Physical Phenomena

Well, what a busy term we had in the Senior Class!
Our inquiry topic was called 'Physical Phenomena' and it was certainly an engaging, hands-on topic to spark our learners into greatness!
We began by looking at forces and energy, how they work in the real world, we then moved on to electricity, playing with our new kits to work out how a circuit works and how to add extra things like buzzers and switches. We learnt how to draw symbols for circuits, played with torches, and investigated light using light boxes. Finally we moved onto our own personal Science inquiry based around the Physical World, we had a template to follow which showed us the important parts to include in our project such as Hypothesis, Method, Research, Results, Conclusion and how it connects to the real world.
We held our school Science Expo in the last week of school, it was a huge success allowing the students to share their new learning with peers, whanau and community members.

Digital Day # 2

We've had a fun digital day in the Senior Class today, we used our experts (students who went to Digital Dynamos in Clutha Valley) to lead workshops and share their learning from there.

We started the day off with Henry and Daniel giving us an introduction into Robotics, they had made up some of our robotics kit and described their task at the Digital Day, some of us are now hooked on robotics. Then Keeley and Leah-Marie showed us Google My Maps and Bitmoji, that was super fun too and had us all hooked in!

   

After play we played on Stop Motion Animator making movies in groups of two and three, they turned our ok and also left us with things to improve when we make these again.

After that we played on Incredibox and Soundation, our classroom was full of funky beats.

After lunch Mrs Hyslop introduced the new Makey Makey kits that the Support Group donated to the school, we had so much fun experimenting with the circuits to create music and play games.

Digital Day

While the four of our students went to Digital Dynamo Day at Clutha Valley School, we had our own digital day where the students were leading workshops in a range of different apps.
Check out our slide we shared in assembly about it all.

Rippa Tournament 2017

Rippa Tournament 2017

I hear stomping as I dash down  the field,

I see the Clutha Valley kids right behind me,

I feel my knees sink into the mud as the ball reaches the ground,

I taste salty mud as it drys out my mouth,

I wonder how my my team (The Warriors) will go.

By Zoe

Rippa Turns Fun

I didn’t want to really want to go to Rippa but I didn’t get a choice, I stepped out of the car and there it was, billion’s of kids talking and making such a fuss, not too sure what about but it was horrendous anyway.

This horrific, loud and screechy noise started, what could it be I thought? It was Mitch telling us something.

Romahapa were there standing in front of us, I was frozen, I heard the ground crunch for each step I took, no tries scored by me, probably because I just stood there watching my team get tries, that's how cold I was. Finally I was warm still in a t- shirt and I scored 2 tries, the next game I got 1 but why was I so warm?

"Turns out Rippa isn't that bad," I said to Mrs Hyslop.

''See I told you so!'' she replied.

Hopefully it is not that cold next year!!!!

By Zara

Holmdene Visit

Holmdene Visit 24th May

Most of the Senior and Middle Class visited Holmdene for the third week in a row. The residents smile at us when we get there and some even remember us from the week before and are excited to see us.

Some of us spend time with the elderly in the lounges and others go with Tennielle to talk with people who are in their rooms.

They often say, “that’s amazing, we didn’t do that when we were at school.”

They think we do great work at Warepa School and love listening to us read our work to them.

When we are there the time seems to go so fast.

They were asking us some questions and they were very interested in our work. On the first week I told Mrs A that “I felt that I won first prize.” Now it makes me feel happy that the elderly look forward to us coming and are happy and interested in what we are sharing, I think we make their day.

We were reading our publish writing books to the elderly and they were all so very interested in how neat we drew and coloured. We have been to Holmdene three times now and we have been making new friends every time. It makes me feel very happy. We all enjoyed doing this because we got to spend time to learn about the elderly and then we told them a bit about us. Most of their comments were like,”that’s awesome” and  “you have a twin?”

By Leah and Amber

Good Sorts Inquiry

This term our Inquiry is called "Good Sorts", it is based around those people in our community who volunteer in some way or another. We have had the opportunity to experience giving back to our wider community ourselves by visiting the residents of Holmdene where we have read stories, shown our art and writing and even shown them our class blog. They are most interested in what we get up to at school and how things have changed since they went to school.

It has been a humbling experience to visit the residents and it seems we are all getting something out of our visits.

Good Sorts is a school-wide Inquiry topic, this is the slide we shared at Assembly last week.