Thursday, 3 November 2016

International Friendship Day Logo Design


In October, Nicola visited Singapore as part of an Asia NZ Foundation delegation. Nicola visited Bukit Timah School. Worser Bay School have continued to connect and collaborate with Bukit Timah.

Inspired by the way that Bukit Timah School celebrate culture and diversity, Worser Bay are going to celebrate International Friendship Day next year.

"International Friendship Day" is celebrated in Singapore. This day is dedicated to the understanding of Singapore’s relations with its neighbours and aims to nurture the spirit of friendship and collaboration among different people.

International Friendship Day is celebrated in schools in Singapore in April.

Worser Bay School will celebrate International Friendship Day in 2017 and have started a project for 2017. Schools around the world will make short movie about their country and culture. Schools have signed up from across the globe.

The schools that have signed up are from: Ireland, England, USA, Canada, Moldova, Trinidad, Singapore, Thailand, South Korea, Canada, Luxembourg, Australia, Philippines, China, Romania, Taiwan, Gambia, Malaysia, Pakistan, Morocco, United Arab Emirates and Japan.

Our students have been designing logos for international Friendship Day. Students from Auroa School in Taranaki have also been working on logos. If you are a classroom or a teacher you can sign up here.

Watch this space...

Wednesday, 2 November 2016

Haiku



On Tuesday Shona's literacy group joined forces with the Earth group and worked on reading and writing haiku poems.

Plants

Waving in the wind
Camouflaged to the world around it
It smells good.

By James and Adam



Bark Chips

Bark chips have no friends
Bark chips surfing in the sun
Scraping through the dirt

By Rhosyn and Finlay



Bark Chips

Brown crusty light
Millions and millions
Lost in a group

By Hunter T, Pyrenees, and Taiga


Bridge

Bathing in the sun
People stamping feet
Rusty old bridge


By Alex and Rim

Mystery Skype with Bailey Road School in Auckland

Some people from Tautoru have been doing some Mystery skype on Monday. We'll tell you all about it!
Isn't it exciting!

How to play Mystery Skype:
First, you have to say to a person that you want to know what your email is, and say that you want to do Mystery Skype.

Mystery Skype is when you skype someone or some people and guess where they live.
You take one question at a time, and ask some proper questions (not silly ones.)
Here are some suggestions:
Are you in New Zealand?
Are you in the South Island?
Do you live in a big city?
And lots more…

The school that we skyped was Bailey Road School in Auckland.

By Liam and Hadley

Skype with Chrissy

Today we skyped Chrissy and Nyuala. We were all very excited to see them and had loads of questions to ask.


Tally charts

In maths , we have been learning to use a tally chart to record answers to questions.



Planting: I am curious!

We are planting beans. We wanted to find out what students know and what they would like to find out...


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Tuesday, 1 November 2016

Fractions Down on the Farm

Today in Maths, our Year 3 students made up fractions songs. They were based on a silly fractions song that we have been learning:  Fractions on the Farm 

   
By Rim and Hunter T 

   
By Liam and Jupiter

   
By Reuben and Mitchell

Monday, 31 October 2016

Dress Up Day on Halloween

We had great fun dressing up on Halloween. There were lots of different costumes and we had a parade and dance together at lunchtime.


Thanks to the Social Group of the Student Council for organising this.

Happy Diwali

It is Diwali and we wanted to say Happy Diwali to Bukit Timah Primary School in Singapore. 
Ridley: We were celebrating saying thank you to god and reading a special note. We put flowers, milk and money into the pot. We light candles because it is the festival of lights.


"This is me at Rongatai school celebrating Diwali. We did some performances. People did dances and people sang. Some people did a play and most of it was in Hindi and Bengali. The clothes are traditional Indian clothes. I wore a sari for one of the days".


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Tangrams


For Maths today we all made Tangrams. It is interesting to see how many different things we can make with these shapes.

Sunday, 30 October 2016

Travelling Tales: Fred the Lonely Teddy

We have been involved in a story project called Travelling Tales. This time we wrote the beginning of the story, then it was sent off to a school in Luxembourg and then to Island Bay School, then to Luxembourg and then back to us. 

This is us working on the beginning of the story. Gina wrote the first 5 slides and Nicola and Scott's base group wrote the last five.

Dress Up Day


Baila Baila Baila!


We danced our way through Friday afternoon! 





Saturday, 29 October 2016

Assembly 28.11.16

Thank you to our great presenters demonstrating their character strengths of bravery and leadership!

Speaking beautifully about becoming a published illustrator

*Becoming* an illustrator *by Liam*
My teacher at art class (Stephany Woodman) told me about this Toi Toi magazine for kids.
It was created by NZ kids and to be selected I had to submit a few drawings that I felt proud of.

So I drew some practise pictures and found some awesome drawings from the past.

 I asked mum and dad if these drawings were good, they said “Yes, they look good’’,
But that’s just the start of it. There's heaps more to go.

A few days later it was art class again, Stephanie woodman asked “Did you submit some drawings to the Toi Toi magazine”? “Yes, I did.” I said quite nervously. “Oh, good, because there’s been 800 submissions.
“800 kids’’! I whispered to myself. Weeks had passed and I was still waiting for the answer, will I be selected or not? I wondered.

  After school one day mum drove me and my sister back to our house,on the way mum
Said to me”I have a surprise for you” “a surprise, please mum can you tell me”
sorry, but not yet”.
   We arrived back home, Dad had the computer ready. An email from Toi Toi said “Dear Liam Struthers, 800 people have submitted. You  were one who was chosen to become an illustrator for Toi Toi magazine, your story is called Rugby in the Mud The deadline is 2 weeks. From Charlotte"
I did two practise pictures and then dad said ”maybe this could help you” he lifted a    
     Big, heavy, book it said... Rugby history I was sketching the picture really carefully
     On page 46.
I was pleased with the final version, so I sent my picture to Charlotte. Now I was going to get published!
I checked through the post. No sign of the parcel.
That's when I come to school. Jude comes walking through the class. We were in the middle of literacy. She had a yellow book in her hand.She spoke ”Hello Tautoru” she said quite excitedly “I looked in the post today and I opened it.” “It was a yellow book it said on the front it said Toi Toi kids becoming artists all over New Zealand” I felt nervous inside is it me or is it not me?

She kept on talking “And I looked through and I looked through...and I saw a cool piece of art I read the writing was very cool too, but when I looked who the illustrator was” she paused for a moment is it me or is it me or is it not me? She said ”Liam S...” uh oh, time to come forward and speak to the class. She said to me “now, Liam how did you really become an illustrator”?
Now everyone Knows and I get to keep the magazine.


Well done to all of those students who got a principal award!

Transition: Getting to know one another


Year 3, 4 and 5 students work together every Friday morning so that we can get used to working with new people, different teachers and get a feel for the space. This week, we watched http://www.literacyshed.com/anti-bullying-shed.html and wrote a PMI (this is a thinking tool- positive, minus and interesting) about what we saw. We linked our ideas to what we know about character strengths.  

We start the day with "Wake up your brain" These are Friday's bootcampers!



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