Alice and the Tunnel break through!

Check out Alice, the tunnel boring machine, breaking through at the end of the second tunnel (on the Owairaka side)

Zooming in... right in

Room Six has a brand new 3-dimensional microscope. 

As well as that, thanks to the awesome Foram and some of her Year 13 tutorial students, we have 20+ slides to examine. We are going to be "displaying about two of these each week, as well as children being able to use the microscope in free time, and before school.

One of the slides is the mouth of a honey bee, which fits in perfectly with our learning topic this term.
Come by and have a look!

New look Room Six

You might have noticed some of the furniture changing around in Room Six. Children like to choose where they sit in the class, it depends on what activity they are doing, and who they are working with in a particular lesson. 

Here you can see the awesome Alligator reading group working on some follow up questions to the story they have just read with Mr Lyons, "Too Many Possums", a story about the threat to native plants and animals that possums pose.

While over here, Claire, Rania, Salha, Lucas, and Oisin are all working independently at our new high bench with stools.

Welcome back to Term 4... special congratulations to these boys

James and Farman came back to school ready to learn in Term Four. As part of our maths problem solving lessons, these boys have become masters at finding words that help them decide if a question needs to be answered with addition, subtraction, or times tables. They have shown that they are able to work well in a group by sharing their ideas, or work independently to complete follow up questions. Great job boys, keep up your excellent effort.