Jun 15, 2018 | Moa - Year 6 blog
Year 6 had an incredibly busy schedule for their Wellington trip.
As well as witnessing lively debate in Parliament, they also spent time behind the scenes at Weta Workshops, discovering how weapons, armour and prosthetics were created for movies such as the Lord of the Rings trilogy and Avatar.
The Treaty of Waitangi and other constitutional documents were investigated at the National Library, with some children able to trace their family history on the interactive exhibits. We were also fortunate to be taken into the basement archives of the Library to see how books, music and other documents are stored and transported via their own railway system. We discovered that the Library holds an ancient receipt, etched into a clay tablet, dating back to Ancient Babylonia and the largest Atlas in the world!
After squeezing in a ride on the iconic Wellington cable cars, we finished our trip with a visit to Te Papa, contrasting historic and modern immigration patterns – realising that no matter what our reasons and where we came from, we are all New Zealanders.
Jun 14, 2018 | Katipo - Year 3 blog
The Story of Matariki
We have been learning about myths and legends this term. To tie in with Matariki we focused on retelling the story by creating all the characters using as many natural resources as we could.
Below is the completed display.
Jun 14, 2018 | Moa - Year 6 blog
Seventeen Wentworth Primary students took part in the annual Hibiscus Coast Chess Tournament held in Silverdale last week. Students ranged from Years 2 to 6 with varying degrees of chess experience but all were keen players. There were almost 100 competitors from six different schools and each participant played seven matches. We witnessed many tough battles across the boards and, whatever the outcome of each game, the sporting behaviour displayed was wonderful.
Jun 14, 2018 | Moa - Year 6 blog
If you are in need of First Aid, our Year 5 and 6 students are the people to help! We learned how to assess an accident scene; how to call for help; and all about DRS ABC.
Have a look at the fun we had when the NZ Red Cross came into school to teach us these lifesaving skills!
Video Needed
Jun 14, 2018 | Moa - Year 6 blog
Video Needed
Where can you kayak, mountainboard, go orienteering, climb, learn to cook pancakes in the outdoors and have fun with all your friends? The YMCA, of course!!
Jun 13, 2018 | Moa - Year 6 blog
We had a huge turnout for the Weetbix Tryathlon at Manly Park on Sunday 25th March. Congratulations to all our competitors, who completed an ocean swim, a bike ride and a run before being awarded their gold medals.
Our school also had the largest percentage of participants so won a prize of basketballs, netballs and footballs. Hurray!
Jun 5, 2018 | Tui - Year 2 blog
During Week 5, we read a book about growing pumpkins and then we decided to make some pumpkin soup to eat at lunchtime.
We cut the pumpkin up,
Mrs Clark took it home and roasted it… then we put the soup all together in a slow cooker the next morning and cooked it until morning tea time.
It was YUM! It was interesting to see that the WHOLE CLASS enjoyed it and asked for seconds!
May 22, 2018 | Tui - Year 2 blog
Well, what a busy few weeks it has been in the Kea Class!
We have been learning about money. We can tell you all about the different notes and coins we use in New Zealand and we can count money!
May 21, 2018 | Katipo - Year 3 blog
The Year 3 students helped to teach the Year 5 and 6 students how to make Matariki stars out of harakeke (flax).
May 19, 2018 | Kiwi – Year 1 Blog
I might be the only one singing the Ace of Base song “I saw the sign” as I read the title of this blog however it is very relevant to our Karearea class at the moment as we have been learning about the ways in which signs communicate important information to us.
Our Karearea class went walk-about this week and looked at the signs that
‘TELL US WHAT TO DO’,
‘WARN US TO BE CAREFUL’ and the signs that
‘INVITE US TO SAFELY MOVE THIS WAY’.
We were so surprised to realise that signs give us such a lot of information and they often use few, if any, words. We looked at signs from other countries and delighted in the fact that we understood them.
May 19, 2018 | Kiwi – Year 1 Blog
It was a very special morning at Wentworth Primary yesterday. Our Grandparents and whanau came into school. It was a pleasure sharing our classroom with our family and it was lovely hearing about some of the experiences our grandparents had when they were at school.
We were shocked and bemused at the notion of ‘the cane’ as a form of discipline.
One grandparent shared some photos of their school, calf club, milk bottles and dress-up day.
We heard a little about school in China……we were surprised to hear that there were 60 children in ONE class!
We loved hearing about waiting outside before school, having to sing the national anthem whilst the NZ flag was raised and then marching into class. Very different to our morning!
One of our Karearea class members was delighted to receive a video message and a letter from grandparents whom are overseas. This certainly made a few eyes in the room moisten…….mine definitely!
Thank you to the Karearea families for visiting with us today. We are privileged to have you in our lives and you are such an important part of our learning journey. Thank you for taking the time to share our morning with us and feel free to stop by ANYTIME!
May 18, 2018 | Wētā - Year 4 blog
Here’s a couple of highlights from Term 2 so far…
Maths
In our first week back we continued to explore measurement and how it connects to decimal numbers.
Thomas measures the width of his belly button?
Harper and Tiger try to wrangle an unruly tape measure
Oscar realises that letting go of the tape measure measures gravity, not height.
Science
For science, we’ve been looking at states of matter (solids, liquids and gases). In Week 3, we looked at how chocolate can melt when it’s sitting on a plate placed on top of a bowl of heated water.
In groups, the students planned and conducted an experiment in which they changed one factor e.g. “will the chocolate melt faster if it’s cut into smaller pieces?”
Luke and Daniel exploring how different liquids melt at different rates
Ethan, Sienna and Luke wishing the experiment was “how much chocolate can I fit in my mouth?”
Ethan wishing the experiment was “how many marbles can I fit in my mouth?”
Poppy worries about the experiment’s effect on her last manicure.
Writing
For the last three weeks we’ve exploring the conventions of effective storybooks, and using what we’ve learned to plan our own.
It’s required our full creative powers to come up with good ideas that are original and entertaining. The students have been sharing their ideas with the class, getting feedback, and improving their ideas where necessary.
Most of us are now at the stage where we are ready to start the first draft of our story.
Aston ponders the metaphysical themes in the great literary piece: “I Want My Potty”.
On Friday of Week 3, we had our annual Grandparents Day. We performed some songs and dances as a whole school and then went back to our class for some learning about the past. The year 4’s asked the grandparents about what school was like in their day. Using that information we compared and contrasted using Venn diagrams.
