Farewell our lovely Whaea!

A big thank you to our lovely Whaea Josie for creating a wonderful kapa haka group. Her teaching in R00m 8 has been awesome and spectacular, and Room 8 has learnt so much. Jamie-lee will miss Whaea's great ideas, and thanks Whaea for inspiring her to sing.

We all wish her good luck for next year as the Deputy Principal at Pukekohe North School.

Nga mihi nui!

Maths Magicians!

Jaimee says that: Last week Ms Clydesdale told us we were quite behind on our maths work, so Jamie-Lee, Dana and I decided that we should take our maths home and do it there.
In the weekend, I did five pages of maths and so did Dana. Jamie-Lee had started doing her maths at home a bit earlier than Dana and I, so when we finish our maths and bring it into school, she marks it for us.
My dad wondered what I was doing, and he looked at my book and looking through the pages and he and my mum said that they were very proud of me, and so did Ms Clydesdale.
I am very proud of myself, too!

Group Day results:

Group Day was tiring for Anna and Jake, because they had to do every event. Jake won high jump, and was 2nd in the 1500m and 800m, and 3rd equal in 200m. He also came 4th in the 400m and 5th in the finals of the 100m.

Olivia came 1st in long jump and she fell over and bruised her tail bone.

Cody didn't go very well, because he came 4th to last - he didn't have any water. He learnt that he needs to drink water to help him win. He was also versing hard people, too.

Jamie-Lee was very frustrated because she was ONE cm away from coming 3rd in shotput!

AJ's first race was the 1500m. He shot out at the start with Jake. He kept his pace up and won by 200m! In the 800m, it was AJ and another boy out at the lead, but at the final sprint, AJ won!

Chris feels pretty good about coming first in the 200m.

Kelsey came 2nd in the 1500m and 2nd in the 800m, and tied for 4th in the 400m.

Dana came 4th in the 800m and she doesn't know where she came in the 1500m. Group Day was exciting, because she was representing her school.

Athletic Champions

Tuesday next week, 10 students from Room 14 are going to Athletics Group Day at Sandspit School.
We are versing all different schools in Waiuku. Our goal is to get to Zone Day for some of the events.
Anna and Jake are in every event that is available. Jake wants to go to Zone Day for at least half of the events, and Anna wants to go to Zone Day for the 800m and long jump.
Good luck Room 14'ers!

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.

WPS Art Festival Award Winners

R8 & 14 wps art festival awards

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R8 & 14 WPS Art Festival Winners

The decision of how to award the certificates to for the WPS Art Festival was very tough with some R8 & 14 students having as many as 10 pieces of work on display!
Congratulations to the following students received awards for their prints:
Chanel - cardboard prints
Andrew - cardboard print
Savannah - sponge print
Zyra - string print series
Abbie - string print series
Grace - screen print
Anna - screen print
Dana - Kupesi
Hamish - Kupesi
Jamie-Lee - leaf print

WPS Art Festival

Last term, we have been doing our ordinary art (Printmaking) and we have selected some outstanding pieces of art to go on the big wall at the end of the hall, to be displayed to the public.

The exhibition opened this afternoon at 2.30pm.

We learnt different printmaking techniques and styles. We made string blocks, cardboard stamps, kupesi, junk prints, leaf prints, screen prints and scraper prints.

Each week, we rotated between Whaea Josie and Ms Clydesdale. We learnt a lot of different types of printmaking, which was interesting and fun, and our art work improved.

Jamie-Lee's art has improved and she learnt to take her time so her art was better quality. Dana learnt that art is really fun, and if we do really well with art now, you could be an artist when you are older.

Some lucky people made lithographs with professional artist, John Pusateri.

Ti Rakau

The class really enjoyed learning how to use Ti Rakau. I was the leader and called out the different names. I thought that I learned how to use it too, and I enjoyed being the leader.
Sophie won, and she says it was fun and it was tricky. She learned how to use ti rakau properly.