Hi guys, I had a great time at the National Catholic Conference last week with Mr D - very full on days and certainly challenged to think a great deal!!! I made it my mission to attend as many digital related workshops as possible and so now I have a little task for you. We are beginning to work with an online service called KnowledgeNET and this will gradually take place of our blog. Can you all log on to http://www.stants.knowledge.net.nz Your login is your first name and your password is your second name. Once you are in go to the tab that says My Groups and click on Room Tui. This will lead you to our page. I want you to click on the word Forum and read the forum about KnowledgeNET. There are tasks for you to do! The other part I want you to click on Feast of the Assumption and complete the task there - it involves clicking on a link!! You may explore the other tabs but don't do anything as we were only playing and the other topics are not set up to do yet!! So to recap, you are exploring the site; actioning the forum about Knowledge.net and the work on the Feast of the Assumption. Have fun and we look forward to learning from you!! Cheers Mrs J

Hi Tui I MUST use the blog more. Just to clarify: I want you to pretend I know nothing about your chosen Olympian and the success criteria will be that by the end of your 2 mins I will have learnt some facts about them. How you present those facts is up to you. BUT not a powerpoint presentation as you are all so good at that anyway. Facts to present could include... how many medals that person has won, where they are from, how many medals they have won, difficulties they have encountered along the way personal details like where they were born. Poems, posters, set it out like you did your science board(you could recycle your science board for this!) interviews, videos, interviews. The world is your oyster!!!! Ms D

Hi Tui Hope you are all having a great holiday. Mrs J and I are sitting in the Meeting Room getting ready for next week and the ONE thing we'd like you to do before we get back to school is this: Have a think about an Olympian that you would like to do some research on. This Olympian must reflect the Olympic Values and also you must be able to link them to our school values of REAL This person can be any nationality and from any era. Have a chat with your parents and see if you can get some ideas from them. No need to get stuck into research just yet. Just be ready with your chosen person when you get back to school. Make sure you tell everyone to read the blog if you are someone who sees this message first!!! Thanks

Open Day at Mt Cook Technology

Hi all, I trust you all have had a great weekend??? This coming week is open week at Mt Cook. This is so that your parents can visit and see what you do each Friday. Mr Depree would like you to invite your parents to pop in and see things in action. So let your parents know about the invite and of course the time that your session is on. If they can't make that time then they are welcome to drop in at any time. Please confirm that you have invited your parents by commenting on the blog - I am expecting 30 comments!!! Cheers Mrs J

Hi Tui Am I correct in thinking that Rhiannon's birthday wishes have to be passed on to Finnbar tomorrow? Don't forget then!!!!! Ms D

NIWA Science Fair...Important Reading!!!

Hi everyone As quite a few people have been asking me what I want in tomorrow I thought I would clarify: Don't worry if you haven't finished everything!!! Tomorrow is your chance to hand in what you have done so far and anything you would like some help/suggestions with. I won't be marking spellings and punctuation...that's your responsibility. I will be making suggestions on what you may need to do in order to improve your work. If you are still testing you might want me to look at your method and see if its clear and easy to follow. Therefore bring it in tomorrow...obviously you won't have your conclusion and results yet. Perhaps you want some help thinking of a graph to draw. Perhaps your research needs looking at. Are you struggling with your aim Can't interpret your results? Don't know what the application of your experiment is? Tomorrow is your chance to get some help. Write down any questions that you want help with too and I'll do my best to answer them The boards aren't due in till June 18th so please don't panic. Just keep working steadily away and as long as you don't leave things to the last minute( as if you would!!!) then you'll be fine. Please pass the message that everyone needs to read the blog Ms D

Sorry a bit more....

Yes Life Ed is due Monday and all must have their books at school every day next week!!! Also each night have your parents sign your PE book because we really want them involved in your learning - we welcome their comments too! Spread the word. Cheers Mrs J PS remind me to find out about me commenting.

Impressive Maddie - re comment

Well done Maddie, it's awesome that you have taken the time to reflect on Friday's session. Come on the rest of you- take 5 and give some feedback on thoughts & opinions. I have many thoughts but won't sway you until you have all stated yours. Hope your weekend is going well?? Go the Canes Mrs J

What a Rush!!

HI everyone, hope you enjoyed your afternoon with Harold, despite it being so hard hitting stuff??! Now just to clarify re homework:- Life Education Trust 1. Complete cover page and the two sheets we glued in today. (Sophie, your book is on our desk :( so you will need to complete sheets on Monday night) 2. Write a word splash of all the words and drug terms that you heard today (make it attractive)and underline any terms you are not sure of.... hopefully by the end of next week you will understand a lot more. 3.Write a comment of what you thought of today's learning - what challenged you? what amazed you? What was interesting etc etc Sophie you can do No. 2 & 3 on paper and then glue it in. Draft Writing: By next Thursday you will have typed up your story (even if it is not complete) and the line spacing will be 1.5. The electronic copy will be in your folder on the student public drive and a printed copy will be glued in your book. Vincent I will email the power point to you so that you can complete the activity and then type up a story (say 20 minutes effort. You can have until Monday week!! Blog email addresses and passwords Due to me next Wednesday! Thanks to all those awesome students who have already done this. Lunch Orders It would appear that some students are not putting in their lunch orders until late which is stressing our parent helpers out. I assume Tui are not any of those students??? If you are late - bad luck you miss out - I assume you all realise this??? I assume that is the lot. Have a great weekend Cheers Mrs J P.S If you know someone in the class can't access this blog please give them a ring and read it to them. Thanks Mrs J

Who is reading about Amos?

