Robot Wars - STEM Expo

Procedural Writing: How to Make a Sandwich

Procedural Writing: How to Make a Sandwich from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

This is the photo essay publishing of a video created by students in Imovie that shows the steps that you need to take to make a Nutella Sandwich. Filmed by Lucas, Tom and Michael and recored at Auroa Primary School on Tuesday 18th November.

Australian Junior Robocup 2014

Do you know who are the national champions for Australia for the Junior Robocup? That's correct the answer is Auroa Primary School from Taranaki, New Zealand. As regular readers of this site will know earlier this year the Robo's (James, Tom, Michaela and Lucas) completed the Junior Robotics Robocup Triple Crown winning first the regional Whanganui Robocup Competititon, then winning the New Zealand National Competition in Dunedin before travelling to Brisbane to take on the Australians. The Boys triumphed in that and this video is a combination of photography and film from that event. Created by Lucas and James, Room One, Auroa Primary School, by footage supplied by Mrs Knappman.

Junior Robocup - Australian Nationals. from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Mt Spa Soccer Results 2014

Today at Kaponga School, Auroa Primary School claimed a famous double.  Auroa had two teams in the Y5/6 competition, both managed to qualify for the semi-finals, then had to play off against each other.   Rico, Danielle and Riley's team was able to progress through to the final against Opunake Primary School, where they were able to triumph with Caleb scoring a hat-trick.

In the Y7/8 Competition, Auroa again fielded two teams, looking to win a competition that we had not won for fifteen years.   Tom and Michaels team found the going tough but represented the team well, including a legendary goal from Tom against Kaponga, scored from half way.

The real story of the competition came from the other team featuring Keifer, Isabelle, Heavenlee, Logan, Lucas and Captained by Harley (and others).  Pool play saw them defeat Kaponga B 3-0, draw with Matapu School 0-0.  In the final pool game the team played against a strong Rahotu team and lost 0-1.   This meant that qualification for the semi-finals could only occur if other results went Auroa's way.

This duly occurred leaving Auroa to take on top qualifiers, Kaponga 'A' in the semi-finals.  A game that was drawn 0-0 at full time, with numerous chances went to sudden death extra time.  Lucas floated an amazing cross into Logan who drilled the ball first time in the roof of the net.   This meant Auroa were in the final, and had to play against the Rahotu team they'd lost to in pool play.   Logan again proved the difference, striking from just past half way early in the first half.  The strike proved crucial because despite numerous chances  from both teams, including the opportunity for a brace for Logan, the final score remained 1-0, with Auroa claiming the win for the first time since 1999.

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 School: Australian Robocup Champions!

Breaking News! The Robos Auroa Primary School Robotics team 'the Robos' have had an amazing achievement claiming first place in the Australian Robocup Competition!

The Boys are already regional and national champions and today in Australia, the team have been declared champions competing not only against teams from Australia but China as well. We are going to be publishing footage and details of the event when it comes to hand.
The Robos 25/9/14 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.
In the meantime for those of you who want to see what all the fuss was about this video is from Thursday 25th September, the day before Tom, Lucas, James and Michael travelled to Australia for competition. They showed their full performance, which was considerably different from previous versions to the school. Recorded by Harley from Room One.

This version of the performance is significantly different from the boys national winning performance, for Australia the Boys had to work with a three metre square mat (instead of 1.8m).  Also in the New Zealand version our Boys were limited to four robots, for Australia the team had to adapt to having unlimited robots as well.

On behalf of the school we would like to congratulate all the team, their families and friends for the fantastic support that they have received for this amazing achievement.   It goes without saying that there is significantly more material to come.

Taranaki Daily News Online: Robotics.

Those of you who missed the feature on 'The Robos' Auroa Schools National winning Robotics Theatre Champions can access the article online from here.    The big news at school from last week is the fact that the team of Tom, Michael, James and Lucas (all from Room One) are now preparing for the Australian Robocup which is taking place this weekend in Brisbane, Australia.  

The team is preparing all this week, before departing on Friday on this hugely exciting adventure.  A great opportunity for students to fly the flag of Auroa Primary School overseas.

Auroa School Robotics: The Regionals

Such excitement at the moment at Auroa Primary School. Earlier this year we had a number of teams (nine) competing in the Robocup Regionals at Whanganui. This was the first step for our teams for an attempt at the national New Zealand title. The Robos, Tom, Lucas, Michael and James were able to win the regional competition and as some of you will know from visiting our class page or school page they have also recently triumphed and won the New Zealand Title for Robotic Theatre. We couldn't be more proud of the boys and their fantastic effort. We've been holding onto some amazing footage at the different stages of competition and now its been completed we are able to officially share some of the previously footage was a closely guarded secret. This is the footage of the original Whaganui Robocup Prize Winning Performance, the team (les James who was unavailable as he was overseas) taking the title in convincing fashion.

