Term 3 - Week 6

Jack received our 'Star of the Week' for effort and improvement in reading and writing.  Well done Jack!

We had our 'Cycle Safety' course.

Assembly Art Slideshow

We are on assembly this Friday.

We will be showing some of the art we have created.

Term 3 - Week 5

Chali was awarded our 'Principals Challenge - Physically Active Learner' Award.

Chali shows us that you can be competitive AND be supportive of all the other players in a game.

Chali loves any excuse to get outside and get stuck into a game, she then demonstrates fair-play and never gives up..

Keep up the great work Chali!

One of our worms decides to check out its new home and Mr Pearson learns that trying to read a story to the class is impossible once they have noticed this.

 We are doing measurement in maths, we made paper planes and used what we have learned about metres to first estimate how far each one flew and then check our estimates with a ruler.

 We also measured objects in the class as we tried to find things that were 1cm and 10 cm in length.

 Mia and Kaylee gave us an awesome martial arts demonstration!

Term 3 - Week 4

Luca was awarded our 'Star of The Week' for sharing his creative ideas in writing.

Luca quite often comes up with his own original ideas to make his writing interesting for the reader.

Keep up the great work Luca!

Term 3 - Week 3

Connor received the 'Star of the Week' award for his effort and attitude in maths.

Connor is always willing to go back and have a second go at tricky maths problems and re-think his ideas, well done!

We were the Birchwood School Plastic Free Friday Winners!

This is the second time we have won this so keep up the great work team!  Go Tī Kōuka!

 We did another maths challenge, this time we had to see how far our group could jump from a standing start (no run-up).

"I jumped over a metre...past the end of the metre ruler"  Evelyn

 The 'tennis ball balance challenge' for maths week.

We had to estimate how many tennis balls our team could hold for 5 seconds.

We started swimming lessons! 

Term 3 - Week 2

A reminder that we begin swimming lessons next week (week 3) 

at the ASB Aquatic centre, we will leave school at 12:40, our lessons start at 1:00, please make sure you have paid the fees for this.  Please do not order lunch during the next two weeks as we will be eating lunch early.

Ryah received our 'Star of the Week' award for being a respectful and helpful class member.

Ryah listens carefully to others, is kind and caring, and is always ready with a helping hand.

Keep up the great work Ryah!

 Some reading groups used a Venn Diagram to compare two journal articles.

 The students were given a variety of different minibeast pictures to sort and categorise, they came up with some great ways of grouping these creatures.