Top Academic Year 7 Student

The top WPS Year 7 Academic Student for 2010 is Arabella. She is the top Year 7 student in Maths with Stage 8 in GLOSS and IKAN. Arabella is reading at a 14.5 - 15.5 years, and is writing at a 4A level. She also scored a stanine 9 in her PAT Reading tests at the beginning of the year.

Arabella was really proud to get the award, because she has tried to work hard and it made her feel like she is pretty smart (which she is!).

Congratulations Arabella!

And thanks to Mrs Stirling for teaching us how to make paper snowflakes this afternoon.

Awesome Arabella!

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The Fast 5 Queen!

Every Maths session, we start by doing our 'Fast Five' which is 5 maths questions that we have to do as fast as we can.
Every morning Arabella keeps coming first, taking out the gold medal.
Awesome Arabella!

Foaming Monster Experiment

Potato Power!

Yesterday was Manual at View Road School and we had to plan our own potato dish. Arabella and Kelsey decided on something that they called 'Spudtastic' also known as potato puffs. They got their recipe from Alison Holst's 'Best Potato recipes'. Here's what they did:

We brought in all the ingredients that we needed that Miss Harris didn't already have. Kelsey cut the potatoes, so Arabella could make mashed potatoes. She also diced the ham, grated the cheese, and cut the crusts off the bread and cut the bread into quarters on 3 pieces of bread, then placed the 12 pieces of bread into cup cake cases, while Arabella was making the mashed potatoes.

When the mashed potatoes were done, we mixed the ingredients together with an egg that we had cracked into the bowl, and then we spooned the mixture into the 12 cup cakes cases on top pf the bread.

We put it in the oven and wait 20 mins, and put it on fan bake for 5 minutes to hold the ingredients together.

We took them out and paper scissors rock to see who would choose their 'Spudtastic' first - Arabella won, so she chose first.

Miss Harris asked if she could try one, because they looked really yummy and were delicious!

She said that they were really good, that we worked well together and we kept our area tidy and organised, and cleaned while they were in the oven.

When we got back to school, Miss Harris had already phoned Waiuku Primary School to tell our teachers that we were the best Year 7's in all of Waiuku!

We felt really fantastic, because there are lots of different schools in Waiuku and we were the best! Our teachers were impressed and both Kelsey and Arabellas' mums said that they have to make it for dinner one night.

More results!

Results are coming in thick and fast for Room 14, showing how hard the Room 14 students have worked during the year.

Reading results to date:
Chris improved 3 massive year levels.
Dana has improved 2 year levels.
Olivia, Zyra, Jaimee, Eleanor, Arabella and Sian have improved more than 1 year level.

GLOSS (Maths Strategy) results:
Olivia, Zyra, Jaimee, Cody, Jamie-Lee, Eleanor, Arabella, Kelsey and Scott have all improved by one Stage.

IKAN (Maths Knowledge) results:
Chris improved by 2 stages.
Zyra, Eleanor, Kelsey, Jake and Scott improved by 1 Stage.

Basic Facts results:
Jamie-Lee, Arabella, Jake, Tom and Cody all achieved Level 4A - well above their expected level of achievement!
Anna improved a massive 4 sub-levels.
Jamie-Lee, Arabella, Tom and Sophie improved a huge 3 sub-levels.
Eleanor, Kelsey and Hamish improved 2 sub-levels.

Results still to come: Writing, Handwriting and the rest of the Reading results.

Impressive results Room 14!

Testing!

We have started testing to gather data for reporting back to whanau later this term and some interesting results have started to come through.
So far Room 14 has completed the IKAN test (Maths knowledge) and Basic Facts test.
IKAN results:
Arabella and Chris both scored a massive Stage 8 (the highest stage) jumping 2 Stage levels - they are expected to be at Stage 6!
Zyra, Eleanor, Kelsey, Jake and Scott jumped one Stage to reach Stage 6. The remainder of the class maintained their levels from the beginning of the year.
Basic Facts results:
Arabella jumped 3 sub-levels and scored 4A! Sophie and AJ improved 2 sub-levels and scored 3P.
Scott and Eleanor both moved up 1 sub-level, while Jaime-Lee, Tom, Jake, and Cody remained sitting comfortably on 4A.
At Year 6 the children are expected to be at Level 3, while at Year 8 they should be at Level 4, so for our Year 7's at this stage of the year, they should at least be sitting on 3A ready to move into 4B.
Remember that Basic Facts is a weekly homework activity that students so be doing, along with a minimum of 1 hour per week on Mathletics.

Farewell Shay!

Hi Shay.

We already miss you and hope you have had a good flight!

We haven't got used to not having you around, but you will always be with us in our hearts. We miss your smile and your laugh, and your pretty curly hair!

We hope you pick up the language super fast and enjoy your new school, and make lots of new friends.

Come and visit us in the holidays.

Arabella's Lego Gymnastics!

I chose to do a diarama about gymnastics because it's a really interesting sport and you get to see all the people doing all their tricks, and there's lots of different types of gymnastics. I used to want to do gymnastics when I was little, because I thought it would be fun, but I never actually got around to doing it.

I used Paint to make the background and then just copied and pasted it, till it fitted the whole box. I tried to put in some of the different types of gymnastics, like rhythmic gymnastics and the rings.

My diorama is now in the office so everyone can see it. People's comments have been that they think it's really cool, it's incredible, etc. I got an A+ for it and it was worth the effort!

The Commonwealth Games Matrix

We have to complete 60 points from 48 tasks in the Commonwealth Games matrix. We can score 1 - 6 points depending how difficult the task is.
We can do it out of school time and that's good because we will probably finish quicker and complete more tasks.

Arabella at the WPS Speech Competition

I felt good after I got it over and done with, but I felt that it was really short.

The speech competition was really fun and even though you might have something wrong with you and you might not be the same as everyone, you can still go for your dreams and not give up, like Ladyhawke!

Kids for Kids fantastic night!

Eleanor, Sophie, Arabella, Shay, Kelsey, Sian and Zyra had a spectacular time last night singing in the Kids for Kids concert at the Pukekohe Town Hall.
We were so proud of them as they captured the audience's attention and lit up the hall with excitment and spectacularly super sweet singing!
Tia, another Waiuku student performed 'Over the rainbow' like a professional.
It was so much fun for both the children and the audience.