Arriving Early and Ready

It's so lovely to see the children quietly playing games, chatting and hanging out together before school.

Christopher, John and Jesse practising their chess moves

This is such a great time of the day to get to know your classmates, spend some time doing fun activities with your friends and getting ready for the day ahead.

A Jenga challenge for Aishwarya and Bella

So why not leave home a few minutes earlier in the morning to be able to join in and really start the day well?

Welcome to 2017

Kia ora koutou and welcome to 2017 in Room 18!

The class of 2017 is a wonderful bunch of 28 students in Y3 and Y4. We have 13 girls and 15 boys, and 13 Y3 children and 15 Y4 children.

The year is well underway and we are busy, busy, busy. We have been completing lots of tests and our reading, writing and maths programmes are jam-packed and lots of fun.

We are super excited about the three swimming lessons we are having this term which are on Tuesday in Wk3 and Wk5 and Friday in Wk7.

We are also hosting the school assembly on Monday of Wk6 this term.

If you haven't had the chance already, do pop in and see us sometime,

Room 18 students and Miss Rands-Trevor

A letter from your teacher...

Dear Room 18 children,

How are you today? I am well - I had a lovely weekend on Great Barrier Island. Now I feel really relaxed and ready for the week.

I am very excited to be your teacher for 2017. I am looking forward to a year of learning, fun and adventure. I can’t wait to learn all about you but first of all, I will tell you a little bit about myself.

I was born in Auckland but the place I call home is Great Barrier Island. I grew up on Great Barrier and went to a small country school. There were only 12 children in my year group and we had our swimming lessons in the sea!

Much later, I went to Auckland University and did a BA and a few years later I did went back and became a teacher. After I qualified, I moved to London where I lived for 5 years. I did lots of travel while I lived there, but eventually I started missing NZ and my family too much so I came home.

I have been teaching at PCS since 2005. I have taught in Y0, Y1, Y2, Y3 and this is my fourth year in Y4. 2017 is my 3rd year as the Piwakawaka Team Leader. I had one year off being a teacher to stay at home and be a Mum but I really love teaching so I came back to work.

I live with my Mum (Mrs Rands-Trevor) and my five year old son William, and our cats Elmo and Princess. We live near the Botanic Gardens and WIlliam and I like to go for bike rides there. Other things I enjoy are reading, gardening, fishing, camping and hanging out with my friends and family.

In Rm18 we will be using Class Dojo, learning how to give peer feedback, have a new learning partner and seat every week, finding out all about growth mindset and lots more. I think we are going to have a fabulous year together and I look forward to this journey with you,

All the best,

Miss Rands-Trevor

KOS in Rm18

This explanation is about keeping ourselves safe. I will tell you about KOS in Rm 18.

KOS is a programme in keeping ourselves safe. We learn about techniques to keep ourselves safe.  

We learnt how to walk tall when we are close to someone who might hurt you. When you walk tall you need to put your shoulders back and sometimes have eye contact with people. 

We also learnt about what to do when someone is abusing you. When someone is abusing you should use STAR which means Stop, Think, Act and Report. There are different types of abuse such as family violence, sexual abuse, neglect, cyber abuse, physical abuse and emotional abuse.

Rm 18 also learnt about tricks, secrets and bribes. Our teacher gave us some scenarios and we had to say if it was a trick, a secret or a bribe. 

For example, if someone said ‘I lost my cute little kitty can you help me find it?’ and you say yes that person might take you away and do something weird to you. That is a trick. Remember to ask your parents first. 

If someone asks you ‘Can I have a picture of you naked? I’ll give you an iPad’ say no and tell an adult straight away. That is a bribe. 

If mum came home with a black eye and she said ‘Don’t tell anyone dad punched me in the eye this is just a family secret’. That is a secret.

Thank you for reading our explanation about KOS. We hope you learnt how to be safe.

Yzabelle and Baani

Sport in Term 3 @ PCS

Rugby

In my opinion you should join up to the rugby option.

If  you are good at rugby you can play for your school and then play against other schools.

During rugby option, we tackled the tacklebag

RIPPA RUGBY

At Rippa Rugby zones, we played 5 teams but in total there were 8 teams.

From our class Kace, Areya and Lotosina competed.

We played really well against Puhinui. We beat them by 3 points.

Overall, we came fourth out of seven teams.

Cross Country

Earlier in the term, we had our school cross country and if you came in the first 10, then you qualified for zones.

When we went to cross country zones it was a 2km run. It was at Puhinui Reserve.

It was very steep and muddy. Some people got stuck in the mud.

Our 10 yr old boys came 1st and Kimora came 3rd in the 9yr old girls.

In our class  Areya and Manveer went to Zones. Areya came in 45th!

Areya thought it was very hard but still fun.

Gymnastics

On the 20th September 2016, we went to GYMCITY for Gymnastics. The stuff that we were doing was the mat routine, the bar and the vault.

The results were:

Year 4

Zion - Floor 4th, Beam 4th and Overall placing 4th

Kace - Floor 4th

Year 5

Keira - Floor 1st, Beam 2nd and Overall placing 1st

Zeddah - Bar 4th

Year 6

Amber- Floor 2nd, Beam 3rd, Vault 3rd and Overall placing 1st equal

Latishna- Beam 1st

Kace thought it was hard but it was amazing.

- Kace and Areya

Piwakawaka Team Learner Agency

In Learner Agency you get to do fun activities like BFG Word Challenges, Hip Hop Dance, Te Rakau, BFG Drama, Ukulele, BFG Dream Mixing, Growth Mindset, Hip Hop Dancing and more.

Learner Agency is good/fun etc because we get to have some fun time and we get to learn cool and interesting stuff.

First, you have to sign up by going to your gmail and you will get a message from your teacher. It will be a form and you will have to fill it in with what day you want to go to each activities. But you can’t do two on the same day or it will not let you submit.

Then you go to your Workshops for half an hour in the afternoon and you have to recheck the spreadsheet to make sure you don’t go to the wrong class.   

This term we did two Learner Agency Workshops because the Year 4s were reading a book called The BFG. We also changed because the teachers thought it was a good idea that we change.

We really like Learner Agency because we get to do fun and exciting activities.

Workshop 3:

• Ukulele
• Hip Hop Dance
• Te Rakau
• Growth Mindset

Workshop 4:

• BFG Word Challenges
• BFG Dream Mixing
• BFG Drama
• BFG Character Descriptions

In Workshop 3 we did Hip Hop Dance.  At Hip Hop Dance, Mrs Prasad puts on hip hop music with people dancing so we can dance easily by looking at them.

We also went to Mr Cowan for Te Rakau and we learned how to defend ourselves with Maori weapons.

Mr Curry did ukulele. When we went to ukelele we learned how to play the ukulele and play Singing In The Rain.  

 
Miss Rands-Trevor did growth mindset. Miss Rands-Trevor taught us things we did not know about how we learn. She told us that when we fail at some we get a new neuron in our brain so making a mistake is actually good.

In Workshop 3, all of the activities were around our year group Read Aloud, The BFG.

We really like Learner Agency because we get to do fun and exciting activities.

Thank you for  reading our description of Learner Agency.

• Manveer and Aarav

Maths Learning in Rm 18

This term in maths we were learning how to do long division and multiplication. 

We use the Prime course books and practice books on the carpet. 

In our learning teams we are good at helping each other.

We are good at sharing ideas and giving ideas.

We also do Prime practice books in our learning teams.

We do Mathletics on the COWs and on the iPads.

Every day, we do a warm ups with times tables and other maths questions.

 We are getting better at…...Maths  

By Samson and Ayush