Weekly Tasks - Term 4, Week 3

Here are the tasks for Term 4, Week 3.

Make sure you have decided on your speech topic by the end of the week. You will be giving your speech to the class in Week 6.

Production!

The production finally happened and everyone did a fantastic job with their acting, dancing, singing and backstage roles - well done! Here are a few backstage photos. It would be great to get some of the performance, so if your parents took any good ones, please ask them to email them or bring them in on a usb stick.

Weekly Tasks - Term 4, Week 2

Here are the tasks for Term 4, Week 2. If you stay focused in class, you should be able to get everything done at school. We don't want you to have homework - just focus on preparing and getting lots of sleep before the production.

Make sure your family has got tickets!

Lolly necklaces

Today the Year 7 & 8s made 170 lolly necklaces to sell at the fair on Sunday. Great job everyone!

Weekly Tasks Term 4, Week 1

Welcome back to Term 4 - only 10 more weeks of primary school for the Year 8s! The term is going to be extremely busy, with Production, Book Week, speeches, and millions of end-of-year events. Make sure you are organised and know what's coming up so you can get through it all and enjoy your last term.

Here are the tasks for Term 4, Week 1.

Here's the speech you need to analyse before Wednesday afternoon: Bending the Truth.

Weekly Tasks - Term 3, Week 9

Last week of term! Here's the task sheet for Term 3, Week 9.

There aren't many tasks since you will mostly be in production practices or at athletics, but don't leave it til the last minute as you want to be able to enjoy the last day of term.

Weekly Tasks - Term 3, Week 8

Here are the tasks for Term 3, Week 8.

Here are the Margaret Mahy poems to use for your English task. Choose 4 and write a paragraph about each one.

Production progress

The production is looming scarily close and we are super busy with dance and acting rehearsals and prop preparations. Here are a few pics of some of things we've been doing.

Dramatic pointing

In-class rehearsals

Rehearsals with the younger students

So it turns out we don't actually need the wall upstairs. 

Learning the whole school finale song

Room 12 is slowly transforming into Sherwood Forest.

Weekly Tasks - Term 3, Week 7

Here are the tasks for Term 3, Week 7. Remember your essay draft needs to be completed before the lesson on Thursday afternoon.

Here are the lyrics of the song: Roar
Here are a few notes to help you get started: Roar notes.

And here is the Space Inquiry. You need to complete 6 of the questions over the next 3 weeks. Manage your time carefully and make sure you do at least 2 this week.

NIWA Science Fair winners!

Congratulations to Ystefano Ubaldo, Emily-Kei Brewerton and Elizabeth Sullivan, who all won prizes at the NIWA Wellington Science Fair today.

Ystefano came first in Class 2/Year 8.
Emily-Kei came third in Class 2 and also won a VUW Faculty of Education prize.
Elizabeth won a VUW Faculty of Education prize.

We hope you enjoy your prize money!

Well done also to the other 7 students who represented our school so well at the Science Fair this year.