Jump Off

This Friday we have our Jump off happening. We are raising funds for the National Heart Foundation, which is an organisation that helps people affected by Heart Disease, fund research, help people make healthy living choices & run programmes for heart.

Our challenge is to skip in a variety of challenges for periods of 5 mins for each challenge. Here are a couple of video's of us trying some of the challenges that we are going to be participating in.

Double skip

Double over

Twin and Twist

Single skip in big rope

Thinking in action

This morning we are continuing on our perimeter and area tasks, as I was observing the classroom I heard some good discussion around possible ways of completing the next part of the task.

I have managed to get a snap shot of some of this thinking...

Not the best bit unfortunately but a good start...:)

Bay Steamers came to St Joseph's

A loud murmur rumbled through the hall this morning, some of the the Bay Steamers were coming to our school.

Sitting there patiently and they finally arrived, Joseph Royal,  Zak Hohneck and Papa Wharewera.


They came in with balls to give away and a clear message to share about anti-bullying.



The message was STEPUP

They had a 3 step guide to being an up-stander in bullying.

Step 1 stand up (do something don't just watch)

Step 2 team up (work together and support the people who are getting bullied)

Step 3 speak up (say something, tell an adult about it) (Thanks Liam)

Check out our video as we learnt a chant that helps us remember this....

We also got to meet Steamy again (as some of us met him at the game), he gave out more balls for prizes and said hello to some of our juniors.

Lastly we were lucky enough to have a senior syndicate photo with them.

Check out or stories on our blogs :)

Introduction to Poi

This week during kapahaka we were introduced to Poi. Whaea Chanelle showed us how to twirl them in small steps. Here we are in action.

Senior Social

The day had finally arrived, we started preparation for our Senior Social. This event is the biggest event on our calendar. It is a very formal affair, with dances that include the Maxina, Monte Carlo, Achey Breaky heart, 3 step waltz, quick step waltz and for a bit of fun the Chicken Dance.

Maori Rhythm Game

During Kapahaka we have been learning a game to help us to keep in time. Here is a snippet :)

Gospel Value Presentation

This week our Gospel Value is Joy. Here is the presentation we did for the rest of the school.

Math tasks

Currently we are working on Perimeter and Area, Radius, Circumference and Diameter.
We are linking our math programme with our IT learning tools in a collaborative way while having the opportunity to lead the learning. Here are some of us in action.

Keep an eye on our blogs later in the week to see how we are going....

Yixuan's new toy

Today in Chinese, Yixuan used a new gadget to help us remember our colours and introduce us to new colours. When it is touched against a chart it will say the colour in English and Manderin. It is way cool, very creative... :)

Here is how it works...

Jesus as a Teacher

This week we have been developing an understanding of the characteristics of Jesus as a teacher. We had to incorporate our reading skills using inferencing, while finding information in the bible to help us identify what these characteristics were.

We are now making advertisements that promote Jesus as a teacher.
Here is an example by Maia and Suzannah:

Please keep an eye out on our learning blogs to see more fabulous examples.

The NED Show

This afternoon we are listening the NED show. The key message us

-Never give up

-Encourage others 

-Do your best and never give up...

She used YoYos to help tell stories and share her ideas about how to encourage us never give up.

Steamers pre-season game

Yesterday we were lucky enough to be offered free tickets to see the Bay of Plenty Steamers play their pre-season rugby game at Rugby Park, Whakatane. 

The Steamers took on Auckland in their first pre-season match at Whakatane's Rugby Park, which was proudly sponsored by PGG Wrightson. The team displayed some positive running rugby against a strong Auckland team.

We were lucky enough o see our very own up and coming All Black (Sam Cane) play for his old team for the first time in a couple of seasons.

There was plenty of entertainment for the kids with the Steamers mascot, free give aways and of course the game...

Unfortunately it wasn't our day with Auckland Rugby winning the match 37 - 29.