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!

Rippa Rugby

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

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.  

Buddy Interview - Take 2!

3 March 2016

The buddy interviews are almost now completed. We have begun to record these on the i-pad using the Explain Everything app so watch out for the uploads of these very soon. In the meantime enjoy reading about the amazing talents in our class.

Scott is certainly the star of this interview.

Sam - great choice of layout and colours. 

Ruby - thanks for teaching us about Morgan's many talents.

Leadership Camp

26 February 2016

Tom, Scott, Charlotte and Khaya were pretty excited as they set off to Lake Kaniere on Thursday morning for a Reap organised leadership camp. We are looking forward to them coming back and sharing their new skills with us!

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!

Chromebook Day!

Was certainly mass excitement in Rūma Tahi last Friday when it came to the students unwrapping their very own chromebook!