The Robos: Whanganui Robocup Performance from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

The biggest news related to this are not only The Robos regional, and national champions, later this term they are taking on the Australians as the team are preparing to go to Australia for the Australian Robocup at the end of the month. We will be of course updating the blog with posts about this and shortly sharing footage with you of the Boys National winning performance in Dunedin.

Eco Envelopes Business Presentation

Auroa Primary School in the News

In Todays South Hawera Star the Cover Story is a feature on our Whanganui Regional Winning Robotics Team of Lucas, James, Michael and Tom. As well as being a local paper, with it being delivered locally its also featured online on Stuff.co.nz. You can read the original article by clicking on the link here.

The team is extremely excited with the Robocup Nationals coming up in Dunedin in September.

Room One''s Business Survey: Tom and Lucas

For our AKO inquiry this term, and next term, we are looking at Repurposing. As part of that the students of Room One have formed businesses and are currently looking at surveying their potential customers. We've used Google Forms to create survey questions for our customers. The first group to create the Google Forms are Tom and Lucas. You can click on the link to the students blogs.

Wanganui Robocup 2014 Results

Today, on Saturday 27th June seven teams from Auroa Primary School travelled to Wanganui Intermediate School to take part in the regionals for the 2014 Junior Robocup.  The teams were competing in the 'Dance Theatre' section of the competition.

Winning the competition were Tom, Lucas and Michael, the Robos, who also had a member unable to attend (James).  The runners up, and winners of the peoples choice award were Emily, Alice and Izzy, the Poi Princesses.  Third place went to the Udder Bludders and a highly commended went to the Country Boyz.   While not everyone was lucky to attend the event we made sure that we recorded images and film from today, which we will be posting online in the coming days.

RoboCup2014 - Video Maker

Vs. Manaia Primary School

Filmed by Jack from Room One on Thursday 4th April Highlights from the Coastal Rugby League (Y5/6) competition. Auroa Primary School take on the runners up Manaia Primary School. Manaia are in the black and Auroa are in the dark blue with orange. Tournament MVP Danielle, from Auroa Primary School, had another strong game. Edited by Lucas and Jack.
Y5/6 Rugby League vs. Manaia from Heath Chittenden on Vimeo.

Auroa Primary School Recounts about Swimming

This week for writing our students have been focussing on completing reports about the event that took place on Monday, our 2014 Auroa School Swimming Sports from Stratford.  

Students have spent the week working on a piece of writing about the event.  They planned, edited, reworked and finally published their writing.

We also focussed this week on writing an introduction or a hook that got the attention of the audience.  This came in two ways.  The first as you can see from our student blogs on the right hand side was the fact that we have 30 individual blogs.

We posed the questions to students - what is a title that they could include for their blog that would gain peoples attention.    

Some of the students work you can view from the students of Room One about the invent include:

• Swimmers Luck by Kaiah
• Swim it to win it! by Alice
• In the Water by Luke
• Every Stroke Counts by Tahana
• Under the Water by Lucas
• Fast and Past by Riley M.

Which of these titles to you think are the most effective? Which titles make you want to click on the link to the students work? Which of these are an effective 'hook?'

#2014gbc 1-2-3 Home!

This video is another video from our students for the #2014gbc. As part of the learning behind this our students had to create, design and plan a fim, 30 to 45 seconds in length, that could be used to teach others something. Lucas, Tom and Harley choose '3-2-1 Home' which is a game they have played. This was filmed at Auroa Primary School on Wednesday 19th March 2014.


123 Home for #2014gbc from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Auroa Primary School@Inter School Athletics 6/3/14

This video is the final video highlights from Inter School Athletics at Kaponga on 6/3/14.  Auroa Primary School (in their traditional orange uniform competed against six other local schools.

Interschool Kaponga Athletics 6/3/14 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Auroa Primary's 3d Printer!

We're very excited in Room One that this week our School took delivery of our new 3d Printer.  We've spent the last two or three days organising the printer, running test prints and preparing to problem solve with it.  If you are unsure about a 3d printer and what it is capable of you can view this new item here or have a look at the Room 8 class page, as their students posted about it this morning.

Auroa Schools 3D Printer from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

This video is the test print of a balloon car, which didn't work perfectly, but was pretty close.  We are continuing to refine our printer and our students are confident that we can get it working completely early next week.   This video was filmed, time lapsed and put together by Lucas from Room One on Friday 28th February 2014.

Does your school have a 3d printer? What can you make using a 3d printer? What school application should we have with it? What can we consider using it for?

Auroa Primary School - Tour of the School Library

Room One students are currently producing tour films of a particular aspect of Auroa Primary School. Each student has individually planned a film highlighting an interesting area of our school. The criteria was the movie had to be two to three minutes in length, explain an area of the school paying special attention to our audience including those people from overseas who might not be familiar with some aspects of school in New Zealand. This video is a tour of our school library, filmed by Tom and Lucas. Produced and edited by the students on Friday 21st February 2014.
Lucas and Tom Libary from Myles Webb on Vimeo.
Questions to consider: have the students answered the brief? What criteria could they improve on? Do you think that the 'dive' part of the movie (into the beanbag) is appropriate?