Friday Flash

This week in Room 10's weekly round-up.
What an exciting week in preparation for the beginning of the construction of our new Early Childhood Centre here at Glenbrae.
We have been learning the haka to perform at the pōwhiri of the sod turning next Thursday morning.
Beginning at 8am, we will have a special sausage sizzle breakfast and opening ceremony. It has been heard through the grapevine that Ministers and Politicians may even be there for the event!
We are going to be learning about the upcoming election and political cycle so this may be a great learning opportunity for us.
We hope you can make it for the opening!

We started our new round of House Sports today, Mrs Parker took Netball, with the game result being a draw. The teams were also even for sportsmanship and fairplay. The deciding factor was that Kauri players had more people in their house coloured T-Shirts, so won by 1 point. Remember to bring your house coloured t-shirts next week to earn your house more points!


Certificates this week went to Edwina, Gemima, Eseki, Baden, Nikita and Atelaite. Well done learners!

Mrs Parker Graduates

Yesterday I  took the first day of school term off.... Although I was really looking forward to getting back to school and seeing all our bright spark faces, I instead spent the day at Aotea Centre with my peers and colleagues celebrating the success of our studies last year! 

We were welcomed at 7.30am to the Faculty of Education breakfast, then at 9.15 took the march up Queen Street. It was such an honour to walk up Queen Street, traffic stopped, police escort, and hundreds of people along the side of the road cheering our congratulations. 

My husband Mr Parker was very proud of all my hard work too, biting my hat to check it was real, just like they do the Olympic gold medals to check it is real gold. 

It wasn't until the actual graduation ceremony, that I realized how important it is to celebrate such achievements and hard work. Currently I am undergoing further study at Auckland University in the Manaiakalani Digital Teacher Academy [MDTA], where in two years I will gain a Bachelor in Education with Honours. I look forward to doing it all again with my MDTA crew alongside me. 

Today, back to school, to share my knowledge and help Room 10's Bright Sparks find their passions for lifelong learning, innovation, and success. 

Week 8 Friday Flash

Another superstar week in the world of Glenbrae. So much learning and a few exciting extra-curricular activities too. 

Garden Club... 
We discovered a few of our students had green thumbs in the Monday Garden Club, they made a fantastic job of weeding and tidying our school gardens. 

I wonder what wonderful things we can grow this year!


Festival of Education...
Several of our students also enjoyed a trip to the Festival of Education to showcase their learning. A huge thank you to Lennyx, Hannah, Danielle, Te Puawai, Edwina, Jerome, Mrs Raj and Mrs Elia who gave up their Saturday to share how and what we are learning at the Festival of Education. 

Literacy Learning .... 

In literacy we are currently learning about Information Reports. 
To help get us started the Kiwi reading group successfully analysed an information report to locate all of the features. Well Done! 
I look forward to seeing these features showing up in our writing too. 








Celebrations.... 
A huge congratulations to our Certificate Recipients this week: 

Jack - Working independently and improving work using feedback. 

Atelaite - Working well and asking good questions in reading. 

Molimauola - Producing quality work in reading 

Siosifa - working independently and focusing his learning. 

Eseki - working diligently and producing high quality writing 

We also had a bonanza in the wonderhoop this week with 11 names being drawn!

Blogger of the Month... 

In case you hadn't checked it out yet, February's Blogger of the Month was Edwina!

You can catch her blog here or see the updates live on the front page of our class site

March Blogger of the Month is soon to be announced so keep blogging and watch this space! 

Coming up.... 

As part of our Survival in the Wild inquiry this term we are learning about how to prepare for bush walk, information about medicinal plants, native birds, plants, insects and animals. 
Next week we are going on a trip to the Zoo to learn more about the native bush, and the following week we will be going to Long Bay on the North Shore to learn about outdoor survival skills. Stay tuned, for more updates on our learning. 

Friday Flash - End of Week 6!

This week has flown by, especially with both Mrs Parker and Mrs Raj being away on training seminars through the week. Luckily Room 10 had the wonderful Mrs Sigamoney instead. 

Constructing a blog comment. 

This week we talked about blogging and how to construct a thoughtful, helpful, positive comment. We love it when people comment on our blogs so please take the time to read through them and say something positive! 



This week we blogged about the graphs we have been making using Google Spreadsheets with the data we have collected over the term. 
We also wrote some fantastic Bio Poems about ourselves and our friends.  
To read our Bio Poems head to our blog homepage. 

We drew 10 wonderhoop winners today. The lucky recipients were Danielle, James, Siosifa, Alex, Salelei, Nunia, Anamanu, Atelaite, Gemima and Mangila. There were so many names in the hoop this week! 
Well done Room 10! And may the odds, be ever in your favour. 

Congratulations to the six people who received certificates also. Mangila for learning to work independently, Salelei and Nganga for beginning to work diligently, Jerome for excellent participation and skill development in Basketball, Anamanu for swimming skills, and James for learning to work diligently  

Stay tuned for next weeks adventures in Room 10 

Monday Memories.

Week 5 of term one and we are hard at work with Asttle and Star testing. What insightful writing we are producing. 
Last week was so busy that Mrs Parker forgot to send out the Friday Flash.
We had several students take home Happy Notes, and go in the Friday draw for 'caught being good'. 
Our certificate recipients at Friday assembly were Danielle, Gemima, Ilalio, Edwina and Eseki. Well done to you all, and keep up the hard work, wonderful writing, determination and polite, kind behaviour. It is a pleasure to have you as part of our Room 10 learning whanau. 
We had a record amount of wonder hoop entries this week too: with Baden, Atelaite, Moli, Chanel, Edwina and Joseph taking home prizes. To those of you who missed out, better luck this week. 
Other class highlights included the Basketball training with Coach Steph (see the class and individual blog posts for more details), and our Year 8 trip to Tamaki College. 
In the week ahead, we have Life Education van visiting Glenbrae and we are enjoying our class novel The Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. 

Friday Flash... this week in Room 10

Another exciting week in Room 10. 
We started with our explanation writing and have been developing our statistical thinking. We've also been learning about Hellison's model and been having fun practicing our freestyle and backstroke in the pool. 

Today we were given our Rangitoto Challenge - Homework assignment for the term. We were all excited to be able to take responsibility for our own learning and choose what tasks we want to complete this term. 

We introduced the WONDER HOOP this week too. Every time we do something wonderful we get a ticket to slam dunk in the hoop. There were a whopping amount of tickets in the hoop this week, with some wonderful people getting multiple entries. Before lunch we drew 8 names from the basket to select a prize. 

This weeks wonderful recipients were: Alex, Anthony, Wairua, Te Puawai, Nikita, Nunia, Edwina and Eseki

Congratulations - Tu Meke 

At the end of week assembly Room 10 had the privilege of leading the school in karakia!


During assembly four of our team also received certificates:

Alex for developing his leadership skills.
Lennyx for taking responsibility for his own learning.
Wairua for active listening and contributing to class discussions  
and Siosifa for making a great contribution to all Room 10 activities in his first week at Glenbrae School - Welcome Siosifa!

Next week we have our Softball Tournament, some of the Room 10 team are participating, we wish them well!

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