Fun Run

In case you missed it, check out the highlights from our Fun Run/ Cross Country Races!

A huge congratulations to everyone who competed and gave it their very best effort! 

It was awesome to see so many Room 13 students get a place! 

Year 4 Girls:

1st place: Lorilei

2nd place: Vaisioa

Year 4 Boys

1st place: Ausage

2nd place: Sione

3rd place: Anthem

May Road School Presents... The Peace Child!

Just over a week to go until the whole school performs "The Peace Child"! Everyone in the school has been assigned a part and we are working hard to learn our lines, dance moves, actions and lyrics to the songs. Check out Lorilei's poster that she created using the canva website.

Cross Country Training

Cross Country Training is underway! Every Monday, Wednesday and Thursday the Rata and Kauri Teams are hitting the pavement in preparation for our cross country that is happening on Friday 2nd September. That means only 12 days to go!

Nearly everyone in Room 13 has been persevering with running, and trying to set themselves goals and targets to achieve each week. It's great to see students pushing themselves and celebrating their success each time they run. 

Check out these action shots!

Learner of the Week - Week 4, Term 3

Anthem received the class certificate for Week 4.

Last week's certificate went to Anthem because he showed some empathy and cared for others. During cross country, one of our class members fell over and Anthem was one of the first people to help them. He then went on to complete his cross country training. What a great effort! We are all super proud to say that we have someone this thoughtful and caring as part of Room 13 whanau. Ka pai Anthem!

Basketball Super Stars!

This term we have been working alongside specialist coaches. They have been teaching us some basketball skills. We have learnt how to dribble, pass and shoot the ball.



You can check out our individual blogs to find out more about our experience!

PB4L - Play fighting

Every Monday morning we have a PB4L lesson. PB4L stands for Positive Behaviour for Learning. Doing PB4L helps us to focus on our learning. This week's PB4L focus is play fighting. 


Here is the May Road School Way - we need to do these things to ensure that everyone can learn in a safe and happy environment.

Here are the ideas and suggestions from Room 13 about what they think is acceptable and what is not acceptable when it comes to play fighting.

Do you agree with everyone's suggestions?

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Cook Island Maori Language Week

Kia Orana!

Last week was Cook Island Maori Language Week. To celebrate we had a special assembly on Friday. We sang the Cook Island National Anthem, and Kia Orana - one of our favourite songs. Marua performed a beautiful dance with some of the other senior girls. Watch this space for some photos!

Marua performing a Cook Island Dance

Room 2 sharing their tivaevae that they made together

Learner of the Week - Week 2, Term 3

This week's Learner of the Week was Hola. 

Hola recieved his certificate for working well as a great team member. When Hola works in a group, he tries really hard to actively listen, makes sure everyone has a chance to share their thinking and checks that everyone understands.

He is a respectful member of the Room 13 whanau and we are very lucky to have him in our class!

Learner of the Week - Week 1, Term 3

Well done to Vaisioa who was Room 13's first Learner of the Week for Term 3! 

Vaisioa is a great role model at May Road School. She tries really hard to always do the right thing. This means she:

• values herself
• values her learning
• and respects all others

Keep up the great work Vaisioa!

Kauri Team 2016 EOTC Week Highlights

In case you missed it, here are the highlights from our EOTC week!

Out of the Box Day!

We finally have our chromebooks! Duncan Garner from TV3's Story came in to film us getting our chromebooks! It was very exciting and nervous as we knew we were going to end up on TV!

Now that we have our chromebooks we are currently learning how to be digital citizens who are cyber smart!

Swimming Skills

Learning how to swim is an important part of the curriculum. New Zealand is surrounded by water and knowing how to swim is a basic skill that could help save your life.

Liam, Dushon and Rueben (aka Harry Potter) came in at the beginning of term one to teach us how to swim. We had 10 sessions with them in the water and we learnt how to float on our front and roll over onto our back. 

 

Practising floating on our backs

Some of us learnt how to do freestyle and some of us learnt how to do backstroke. 

Learning how to kick

Putting the kicking motion into action

Preparing to use our arms in freestyle swimming 

In our last session, we had to work cooperatively in groups to build a boat. This was a real test of our team work abilities!

 

                                    

                                    

We have been practising these skills every chance we get to go in the pool and we have all made some great improvements in our swimming!

Learner of the Week x4

A big congratulations goes to Jordyn who was the first 2016 Learner of the Week for Room 13. Jordyn demonstrated her willingness and enthusiasm to help others during the first 4 days of school. It's awesome to have someone in our Room 13 whanau with such a big heart. Keep up the great work Jordyn!






Week 2's Learner of the Week went to Katalina. We've been doing swimming lessons with specialist coaches recently, and Katalina persevered with her swimming, even when the going got tough! We're really proud of her because she kept trying and didn't give up, despite it being really hard!











We have all been focusing on actively listening. This means we look at and face the person who is speaking. We listen carefully and ask the speaker questions about what they have said. Our Learner of the Week in week 3 was Hola. He received his certificate for being an active listener ALL THE TIME! He demonstrated that he can actively listen in the classroom, at assembly, in the swimming pool, in the playground... EVERYWHERE! What a fantastic achievement Hola! It's great that you can apply this skill no matter where you are!

Our Learner of the Week for week 4 was Ausage. During reading time, Ausage persevered to sound out new words. He has developed some really good strategies to help him work out unknown words and he never gave up. Great effort Ausage! Keep it up!!

We are super proud to have such amazing students in Room 13! We can't wait to see who will be our next Learner of the Week! 

Welcome to 2016!

Welcome back! 

2016 is going to be a super exciting adventure! Keep an eye out for some amazing learning!

Here are just some of the super awesome learners that are part of the Room 13 whanau this year!