New World's Little Garden

Next term Rimu's Inquiry involves looking at plants. We would love donations of small pots and seeds from New World's current promotion 'Little Garden'. If you also have any family or friends who shop at New World please can you ask them to collect them for us and send them along to class. Thank you.

Orana Park

Rimu and Totara Hubs and a great day out at Orana Park learning about how animals communicate. Below are some photos from the trip.

International Celebration..

This Thursday we will be having a school wide celebration of our Inquiry topic from this term.  We encourage you to come dressed up in the costume/colours of your country.  If you wish to celebrate being a New Zealander, then come dressed in black and white - or the colours of our flag.  We look forward to seeing the different nationalities that are represented.

Certificates this week...

Well done to Kairu, Harry and Georgia for receiving this week's Room 15 certificates...

YES I CAN - Paralympics RIO 2016 - We're The Superhumans!

Country Studies...

The last few weeks we have been studying a European country, following on from the Rio Olympics. It has been a lot of hard work and we have learnt many different skills!  Here are some of the things we have had to do:

• locate our country on a map
• find our facts and information about our country
• ask "Google" the right questions to get our answers
• read a lot of information and summarise it in our own words
• create folders on the desktop to keep our work in
• take screen shots
• learn about and create headings and sub-heading
• print off images
• record ourselves talking on the iPads
• use Thinglink on the iPads
• make an iMovie
• use keynote to present our research
• think about the layout of a poster and what makes it look effective
• use an effective voice when reading onto an iPad
• elaborate on ideas when we talk and write about our country and the facts we have learnt

We are very proud of the work we have produced!

European Country Study

Room 15 have been studying a European country as part of our Inquiry this term.
Some children decided to share their findings digitally. Below are some links to the children's work on Thinglink.

By Tahnul

By Sam H, Sam Y and Matthew

Other children created a poster to share information on their European country.