Let the Challenges Begin!

Yay for Thursdays - the day of lunchtime inter-house challenges! As we have been learning about writing newspaper reports, I thought I'd share this one that went into the school's newsletter.

This is written by Kuini and Taylah. I look forward to reading the rest of the reports. The learning focus this time around is 'variety is the spice of sentence life'.

Thanks for the free lunch, class!

Today we had our House Cross Country race. Before the race Mr Prickett made a bet that his class would have more in the top ten than our class. He bet his lunch on it. I'm glad to report, out class gave it their all. Khody finished his 2 km under ten minutes! Mahina was our top girl.

Te Reo Maori Trip 2020

Here are photos of the Year 7-10 field trip to the newly opened museum, Te Rau Aroha This trip was organised by Matua Te Rangi as he had been teaching history of the 28th Maori Battalion last term. The Price of Citizenship exhibition is a highly informative and sobering display.  Many of the children have tupuna who payed the highest price in their quest to obtain freedom and equality.

I'm back...

It's great to be back!
 Teaching in a Year 7 & 8 class is something new for me. However, I am excited about the challenge and the fact that I know most of my class already! Getting to know Khody, Chloe, Addison, Mikaere, TeAtaahua, Hawaiki and Nathan has been great. We're going to have a wonderful second half of 2020.

Technology has started. Here are a couple of photos of our first day.

Cross Country 2019 winners!

Well done to all our students who braved the cold weather and gave it their best at the Kaikohe & Districts Cross Country Competition! The race is in age and gender groups.

A special shout out to our students who placed in the top ten.

Room 5 standouts students: Maurice 11th, Elijah 10th
Room 4 standout students: Aiden 1st, Pana 3rd, Anaherea 3rd, Kayden 3rd
Room 6 standout students: Taylah 6th, Mahina 3rd, Kayden 3rd
Room 7 standout students: Ocian 3rd, Kaine 1st, Davalamayne, Marc, Aisha 4th, Sydney Jo 2nd, Amoron, Naz

Digital Day Trip Waitangi

Today our class went to Waitangi to learn more about how people build programs and control electronics. We went to experience computational thinking so we can include it into our learning at KCS.
We learned that computational thinking is about thinking about how computers work.

The program we focused on is called Scratch. It is a good way to learn about coding because it uses 'block's that have English instructions on. The computer code behind the 'blocks' is what makes them work.

The image we manipulate is called a Sprite.
We had a tutu with
Motion
Looks
Sound
Events
and
Control

There is a lot to remember and we need to think about the sequence we want our sprite to move in.

Fire Brigade Cup

What a fantastic day the 16th June was. 

 All of the children from Room 6 participated in the annual Fire Brigade Tournament. Year 5 and 6  entered a rippa rugby team and a hockey team. The Year 7 and Year 8s entered two soccer teams.

Our ripper team won all of their games and represented our school well with their high standard in play, sportsmanship and dedication. A special mihi to Matua Te Rangi for the hours of lunchtime training he has put into this team. What a success they are!  

I also thank Gail Eruetit for her commitment and willingness to help out. 

Hockey was awesome. We had full participation and everyone worked as a team. A few special standout students were Hunia Reihana - an amazing player, Kash Danford - dedicated and positive. This boy showed leadership and played his heart out. The team had 9 games and won six of them. Special thanks to Liz Cook for her support on the field and to whanau, Shana, Kiri and Zar for your tautoko.  Lastly, a special acknowledgement to Elise (seven years old) who joined our team and was a valuable member.

Year 7 and 8 students played extremely well too. Soccer was very popular this year and they had strong competition. Well done Team A who won 3rd place in the tournament! A big thanks to David Prickett for organising the soccer tournament. 

To our young sportspeople who participated, we are proud of you all.  Whaaia te iti khurangi, ki te tuohu koe, me he maunga teitei.