Action Pack Thursday

Last Thursday started like every other Thursday with hui and then workshops but that was about to change.  We were all invited to enjoy the performance from the Burnside roadshow.  They had a number of their performance groups with them including the Brass Band, senior choir and rock bands.

It was great to see what opportunities were at Burnside for us in the future should we choose music.

After the Roadshow we had our usual lunch and then it was time to put our running practise into action with the school cross country.  It was an impressive effort by all with many individuals beating their personal goals and challenges they had set.  It was a very hot day but the event ran smoothly and there were smiles all round.

You would think that is all you could fit into a day but no! Later in early evening we finished our day with a touch of culture as families got together for a mix and mingle.  Another successful night with great food. A big thank you to all who made the evening a huge success.  

So I wonder what will next Thursday bring?

Happy Campers

We are all safely home and hopefully resting. Everyone will certainly sleep well tonight. We were all looking energetic this morning though, towards the end of our camp.  A huge thank you to our parent help team, you were amazing.

Hello from Living Springs

We have been having a ball at Living Springs Camp.  There has been a lot of walking especially on the first day but it is worth it. As the activities are awesome.  Here

are some of the highlights from today.  We will upload more when we get back to school.  Having too much fun.

Friendship Adverts

Friendship Adverts

The Team have been working on writing friendship advertisements. In these adverts we had to include: What we want in a friend, different sentence starters and a good ending.

It was important writing these adverts

because you can make new friends and they might ask you, ‘can I be your friend?’

This is what happens: First someone comes up to your advert and reads it. After they read it, they flip up the name tag to see whose advert it is. If you think you can be their friend then go up to them and say, ‘hi,’ because they might include you to what they are doing.

By Crystal And Gloria

Walking Wednesday

This week Whanau Paikea and Tahu Potiki arrived to put our camp gear to the test.  After getting our back packs on we all took off in our groups to walk 3kms
around the block.  Half way round we then practised our road crossing in lines.  The walk was the first of our pre camp walks. We are looking forward to our Wet Weather Walking Wednesday next week where we will put our wet weather camp gear to the test. 

Camp Information

Kia ora Whanau,

Camp is almost upon us and we are in full swing.  We are aiming to have a folder on the Blog with all the notices that have been handed out.  As I am a new Blogger this has stretched my abilities and I am on a fast learning curve.  In the mean time I have copied the gear list below.  There will be more information to come soon.  Kia ora Danielle

You Cubed Maths

You Cubed Maths Week of Inspirational Maths

Whanau Paikea and Tahu Potiki have been exploring mathematical concepts through Standford University's You Cubed Math Week of Maths.  Each day we watch an inspirational video clip from Jo Boaler and her team.
In our first session Whanau Paikea had a huge success with the activity Four 4's.  In this activity we had to use four 4's to represent every number from 1 - 20. Some of the numbers were very hard to work out but once we came together and shared our ideas from the workshop groups we were able to complete the task.

You were able to use an combinations of operations .   Answers did not have to follow BEDMAS rules as we were working through them orally but the next step would be to make sure they follow the mathematical rules.  If you are interested in any of the You Cubed Math activities follow the link to the You Cubed Website at  You Cubed Math

Kia ora

Term 1 2018

Kia ora koutou and a warm welcome to our Year 5 students and those of you
who are new to Avonhead this year. A warm welcome also to all your
family/whānau. We hope you feel at home within our team.

We  welcome Mrs Danielle Lane, an excellent experienced teacher from
Lyttelton Primary and Miss Amelia Page, a beginning teacher with a wealth
of new ideas, talents and knowledge. Mrs Hayley Ellison, who is already part
of our Avonhead whānau, will release Amelia (every Wednesday) and Tim
(every second Tuesday). Hayley is a real asset to our team and we are really
looking forward to having her in this new role as well as being a release teacher
for the other teachers in the team throughout the year.

This is where we all are:
Mrs Robinson - Room 17,
Miss Page - Room 18,
Mrs Rule - Room 19,
Miss de Beus - Room 20,
Mrs Lane - Room 21, and
Mr Weusten - Room 22.

During the year students will be working with a range of teachers.  
We believe that to provide our students with rich programmes, students
are best to be grouped flexibly. We will spend the first 4 weeks within our  
‘home room classes’ to get to know one another socially and academically.  
Students within Mr Weusten, Mrs Lane and Miss de Beus’ classes will be
clustered into one whānau group (Paikea) and students within Mrs Robinson,
Mrs Rule and Miss Page’s classes will be in another whānau group
(Tahu Pōtiki) for the majority of our core protected time (literacy and maths).
This is an area that we are looking forward to developing within our
collaborative, flexible learning programmes.

Welcome aboard everyone. This is our journey. Let the adventure begin!

Team 5+6+7

Whānau Paikea

Danielle Lane - dlane@avonhead.school.nz

Hayley De Beus - hdebeus@avonhead.school.nz

Tim Weusten - tweusten@avonhead.school.nz      
&    Hayley Ellison - hellison@avonhead.school.nz

Whānau Tahu Pōtiki

Amiria Rule - arule@avonhead.school.nz

Amelia Page -  apage@avonhead.school.nz

Michelle Robinson- mrobinson@avonhead.school.nz   
&   Hayley Ellison - hellison@avonhead.school.nz