Today the students in Rm 5 were given a wonderful opportunity as the Greymouth High School Science Club came out to Awahono School to share some kitchen science with us. There were 3 experiments that we got try one was making sherbert, one was looking at what fruit has the most acid and one was looking whether liquids were acidic, base or neutral.
This was such a cool experience for everyone and we intend to develop our learning around this even more.
We are lucky enough have the opportunity to enter a year 5/6 Rip Rugby tournament that is held in Greymouth each Friday throughout June. The children who have entered are Adarsh, Tom N, Logan, Deacon, Taylor-Rose, Sophie, Cohen and AJ. They had their first 2 games on Friday and had so much fun. I would like to say a massive thank you to Julie the TA who is supporting this team and to all the parent helpers who are helping to transport the children into Greymouth.
Room 5 were given a challenge today to create a 'Super Werido'. This relates to the share story we are reading called 'Super Weridos and the Battle of the Bash' written by Mr Mac.
Without meeting as a group each person had a part of the body to design for example one person created the head and neck, the next person created the main body part from the shoulders to the hips and the last person created the legs and feet. The next step was to come together and put all the body parts together to create our 'Super Werido'.
To bring writing into this challenge we had to write a character description collaboratively. Here is an example from Corey, Chiedza and Frank.
Today the year 4 - 8 students went to the Kumara Race course to compete in the Midland Line Cross Country. It was incredible to see everyone give this a go and 99% finished with a smile on their face. A congratulations to those who got in the top 5 in their age groups as they will be going through to the West Coast Cross Country in early June.
Today I worked with a group of children to turn all their wonderful ideas into a report piece of writing. Our topic was something we all know lots about....Awahono School.
Contributors were Finn, Felicity, Ty, Tom Mills and Odin.
This term our topic is around 'Discovering Our History'. This topic will lead the students to look at Ahaura and the local history. We exposed the students in Rooms 5 and 6 to a starter activity that was based at History Park in Ahaura, which had our students making connections with their history by seeing their family names on the photo boards.
We can't wait to see where this topic takes our children....watch this space!
This year we had 2 children competing in the West Coast Regional Chess Tournament held at St Patricks School. Odin Wardle and Adarsh Bhan represented Awahono with pride and had a good day out along the way.
Out of 7 rounds they both only lost 1 game each which was a massive achievement. Well done to these 2 boys for giving this opportunity 100%!
