APS Senior School Blog Posts

There's some fantastic Senior School students from Auroa Primary School posting at the moment.

If you have the time we'd suggest that you go and visit Tamara's Blog and find out details of her recent triumph and the Calf and Lamb Day at Stratford which also features her sister, Room Three, Aroha. You can click on the link to her blog here.

You can also visit Meg's Blog, who is also a student from Room One, by clicking on the link here to find out details about her win at the Lamb and Calf Day with her Lamb, and a brief mention of Harry.

Final Tech for 2014

On Wednesday 26th of November students from Auroa Primary School attended their final Technology Session for the year at Opunake High School. Our Y8 students had Food Technology and as a celebration for their final session the students held a dinner at the High School. These images were of the final meal. Year 8's Restaurants on PhotoPeach

Character Book Day: Dayna and Meg's Slideshow

Last week at school Auroa Primary School had their annual Character Book Day, where students came dressed as their favourite book character. This slideshow was created by Dayna and Meg from Room One, created in class on Wednesday 5th November 2014. Book Character Day 2014 on PhotoPeach

Hunger Games: Book Character Day

This Google Presentation was created by Meg and Emily from Room One, Auroa Primary School.  Last Thursday we had our Character Book Day, and this character from the Hunger Games series was created by Meg from Room One and Emily from Room One.

Lamb and Calf Day 2014 Preparation

Its coming this week, the biggest single event of 2014@Auroa Primary School takes place, Calf and Lamb Day. Around one hundred Calf and Lambs have been entered in our competition by our students who will be competing for supreme prize, on Thursday 16th October. As part of the day students are preparing art based activities for displays in the classroom. These photographs are some of the Auroa Primary School students from Monday 13th October 2014.

LambCalfDay2014 - Video Maker

Megs APS Market Day Recount

Sold Out - Meg's Market Day 2014 Recount

My stomach churned as I stepped foot in the classroom. I eyed up the work that need to be done and felt lightheaded. I knew standing there wouldn’t help, so I pulled up my sleeves and got head in work.

Dragging those desks on to the deck and seeing everyone else setup made it feel so much more real. As we lay out our product on the desk war broke out over what goes where and what lay out looked best.

“SALE STARTS NOW” announced Mr Chittenden through his bullhorn. Suddenly a swarm of children came barreling towards us. Coin after coin, Note after note, we were quickly making quite a large profit. After twenty minutes we were sold out and exhausted!

In the end we were all so proud of the product we had put forward to the community and each other. We made around two hundred dollars. Drinking jars are a hit!!!      

Recently we held our School Market Day to celebrate the end of our AKO (inquiry) for Term Two and Three, as regular followers of this blog will know. Each of the students wrote a recount about the significant event. This was authored by Meg from Room One.

Auroa Primary School: Mr Toft's Cup Challenge!

As we mentioned earlier in the week we saw a challenge from Mr Toft in Canada involving rubber bands, string and cups.  You can click on the link to the original post here.  We didn't see the video original video in Canada, it came through Mrs Monaghans A Room With a View site and she posted about it when a class in India competed the challenge.   A great idea that started in one country and now four different countries have completed it at the very least.   Thanks to Mr Toft, Mrs Mongahan for the great idea! Filmed at Auroa Primary School on Wednesday 17th September 2014.

The Cup Challenge 17/9 from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Methanex Mathematics Competition 2014

Last night in New Plymouth Auroa Primary School competed in the 2014 Methanex Mathematics Competition Quiz.   We had two teams competing in the Y7 and Y8 section.   The Y7 team consisted of Meg, Kaiah and Keifer from Room One and Joe from Room Two.  The team were running second for parts of the competition, before finishing 10th out of 22 teams.  You can read Kaiah recount about the event on her blog here.

Following this competition the Y8 team then took up the challenge.  The Y8 team consisted of Thomas, Tom, Izzy and Michael.  The team managed to finish tenth in the competition, out of twenty nine teams.

Special mention must go to Mr Gibson and Mr Bloor who stepped up for the parents team in the Y7 competition, who were runners up against an amazing Devon Intermediate team.

AKO: Room One Business Plans

Later this term the students of Room One, and the senior school at Auroa Primary School in general, are holding a market day where they sell products that have been created as part of this terms AKO investigation. These business plans are some of the examples that have been created by students in the class.



Mr Chittenden's Feed Back

• Don't hide costs
• Can't use your parents or home as an excuse
• Our product is exciting
• To think about our straws

Auroa Primary School: Educreations to Show Mathematics Strategy

In class for Mathematics we've been looking at using tools to explain strategies.  One of the tools that our students have been using is Educreations which is available as an App for Ipad.   These students have created these explanations about strategies to solve problems.  They've worked out a problem, worked on creating an explanation of the strategy and then recorded the strategy.  This is from Tahana who is explaining how to solve problems by doubling and halving. Isabelle from Room Ones Question was: How many hours are in a year? She worked out the answer using strategy and explains her answer as follows: The final example is from Meg. Meg question uses rounding to solve the problem 39 multiplied by 80.

Auroa Primary School: 30/45 Second Movies

Last week in class we had a day to create plan and put together a film about Auroa Primary School. The film had to be thirty to forty five seconds in length and featured a unique aspect of us. The inspiration for this came from Mrs Crains Global Blogging Challenge, #2014gbc. This film created by Meg from Room One and featured some of the technology that is available to students of our school.
Auroa Plugged In Meg from Myles Webb on Vimeo.

Haiku Deck about Auroa Primary School

Today in class we looked at using 'Haiku Deck' as a way of displaying information. As part of the Global Blogging Challenge we made a connection from Austin Texas with Mrs Kriese's Classroom. They created a Haikau Deck about their home town and state of Austin, Texas - which inspired us to do the same. Most of our class were unfamiliar with Haiku Deck but we had a tight deadline, which was to plan, complete from scratch and publish a Haiku Deck about our area. These are two examples from the students of Auroa Primary School about our School and area:

This was produced by Tahana from our class:

 
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app

This Haiku Deck about our area was created by Kaiah, Meg and Heavenlee
Created with Haiku Deck, the free presentation app

Auroa Primary School - School Council Speeches P3

These are further speeches from the Auroa Primary School student council speeches for 2014. This highlights video, created by Meg from Room One features Kaiah, Dayna, Heavenlee and Meg. The speeches were performed in front of all Y4-8 students at our school on Thursday morning. The results will be announced later today but everyone of the twenty two students who performed were fantastic.  
APS School Council Speechs 2014 Part Three from Myles Webb on Vimeo.