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!