We are changing!

We are the Graduating Class, this term we are learning about Changes- and for us that means "Human Sexuality- A Gift from God" and how we can cope with the changes in our lives and in particular Positive Puberty.  Mrs.P had fun "changing" us using picnik!

Opening of the Mission Centre

There will be a vast array of photos to follow.  On behalf of the students in Room 6,  I  wanted to thank an  amazing group of people within our great community. You made today an occasion to remember.
To Belinda Youngman- our wonderful Mum, and Board Member who continually shows support to my class.
To Chris Rewha- kia ora ehoa, your mana within our kura is always a blessing.
To our student teacher Miss Pelenato- who naturally goes the extra mile.
To Shelley who just knows what is needed.
To Kupi, Isaih and Shardyes Grandad
To our team of photographers, ambassadors, and kai workers, a big high five!
To Mr.C for the ice blocks!
To Father Chris for his beautiful blessing of our Mission Centre
To our community Parents, Parishoners and Past Pupils, kia ora.
What a great day!

Newsletter

• Room 6 Newsletter Term 4.
  

Dear Parents/Caregivers and Students,

Welcome back! I would like to welcome Miss. Mareta Pelenato to our Room. Miss Pelenato is a first year student teacher; she will be in our Room for five weeks, learning her craft and assisting myself and the students as we learn for the last term of 2011.

I would like to thank all families for their support for the School Mission Fair, and say a BIG THANK YOU, to all of the Room 6 students. On the day of the Fair you have once again shown yourselves to be kind, considerate, giving and hard- working students. You should be very proud of yourselves. J

This is another busy one, in Week 4 we will be testing for end of year reporting, it is paramount that the students are at school during this week.

The three core areas of learning: Maths, Reading, Writing and of course Religious Education are taught every day. Health/PE The Arts(Dance and Drama) Science have specific slots of time during the week. Our key concept is CHANGE.

Education outside the classroom(EOTC) is always exciting and this term is no exception.

We have Technology ( Cooking/Wood/Sewing) a whole school visit to Tai Tapu School for their Annual Pet Day, Swim week. Preparation of the feast for the opening of the Mission Centre, and of course Kapahaka.

The Year 8s have their leavers' dinner at Dennys, and a Retreat day yet to be finalised.

I look forward to Term 4, there is much learning to be done, and lots of fun to be had.

Call in and see us in action; or contact me should you require a chat.

Regards

Judi

Term 3 was a winner

The Term that was... a teachers reflection.

Dear Families and Students of Room 6,
Thank you for all of your hard work and support for term 3. I hope you are all able to spend some time(if work comittments permit) together during the break.

Summer uniform when we come back so HATS are the order of the day. You must all know the saying "no hat,no play".  While we are on the uniform theme, please do your best to ensure students are wearing the correct uniform; when worn correctly we look great.

Tools for learning, students please be work ready the day we return, ensure you have plenty of supplies in pens,pencils etc. to carry out your daily tasks.

No electronics at school please, this includes Mp3s, cellphones, ipods etc.

We farewelled our student teacher, Miss W. I now welcome Miss Mareta Pelenato to our room for 5 weeks. Miss Pelenato will send you all a written profile to accompany the class newsletter.

Remember the Mission Centre is to be opened the first Thursday at 2pm.

Highlights for Term 3, Rugby Fun Day-Kick Ball Tournament- Kapahaka- Speeches-Mission Fair.

I will send a paper newsletter home to you week 1, and will also upload it to the blog.

Judi Parker

Physical Education

On Thursday we had the final of our Kick Ball Tournament.
The winners were the Black Team.
The Green & Reds took out the mixed event and the Pinks
won for Sportmanship.
Room 6 you really kicked it!

It's a Whanau thing!

On Wednesday our Senior Speeches were held. All of the finalists gave their best. Thank you to all of the students for their efforts to present exciting and well written speeches.
Hoani Rewha and his younger sister Ella Rewha were both finalists in their Year groups. Hoani won the Year 8competition. He spoke from personal experience, passion and a willingness to be the change! Kia kaha.
Watch out for this young student in the "Manu Korero" 2012.
Also a big shout out and high five to Justin Phillips.. a well deserved 2nd Placing in the Year 8 Group for 2011. To Jonathan, Greg and Andre aim high for 2012, you all gave exceptional speeches, that informed, entertained and persuaded the audience. Well done.

RWC Fever hits St. Anne's

Rugby Fun Day. Miss W. our Student Teacher joined in the fun!

Masquerade- English/ICT Extension Team

Transitioning to Secondary School- Driving our own Learning.

We are writing a magazine, we have had to learn new skills in using ICTs to publish a top notch magazine for our class mates. We work independently each day honing our writing/reading skills, we meet with Mrs.P each week and we have the guidance of Ms.Grice.  Our Publication is due out Monday; the last week of school.

We will post excerpts from “Masquerade” to the blog.

Here we all are - our Editor took the shot, thanks Victoria!

Kitchen Chemistry Kicks off in Room 6!

On Friday we began our Kitchen Chemistry Unit. We were looking at "Chromatography". Miss W. explained the meaning, and then we got into our learning teams and began our hands-on experiment. We used skittles and M&Ms our experiment was called CANDY CHROMATOGRAPHY. We had some great ideas about what we thought would happen, these were recorded. We all learned to write up and record our findings, at 11 each learning team gave a short presentation, this was great because it also made links to other learning.. our speeches! Great lesson Miss W. :)



Laying in the learning...


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Gabe and Andrei busy at work

  

Learning teams in action!



Chromatography in its process, watch what happens next...



Filter paper results, how awesome!



Keeping you in the loop.

Parents in Partnership Sunday

Today Hoani and I attended the Parents in Partnership meeting.We talked about maths and the school blogs.

Religious Education - The Holy Spirit Strand

On Friday the 17th June we are having our Assembly. We have been studying the Holy Spirit
Strand and this will be the Theme for our Assembly. You are all welcome to come along and support us.

We have decorated the Foyer with our Artworks. Here is a sneak peak...


Krichelle  Year 7



Weekly Sport @ Hagley

Each Thursday we travel to Hagley Netball Centre to play in the Thursday Sport Programme. We have two Football Teams and one Netball Team.  It is great to get out, have fun and meet other students from many schools.

Be The Change

We are learning about Citizenship, we have decided to call our learning BE THE CHANGE.  We have first learned what it is to be a Citizen of St. Anne's School. Each week we focus on an indicator from our Student Vision, we try to be the best we can be by living out our Vision.
We have Learning Teams and each Team has written a BIG QUESTION  as the vehicle for driving their learning, from this point we have a range of ideas and thoughts of how we can BE THE CHANGE.
Our four areas of research are St.Anne's, Aotearoa/NZ,Global, and each team will learn about being a responsible and safe Digital Citizen.
Follow our blog to see our progress.

Whiteboard shot..click to enlarge!

Welcome

Kia ora tatou,
Welcome to the Room 6 Class Blog.