Hi the following link might help whoever is reading about Amos http://bartimaeus.us/pub_dom/amos_gaebelein.html Cheers Mrs J

Reading Assignments

Hi guys, Hope you had a great day! Thanks to those Year 8s who met the deadline for your response statement and 3 points. Great to see you stepping up to the responsibility! Those that haven't - I am surprised to hear you say you had an extension?? First I knew about it! Make sure you have it done by Tuesday please. Year 7s your response and 3 bullet points are due this coming Friday. Have a great weekend Mrs J

Bible Character continued...

Hi all, You were meant to have time today to work on this but it seems it didn't happen so due date is next Wednesday - you need to email it to me by then. Hope your day went well?? Cheers Mrs J

Bible Character

Hi guys, Just to clarify re this task - You need to read, read and read!! Some people have easier options than others but the challenge is to attempt to gain as great an understanding of your person as possible! Have fun learning and we will have some time to create the power point. Some don't know how to use power point so make sure you help each other and use the teaching books in the classroom.

Hello Tui. Following information may be helpful for your science write up Aim: What do you want to test or prove? OR What do you want to learn or discover? just a sentence or 2 at the most Hypothesis This is your prediction . What do tou think will happen. DO NOT explain why you think this will happen Equipment: List the equipment you need to conduct the experiment. Add to your method. Method: List the steps you follow to conduct the experiment. It's like writing a recipe and we've done lots of those! Results: Draw up a TABLE to record results, if numerical data is obtained. Results may include written observations in a list or table, sketches, diagrams, photos, etc. Discussion: How did you ensure that the measuring was accurate? What mistakes were made? How could this improve? What did you observe? Is the result what you expected? Compare to published information. Were there any hazards (dangerous things/situations)? Conclusion: Have you tested or proved what you had as your aim? Say that you have done so in a clear, logical statement. Comment on how accurate your experiment was and how you could make it better. Application: What was the point of your experiment, how is what you found out useful. Research: General reading about the topic you are doing Please encourage everyone to read this!!!!! Ms D

Mass and PB4L

Hi everyone, I have collated your votes for the PB4L reward - Two options have come out as clear winners. Mrs D and I have to sort a few things out and then you will have a final choice of two to vote on. We will come back to you on it shortly. Thanks for all the awesome students that came to Mothers' Day Mass today - It was wonderful to see you "step up" and cope with all the added responsibilities. So many people commented on how amazing you were!! And you were!! I trust you have spoilt your mother rotten today??! Cheers Mrs J

Hi Tui Well done to all those people who have e mailed me with PB4L award ideas. Keep them coming Well done Elise and Anna for sending in your questions for the Olympic Athletes. Anyone else got a question? E mail it to me if so. Ms D

This time next week....

Hi everyone,
I trust you are having a great holiday. Make sure you rest up as Ms D and I are planning a great deal of work for you!!! Pass the word on for everyone to comment on this so we can see who still doesn't have access or never looks!

See you next week.
cheers
Mrs J

Just finished marking the maths test you did on area, perimeter and scale and will be moving on to looking at your science ideas next. Some of you still need to give me an idea. looking forward to receiving those in my e mail box asap.

And I am still waiting on some hat pictures.
Ms D

bits and pieces

Well done at the beach today and well done on the walk back when we had to be EXTRA quiet for the film crew. I owe you a lot of PB4L points for that. Don't forget to nag me about that...not too much though.

Shame that not everyone remembered to hand their spelling test in. Latest score is 242. If I'd had all the books I think we may have beaten last weeks score!

Ms D

Well done Jasmin Anna and Eilish for checking the blog so regularly. Eilish and Anna...2 tokens for you guys please.

Also, I never added the 10 PB4l points for an awesome game of scatterball so if someone could ask Ms J to do that please. I will e mail her about it too.

Plus, could someone put the spelling score of 276 up on the sheet please. I owe the class a treat! Well done indeed.

Ms D

Well, I have just switched the TV on and its the Oscars after party!!!! I thought it was on 11 30 tonight. it must have been 11 30 this morning.
So, see if you can find out who any of the winners are and add the answers to the questions I put on the board this evening before I left.

Happy Oscars everyone.

Hi Tui,

Sorry I missed Pancake Day today. Hope it all went well.

Marked your spellings last night and the new score is 242. Hard to beat that great score last week with so many people away this Monday.

Could someone please make a sign with 275 on it(last weeks score) and stick it on the laminated sign on the door so we all know what we're aiming for.Thanks
Well done with the writing exercise. I enjoyed reading the instructions for Anastasia and our Monday morning routine!

Ms D

spelling score

No one reminded me to post the class spelling score!!!!

Anyway. Congratulations on a fantastic score

272. Going to be hard to beat that. Happy learning of spellings this weekend. Remember to try the cheer leader method to help you. It works! Trust me...I'm a teacher

Ms D