Term 4 Jagged Smackdowns

We know we are all jagged (good at different things). This week we chose a goal from skills such as collaboration, leadership and resilience. Then we researched using YouTube, our buddies who were strong in these areas and our families at home. Then we had a minute to present what we had learnt. These are our slides:

What do you call 20 students sitting, listening and clicking their fingers?

Poetry Slam! Of course!

This week we were lucky to have Marina Alefosio and four high school students come and perform some spoken word to us. We learnt to show our appreciation by clicking our fingers.

They gave us some great ideas for some poems so we raced back to class and had our own poetry slam straight away. Here are the top four points scorers and their poems. Well done Danielle for coming first!

Give our poets some feedback about what you liked and what you think they could work on.

Bush walks, pooters, wētā, dancing, stretchers, tents and scroggin... must be camp!

Last week the Kea Team went to camp at Arataki Visitor's Centre in the Waitakere Ranges. Here are some pictures of our amazing experience. I'll let the students explain what was happening and what they learnt...

Our pledges...

To follow up from our drain game visit we all made pledges about how we can help keep our water clean and safe for us and all other animals. We used food colouring to dye our wet paper, then wrote our pledges on top of them. If you like these designs we will be making calendars out of them next term. Come and see them in Room 3's window!

It's OK to ask for help...

Our wonderful Wesley Wellbeing Superheroes made this fabulous video after we looked at our wellbeing data and found that a lot of students were not very confident asking for help. This video teaches us that you can ask for help from many different people including:
-teachers
-class captains
-mediators

Try Time!

Congratulations to our under 50kg and open weight rugby teams who represented us superbly at Cox's Bay on Tuesday. So many great tries and tackles and lots of learning! Thanks Mr Bruce for the awesome photos.

Film Festival

Friday's Film Festival was a HUGE success. Well done to all classes for making such amazing films! And congratulations to Lillian and Yonatan for picking up best actress and best actor while Room 6 picked up best directing for their film. Keep an eye on the Wesley class blogs to see all entries later in the term...

100 Word Challenge

Room Three have signed up to the International 100 Word Challenge. Each week we get a prompt and have to write exactly 100 words about it. Here is John's mysterious piece about a door. I have sent it to the organisers and it may be chosen as a winner for the week!

Caves!

This term we are designing different places where students can go and work. This week we talked about having caves. These are quiet places where you can go to work. We also have mountain tops and swamps. Can you guess what they are for? Here's is Lillian's poster for our caves.

hupara opening

Today we were lucky to be part of the official opening of the new hupara play area at Underwood Park. We can't wait to go there with our whole classes and play some of the traditional Maori games we have learnt!

Local Values

At Wesley Primary our values are respectful and responsible. We wanted to know what values local businesses had so we wrote to some of them. The Warehouse and Coffee Club kindly replied and shared their values with us. We then compared their values with our own (along with our graduate profile) to see if they were similar. This is what we found out...

NYLD 2018

This week our Kea class captains went to National Young Leaders Day. We heard lots of awesome speakers and got plenty of good advice about thinking like a leader. One of my top tips was to try and look for chances to tell people what they are good at.

MOTAT

Last Friday the Kea and Hoiho teams visited MOTAT to have a lesson on Fantastic Flight. We also explored the Simple Machines and Gearing Up exhibitions and had a ride on the tram. Can any Wesley students share what they learnt on the trip?

Hupara with Harko Brown

This week the Kea team were amazingly lucky to have Harko Brown come to Wesley Primary for the whole day to teach us some traditional Maori games. We can't wait to teach the rest of the school and start designing our hupara stumps that will be going into Walmsley Reserve this year!

Kea, leave a comment to explain what the games were and what equipment we used...

SMRF it!

Hi. New to Chromebooks? Or forgotten how to Stop, Make a copy, Rename and File a doc over the summer? Then sit back and Loseli remind you how to do it.

What's that smell?

This week we went on a trip to the Visy recycling centre to help us with our sustainability inquiry. This is Losaline's poster to share her learning from the day. Room 3 can you remember any tips about recycling?

School Band Try Teaching

Today during our last band practice of term we opened the doors to let anyone come and have a go at the instruments. Looks like we have some future band members AND some future music teachers...

Swimming 🏊

Room 3 from Wesley Primary on their way to start swimming lessons!

Desks

Room 3 have been strolling down to Wesley Intermediate on Wednesdays this term to make our own desks for the classroom. Here are some instructions for how to build desks in case anyone wants to give it a go. Many thanks to Mr Reddy for his support at the Wesley Intermediate workshop.

Working Bee

Thanks to all the students, family and friends of the school who came to help us at the 
working bee on Saturday.

 

The vege gardens and the new trees are 
looking fantastic!

And I can't wait to see the mokomoko when it's finished!