts on our sleeves in support of Koru Care:

 

Financial Literacy

In Room 3 we have been learning about money.  So far, we have looked at how the bartering system worked, the double coincidence of wants, the characteristics of money, the role of banks, interest rates and exchange rates.  We even found our ideal home online and calculated how much we would have to pay back to the bank over a 25-year loan period ... it was a lot!  We discovered that if you translate the word 'mortgage' into French, it means life sentence!

As part of our learning, we talked about money being in circulation.  We decided to write our class name and date on a $10.00 note and spend it down at the mall.  We want to find out if we will ever 'discover it' again.

Please check your $10.00 notes carefully and if you find one with our class name on it, please let us know!

The lovely staff at Muffin Break were happy to exchange our $10.00 for some cookies and the hunt is now on!

We tuned into our design and technology inquiry by making a piggy bank out of recycled materials so we could keep the (fake) money we earn in class.  Here are some of our wonderful designs:

We also created our own $25.00 notes:

Room 3 Kōrero Māori

 We are learning to kōrero Māori: