Bike Safety Course

Room 6 children successfully completed the Grade 1 Bike Safety course on Tuesday.  There are some outstandingly confident and knowledge cyclists in the class who impressed the Sport HB organisers.

The children learned skills, played games to practise those skills and then put them into action on the road course at HB Sports Park.

Year 6 children will be assisting staff in designing and running the Bike Safety programme for the younger children at school.

Taj and Olivia concentrating

Welcome to Term 4

Term 4 is going to be a busy one!  Check out the important dates on the "Upcoming Events" section and add them to your calendar.


We also have a number of (free) out of school trips where we will need parent supervision.

Bike Safety @ Hastings Sports Park (Week 3)
Girls Cricket @ Nelson Park (Week 4)
Food for Thought 4 Square visit (Week 7)
Optimist Yachting @ Pandora Pond (Week 9)


As well as a number of  'in-school' visitors to assist with learning


Life Saving - NZRLSA
Visiting Author - Tessa Duder


In maths, we will be revising knowledge in preperation for beginning of term tests and looking at volume and capacity.  Check out this Youtube clip for a headstart!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXiA9UVUALs&safe=active

If you have any small cardboard boxes e.g. toothpaste or teabag size, please bring them to school in the first week..

And remember to keep up Mathletics to have a chance to be in the top 3 for each week!

Week 9

Speech Comp

After a week of listening to speeches in class, the final 3 have been selected . . .

They are Phoebe, Jack and Lily S.

Make sure you get along to the speech finals on Wednesday at 6pm to here the 3 finalists from each of the senior classes.

Cross Country

Well done to those children who performed well at the School and Coastal Cluster interschool events.  Good luck to the children attending the Hastings District School event on Tuesday.  A good result here will see you qualify for the Hawke's Bay Champs!

Maths

For the final 2 weeks of the term, we will be re-visiting fractions.  Check out the Khan academy website for the progressions.

https://www.khanacademy.org/math/arithmetic/fractions

Mathletics points winners from last week were:
Lily 1st - 14014 points
Chloe 2nd - 12279 points
Phoebe - 7272 points

Language

We are also re-visiting expositions this week so keep an eye out for examples on children's Drives or Blogs.

Further Sporting Success

A belated congratulations must go out to . . .


Max de Groot - for representing the school in last month's Surf Life Saving pool champs.  He came first in the Under 12 Swim Tube with patient event.


Our 2 rugby reps - Shae and Blake

And

Our 2 soccer reps - Chloe and Jack


Well down and good luck for the rest of the season.

Football Skills Training

 

From Weeks 6-10, we are fortunate to have Football Hawke' s Bay skills coaching on Tuesday afternoons.  Today we were learning to control the ball with different body parts.  Jack top scored with foot juggling and Chloe managed an impressive 33 reps with her knees!

Week 7 - Remember the speeches!

Week 6 review.

Another successful week from Room 6 children as the girls cycling team finished 3rd in the Year 7 North Island Champs.  Congrats Chloe, Katelyn, Hirani and Lily (Lily also 9th in the individual road race).

Hirani collected her 4th winners medal in the local cyclocross competition and Lily and Chloe competed in the NZ Duathlon champs - finishing as 4th team in the Year 7 category.

The hockey players finished second in their local competition and we have a number of children still in contention for rugby reps.

The children made a major effort in Mathletics.  The top 3 girls were Phoebe, Chloe and Lily N who pipped the top 3 boys (Cameron B, Shae and Blake).  There were some large points totals and wonderful learning discussions taking place at school.

Week 7
This week in language, we will be writing sports reports using '3rd person' and working on our understanding of length and area in maths.  We also have a 'financial literacy' session on Friday afternoon with ASB.

SPEECHES - Children will also be preparing their speeches.  These 3-4 minute presentations will take place in week 8 with the final in week 9.

The Hiwi the Kiwi writing competition had 2 runners up from Room 6 (Max and Jack) with well written personal experiences that included the key messages.  The overall winner of the fishing rod and reel was LilyS-E with an entertaining quatrin poem.  All examples should be available on theiir personal blogs.

And remember. . .

Cross Country week!  Let's hope that the weather clears up for the event on Wednesday afternoon.  Wear House colours to support your team!

HNI Tech Taster 3

Week 6

LAST WEEK

Congratulations to Shae who competed in the New Zealand Ju Jitsu Champs last weekend and came away with an enormous gold medal.  (photo coming)

Congrats also to the Room 6 duathlon competitors from Sunday.  Two teams only 3 seconds apart after 18km of running and cycling.  Very impressive!


THIS WEEK

We have the Lit Challenge taking place on Wednesday.  Several Year 6 children will be chosen to compete against other schools in our coastal cluster.

The Room 6 girls cycle team are attending the North Island Intermediate Champs in Taupo on Friday.  Two team members will also take part in the NZ duathlon Champs on the Sunday.  Good luck girls.

ASB NZ Mathletics Challenge is on and Room 6 will be spending some class time and their spare minutes competing against themselves and students from around New Zealand online.

We will be preparing speeches for delivery to the class towards the end of next week.  Details of the topic have been shared with the children in class and are available on Google Drive.  Check out the topic and help your child with their decisions.

HNI Evening

The time has been moved forward to 6.00pm.


HNI visit - thank you to those parents who have volunteered to transport on Wednesday.  All offers gratefully recieved.  See you at 10.30am.

Week 4

Thank you to all the parents and relations who attended our first student led learning conference last week.  I thought it was a great evening and the children certainly enjoyed sharing their learning.

Good luck to all the choir children as they perform in the Kidsing event this week.  There have been lots of practises and they are sounding fantastic.

The 2 interschool hockey teams are playing on Wednesday afternoon and have shown a big improvement in skills at practice over the last few weeks.

This week is New Zealand Maths week and the children will be involved in a range of online and book challenges both at home and in class.  Ask them to show some of the activities that are available at
www.nzmathsweek.org.nz

We will have a visit from HNI students this Thursday.  They will be sharing their thoughts on transitioning to intermediate with the class. 

Next week there is the Open Evening at HNI on Tuesday night and we have the final 'tech taster' on Wednesday morning.  Newsletters out soon.

Haave a great week.