Tuesday, 11 September 2018

Great Geography Challenge Prizes

Here are some of the prizes that students can win in the GREAT GEOGRAPHY CHALLENGE:


Friday, 7 September 2018

Orange Day

The Road Patrol Team had a great day today marching through the CBD promoting road safety with the teams from all the other schools in Wellington. The team also enjoyed a special concert at the Michael Fowler Centre. Thanks to the Police and Wellington City Council for organising this event, held to celebrate and acknowledge the hard work of school traffic safety teams who are out rain or shine to help students cross the road and get to school safely. Click on this link to see TVNZ coverage of the event: Orange Day coverage on TVNZ See if you can spot members of our team.


moveMprove

Room 14 has loved their moveMprove lessons this term! 
Our favourite things to do are swinging on the bars, balancing and throwing the balls.



















Thursday, 6 September 2018

Daffodil Day


The Johnsonville School community - kids, staff and families - raised $547 for the 
Cancer Society on Daffodil Day.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Tuesday, 4 September 2018

Great Geography Challenge KAHOOT! games

Follow the following instructions to practise Great Geography Challenges 4, 5, 6 or 7.

A big 'Thank You' to teacher Rosalie Anso for creating these Kahoot! games.















Instructions:

1. Click on a link below it will take you to the Kahoot! launch page. 

2.  Click 'Play' and choose the 'Team' mode.

3.  Click 'Start' to get the pin

4.  Open a new tab and go to the Kahoot! homepage.

5.  Type in the pin to play. 

6.  Go back to the previous page and click 'Start'.

You will need to go back between the two tabs if you are playing on one device.

If practising at home it will be easier using two devices.

Challenge 4:
Challenge 6:

Capital Cities (Part 1)


Challenge 7:



Monday, 3 September 2018

GREAT GEOGRAPHY CHALLENGE #7 - FLAGS

















Here are some clues to help you work out which 25 national flags will be in the Great Geography Challenge 7 test on September 18:

  • Holy Land
  • The world's largest nation
  • Taj Mahal location
  • Country has three capital cities
  • Kathmandu
  • The Hellenic Republic
  • A long narrow country that stretches along South America's western edge
  • Espana
  • 7 islands in the South Pacific Ocean
  • Hosted the 1956 and 2000 Summer Olympic Games
  • Highest point is Mount Fuji
  • Maasai shield and two cross spears
  • Alaska, Hawaii + 48
  • Official language = Portuguese
  • Largest country in the world without a river
  • Famous for chocolate, cheese, banking, watches and alpine mountain areas
  • Deutschland
  • Shares border with Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland and Italy
  • Land of the long white cloud
  • In 2003 became the third country to successfully send a person to space
  • Has the longest coastline in the world
  • Named after Spain's King Philip II
  • Siberian tiger = national animal
  • Temple of Angkor Wat
  • England + Scotland + Wales + Northern Ireland