Saturday 31 March 2018
Writing and/or Art Comp - closes 21 April
Generation Icarus: Take Flight Competition
Calling all YA readers! Would you like your work to appear IN PRINT?- We are looking for submissions to our exciting new competition.The winners of our Fan Fiction and Fan Art categories will be published in the first English edition of the second book in the Generation Icarus series – Take Flight.
- ENTRIES CLOSE 21 APRIL 2018
The Specs:
Fan Fiction
We’d like you to write 250 words based on the prompt below. Imagine what might happen next, or write a new piece entirely - let loose your imagination and your words.
Fan Art
Create a cool mock cover for Take Flight. Use your drawing, painting and/or design talents to wow us. Artwork should be Portrait A5 (210 x 148 mm or 5.8 x 3.8 inches), which is about the same size as the actual book.
The Prompt:
“Now the sun was directly ahead and blinding. I swerved through the air, side to side, then pushed high before diving again, evading the helicopter as it pounded after me. Trees gave way to grass. Suddenly, I was over the lake.” - Go here to make submissions
Springfire: Teams 3/4
This week, the group discovered the intensities that some gifted people experience. The positive aspects of these are to be celebrated but they can also create challenges. We'll be exploring our own next week.
Intellectual Sensual Psychomotor
Imaginational Emotional
Intellectual Sensual Psychomotor
Imaginational Emotional
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Mathletes' gaps filled to the brim!
The Mathletes have about finished filling the learning gaps in their current knowledge and are moving to applying it and developing above and beyond...
Manawanui & how exercise powers the brain
With cross-country coming up, this video gave us more information
and more inspiration for those not into it...
Never mind the health benefits, this is about how exercise powers up the brain.
Check out the koala info!!!
Philosophy this week
Self-driving cars are already cruising the streets today. And while these cars will ultimately be safer and cleaner than their manual counterparts, they can’t completely avoid accidents altogether (as seen in the news recently).
How should the car be programmed if it encounters an unavoidable accident?
This video inspired this week's philosophical discussion...
Saturday 24 March 2018
Learning Conferences - Thurs 5 April
I see that I am booked out for conferences already.
Please email me if you were unable to secure a time and would like a conference as we will make other arrangements.
Lynne Dunn
Another week came and went...
A busy week of learning opportunities behind us...
Mathletes in Teams 1, 3-5 continue to fill gaps and explore their next learning steps in Number Knowledge, while Team 2 does the same in Statistics.
Manawanui students looked into the reframing of comments to help keep perspective: e.g. 'I always drop things' to ' this morning, my cup dropped to the floor".
Roxy Film Teams are well underway with filming their entries into the Roxy5 Competition - the editing process starts now!
Philosophy found us looking at the reasonableness of reasons from others' points of views.
This week's timetable is to the right...taking us to Easter!
Saturday 17 March 2018
Week 7 this week!
Mrs Stanley and Mrs Dunn have just returned from the NZ Association for Gifted Children Annual Conference. Auckland turned on some great weather for the 3 days and great speakers as well.
The timetable this week can be found to the left of this blog or below.
See you during the week - drop into Suite 1 anytime!
MONDAY
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TUES
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WED
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THURSDAY
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FRI
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B
1
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Mathletes
Team 5
Staffroom
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Roxy5 Film
Suite 1
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Mathletes
Team 3
Team 3
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Manawanui
Suite 1
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B
2
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Mathletes
Team 2
Team 2
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Ext Writing
™ 2, 5
Suite 1
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Mathletes
Team 4
Suite 1
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Ext Writing
™ 3 & 4
Suite 1
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3
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Roxy5 Film
Suite 1
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D-Lex
Suite 1
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1.10 Philosophy
2.00 Springfire
Tm 3/4
Suite 1
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Tuesday 13 March 2018
Springfire for Team 3/4 students
The first session of Springfire was underway today...this is a 5-week block course taking a look into what is giftedness? talent? the delights? the challenges? the strategies to make the most of the delights and lessen the impact of the challenges?
Today, we determined what were facts and what were myths about giftedness.
Taking Action for Well-being
Way to go...
...Roxy 5 Film Teams!
