Calf and Lamb Day 2014: Calves

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Calf and Lamb Day: Lamb Photos

Today at Auroa Primary School we held of annual Calf and Lamb Day, a huge event for our school and a wonderful event for so many of our students. These images were taken by Logan from Room One during the event.

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Robotics Nationals: Robocup

We've got some very exciting events coming up shortly our Girls Basketball and Golf teams are travelling to Tauranga to compete in the NZAIMS Tournament.   That same week on Friday we have our Robotics Team 'The Robo's' travelling to Dunedin to compete in the Robocup Nationals.  Of course they've got a super secret performance and we can't share footage of their actual show, but will be doing so at the completion of the nationals.  These shots were taken by Logan from Room One.

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Auroa Primary Schools 3d Printing Project

Thank you for your visit to our class page. Students in New Zealand are currently on their term two holiday breaks and will return to school on the week starting Monday 21st July. Our students have continued publishing in the meantime and you can see examples of these from the students blogs on the right hand side of our page. One of our most popular posts that occurred from last terms work was our 3d Printing Project. We've had a group of students working independently on a problem solving project. The students have identified the problem and moved through the problem solving process. The slideshow about the project has been updated and reflects the students progress. The project has undergone twelve or so prints that have detailed the significant changes in the project as the students have continued to adapt their production. The best part has been the students who are the ones driving the project. They are also responsible for creating this video detailing the progress: Where to next? On the first week of the term the students from Room One are going to mount the hinge on the door and ensure its completed and works. This will involve further testing and checking, and possibly more production. Our students will continue to document this process and post it online. Stay tuned and see you from 21st July.

3d Printer Design Classroom Project

During the past several weeks a group of Auroa Primary School students have been working on a design project with our 3d Printer.   As mentioned in the original post it centred around a broken latch for a classroom cupboard in Room One.

Today was an exciting day in class as the students believe that they have solved the problem.  The latch has taken many designs and many forms from its original incarnation to the version that has been printed in the last day.   You can see details of this in the video created by the students.  Michael and Logan, with the assistance of James, who is currently overseas have driven a project from the start.

They have identified the problem, created the design on paper (in their own time), designed it virtually (using Tinkercad), printed versions of the latch, re-designed the latch several times (currently in its eleventh version) and continued to re-model and redesign the latch.  They are at the point were they have created a 'ball and joint' mechanism, modelled on a socket design, that fits perfectly and will tomorrow be attached to the cupboard to solve the problem.


3D printer project: cuboard clips from Myles Webb on Vimeo.


A student solution to a problem with a great process and we couldn't be more proud of them.   This video below was created by the students and detailed the entire process.   The students are currently re-working a Google Presentation about the process which will be posted shortly.  This video created by Michael and Logan on Thursday 3rd July, 2014.

Classroom 3d Printer Project

Now that we have our 3d Printer up and running in class, we've had some students working on projects in their own time. The first project, which started last term, consists of a group of boys who have been looking to replace a broken hinge in the sink cupboard of the Room One classroom. This has been completely student driven and has meant that the boys involved have spent considerable amounts of their own time working on the project, but they have a done a fantastic job. Next week we are going to begin the final testing and evaluation of the project and we will be posting the results and details on the students blogs and on our class page.

Auroa Primary School Electives: Kiddy Carts

Friday was a special day for the students of Auroa Primary School, the start of school wide electives. Each Friday the students from Auroa Primary School have the opportunity to take part in a lesson in a different context during school wise electives. Students have lessons from 12pm to 1pm, with two special electives starting at 10:30am. One of these is 'Kiddy Karts' where the students have an opportunity to ride minature ponies with a sulky. These images were organized by Logan from Room One. Special thanks to Mr Chittenden (Senior) and Mr Chittenden (Junior).

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Auroa Primary School 3D Printer Project

Our first project with Auroa Primary Schools 3D printer is going to be completed this week. We've had a group of students working on a practical problem in the classroom that they felt needed to be solved. The cupboards that are under the sink don't have working hinges for the door and as a result the doors dont shut properly. (We will be inserting a photograph of the door and the hinge here so you can see what we are trying to achieve in more detail).

The boys have been through the entire process by themselves. They have identified the problem, they've drawn plans up about what they want to create, this is Michaels original diagram. The next step for the students was to use Tinkercad to create prototypes

for the hinge.

You can see from the diagrams that there are three distinct versions, thats because Michael, James and Logan have all had differing ideas about whats going to work best. James has three entirely separate designs, so there are five in total. This week were going to 3D print all five and see which of the designs works best and which need to be refined. If none of the designs work, its back to the drawing board until we can get a solution. You can click on all of the links to the individual blogs of the students involved in the process.