Room 10 Tawa School

Hello, It has been a busy week with lots of assessment and testing.  Sam and I are really pleased with the progress all the students have made.  The class are back into routines and have been really excited and interested in our Inquiry lessons this week.  We started on Tuesday with writing up our Floating and Sinking experiment.  Students had to find objects that they thought would sink or float and predict what would happen and reasons for it.  They also had to observe what happened and describe it. The second group of photos are students learning about millimeters, centimeters and meters.  They had to estimate the length of classroom items and then measure them. We have swimming on Monday at 11.45am and on Thursday we start our cricket skill sessions at 9am.  Please ensure your child brings a wide brimmed hat to school. Due to the warm weather that  we have been enjoying lately they should have a t-shirt underneath a long sleeve top so th...

Tena Koutou, Welcome back to Term 4.  We have already had a great start to the term and most students are showing respectful and responsible behavior.  They have got settled back into their class routines and learning. Some points for you to note. Monday        - Swimming in middle session                      - Orange spelling booklets go home. Wednesday   - Skill cricket                       - Wheels Wednesday Thursday       - Spelling testing                       - Library visit     Friday            - Arts Rotation and Kapa Haka                             - Assembly (odd weeks)      This term our learning is focusing on: ...