Ella and Sophies Timelapse

Cyclone Gita Recount

Cyclone Crazy

My hair was blowing everywhere we were slowly walking to the house , I didn’t speak at all as it was so windy.

“Wow!” I said as we stepped through the door. Grandad looked at the window and grabbed the phone soon my whole family ( my uncle and aunty ,my parents and my cousin) had arrived and were pushing down the tree outside. Apparently the tree could blow onto Grandad’s house. After that we had dinner with Sonya and her Husband .

Then all of a sudden, I heard a shout “ Guys come look!” It was Mario , he was pointing out the window at something. I pushed through the Adults and saw the Palm Kernel trailer rolling through the paddock. Dad rushed outside and drove them out. Nervous that they were going to knock out a Cow!

After dinner Me and Mario were in bed while Dad was outside pushing a tree off the road and Mum was outside with the hazard lights. It was definitely Cyclone Crazy!

R4 2015 MOA Awards Finalists

In term four the MOA Kluster is having our 'MOA Awards' a ceremony held in Opunake where the students from Matapu, Opunake, Auroa and Kaponga are competing for digital excellence.

As part of our thinking about this event we looked at some movies that were produced by R4 students in 2015 - if you look closely you can see some familiar faces that they feature (and also in the background).

This was originally posted on this blog in November 2015. These videos are the finalists form Room Four at the MOA Kluster MOA Awards. You can click on the link to Mr Spice's Classroom Blog here.  

The 2016 Awards are scheduled to take place in Term Four, 2016.

DPE with Opunake High School Students

On Friday at Auroa Primary School we had a special set of guests who helped with the DPE (Technology) program for our Y7/8 students.  We had some former students of Auroa Primary School return and take a cooking lesson as part of their High School curriculum program.    Tiani and Ella from Room Three recorded this footage of the event.

DPE COOKING WITH OPUNAKE HIGH SCHOOL from myles webb on Vimeo.

We are very fortunate to have an amazing resource at our school which is new this year - the kitchen. Thanks to the PTA and BOT of Auroa Primary School we have a fully operational kitchen on site which is used by not just the seniors but is also able to be used by other classrooms of students in our school. This is the video that was created by Ella from Room Three

DPE WITH HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS (1) from myles webb on Vimeo.

Both Tiani and Ella filmed, edited and put together their videos on Friday.

Junior School Engineering

On Friday 6th of May the students of Auroa Primary School Y1-3 (juniors) had an opportunity to try out some engineering tasks in the classroom. This video was created by, edited and published Aroha, Ashley and Ella and shows some of the activities that the students were involved in.

Journal Engineering@APS 6/5/2016 from myles webb on Vimeo.

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