Matifics - Confirmed Results

We knew we were the champion school this year and now we have the official results through!
As the newspaper articles states, "Kaniere School has won the Olympics of the maths world." Our school was not only the first placed school in this year's Matifics Competition, but we also topped the champion classes leaderboard.  This has been a great achievement for us. Congratulations again to all our hard-working mathematicians.

It was great to read about our success in the West Coast Times today! 

Learning to Create Flow Charts

28th May

Drawing Flow-Charts 

So far this term the class have been learning to write explanations that tell their reader how or why something happens. After watching a small TED talk video clip that explained how baby turtles grow. It also showed some of the dangers that turtles face. Students discussed in buddies all the steps they could remember. They wrote notes about these and then watched the video again. The next step was to break the different steps and stages down into a flow-chart of events that chronicled the life of a sea turtle. Drawing pictures using google draw or the shapes tool on google slides allowed the students to 'see' the different steps.

You can see below examples of Belinda, Greta and Jaidon's learning so far. Keep watching for future updates!

Jaidon, Belinda and Greta's Planning Flowchart

Kid's Lit - Greymouth 2019

14 May 2019

We are super excited to share the news that our team of Year 5/6 four students WON the Year 6 Kid's Literacy competition in Greymouth today. Check out some of the photos of the action below. The smiles say it all. Congratulations Abby, Belinda, Caleb and Andrew - you did us proud! Enjoy reading your book prizes.