Homework Games

As part of their homework over the past 2 weeks Room 8 have designed and made a game to share with the class that  teaches them something.

We had the first of the sharing today with Abigail, Tilly, Charlotte and Sophie. A popular format seemed to be the board game. I know we are going to have fun playing all the games.

What a Clever Class

Mrs Chao is so proud of Room 8 when she checked the cloak bay today. Everything was hung up- neat and tidy. All the shoes were lined up on the rack!!

Bravo Room 8! You are striving for excellence.You should be proud of yourselves!

Downhill Racers

Noah and Tom made a trolley car racer and had a trial at Wellesley. It looks like fun but they need to work on brakes to be safe. 

Olympic News

Noah's best friend Sam who lives in England posted him an Olympic mascot keyring and an Olympic taxi. He loved getting his surprise!!

Collage Crazy!

We started our collage faces today as part of our multimedia art unit. Tearing magazine pictures into little pieces to glue onto our design was fun and challenging.

Welcome Back to Term 3

Welcome back to our new term. We will be studying the values of the Olympic movement as well as the actual games. It looks like fun. Are you living the Olympic values?

For Maths we will start multiplication and division, writing is explanation and narrative and a focus for PE is gymnastics. Sounds like a great term.

The End of Term

What a busy term we have had! Enjoy your holidays everyone and have a good rest.

We have lots of exciting things to look forward to next term

• The Olympics
• Ancient Greece
• Reader's Theatre
• Explanation writing

See you next term!

A Shape to Contain the Feeling

This term we have been learning about New Zealand artist Gretchen Albrecht. Nature is her inspiration and her work is abstract. She splits up parts of nature and puts them together again in different ways. She uses colour to carry emotional meaning in her work.
Room 8 used several of her paintings (Garden and Rose) as inspiration for their work. They mixed their own colours so their work was different.

BP Challenge

On Wednesday Bennett and Fergus had their second trial at the BP Challenge competitions. They had to make a shelter with scissors, newspaper, string and sellotape. Rufus and Noah were  part of their group. They had 20 minutes to make the shelter.

The challenge was that it had to fit one person inside and that it was strong enough to have a tissue box on the top without breaking. It also had to be freestanding.

Wow they won the challenge as everyone elses broke or it was tied to a chair and wasn't allowed.

THE SCIENCE FAIR

Today Room 8 visited the fantastic Science Fair in the library. Students walked around all the exhibits reading the questions and checking out the conclusions. It was so interesting.

Wow, what will they investigate when they are Year 7 and 8s?