Just about to start filming...
great to have Ms Fa'a and Ms Morris coming on board to share their expertise
Exciting times ahead!
Philosophy today
The students would like to report that we discussed the associated reasonableness of cows 'farting' as a reason for not eating meat...
Believe it or not - that was a discussion today!
The wider discussions revolved around ordering reasons according to how reasonable they were...and what is the definition of a good reason. Interesting and complex chat!
Thursday 8 March 2018
Ext(reme) Writers trip to Readers & Writers Day
Incredible Authors! Incredible Students! Incredible Day!
Some photos to share with you below - Cameron & Walt even got to meet their publisher, Charlotte Gibbs, the editor from Toitoi magazine!
Time to enrol for ICAS
International Competitions & Assessments for Schools (ICAS)
Science, Writing, Mathematics, English
These competitions take place each year in schools throughout Australia , New Zealand , Singapore
and neighbouring countries. They provide an opportunity, particularly for students of high ability,
to gain a measure of their own achievement in external assessment situations.
The entry fee is $9.50 for Science, Mathematics and English. The entry fee for Writing is $20.50.
Science Test day Tuesday 29 May
Writing Test day Thursday 14 June
English Test day Tuesday 31 July
Mathematics Test day Tuesday 14 August
Permission slips and entry fees are due by Wednesday 21st March
Click here for details: Letter to Parents that was sent out today
Tuesday 6 March 2018
Manawanui Update
The group focused some discussions on feelings: the acknowledgment and expression of them. As part of that, we unpacked Lynne Namka's 'Five Rules about Feelings' and shared our views on them.
Girls Engineering this week
This week was the Relief Shelter workshop to help the students to identify the main issues with current relief shelters and explore the advantages and disadvantages of reciprocal frames.
Models of shelters were made to demonstarte the strength of the design.
Models of shelters were made to demonstarte the strength of the design.
Thanks to our 2 wonderful structural engineers from Beca, Victoria and Sarah!
Philosophy today
Today's discussions....
FROM:
Is the hole in the donut part of the donut?
TO:
What makes someone a good person - making others happy or following the rules?
TO:
Are you the same you you were when you were two?
The first part of this video (What Makes Me Me?) provided inspiration for a lot of discussion and the creation of analogies.
FROM:
Is the hole in the donut part of the donut?
TO:
What makes someone a good person - making others happy or following the rules?
TO:
Are you the same you you were when you were two?
The first part of this video (What Makes Me Me?) provided inspiration for a lot of discussion and the creation of analogies.
Saturday 3 March 2018
Philosophy Programme
A survey has been sent to GATE students' email about the Raroa Philosophy Programme.
Friday 2 March 2018
Top Outdoor Spot Competition
The popular school Top Outdoor Spot competition has returned for 2018!
Running throughout terms 1 and 2, the competition encourages New Zealand school children to send in a photo or drawing of their favourite outdoor spot and a short description about what makes it special for the chance to win.
The top three entries in each category - Best Photo, Best Drawing and Best Description - will win a prize pack for themselves and their school.
All photos, drawings and descriptions sent in between 29 January 2018 and the end of the day on 6 July 2018 will be in to win.
Who can enter?
Any student enrolled in a New Zealand school is eligible to win the Top Outdoor Spot competition.
Any student enrolled in a New Zealand school is eligible to win the Top Outdoor Spot competition.
Thursday 1 March 2018
Week 5 Timetable
This is Week 5's timetable.
- Team 4 is on camp
- Team 3 has DPE on both Monday and Tuesday mornings.
- Please see the separate post about the new Philosophy group.
- Girls' Engineering is on as usual, Tuesday 3pm.
MONDAY
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TUES
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WED
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THURSDAY
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FRI
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B
1
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Mathletes
Team 5
To be
advised
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Mathletes
Team 1
To be advised
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Manawanui
Suite 1
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Ext(reme) Writing
Tms 1,2,3,5
Trip to Readers and
Writers Schools Day | |
B
2
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Mathletes
Team 2
I’ll come to you
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Roxy5 Film
Suite 1
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Mathletes
Team 3
I’ll come to you
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3
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Roxy5 Film
Suite 1
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D-Lex
Suite 1
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Philosophy
Tms 1,2,3,5
Suite 1
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