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2025 Manaiakalani Film Festival – “Forces that Clash”

Welcome to “Forces that Clash!”  … Room 14 took on the ultimate elemental challenge, unleashing pure chaos as they split into Team Fire, Water, Air, and Earth. It was the raw heat of Fire versus the tidal wave of Water, the speed of Air versus the rock-solid strength of Earth.

Darlin hold my hand .. Nothing beats a “Force that Clashes!” Tune in now to find out which team wins!

2025 Zespri Challenge

Tēnā koutou! Room 14 had a superb time taking part in the Zespri Challenge this term! We learned that walking is more than just steps—it’s about getting healthier too!

The challenge brought huge positive changes to our room:

  • Smarter Learners: Research shows that physical fitness helps our brains learn better, and we felt it! We gained super skills working with big numbers (over 1,000) and understood what metres and kilometres feel like in the real world.
  • Hauora/Well-being: We noticed class attendance increased, we felt better about ourselves, and we started showing more kindness and awareness to our friends. 
  • Health Experts: We are now experts on goal-setting, sleep, hydration, “Vitamin N,” and being balanced with screen time.

We did face a couple of challenges we wanted to share:

  1. Logging Steps: It was tricky to log our steps quickly since we don’t take our Chromebooks home. Running out of time.
  2. Pedometer Access: We kept the pedometers at school. Unfortunately, when our teacher had to be away, we couldn’t access them, and our tracking got interrupted.

Even with those hiccups, our confidence in sports and physical activity has been way up! Although we ran out of time to officially finish the Zespri Challenge, the learning continues!

We are so thankful for the opportunity and the great improvements Zespri helped us make. We are all going to keep walking and stay healthy! Check out our short trailer!

Term 2 – “Beyond the Sky”

Kia ora whānau!

Last term was absolutely packed with excitement, especially with our bi-annual “Fiafia night.” It was a massive success, bringing together our families and communities to watch our amazing performers dance and sing the night away.  What a brilliant way to wrap up Term 1 – “Joy, Koakoa mai, koakoa atu.”

Welcome back to Term 2! As we head into autumn and winter, it’s starting to get a bit nippy out there! This term, our learners are setting their sights on “beyond the sky.” Make sure to check out our Team 3 school immersion assembly,  which showcase our Team 3 inquiry. This ties in beautifully with Matariki Day and our Language Week celebrations.

Our learners will be diving into dictation this term. They’ll be listening to audio and using slides to help them write a couple of sentences about our topic. This will help frontload their knowledge about our inquiry topic. It’s been awesome to see how excited they are about learning about the Solar System, the stars (Matariki), and our seasons. One of our curious learners even asked, “Miss, where is Pluto?” … hmmmm?  Great questions, I wonder if anyone can help us?

Don’t miss our first dictation topic: “Phases of the Moon!” How does the moon impact our planet? Not only does it give us our superpower sleep, but it also affects our environment. Hmmm, interesting, eh?

Check out our class blogs to find out more!  Nga Mihi Nui

 

2023 Manaiakalani Film Festival – “What’s in the box?”

Jaedha and Shwe Shwe’s “What’s in the box?” challenge had the students of Room 9 buzzing with excitement.  They had to use their sense of touch to identify the mystery object inside the box, but it proved to be more difficult than they expected.

Watch Room 9’s “What’s in the box?” short to find out what it was!

Rm 9 PENN ‘A Time with friends’…

Before our writing test, Room 9 and 10 had a challenge – to design couture attire using toilet paper in groups of 3-4 friends. We had 8 minutes to create this wearable art.  The outcome was both hilarious and stressful.

Our class had a great time collaborating, using their creativity, communicating with each other, and critically evaluating their designer dresses.  Check out our PENN

Room 9 PENN – Prefect Korero posters

“Room 9 has been creating Prefect Korero posters after our school Assembly.
We use google drawing to begin our poster, using shapes, wordart, google free images and ‘ombre – effect’ scheme to use for our titles or our backgrounds and then posting it on Edublog!”

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