Perspective Art

September 4, 2016 Learning to put depth into art work and creating the illusion of objects disappearing into the distant horizon is not an easy task! However, as you can see from these slides Ruma Tahi students are really getting the idea well. Check back in a few days to view some of the completed artwork.

Cupcake Day for the SPCA

17 August 2016 Cupcakes poured into school this morning - much to the delight of the many students who ordered them. Thanks to all those parents who baked, decorated and purchased cupcakes. They were delicious! Room One iced and decorated their own cupcakes. Some of the techniques were certainly interesting!

Working out Area

Jimmy has been working out to learn how calculate the area of circles and triangles. Check out his slide so that you can learn too.

West-a-Maths Victory!

Wow - we are hugely proud of Tom, Jimmy, Ruby and Morgan who travelled to Westport today to compete in the Year 6 category of West-a-maths.  They came 2nd with a score of 19/20 points!!
A huge congratulations to you all!

Jimmy, Morgan, Tom and Ruby looking pretty proud of their second place awards!

Rippa Rugby - Paroa

In bone chilling conditions this morning the Rippa Rugby team played 4 games against other West Coast Schools. We had two brilliant wins and 2 losses. The whole team played their hearts out. Watch out for their reports of the game shortly. Here are a few photos of the action.

Go Team Kaniere!

All lined up for the first tap off in game one.

Charlotte getting set to take another rip.

George sprints down the field headed for another great try. Tom's right there to offer support.

. . . and Tom scores another try!

A tired team at the end of our four games - they deserved the rest!

Poetry

Ruma Tahi has had a bit of fun with poetry this week and written poems based around a book called 'If' by Sarah Perry. Jimmy has made a great job of selecting and making images to match his writing. Happy reading!

Rippa Rugby

Nobby came in today to help with rippa rugby training. Here are couple of clips of the training.

Parachute Designs

Wednesday May 4 As part of the class Creative Maths in term one everyone designed a parachute with the aim being to see who could design one with the slowest descent time. The class had a heap of fun learning to use google slides at the same time.

My Place in the World Writing

6 April 2016
Over the last few weeks the class have been researching one of the countries their families have come from. This has seen students learn how to correctly write a formal report and produce a "My Place in the World" piece of writing. Writing formally has helped the class learn how to correctly construct topic sentences and group their ideas into paragraphs. Watch out for regular updates to this post and enjoy learning about the range of countries that Ruma Tahi students come from! Aotearoa written by Riley Jimmy's ancestors homeland is the Land of Bagpipes!

Maths

21 March 2016

Making Parachutes

As part of our maths and technology learning the class has been learning to design, make and modify parachutes. The next step will be to record the descent times on a table and compare these with other groups. Students need to think about how they will take accurate measurements and ensure that 'flights' are conducted in a fair manner. The photos show the creating stage. The designs were drawn using the Google drawing tool. 

Good use of recycled materials.

Some serious concentration at the create stage!

Jimmy - getting the weight for his parachute prepared.  

Rippa Rugby

29 February 2016

Ruma Tahi, along with all the other classes have been really lucky to have Nobby come in to build on our rippa rugby skills over the last two weeks. We've learnt how to pass the ball while moving, move into spaces and how to work as a team. Ka pai Nobby. We hope you can come back again soon!

 . . . and this is how it's done . . .

Cameron running in to rip the tag.

A chance to use those new skills and tips.

Team talk!

Introducing our Buddies

23 February

Our buddy wall in class is steadily filling up. When you read through these interviews you will realise just how many unique talents the kids in room 1 have. Here are the latest interviews hot off the press . . .

Nice smile Renee!

You have captured Charlotte well Belle.

Sporty Esther by Charlotte P.

Serious shot of Cody by Khaya

Buddy Interviewer: Morgan

Great photographing Charlotte! 

It would be great to have a pool in all the hot weather!

Tom - you've dug deep to find all this information out about Riley.

16 February 

Over the last week the class have been finding out a bit about each by conducting interviews. It is amazing the different skills and unique talents that each student has. Happy reading! 

Great interviewing Riley. A good idea to include an action shot!

Nice smile Charlotte!

Learning New Skills

This afternoon the class was kept busy learning new skills on the chrome books. Everyone (including Mrs Phelps) now knows how to research in a smarter and more efficient way. You can see from the photos just how much brainwork was required!