Japanese students farewell

Here are some videos of the students singing and even doing the Haka. They had some HES helpers and they were quick learners!!

Making Connections Evaluation

We learnt SO many new things during our Making Connections unit - from learning a cultural dance to skyping a teacher in Ireland, making presentations, learning words from other languages, meeting children from other schools in Hamilton and then all the way from Japan!!! We had so many exciting learning opportunities. We have put all our learning together based on de Bono's 6 Thinking Hats.

Take a look and see all the learning we did!

Making Connections Celebration

On the last day of Term 3 we celebrated together as a whole school our 'Making Connections' unit. We had a big lunch and all wore the colours of a country we had made a connection with. We made so many connections we couldn't show them all!! What a wonderful day to end our two term unit. We hope to keep our connections going with some of our new international friends.

Can you spot all the countries we represented?

Matangi Visit

On Friday Room 10 were invited to Matangi to celebrate their Pet Day with them. We had so much fun seeing all the animals, we even got pony rides!

Thank you for inviting us Matangi we had a great time. We hope to see you again very soon.

Bridging the Gap - Making Connections

Solo Taxonomy is an inquiry model that we are using in Room 10 to help us learn more about Tonga and Ireland. These are the countries we want to 'connect' with over the next 5 weeks. We have moved from Prestructural - knowing nothing about the countries, to Unistructural - knowing something about them, to now being at the Multi-structural level - this means we are finding out lots about the countries so we become experts! We are working hard to learn as much as we can.