Wonderful happenings

EEK!!

It's been a few weeks since the last blog post. Time to post more!

Something the students have feared.

Social dance began this morning. A huge amount of the students were extremely apprehensive about this but after giving them a huge surprise this morning of having social dance written up on the agenda for today the majority seemed to enjoy it. After social dance I had many students coming up and asking when the next session was going to be and the disappointment of hearing next Monday was audible from many of the students (mostly because they wanted it sooner rather than not at all). It was the boys turn to choose first today and I was extremely happy to see the maturity of most Room 8 boys in choosing partners. Regan and Tyrin were the first to politely ask for partners paving the way for the rest. Well done you two!! The class learnt a Gay Gordon today. Unfortunately I didn't take any photos or videos. Next time though...

Spectacular science

Two of our students entered into the science fair from our class and both received highly commended at our school science fair. Congratulations Grace and Zoe! These students then went on to represent our school at the Hawkes Bay Science Fair. Zoe received a special prize from the judges for her science fair and Grace won a prize from a quiz given out on the day. 

Grace with her science fair project on dirty retainers

Cross Country

After a huge amount of training over the last few weeks we had our Cross Country. A great amount of our class competed in this event and many students preformed very well competing against their peers.

Here are some of the placings in our class (other were to shy to have their's shown)

Year 7 boys

Regan 2nd

Robert 5th

Sam 14th

Year 7 Girls

Charlotte 7th

Mikayla 19th

Megan 20th

Here's hoping we keep our flag on top and win the event.

Here are some pictures for your enjoyment. They were running so quickly past me I couldn't get snaps of them all

Ka kite ano.

Challenges

I've been a bit slack on the posting this week! EEK!

THE CHALLENGE

2 days ago the class was given a task of making my life easier by inventing something that would help me. As we are looking at innovation this term the class was very innovative and came up with various ideas for making my life easier (They weren't allowed to give me ear muffs and a blindfold though)

Here is a couple of examples of what the groups came up with:

Two completely different designs here but they both incorporated different elements that would make my life easier. They only had 1 hour to do this so the results were very good. THe one on the right is a life sized clone of me with gadgets attached to the body and the one on the left is a comfy couch with everything you would need at your fingertips.

FUTURE FOCUS

After this we had a discussion about what process they should have gone through to make sure they fulfilled the design brief in the best possible way. The groups cooperated well together assigning different tasks according to people strengths which was great to see, the only down side was that only a couple of groups actually did the research for the design asking me what it was I needed. Hopefully with the next task they will research a bit more fully.