Disco Fever with a Twist

Good times were had again at the disco on Friday night, but this time the outfits were slightly different! Have a look.

What Talent!!!

Today was the Talent show finals. We had two groups in the finals that included room 23 children. Emma and Olivia (Rm 22) were doing a dance to Trouble Maker by Olly Murs and Grace, Niamh and Monique (Rm 27) also did a dance to Girl Next Door by Massad. Grace, Nimah and Monique got 3rd in the Senior School group and Emma and Olivia got first in the Middle School group!!! How amazing are they? They will be performing to the whole school on Friday afternoon.

Football Festival

On Tuesday afternoon English Park held a Female Football Festival to encourage girls to get into football. Since we are just next door, we got to take our girls and boys over to have a few games. It was a beautiful afternoon packed full of non-stop football. It was hot and thirsty work but heaps of fun. Hopefully after this, as well as the football lessons we have been having, we will have some girls and boys keen to get into football clubs. 

Rugby Visitors

Last week we had our second visit from Marcel Cummings-Toone and Belgium Tuatagaloa. They have "adopted" St Albans School for the 2013 ITM rugby season. Marcel used to go to school at St Albans! How cool is that? This visit, senior school children who weren't busy with Kapahaka got to have a game of dodgeball with Marcel and Belgium. They loved it, and so did we!

Art Piece 3 - Finish the Picture

Today's art - a pencil sketch to carry on a picture. Here are a few examples. It's cool to see how the same beginning can come to many different ends.

SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bet you wish you were here!

We have 6 whole people at school today! (7 if you count Ms A). We have Maddie, Niamh, Neve, Olly, Swastik and James.

First thing after the roll we headed out into the snow and down to Oak Leaf Cafe for a delicious hot chocolate. Yummo!!! Don't you wish you came to school now?

If you are at home, send us photos of your snow excursions. You can email them to Ms A. The address is on your homework sheets.

Have a super duper snow day!

Our New Room - Explaining the madness!!

This term in Room 23 we are trying out a new learning environment. We had a think and a talk about where we each learn best, as well as what size groups work best for us in different curriculum areas. We realised that there are times when we work best in a big group, a small group or a pair and other times when we need to be on our own.

So we got rid of messy desk trays and individual desks and we changed our room around. The Room 23 children planned how the desks would go together, moved the furniture and set up a completely new and exciting layout. Now, each time we begin a new task, each child thinks about which learning area will work best for them. This is a step towards managing our own learning in the ways that suit our learning styles. And so far we love it!!!

Here are the names we gave our new learning areas:

Single desk - a cave
Two desks - an office
Three/four desks - a cubby house
Six desks - the conference room
Under a desk - a burrow
Moving from space to space - the gypsy caravan
Our equipment area - the smiggle shop / the stuff boxes

We can also work in the library corner, the computer lab or on the floor.

Jada-Lee and Charlotte in an Office

Niamh, Grace and Jordyn in a Cubby House

Toby in a Burrow

Libby in the Corner Cave

Quillan and Kairau in an Office

Josh in a Cave

Caleb in the Art Cave

The Library

THe Smiggle Shop / Stuff Boxes

The Conference Room

Year 5 Big Day Out

On Tuesday the Year 5's headed off to Blue Skies for their Big Day Out. They had a fantastic day doing a confidence course, initiative activities and orienteering. It was fantastic to see them pushing their confidence and working together with their team mates to solve problems. Here are some photos from the day.

Woah - someone needs to update this blog!!!

Ok major update time. We have a selection of video's that have been waiting to be uploaded on the blog. The most popular I'm sure will be today's Room 23 Harlem Shake! Here it is folks.

This is a play done a few weeks ago by the Wild Cats reading group. They are working on using expression, staying in character and speaking towards the audience.




Here is a rap that Grace and Niamh wrote about a story their reading group read.

Student Council Reps

Today we finally got to hear the last of the class representative speeches and we could vote. It was an incredibly close race so well done to Maddie, Jack, Niamh, Grace, Bella and Emma for having a go.
Our class reps are:
Year 4 - Bella
Year 5 - Jack