MOA Awards 2014: Sonic Studios Highlights

On November 11th there was a special event for the Schools that comprise the MOA Cluster - thats Matapu, Opunake and Auroa Primary School. A special awards ceremony was held at the Opunake Events Centre to recognise Digital Excellence from our Schools. Mr Bloor produced the following highlights video of the evening. He always does an incredible job with his work and yet again this is another amazing example of his fantastic work. Emily, Kaiah and Room One were all recognised for their fantastic work during the year.

Procedural Writing: Making a Sandwich

Kaiah - Dark Horse: Best MOA Awards Music Video

In the 2014 MOA Awards we had some students from Room One who did exceptionally well.  Emily as you know was one of four Room One Finalists for 'Senior Student Blog of the Year' and the eventual winner.  We also had Kaiah as a finalist in that catergory, and also for Best Senior Music Video - a catergory that she won against some great competition.   This is the award winning entry that she created and starred in, which qualified her for the grand prize.

Dark Horse - Kaiah from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Hunger Games: Book Character Day

This Google Presentation was created by Meg and Emily from Room One, Auroa Primary School.  Last Thursday we had our Character Book Day, and this character from the Hunger Games series was created by Meg from Room One and Emily from Room One.

Auroa Primary School 1-2-3...

On Thursday 23rd of October Room One was lucky enough to have five students competing in the Y7/8 Lions Speech Competition Final at the Kaponga Town Hall.   Will, Michael, Tom, Emily and Riley P. did an exceptional job representing Auroa Primary School against students from Kaponga Primary School, St Patricks Kaponga and Matapu School.

The results for Auroa were impressive because Auroa achieved the perfect result.  The 2014 winner (and defending champion) was Tom from Room One.   Emily was placed as Runner Up and Riley P. took third place.  Tom and Emily are now moving forward to the next stage of competition finals taking place in Hawera in early November.  We wish them the very best of luck.

Calf and Lamb Day 2014

Not only was it the most important show day at Auroa Primary School this year its probably the event that has generated the most questions and interest from our visitors around the world: Calf and Lamb Day.  To view a recount of the entire day from the perspective of a student entering a calf click on the link to Alice's blog here.  To read about the Championship winning Senior Lamb you can click on the link to Emilys Blog (which will shortly reach the mark of 10,000 pageviews for the year!) here.   You can also see a photo of the reserve (runner up) lamb by clicking on the link to Lucas's blog here.   You can read Izzy's recount about being in the Calf competition here.

The slideshow that you can view below here is of some of the art activities that students from Auroa Primary School were involved in this year.  In each classroom students had to produce four pieces of art for judging.  The 'Snail' picture that you can see on this post is Riley P's prize winning snap. Calf and Lamb Day 2014 Art on PhotoPeach

Auroa Primary School Repurposing Market Day

Today Auroa Primary School held their Re-Purposing Market Day. One of our students, Emily, whose had nearly 8,000 pageviews on her student blog, wrote this recount and created this slideshow about the event. You can source the original post on her blog here. 

Today was a very important day for our school, our unit topic for this term is "Re-purposing - the art of turning something old and making it new again" Every student enjoyed it but without a doubt the best part for me was the market day. At the start of term we all chose a re-purposed product that would be thoroughly tested and tried over the next few weeks. Our group chose an original idea called "Drinking Jars"

The Concept-

It was made of a Re-purposed jar, taped with a stripy design and then spray painted, once you peel the tape off it reveals a nice design we then drilled holes into the lids and added a straw. Afterward we filled it with juice for our customers. But the great part is, it can be used again, and again, and again!
We thought our idea was pretty cool.  Everyone must have thought so too because the customers kept pilling in so much that we actually sold out in a matter of minutes!  However there are also many other businesses and classes that need to be credited for their hard work and dedication.  Here is a slideshow with a few photo's capturing the day in all it's glory.

Market Day 2014 on PhotoPeach

Emily and Megs AKO Currency Investigation

Here is a slide show that Emily and I made. Its all about currency all around the world. Hope you like it. This work was created by two of our Room One students, Meg and Emily.

Taranaki Trophy R2 Vs. St Josephs Hawera

On Tuesday 5th August 2014 Auroa Primary School hosted St Josephs Hawera in Round Two of the Taranaki Trophy Y7/8 Sports Competition.  The two schools played against each other in the three competition sports, Rugby, Netball and Soccer.

This video, created by Kaiah and Emily from Room One, this video shows highlights of the Netball game between the two schools.   Auroa are in the blue and orange and Hawera are in the purple.   Filmed at Auroa Primary School, Taranaki, New Zealand on Tuesday 5th August 2014.
Netball VS St Joes Hawera 2014 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Highlighting some fanatic Rm1 Holiday Work

Thank you for your visit to our class page. Currently students in New Zealand are on the second week of their two week break between term two and three. Our students will be returning to school on Monday 21st of July for class as normal. In the meantime theres some fantastic work from our students to highlight in the meantime. Emilys Blog continues to go from strength to strength and soon she will reach the 7,000 pageviews mark. You can keep up to date with her fantastic postings, including her review of the New Plymouth Phantom of the Opera here.

We've been successful during these holidays with our Basketball team winning the Langton Cup, a local competition you can read a report about it by the tournament MVP (Girls) Isabelle here.  We've also had students completing work independently in the holidays.  Have a look at Alyssa's review of Frozen here.

Gemma played in the Taranaki Development A Team - you can read this recount of her tournament here.

Alice has just returned from holiday in Fiji.  While she was there she took a number of photos and has since created a slideshow with some amazing images from her time away.  You can click on this link to view her work.

There are also some other fantastic Auroa Primary School Class Blogs Ongoing.  Mr Spice has just celebrated a fantastic achievement - 15,000 page views this year! Room Eight have posted some great pictures from the snow, which you can see here.  Mrs Ericisson Class produced some outstanding examples of our Ako, Repurposing.  You can see their amazing planter boxes here.

To those of you on holidays, in New Zealand or in the Northern Hemisphere about to experience a new school year, please don't hesitate to drop us a line or get in contact shortly.  Look forward to seeing you next week.

New Zealand compared to Hawaii

One of our collaborations that has recently taken place is a collboration betweeon our students in Auroa, Taranaki, New Zealand with students from Illima Intermediate School in Hawaii.  Our students have look at comparing and contrasting ourselves and our students with theirs.  There's considerably more material to come this slideshow was created by Dayna and Emily from Room One.

4,000 Individual Students hits... and amazing work...

This week we've had two students from Room One, Auroa Primary School have over 4,000 hits on their individual student blogs. Izzy reached the mark slightly ahead of Emily. All of our students have done an amazing job with their students blogs which have been created for the first time for our school.

Next term one of our major events is a Digital Awards for our Moa Cluster which includes Auroa Primary School, Matapu Primary School and Opunake Primary School.    There are an entire raft of awards that will be competed for, one of these is for digital photography, Emily from Room One, whose blog is Emily's E-mazing Smarticles has just published a slideshow of some of her photography.  Its a stunning piece of work that can be viewed by clicking on the link here.

I-Movie Mania!

Last Friday I had a blast, helping Juniors in discovery learning time which is a Junior activity for years 0-4, and every week it has a theme last week the theme was music, And I was lucky enough to teach three talented kids how to make their very first I-Movie! This project was for my Digi key which is based around technology and how you can use it in everyday life, Have a look at Paige and Ben's I-Movie they made, feel fee to give them some feed-back they would love to hear from you! Thanks for watching, Emily from Emily's E-mazing Smarticles.

Ben's Best Movie!
This is Ben's movie about a musical discovery time! He had so much fun making it he didn't want it to end! This is his super-hero based movie, He hopes you will enjoy it!

 
Bens Best Movie from Myles Webb on Vimeo.


Here is Paige's Best Movie she had fun recording and choosing her theme she thought it was a great app and said she would love to use it again! She couldn't wait for you to see it.

Paige's Best Movie Discovery 2014 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Barefoot at School In Auroa, New Zealand

As part of the #2014gbc (Global Blogging Challenge) we've been asked to create a lesson this week for our global audience.   Yesterday in class the students had to plan a film which was targeted at being between thirty and forty five seconds in length, taught a lesson and reflected something that was unique to New Zealand.   The video was created by Emily, Izzy and Gemma and came about from a comment we've had about our students in New Zealand having bare feet at school.   Planning and storyboarding took place yesterday afternoon and this morning.  The students also fully edited the project and produced it themselves.

Bare Feet #gbc from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Interschool Athletics 6/3/14 @ Kaponga

Kizoa slideshow: Athletics 2014 - Slideshow

Today Auroa Primary School competed in the local Schools Athletic Competition. Although the event ended at 2:30pm a number of students from APS went home and independently wrote or produced material about this event. Want to see footage from the event, look at the slideshow above that was created by Emily. Want to know what it was like at the event you can read recounts from those students involved from Gemma, Alice or Emily on their blogs. We have hyperlinked them for you to have a look at the students awesome work.

Life Education Trust @ Auroa Primary School

ALICE HAVING FUN WITH HAROLD!! - slideshows