Farewell From Room 14 In 2014

What an amazing year it's been.

Over the past week we've been reflecting on our year, identifying our highlights and challenges, telling stories and looking forward to 2015 and beyond. 

This week we say goodbye to our Year 6 children, many of whom have been in Room 14 for two years and contributed hugely to creating a positive and exciting classroom culture. 

We are also saying goodbye to four of our Year 5s - Emma, Shukoor, Logan and Erin, who are all moving houses and schools. However, all of the remaining Year 5 students will be coming back to Room 14 for 2015, when we embark on a new learning journey with many of them taking on significant leadership roles in our school. 

Thank you also to all of the parents of our leavers this year. Your ongoing encouragement and support plays a huge part in the success of our children. We look forward to hearing about their future endeavours. 

Happy holidays everyone.

3D Model Of Aotearoa

This week many of us have taken on the challenge of sculpting a 3D map of New Zealand out of clay. We began by watching some fly-over videos of planes travelling around our coastlines. We then researched many of the land features that we would need to have visible in our sculptures (mountain ranges, major lakes, rivers, etc). These were all highlighted on a blank map, which we used as our design plan.

















Today we organised our workspaces and started sculpting. We will try to tweet some pictures as we finish, as well as uploading pictures to our digital portfolios.

Land Yacht Racing

Today was the day that we lined up our land yachts for our final races.

As part of our syndicate inquiry rotation, children coming to Room 14 have been designing and building land yachts. For some of us, we were able to build on our knowledge from the kites we built in Term Two.

As with the kites, we researched forces on a land yacht, planned our designs, organised materials, constructed various prototypes, and tested them.

Check out some footage of our races today. A few crashes and swirling winds, but an enjoyable day celebrating what we've created.