SYNDICATE ASSEMBLY.
Here is a video of all the classes and the items they presented in Syndicate Assembly.

SYNDICATE ASSEMBLY
We had our first syndicate assembly which was held in our school hall during the week.   We have the chance to show the other classes what we have been doing in our classes, which for us were the balancing robots from our science explorations, and the school councillors had an opportunity to practice presenting to an audience of over 150 people before doing in front of the whole school where there may be 450 to 500 people.

Our robots were used to show that by lowering the centre of gravity we can make objects less wobbly and better able to balance.

Emily and Jonti were our presenters who explained what our robots were about.

We also had achievement certificates that were awarded to individuals who had done well in learning and other school activities.  

Here are the winners.

Congratulations to Hannah, Archer, Jonti and Horatio who all were awarded certificates.

All About Science.
Waikanae School ran a Science Show this week.  It was awesome because we got to try out lots of experiments.  Here is a movie showing some of what we did.

PUNCTUATION  PRACTICE:    Writing 
Room 6 is learning to write stories using correct punctuation.  Each week we focus on a new type of punctuation.  In our class we should be using fullstops (.) and capitals (CAPS), question marks (?), ellipse (...), apostrophes (') and speech marks ( "     " ).   Today there were eight children who indicated that they were getting better at using their punctuation marks in their writing.  To practice, children have written a POOR BOB story to show how they can use exclamation marks.  Their stories were only allowed to be up to 100 word.  Check out our individual blogs for the stories the class came up with.

Here is Mr Corlett's example

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WALT use exclamation marks in our writing

Bob stumbled towards the stairs, wiping the sleep from his eyes.  Bang! Crash!  Poor Bob.  He began tumbling, his discarded clothes from the night before wrapped around his ankles."Ahh!  Help!  Ouch! Owww!  Ugh!  @##*@! Waa!" he yelled as he fell, hitting every step as he fell.
"Wheee-eee!  Wheee-eee!" came the sound of the ambulance as he slowly regained consciousness.

2015  WINTER TOURNAMENT   11th August 2015

Despite yesterdays colds winds and wet grounds, local schools battled each other in the annual WINTER TOURNAMENT.  Rippa and netball was at Te Ataawa Park and hockey and soccer was held at Mazengard Reserve.

It was great to see so many children active and playing sport.  For some children it was their first time playing that game while for others it was a game they were familiar with.  

WELL DONE TO ALL SCHOOLS AND ALL TEAMS.