At the beginning of Term 2 the class completed their assessments. I was really impressed with how much of a positive attitude the children had towards these.
We are now back to lessons as usual, and the children have been learning lots of new and exciting things.
In English we have been exploring Myths and Legends. The class have read a variety of these and even acted some out. Here are some photos of groups of children adding more to the story of ‘The Sword in the Stone’.
In Maths we have been working on Number and Place Value. This term, we have been including decimal numbers. The children have fully embraced paired games and challenges.
We are starting Science this term with our topic ‘The way we see things’. We will be exploring light. So far, we have looked inside a box with various possible light sources inside, to identify which are light sources and how we know.
Year 5 are thoroughly enjoying their sessions with Gracie from Pform. Each week, they have been having drama sessions in the dance studio, with the year 4 children.
This term in Global Perspectives our topic is ‘How can we stay healthy?’
The class have discussed the things we may need to stay healthy and worked in collaboration to put these things in order from the most important to least important.
Next week, we look forward to visiting Tiritiri Matangi with years 3 and 4. I hope to share some photos from this trip in our next class blog.
We had a fantastic trip to Tiritiri Matangi last week.
The stunning weather enabled us to see some beautiful New Zealand birds.
Our highlight was seeing the Hihi – we were thrilled to spot both a male and female Hihi!
We also saw three Wetapunga. This stunning insect can grow as big as 10cm in body length – Mrs McLeish was pleased that the one we saw wasn’t as big as that!
We absolutely appreciated the expertise of Tiritiri Matangi guides and we also want to send out a big THANK YOU to all of our helpers! We couldn’t do it without your support!
I know that I can’t wait until our next visit!
Wow! Well done to all our brilliant chess players, who attended the Hibiscus Coast Chess Tournament – you played strongly and showed wonderful sporting behaviour – win, lose or draw!
Nailbiting tension as the tournament drew to a close…
Congratulations, Ananda! Tournament Champion!
ChessPower Knockout badge acquired!
What a beautiful day to visit this wonderful island sanctuary, right here on our doorstep!
We picked up any rubbish we found on the beach.
We spotted so many different birds!
Not even the biggest wetapunga on the island!
It has been a very long but very fun Term 1.
I can’t believe that it has come to an end.
I want to wish the Hihi class a wonderful and safe holiday break and I look forward to seeing you all in Term 2!
We certainly missed our Year 4, 5 and 6 friends when they went to camp but we were determined not to miss out on the fun!
On Friday 29th March we had our very own MINI-CAMP here at school.
The weather was not on our friend so we pitched our tents inside. We made pikelet batter and Mr D cooked them on the BBQ for us. They were delicious!
We then had our friends teach us some hand games and we sang camp songs.
It was a fantastic day!
Wow! We finished the term in sp-egg-tacular fashion…
This morning we had a whole school technology challenge, where our groups had to make the tallest freestanding poppy they could using only 20 sheets of newspaper and some red and black paper for the flower.
This was followed by the last Y6 sausage sizzle of the year. Thank you to everyone who has supplied sausages, cooked or bought and eaten the sausages!
Finally, we made Easter Bunny baskets and filled them with chocolate eggs.
Well done on a great term, Parera Class – have a wonderful break and get ready for another busy term starting in two weeks!!!!
We have been learning how to recognise and measure angles. To help use find right angles we invented our own tools then tested them out. It was really fascinating.
Congratulations to Jessica, Brooke and Sam, who were selected to represent Wentworth Primary at the recent Interschool Swimming Championships. All three students gave it their best, with Sam making a number of Finals and placing second in 25m freestyle and butterfly; 5th in Individual Medley; 5th in 25m backstroke and 4th in 25m breaststroke.
The Pareras worked in small teams today to see who could build the tallest, steadiest tower that would safely hold a basketball for at least 20 seconds….and they only had newspaper and stickytape to work with!!
Well done to our winning team of Atia, Sam and Micah, with a stable and impressive 73cm construction.
We discovered that planning, teamwork and determined perseverance were crucial to being successful.
