Today our Y7&8 students participated in the Breakfast Club initiative – FUN RUN! We usually have 3 throughout the year. The first one is from Mission Bay to St Heliers, The second run is up Maungarei (also known as Mt Wellington Mountain) and the last run is from Pakuranga to St Kents College.
Glen Taylor, Glen Innes and Ruapotaka Primary are part of this promotion. We also are very lucky because we run with some of the NZ Police.
Hi Everyone,
We’re no longer known as Room 11 this year, we moved to the another side of the school and are now in Room 5. Our class is still made up of Y7&8 students and we have 26 students in our class this year. We are excited for all the learning this year and we will be sharing everything on this platform. All the best for 2024 🙂
Team Tui created a film based on the importances of having an “I can” attitude. We believe it is important to spread the word about perseverance and not giving-up. Many of us come across situations and circumstances throughout the year where we just want to throw in the towel and walk away. But what do we accomplish from that? So here’s a film on 2 types of contexts we experience at school on a daily basis, sports and learning that takes place in the classroom. We hope you carry with you an “I CAN” attitude always, no matter what you come across. #IWontGiveUp
Today for Maths, we focused on learning how to understand infinite & finite numbers. Whole numbers are numbers that start from 0 and count on like 0, 1, 2, 3 and so on. Counting/natural numbers are similar to whole numbers but they start counting with 1. Integers are a whole number (not a fractional number) that can be positive, negative or zero. A rational number is any number that can be written as a fraction where both the numerator & the denominator are integers and the denominator is not equal to zero. Lastly is the irrational numbers, the meaning of irrational is not having a ratio.
Today, Team Tui did Probability Games and had 3 rotations which were playing cards, greedy pig and bottle flipping. My favourite rotations were bottle flipping and greedy pig because those were the rotations that had rewards (lollies). Greedy pig was an activity where you had to roll a dice and add it up to 50. If we rolled the dice and got 1 then we had to restart and reset to 0. My second fav activity was bottle flipping. We needed to count how many times we failed to land the bottle and count how many times we landed it. We used a tally chart to calculate our data but the most thing everyone was interested to do is to film ourselves flipping the bottle. If we land the bottle on camera then we will be rewarded 2 lollies.
For Maths we had the choice to choose hit the button or prototec and I chose prototec. This is an online website that helps to consolidate the number strategies we learnt in Maths. In prototec, I tried stage seven but my goal for the next time I do prototec is get one hundred percent. I was so close from getting to 100 so thats my goal for next time. Practicing stage seven was really fun for Maths.
Thursday 14 September, Glen Taylor School hosted the MATARIKI FESTIVAL. We invited several schools to come and share the experience of celebrating MATARIKI together as a community. We had Best Start Academy, Glendowie Primary, Glen Brae & Pt England School. Schools performed different Kapa Haka waiata and haka items. It was great to see so many members of the community attend and show up to support the event. After the performances, whanau and families were invited to attend each classroom to check out the hard work and activity stations our students came up with. Here are some photos to show how our day went.
Term 3 Week 4, majority of Team Tui took part in a basketball tournament, as part of the Tamaki cluster. There were more than 10 teams, attending from other schools within the Manaiakalani cluster. This experience helped develop my skills of basketball and it was an awesome moment. We challenged 3 teams on the day. Teams from Tamaki Primary, Glen Brae and Sylvia Park. We all had a great experience and lots of fun and we were undefeated. The highest score for us that day was 56 – 9. How cool is that?! Something I learnt on this day was the most important skill to have, and thats TEAM WORK, and emphasising on the importance of communication.
Today me and my buddy Vake used a compass to create different sized of circles. We found out that circles are made out of infinate dots that are connected together. We also found out that there are 4 main parts of the circle and 4 other parts. These parts are: The Circumference, Diameter, Radius and Sector. The other 4 parts are: Chord, Tangent, Arc and Segment. I look forward to the create part where we have the opportunity to experiment using a compass to create unique patterns.
This is my Matariki art and I got help from Mrs Tupou-Fonua and my classmate Maisey. This art took about 2 weeks and a couple days. On the right eye there is a sharing an, and on the left is naruto’s sage mode eye. This style of art my teacher chose and wanted us to do was Contemporary Abstract Art with a choice to either use pastels or zentangle patterns to colour in.
Here is my final product.