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Jadyens Farming Blog

Some of our students have been hard at work during the holidays - School in New Zealand is on our break between Term 1 and Term 2 and our students will be returning to School on Monday 2nd May to start the new school term.

Jayden has been busy publishing work on his entry for the 2016 MOA Kluster Blog - related to farming.  He's been producing some interesting work - this video is a series of images, some of which have been time lapsed that focus on a milking session at his families cow shed -



He's also been documenting some of the other activities that are taking place on the farm. You can click on the link here to visit his student page here.

Taranaki Survivor 2016: Cast Announcements

Two further contestants have put their hand up to be contestants in the 2016 season of Taranaki Survivor. Already confirmed for this coming season are Natalie, Caro and Ebony. Today we can confirm two more contestants for this coming competition - the first is Jayden, who was the very first contestant to exit last years series. The second is the first contestant confirmed from Room Three for this year Regan. There is still time to confirm your entry into the 2016 competition; you need to email or Google Drive share it to Mr Webb as soon as possible. This is Jayden effort:
IMG_0428 (1) from myles webb on Vimeo.
This competition is already shaping up to be the most dramatic ever. The prize will be the biggest single prize in the history of the online internet classroom competitions. Last years competition has gone down in history as one of the most intense ever with a following from around the world and unparalleled viewing figures... 2016 season will be history in the making and there is still a chance to compete... but be quick soon the slots will be filled...

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.

MOA Awards 2015: Best Educational Video

Last night at the Sandfords Events Centre in Opunake, the MOA Kluster Celebrated their 2015 Awards Ceremony. There were a host of awards during the ceremony and there's several posts about the event to come during the next few days. There were some fantastic work on show which we intend showcasing in the coming days. Room Three's work featured in several categories including our nomination for 'Best Educational Video: Intermediate'. This was a group of students: Rico, Mackenna, Jayden, Caro and Jorja who created a model of the Hawera Water Tower in Minecraft and then conducted a virtual tour of the structure. We were very excited that they won the award and their winning video is below:
Winner231_Auroa from myles webb on Vimeo.

Coastal Vs. Auroa Highlights 14/8/2015

Today at Auroa Primary School Auroa hosted Coastal School from Taranaki as part of the Y7/8 Taranaki Trophy Sports Competition.

The Schools competed in Soccer (won 0-1 by Coastal School), Netball - won 28-7 by Auroa and Rugby Union.   The ten a side competition was a tough encounter with Coastal School in the Black and White and Auroa Primary School in the Blue and Orange.    Highlights from this game were filmed by Jayden from Room Three (today) and edited by Jayden and Harry from Room Three.

  

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.

Student Posts about the Weetbix Triathalon

Today we had a large number of students competing in the Weetbix Tryathalon in New Plymouth - this is a huge event, one of the biggest single sporting events in our area this year.   Students who competed didn't make it to school, but that didn't stop two students from Room Three posting as soon as they got home.  If you'd like to read all about the 2015 Weetbix Tryathalon you can visit Caro's wonderful blog with her awesome posts here.  You can also read and see about her recent trip to Wellington to compete in the Colour Run.

Jayden's been producing some amazing work, you can read about his experience by clicking on his blog here.  Not only can you see about his effort and what he thought of the Tryathalon - you can read about some of his fantastic farming related posts that he's been creating involving his farm on his blog here.

There's also some other wonderful student blogs - you can see the full list by clicking on the side bar on the Room Three Blog.

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.

School Triathlon Recount: Jayden

W.A.L.T: I am writing a recount about a school event.


On Wednesday the school had a triathlon we were lining up go to the filed my heart
was bolting I was so nervous all the little kids had gone. Intimidated your up "Mr Tia said on
your mark get set go said Mr Tia" When Mr Tia said go we bolted to the ground."2 laps
Around the field you can do this I said to my self " 1st lap down 4.60 meters around the field.
2nd lap around 3.60 meters then run to my bike.

Bike from school to fords farm then back to school on the way up it was hard biking
up to fords on the way back it was easy biking then 2 tracks came along and I just
about fall off my bike because of the wind from the tracks.The girls are gaining on the boys behind
me. Then we got back to school then we had to swim.

Swim 2 lengths of the school pool which were 1st length 25 meters 2nd length 25
meters all together 1.25 meters then got out of the pool and got dressed then went
and got my justice ice block the day ends with a sausage and drink.

Jaydens Introduction to Room Three

Jaydens Room 3 Introduction from Myles Webb on Vimeo.