Angry birds win!

Thank you to all the Room 19 students and parents who supported quiz night to help raise money for a new swimming pool cover. It was a successful night for the PTA with your support, and also a successful night for Room 19 as we won the quiz!

Simple machines unit

Some photos to come soon of all the great work going on with simple machines. The K'NEX creations have been awesome and it has been great to see groups so engaged.

Welcome back for Term 2!

Highlights at the start of this term will include a fantastic science unit on simple machines, zone soccer, day talent continues, as does Kapa Haka and many other great groups. The news in the playground is that the new cricket pitch is ready for use! Lets hope for some fine whether!

3 Way conferences

Room 19 have been working hard on their 3 Way Powerpoints so they can share with parents where they are at with their learning and what their goals and next steps are. Here is a link for parents to download some information on how you can support your child's learning at home:

http://nzcurriculum.tki.org.nz/National-Standards/Supporting-parents-and-whanau/Resources#supporting_pdfs

Good luck with these ideas, keeping learning fun and doing a little bit often will get the best results.

Botanic Gardens trip

Our recent Botanic Gardens trip was a great experience. Thank you to all the parents who joined us on the trip and helped out. We were able to come back to school with a lot of new learning about raising native plants. We also came back with lots of seedlings to plant on our next Green Day at school.

One of Room 19's goals this year is to make our Nature Trail at school even better!

Congratulations!

A big congratulations to all those who stood up and did a great job of promoting themselves for the job of House Leader. You were not all able to be chosen, but by standing up and speaking to a group and promoting yourself as a potential leader you have all been very successful and deserve a big CONGRATULATIONS!!

Welcome to Room 19 2012

Another great year ahead at MLPS and in Room 19.

Things to look forward to this term: Cricket Zones, Softball Zones, Swimming Zones, Rippa rugby, Talent development, Cricket coaching, Swimming and 3 Way Conferences!

Goodbye, Year 6s!

Monday, 12/12/11, was the Year 6 Leavers Assembly 2011. This is an assembly for all those year 6s who are leaving Marshall Laing Primary School to move on to intermediate in 2012.Every year 6 got a leaving certificate. The dance group, recorder group performed. Every class then chose one person to claim the class medallion. At the end, was the year 6 awards for the students who have done exceptionally well throughout the year. Kinsh, from our class, won the boy’s citizenship award. Vaughan, also from our class, won the Sports award, which Kevin predicted during assembly practice! We will miss you all!! :)

2011 School Athletics

On ahletics day there were lots of activties like......... 50 metres run,
100 metres run, soft ball throw, sprints, long jump, high jump and relays.
It was a hot sunny day and a lot of fun in the morning before we started
we got into lines of ages from 5 to 11. We all ran out fastest, we all jumped our highest, we all jumped out longest, we all did our best. VICTORY!!!

Time at 2011 Senior camp

At camp there was a flying fox, orienteering, poles and planks, playground, rock-climbing, archery, air rifle, confidence course, waterhole, kayaking, indoor games at night and trampoline. You could bring your own tent to share with your friends. At camp we all had and Burma trail course, spotlight game and campfire. Some of us also had cooked marshmallows.

Camp!

Camp is the last week in Term 3! A great challenge and one of the highlights of the year. Our Movie Night again will make a great contribution in fundraising.

Looking forward!

When asked recently at assembly what there was to look forward to at Marshall Laing Primary school over the next few months there were many responses: Zone sports, talent day, ICAS exams, Movie Night, Camp, Student Council Handball Competition and more. There are many exciting events coming up for our very lucky Toitoi Manawa students.

Our brain study

Towards the end of term 1 Room 19 dissected sheep brains as part of our Learning to Learn unit that focused on how we learn. It was an enjoyable and challenging experience that created rich learning.

Filming!

Room 19 has started filming their movie 'Attack of the Orange Soda!'. Here is a picture of one of our props. We have also done some stop motion animation, live action filming, Pivot animation and soundfx.

Stu Duval is coming back!

Stu Duval is coming back to tell us more stories and teach us great things about writing and drawing. Another fantastic opportunity for MLPS students, and a great introduction for next term's writing unit.

Talent Development

Talent Development is a new opportunity for students in the senior school this year. There are a range of options that teachers are offering with a view to extending the experiences and opportunities that students at MLPS can have. The focus for most of the activities is to allow children to have a hands on experience, learning or developing a skill. Some of the options on offer are : Sewing and stitching, Cooking, Design, Sports, A music Band, Enviro gardening group, Painting and more.

Christchurch Earthquake Appeal.

The Christchurch Earthquake Appeal at MLPS raised $1000 for the people of Christchurch. Room 19 would like to thank all the families who contributed to raise this money.

Zone Cricket

MLPS recently enjoyed good success at the Zone Cricket competition at Keith Hay Park. Team A had many talented individuals and also some Year 4 students and did very well to win one of their games and compete strongly. Team B, who were our team of less experienced cricketers, were able to win all of their games and win the B Division. Congratulations to both teams who represented MLPS proudly, displaying great sportsmanship.

Jump Rope

MLPS supported Jump Rope for Heart again this year. Students participated in a round robin of activities before being part of a skipping demonstration. Students and teachers alike were encouraged to wear red clothes or dress in 80s costume.

Green Day

Room 19 has a class garden. We are growing broccoli and spinach seedlings that the school has provided and lettuce and coriander seeds that a student from Room 19 brought into plant. Two years ago Room 19 made silverbeet soup from its garden, I wonder what we will make from this years' harvest!

Three Way Conferences.

A recent focus in Room 19 has been goal setting and then creating Powerpoints for our Three Way Conferences. We are focussing on knowing where we are in maths, reading and writing. Then we are setting goals for where we want to be by the end of term 2. We are then creating next steps and a Powerpoint to explain all this to our parents during Three Way Conferences in Week 9.

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