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.

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

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.

Book Day

22 March 2016

There are all sorts of book characters roaming around in Rūma Tahi this morning! We have been celebrating the opening of the library with a couple of kahoot.it book quizzes and writing to describe our favourite book characters.

Mary Poppins joined in with lessons today.

Pippi Longstockings come to school!

Vicky Wilson left her horse back on the ranch! 

Out of the pages of American Sniper . . . 

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.  

5+ a Day

3 March 2016

Fresh fruit and vegetables were the name of the game at Kaniere on Monday morning as we celebrated healthy eating and 5+ a day. After getting together in house groups for some fun games everyone loaded up their kebab sticks with their own personal selection of goodies.

Tom gave his selection the thumbs up!

Georgia's already got her eye on those yummy strawberries.

 Krista's having fun . . . but as for Mikayla?

Lots of healthy eating in Ruma Tāhi.

Jimmy is keen for a few more bits.

Cameron doesn't look quite so sure about his choice!

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!

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!

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!

Swimming

February 10 2016

It was great to head off to the pool last Friday to begin our swimming lessons for the term. Everyone appreciated the chance to cool off. We were lucky to have so many parents offer to help run the groups. Thank you! The class will back at the pool at 1.30 again this Friday (12th). 

Chromebook Day!

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