Weekly Tasks - Term 4, Week 9

Last task sheet for the year! Term 4, Week 9.

Year 8 Retreat

The Year 8s had an awesome retreat at St Thomas More Church hall in Wilton. We talked about moving on to college, looked back at our time at St Ben's and of course played lots of games!

Here are a few pics:

Weekly Tasks - Term 4, Week 8

Here is this week's task sheet - Term 4, Week 8.

Year 7 retreat

The year 7s had a great day today at their retreat. It was held at Huntleigh Guide Camp and was run by leaders from Challenge 2000. The theme of the day was Leadership, as the Year 7s prepare to become Year 8s next year.

Weekly Tasks - Term 4, Week 7

Here is the task sheet for Term 4, Week 7.

Weekly Tasks - Term 4, Week 6

Here is the task sheet for Term 4, Week 6.

Here are a few interesting videos and articles that might help people with their space research project:

3D Printing a Lunar Base
Tour of the International Space Station
Shorter Tour of the ISS
Preparing for a Mars mission

Measurement

We have been learning about measurement in maths for the last couple of weeks. Here are a few students deriving pi by working out the relationship between the circumference and the diameter of various circles around the classroom. (Spoiler: the circumference is always pi times bigger!)

By the way those students that are obsessively memorising pi to crazy amounts of digits might like to watch this video: Mile of Pi

Speech Marking Guide

Hi guys.  This is my first blog post and it is an important one!  Here is the Speech Marking Guide.  It is important because it is how we are marking your speech and it is how you will mark 1 or 2 of your class mates speeches.  Read over it and refer back to it before your speech.  We will also go over it in class on Friday the 14th.

Speech Marking Guide

Give a copy to the person who is listening to your speech at home and see if you are getting marks in all of the boxes.  If, for example you don't make eye contact you will lose 5 marks in the presentation category.

Weekly Tasks - Term 4, Week 5

Here is the task sheet: Term 4, Week 5.

NASA posts

These are links to the NASA blog posts we are using for reading this week:

ISS Daily Summary 

https://blogs.nasa.gov/stationreport/2014/10/30/iss-daily-summary-report-103014/

Orion space craft complete

https://blogs.nasa.gov/orion/2014/10/30/nasas-orion-spacecraft-complete/

November Crew Swap

https://blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/2014/10/31/station-prepares-for-november-crew-swap/

Weekly Tasks - Term 4, Week 4

Here is the task sheet: Term 4, Week 4.

Constellation Research

Here is the Constellation Research project. You will need to use the note-taking pages. You can also find them on the server under 111Student Public\Intermediate\Constellation ppoints.

Weekly Tasks - Term 4, Week 3

Here are this week's tasks: Term 4, Week 3.

Marriage Prezi info

This info will help you with your marriage Prezi.

Marriage Flowchart notes

Weekly Tasks - Term 4, Week 2

Here is the task sheet: Term 4, Week 2.

Lolly necklaces

Last week Room 11 & 12 made lolly necklaces to sell at the school fair. It was lots of fun, especially since we got to eat some of the lollies!

Weekly Tasks - Term 4, Week 1

Welcome to Term 4! Here is this week's task sheet: Weekly Tasks - Term 4, Week 1.

And here are the reading challenges for this term:

Books can count in more than one challenge. Try to complete as many as you can!

10 Book Challenge: Read 10 books in one term

20 Book Challenge: Read 20 books in one term

New author Challenge: Read a book by an author you've never read before

History Challenge: Read a book based on a historical event (fiction or non-fiction)

Library Challenge: Read a book from a section of the library you don’t usually use

Future Challenge: Read a book set in the future

One-word Title Challenge: Read a book with a one-word title

End of Term 3

We had a busy week at the end of last term - here are a few pictures:

Elections

We have been doing lots of work this week on our elections topic. We voted for our preferred electorate MP and party, and also each class had a mock debate.

Weekly Tasks - Term 3, Week 10

Here is the final task sheet for this term: Weekly Tasks - T3, W10.

Parliament trip

On Wednesday we had an interesting visit to Parliament to tie in with our Elections topic. It was good to see the places we had been learning about.

Weekly Tasks - Term 3, Week 9

Here are the tasks for this week: Term 3, Week 9.

Production!

Last week we performed our production Agents of S.P.A.C.E. Everyone did a fantastic job with their acting, dancing and backstage roles. Well done everyone. Here are a few photos:

Weekly Tasks - Term 3, Week 8

Here are this week's tasks: Term 3, Week 8.

Science Fair Success

Congratulations to three of our students who won awards at the Wellington NIWA Science Fair last Friday. We are very proud of you!

Sarah Scott - First in Class 1 (Year 7), VUW Faculty of Science Faculty Prize, ANZCCART Prize, ESR Prize, Capital City Science Educators (Peter Jennings Memorial Prize),

Aisling Lawson - Highly Commended, Victoria University of Wellington Faculty of Education Prize

Katerina Lagoutaris - Highly Commended

Great job - we know you put a lot of work into those projects.

Weekly Tasks - Production Week!

Production week is finally here! Please make sure you have finished off all your costume bits and pieces before Wednesday.
On Wednesday, remember you need to be at school by 8.15am as we are heading to the theatre at 8.30am. Wear your costume or part of it to school that day to make things easier.

Here is the task sheet: Term 3, Week 7.

Minecraft Competition

Lots of students have created awesome Minecraft buildings as part of their research projects. Some of you might like to enter the Interface magazine Minecraft competition - this is the one that we won last year. Have a look at the info here: Minecraft competition. I need to enter the info for you, so let me know if you want to go for it. I've got Fraps on my laptop if you want to record a video walkthrough.

Weekly Tasks - Term 3, Week 6

One week until the production! Make sure you have your costume and everything else sorted.

Here is the task sheet: Weekly Tasks - Term 3, Week 6.

Table Tennis

One of the activities at Nairnville last week was table tennis - this made for a nice change from the athletics skills that we are focusing on at the moment. 

Weekly Tasks - Term 3, Week 5

Here is the task sheet for Term 3, Week 5.

Also remember that everyone needs to know ALL their production lines before the rehearsal on Friday. If you know yours already, help someone else practice theirs.

Random pics

Lots of things have been going on this week - Northern Zone Swimming, research projects and of course production practice!

 Celebrating a win at the Swimming Sports

Tyler presenting info on Extinct Wrens for his research project.

 Cheesy smile practice for the chair dance

Weekly Tasks - Term 3, Week 4

Here are the tasks for Term 3, Week 4 and here's a link to your Independent Research Project.

Remember your edited essay is due on Wednesday.

Dance practice

Practice is well underway for the Yr 7&8 production dances and scenes. Still a long way to go though...

The Cantina band and dancers work out moves.

A disastrous conga line collision!

The chair dance starts to take shape 

Acting rehearsals with the other classes