Market Day

Year 7 & 8 Market Day.  Click on the link below to see what you are able to purchase.  We will be heading over to the High School on Wednesday from 12 - 1.

https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1tbMZQYPlcvSTjgURe96McR4SXOUtIOvYkfFHW8hcq0o/pub?start=true&loop=true&delayms=3000

Dreaming of the beach!

Happy birthday to Tehya! Check out this amazing cake that was made specially for her. Yummy! We look forward to helping Tehya eat it!

100% turn out!!!

Yesterday was the first day/evening of learning conferences for Term 2 and so far they have been a huge success! So far we have had everybody who has been booked turn up which is very exciting. The children have been working really hard on a presentation of their learning goals and finding evidence as to whether they have achieved their goals or are still working towards them. We were very proud of how the children presented their work too.

Remember this...

Here are some long awaited photos from our neat trip to Orana Wildlife park earlier in the term.

Looking for clues!

This we we have been learning to use strategies to find the meaning of words we are not sure of. Here is a video which is an awesome example of how Kalim used on of these strategies.

Aron's bald eagle facts

Our Inquiry Process

This term we are looking at Animal Adaptations.  For the past 4 weeks we have been looking at  what animal adaptations are and how they help animals survive.   We went to Orana park and learnt a heap about the animals that are at the park.

So now we have some knowledge of adaptations its time to take for us to go in different directions and find out  what we think is really interesting or something that we are passionate about.  Our Inquiry has begun.

We all have a "Big Question" about our chosen topic and today we are searching for sources of information that will help us answer our big questions.  We have to find an expert, sites, multimedia resource and a book.

THe challenge for us is to work out what information that we are looking at is helpful to our Inquiry and what people can help us too.  We also want to connect with experts not just in NZ but all around the world.

Watch this space!