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.

Snowy the Goat

This video was created by two of our students and features some of their activities from the holidays. It also features Snowy the Goat, whose previously featured on our class page as she is Ashleys pet. 
Snowy the Goat from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

DPE at Auroa Primary School: Fabric Design

Y7 and Y8 students at Auroa Primary School on Fridays have an opportunity to take part in the Schools DPE Program. DPE stands for Design Production Education. The students have an opportunity to learn about Electronics, Food Technology, Robotics and Sewing on Fridays. We have small classes or ten students or so and at our school we have the facilities to run the programs, including our brand new kitchen. This footage of the Sewing DPE lesson was filmed on Friday 1st April by Aroha and Ashley from Room Three. They also fully edited and put together the iMovie.

Auroa School DPE from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Aroha's 125th Jubilee Video

Saturday saw the 125th Jubilee celebrations of Auroa School. There were speeches, official ceremonies and a parade past the school. If you missed the parade then Aroha from Room Three was there with her technology to record the event! During the parade some of the floats were throwing objects into the crowd - which included water bombs and sweets! Filmed at Auroa Primary School on Saturday 12th January 2016.

AUROA SCHOOL 125TH JUBILEE from myles webb on Vimeo.

Announcement Coming...

This Friday at Assembly we will have a special announcement to make. Students who are interested across the senior school in taking part in a regular competition this year will have details about how they can 'audition' for the 2016 season of Taranaki: Survivor. Regular competition will be starting shortly. This promo features some of the characters and events from last seasons competition. You can view all the episodes from last season on the tab above.

Survivor Taranaki 2016 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Coming Soon...

Last year we had a classroom competition in Room Three, based around the TV Show Survivor which ran during Term Three and Four.  This year we've decided to bring the competition back for 2016.  There will be an announcement made at assembly on Friday about the show and how students could possible participate.   If you want to view any of the episodes from last year you can see them on the 'Survivor: Taranaki' tab on our blog.  This promo is for the new season which will start later in the year.  This was created by using iMovie and the trailer option.

Taranaki Survivor: Trailer 2016 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Monarch Butterfly by Paige

Over Christmas we had Monarch butterflies arrive on our Swan Plants (milk weed). So I decided to photograph the stages that they went through. First the Monarch lays its eggs and lots of hungry caterpillars hatch out. It takes about four days to hatch out of the eggs. They ate all the leafs. After two weeks they turned into chrysalis. It took them ages to turn into butterfly. They came out and dried their wings and flew away. These are the photos that I took of what happened.
Monarch butterfly (1) from myles webb on Vimeo.

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.

Jayden's Turning the Hay Video

Another fantastic post from a Room Three student during the holidays - have you ever wonder how hay is produced? Jayden from Room Three has been Hay Making with his Dad and he's created this iMovie of the Process.  Thank you for the visit to our class page - our students are currently on their Summer Holidays and will be back at School February 1st 2016.

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.

Lunch Eating in New Zealand

This awesome short video created by Harry From Room Three is about what and how we eat our lunch at School in New Zealand. We are looking at answering Miss Nicholson and her class who are from the Shetland Islands.

IMG_2160 from myles webb on Vimeo.

Ashton Amazing Post about Rural Life

Ashton one of our students continues to produce work of an amazing quality. He has been leading the way this year with some of his interesting and creative posts. This year he has created a series of posts about his farm and the animals and events that are on it. Today in class we shared his latest post - a iMovie that he filmed, created and edited himself that focusses on the chickens on his farm. You can click on the link to his amazing job here.

Paige's Farming Video

Its a very busy time of the year for a lot of the students of Auroa Primary School as their families are involved in the calving process. Some of our students have taken the opportunity to record some of these events as they happen and post about them on their blogs. You can see what's been happening on Paige's Farm at the moment by watching this video! You can visit her blog here.
Around the Farm from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Auroa Vs. Matapu Crowley Cup 18/6/2015 Results and Highlights

Today Auroa Primary School hosted Matapu Primary School in the semi-final of the Y5/6 Crowley Cup Rugby Competition.  This was an important game in the context of the competition as it was a knock out semi-final match.  The game was hosted today at Auroa Primary School.

Students from Room Three got straight onto the editing of the footage of todays game after lunch - have a look at these awesome highlights from the game created by Katelyn from Room Three.

Crowley Cup Semi-Final Vs. Matapu 18/6/2015 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

The first half saw Auroa taking a commanding 19-0 lead with Rico from Room Three scoring a brace, however Matapu were confident having won the pre-season match and stormed back into the match scoring the next three tries.  Half time saw Auroa talk the shortest of leads 26-24, which Matapu more than matched, scoring first at the start of the second half.  From there Auroa started to take the ascendancy in the game, claiming victory in the end 66-29.   Highlights from the game have already been created.  Auroa are in the Blue with Orange and Matapu are in the Gold. This highlights video was created by Jayden from Room Three. Jorjas report You can also read about the game here.

Rico's iMovie Exploits

Recently we've had some students from Room Three involved in some fantastic activities. This has meant that some students have been managing their time in some creative ways. Rico has been completed iMovies of some of the activities he has been taking part in. His first movie is of his visit to the Sky Tower in Auckland. He took images of the visit and added text and explanation to his work. You can see his original post here:
The skytower from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Jaydens iMovie of Home Improvements

Room Three has some fantastic students who are doing some wonderful posting already this year. We've students who are writing about school events and activities that people are involved in during school and with the local community. Jayden from Room Three has some exciting events happening at his farm at the moment - there's going to be a shift in progress and he decided to document it by filming and recording whats happening. This week he made this iMovie of some of the changes that are being made at home. He produced, edited and put it together publishing it for his blog. 
digger from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Toms Adventures Continues: Blokarting at Oakura Beach

Our students continue to be on their break, returning to school on Monday 5th May 2014. In the meantime just because its the holidays does not mean that the students of Auroa Primary School are not working and posting. Tom just the other day had an amazing post on his blog about the Kayaking that he did on the Whanganui River - and yesterday on his amazing blog he just posted this fantastic video of himself and his Dad with their Blokart. You can click on the original link here.
Blokart Time from Myles Webb on Vimeo.
The tide is out and the wind is up, what does it mean? Blokart time.
Me and Dad having fun at Oakura beach.

School Holidays: Tom Kayaks the Whanganui River

While its the School Holidays in New Zealand at the moment, some of our students are continuing to post on their blogs and be involved in some amazing experiences. This post is by Room Ones Tom, who along with James from our class has been kayaking the Whanganui River.     

This is what Tom wrote about the experience on his blog, you can click on the link below to see his original post.  'This is the first day of Kayaking the Whanganui river, we did it in four days and had lots of fun.  The person that fell out was James.'