Peace Poems at Assembly

Next week is Peace Week. We will be connecting with a school in Pakistan- a place that is not as peaceful as ours. We have been writing "Peace" poems and will share these with the school in Pakistan.

This is shared writing by Nicola's literacy group:

Peace is

A calm, graceful day

A friendly, open hand

Happiness, all together

Friendship and calmness

Peace is

A serene jungle

A good day

When families come together

Love on Valentines Day

Peace is

Relaxing on a hot, sunny beach

Wedding bells ringing

A world without rubbish

A calm ocean with lots of life

Peace is

Non-violent and no hate

A quiet library

Showing empathy

4 am in the morning

Peace is

Breathing deeply in and out from your lungs

Starry Matariki at night

A smile

A beautiful sunrise

a spectacular sunset on a summer’s night

Reading a good book

Peace is…

A place to understand

Sitting in a spa with jets and bubbles

Feeling the sand between my toes

Snuggling in your bed with your teddy

Sleeping in a cosy bed with soft pillows and a blanket

Exploring Sound

Thank you to Richard (Edward's Dad) who came in with some different drums for our students to explore new sounds.

Spanish Lesson with Maria

On Friday we continued to learn the different body parts in Spanish. Learn our songs: Spanish Songs

We were also given Spanish names...

Next time we will learn the names of different food.

Learning about volume in Music

Today we learned about the levels of volume you can use in Music. In this video we are practising ff - fortessimo very loud and p - piano soft. We also learned about f - forte loud, mf - mezzo forte medium loud and mezzo piano medium soft.

Tangrams

Today in maths we were exploring shapes by using tangrams. We made some interesting things- kites, christmas trees, junk monsters and many others. 

The Worser Bay Junk Bots are coming...

Nicola's base group have been exploring different sounds on Garage Band. We are really excited about the upcoming Worser Bay music festival. 

We are the "Junk Bots" and will be making our costumes out of junk. 

We have also been experimenting with green screen as we would like to make a music video to go with our performance...

Learner attributes - goal setting & reflection

In the morning we have been setting a goal around the learner attributes (I am a thinker, I am connected, I am a goal setter and I am powerful) then in the afternoon we have been taking the time to reflect on the goal to see if we have achieved it. Here are some examples: