Ashton's Fantastic Milking Video

Thank you for the visit to our class page.  It is currently the (Summer) holidays here in New Zealand - the students will be back in classrooms from February 1st.  In the meantime some of Room Three's students have been producing some amazing work during the break.  You can see the student blogs with the latest posts on the right hand side of this site.   Ashton has produced this video about milking on his farm the post was originally produced for his blog here.

Ashton's Calf Season

We've some students in Room Three who are very active in competing in the local competitions at various agricultural shows in local towns.  Some of these have been very successful.  One of these students, Ashton, has produced the following video showing his calf exploits this year.

Grand Final Champion at Waverly Show

This is the photograph of the Waverly Show, which some of the Auroa School Students competed in yesterday.

Paige
"On Tuesday it was fun and I got Grand Champion and I also got Supreme Champion over all. I have six trophies now. I got 2nd in leading, 1st in dairy type, Champion for over all dairy type, and Grand Champion. And got two big trophies"

Ashton
"On Tuesday I went to a calf show at Waverly. I got 1st in leading and than I got champion.
And I made it in to the Grand champion. "

Auroa Primary School New Classroom

Want to know details about Room Five at Auroa Primary School? Want to know what it looks like having a classroom (completed already off site!) brought into a school and how it could be done? Want to see it all live? Then click on this video below which was created by Ashton from Room Three - he produced, edited and put together the video of the new classroom for our school!

Our New Classroom has Arrived! from Ashton Sharp on Vimeo.

Senior Blog Posts of the Week at Auroa Primary School

We had two Senior Blogs of the Week at Auroa Primary School for Week Four - we had some amazing postings that we couldn't decide on - however we selected two blogs, both of which have featured here. Firstly this week we have an amazing viewing figure to reach, we are excited because Caro is going to reach 10,000 page views! You can click on her fantastic blog here!

Our other joint winner this week - is another student that's consistently posting some amazing pieces of work.  Ashton has posted a lot of work
themed around his experience at home on his farm - this exceptional post is about a double yolked egg! If you haven't learnt about one and want to know all about it then you should click on this link and see some amazing examples of students blogging.

Mr C's Classroom as Modelled in Minecraft

Double Yolked Eggs: Ashton's Brilliant Work

We've had some students this year produce some incredibly high quality work. We have our MOA Awards coming up later in the year and we have a group of students who are regularly blogging in their own time and producing quality work.

We have a number of students who have been refining their work on iMovie this term - Ashton has been leading the way, inspiring others and you can see some sensational work such as Ashton's original Chicken Video or Caro's Dance Recital. Ashton has completed a second video about his chicken's - this one is detailing a double yolked egg. He completed the entire project in his own time and edited and gathered information himself. You can visit his wonderful student blog by clicking on the link here. This is his amazing, brilliant work.

Some Fantastic Room Three Student Blogs

Not able to personally attend the FIFA Under 20 World Cup here in New Zealand - you don't need to be able to because you can read all about it here on Mackenna's Blog: 

Mackenna today attended the Nigeria Vs. Brazil came which ended up 4-2! You can click on the link to her fantastic blog here. 

Ashton has crated some fantastic posts in 2015, related to his farming experiences here in South Taranaki and detailing some of the creatures he's found on his farm.  This latest post, about the shifting on his farm of the Muscovy Ducks is probably his best post yet. You can click on the link to his amazing blog here.

Ashtons Cattle Truck Video

Ashton from Room Three has produced some simply amazing work this year. His work on Tiger Slugs and Spiders have produced some amazing comments and have been seen all around the world. Over the weekend he's worked to produce another fantastic piece - the loading of Cattle (Cows) onto a truck. He's produced this fantastic iMovie in his own time using his own skills. You can click on the link to his great blog here.

Loading Calves onto a Cattle Truck from Ashton Sharp on Vimeo.

Biggest Classroom Spider: Can You Help?

Ashton with the Vagrant Spider he found by the carshed

Its the final days of the holidays today - Mr Webb's been thrilled during the break with all of the students who have been able to create some amazing posts during the holidays.

Ashton just posted this yesterday - its an amazing post about a Spider he found on his farm, a Vagrant or Prowling Spider.   Ashton's researched the spider, using Google and taken all these photos - you can read all the details on his brilliant post here.  

What we wanted to ask you - what's the biggest spider that you have locally? Can you (safely of course) take a photograph of it? Can you identify what it is? We'd love to here some feedback from some of our online friends!

The Vagrant Spider with a pen so you can see the size.

What information would we need to know about the Spider? Are there sites that you can link to your post with details or information about the spider?

In New Zealand we only have one poisonous spider, the Katipo which is an endangered native spider, which is extremely rare.  There aren't any other poisonous animals and we don't have any snakes.

This isn't the first time that Ashton's posted brilliantly about some of the creatures around us, with help from his Mum he also located the massive Tiger Slug that was found earlier this year.  If you want to read about this creature then you can click on the link to the post on his blog here or see the slideshow that was created when we passed it around for our students to experience.  Jorja also has been catching Eels on her farm, read about it here.

Ashton's Stunning Weetbix Tryathalon Post

We've had some fantastic posts about the Weetbix Tryathalon from students in Room Three, which was a huge event for students from our School. This week its the School Holidays in New Zealand, students are currently on the first week of their two week break between Term One and Term Two.

Ashton's wonderful blog has a sensational post and a video that features the event.  You can click on his great blog here.

Tiger Slug

Tiger Slug on PhotoPeach

This slideshow was created when we had a special guest in the classroom. It was a Tiger Slug that had been brought in by one of our students. It was found on their farm in the Sliverbeet. Its known as the Grey Slug, Tiger Slug and Leopard Slug. It grows to 20cm in length. This was the biggest Tiger Slug that Ashtons Mum has ever seen. Its Latin name was Limax Maximus. It one of the biggest slugs in New Zealand. It eats other slugs and plants. It was introduced into New Zealand from Europe.