Room 1 Gymnastics

Congratulations to Sarah and Caitlin who participated in the Hamilton City Gymsports competition on Sunday.  Sarah ended up in first place overall in her grade and Caitlin 3rd in her grade.  Well done girls.

Tough Guy and Gal Challenge

Last Friday we had half of Room1 out competing in the Tough Guy and Gal challenge.  It was a 3km course for Year 5-8.  Well done to those that completed.  It definitely looked like it was a MUDDY challenge!

MY TIME

Room 1 began MYtime this term - learning about an area of interest that we are passionate about.  We have people working in garage band, cooking, learning a language, art skills, sports skills and the video above is the work of Jono who is programming a robot to draw what he asks of it.  Very exciting!

Geometry

This term for mathematics we are learning about geometry.  This week we were exploring nets  -  what a 3D shape looks like flat and then using the net to create the shape.

No Bells by Kurtis L

On May the 4th Room 1,2,3 had a social experiment around our reliance on bells on Room 4-13. we had to write down everything they did either before morning tea/lunch or just before morning tea/lunch finished. here is a good example by Kurtis L.

No Bells

by Kurtis Large

What if the bells randomly stop working? How would we cope? How would you know? What if the clock even stopped working? Well that's what we thought. A experiment that triggered these 5-11 year old students. We stopped all the bells on May the 4th 2016 at Stanley Ave school. A experiment that made us think differently. The results were unusual.

“Is morning tea yet” asked one of the students even though it was only 5 minutes to morning tea. All the 6-7 year old kids are yapping away while reading. The kid is still begging to go to morning tea, just about getting on his knees.

“Time to pack up” yelled the teacher. Then the chaos started. Children yelling at each other, fighting over toys to put away. After 2-3 minutes of this they finally settled down and sat on the mat. The teacher went on about stuff I can’t quite remember. It was about 5 minutes past morning tea when the teacher finally gave up and sent the children outside.

The children definitely acted different to what I thought. Most of them didn’t even realised the bell apart from one. I learnt that they are VERY trustworthy on the bell and if they didn’t even have a teacher to remind them, they would have worked right through morning tea and lunch. I personally think that bells should not be removed because the students are too reliant on the bell. 

Math - Problem Solving Thursdays

Every Thursday we work with different buddies in our class to solve math problems.  This is us in action!

Congratulations

Well done Leah for winning Intermediate Girls cup and Hunter for winning the Senior Boys cup for swimming.

Awesome work you two!