What a fabulous way to celebrate SAMOAN LANGUAGE WEEK

On Friday Room 6 organised a Samaon Celebration. Each classed performed an item. Our power was amazing as we performed our sasa.
It was so lovely to have our parents and grandparents there to cheer us on. The seniors shouted the grandparents a cuppa. Mrs Parker organised some fab food from PACIFIC CUISINE for all of the students at lunchtime. Mr McIness helped organise us into lines and then our Principal and Emily Moase served us our lunch it was truly yummy. THE RED CROSS  helped us fund this SUPER SAMOAN DAY!

THREE STUNNING STUDENTS

Thank you ELISAH REBEKAH AND LAVERTON!
It has been a privilege to share your language and culture with you this past week.
Your organisation,determination and zest for education is inspirational, keep aiming high.

A WEALTH OF ARTISTIC STUDENTS.

Each week we will feature artworks. Here is Aldwins work, great detail and use of colour.

Samoan Legend

Retelling.
Today we watched the old legend of Sina and the Eel.  We then had to retell the legend in our words. Next we chose one part of the legend and used black paper, 3 pastels to produce some fantastic artworks. WELL DONE YEAR 7s

Samoan Language Week

This afternoon we began some research in the Pasifika Arts.  We are finding images in a range of media. We are designing a cover for a skateboard.

Reading and Writing

Following on from our Learning through Action visit from Chris, we read a txt about volcanoes. Afterwards we had a go at making some. Next we will learn how to write up an experiment using scientific language.

Learning all about FRANCE

We are learning the French language. We watched a video, we listened to  the picture book LES QUESNOY and worked with atlases to find certain locations in France.

Morning prayers

This week our three wise dudes prepared prayers together each day.

Chris came to our class today

We are learning about Tsunamis.

Being inspired to write

We love building simple machines. Using lego we get to be our creative best. This then gives us an edge when we come to write.
CHRISTIAN LEALA  wrote a short, snappy piece about his fair ground machine.
I used lego to create a fair ground machine.  I came up with this idea while I was already in the process of making the machine.
It was a little difficult to find pieces to work how I wanted them to.
I am happy that I produced my remarkable lego machine.

Christian I am happy to see your deliberate choice of language that makes your writing exciting to read.  MrsP:-)

We hope you loved our cards

Today we got creative during Discovery. First we searched the www for some inspirational quotes that just resonated for us. All mothers are special,this was our chance to show our love and appreciation.

The Year 8s

Technology is such a cool experience...fabrics are where our creativity and problem solving just SHINE.

Today we made special cards

SUCH CREATIVE STUDENTS

Te Waka Unua

We just love our learning in technology!

Writing with our BUDDY

What a nice thing to do! Here we are writing some heart felt prayers for the people of Nepal. Thanks Mrs Jones for inviting us to work with our buddies.

TAKING OUR WRITING FURTHER

Today Elisah,Letone and Sam and Jamal, wrote their identifying statements. Working together supports our writing. We discuss our ideas, talk about our purpose, clear any roadblocks and then write.

Key competency RELATING TO OTHERS

Friday Discovery is always fun.  We get the chance to work together,  and demonstrate our skills in relating to others towards a common goal. Wyatt Zander and Ethan are growing these important life long skills.

DISCOVERY:CANDY CHROMATOGRAPHY

On Friday we did some cool science.