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Term 1 2022 - We back!!!

 Fakalofa Lahi Atu to our returning and brand new senior students and welcome to Wesley our new cohort of year 7's.  What a start to the term it has been with new collaborative teams Team Tahi - Room 2 & 3 and Team Karearea - Room 4, 5, 6.  

Week 4 and students are getting into all types of fun learning - from new swimming skills to playing instruments for the first time to fun collaborative math. Watch this space as we share more in the coming weeks what our awesome students and teachers are getting up to at Wesley 👀

We are so excited to start this term on a high welcoming our new year 7 students to the Wesley family and also catching up with our senior students after being on a very looonnnggg break (some of that is owed to COVID).  We also welcome to the Wesley stage new staff members - Matua Dan (Hard materials/Sports Co Leader) and Miss Sabine Pollack (Food tech/Environmental Sciences) and our Acting Principal for Term 1 Mr John McGowan. We are very lucky to have them both join our Wesley family and cant wait to see what they have in store for our students 😀 

Swimming has kicked off  with Matua Dan - and rightfully so with this hot weather our students need some cooling off time in the pool. Timetables have started with tech rotations underway and core subject learning full speed ahead in both teams.  Watch this space for further updates on what is happening up in Team Karearea - Room 6. Check out some of these cool photos:

 We made it Room 2 Saints!!!!! Term 3 Week 6 (2weeks) in lockdown level 4 😌 This morning in our Google Meet the focus was: Participation

Learning this morning was recapping the famous BEDMAS and ANGLE PROPERTIES

                                     

Awesome participation from our teachers taking on Room 2 and the teaching & learning shared this morning - house points went through the roof.........Watch this space for something cool happening at our google meet Friday 3rd September - not to be missed 😂

Lockdown is on!!!!

 Well we are back - Lockdown, Distant Learning, Level 4 & Bubbles.....what next??? I know Google Meets 😆 Sharing some cool photos of Room 2's happenings during lockdown.

Photo Medley

We have had an awesome 15 days checking in on our class friends, having the odd LOL here and there 👀 Spinning our class wheel for the chance of winning Mrs Haioti's cool prizes 'virtual & real' 😂 Congratulations to our virtual winners:

Dhanonjoy - virtual Mcdonalds & Pizza 

Ayla - virtual car

Pila - virtual mobile phone (his brand choice Oppo)

 Lots of other cool prizes won (real) like: Mcdonalds, ice-cream sundaes, Mrs Haiotis treasure box, stationery, Pizza. Housepoints going strong & a added bonus for PB4L challenges in our bubbles.  Watch this space for Wig Friday coming live in Rm 2.

Day out at the Auckland War Memorial Museum

 Today was an awesome day out with Room 2 at the Museum where we got to see up close what we have been studying in class 'The Pandemics in History'.  A bonus was also learning about how the Spanish Flu linked to WW1 and the impact this had on the soldiers.  One of the highlights for me was learning that the families of the war veterans on the memory wall donated the funds to build that memorial for and on behalf of their fallen family members, also the Volcano house simulator that caught me by surprise (we wont go into detail) 👀

We were very fortunate to also have Adrian one of the Museum guides take us through the WAR MEMORIAL area.  Although our topic of inquiry was Pandemics, Adrian did a great job integrating this for our class.  Massive thank you to Mr Sa and Miss Thomas for an awesome day (even the City of Sails tour) and then finishing off the day before heading back to school with a frozen coke & ice-cream 🍦.  Great day with the best bunch of kids #Room2

                                                            

Sharing our learning with others

 Today was a first of........Room 2 during our writing block decided we were going to get better at sharing the cool learning happening in our class through 'BLOGGING'.  Wow - I have spent a minute or many commenting on my awesome students blogs posted today. Super impressed that most of the blogs were around the maths concepts we have been learning about in class and the strategies they used to solve them.  One of the concepts we plugged in was: Converting fractions to decimals, mixed fractions to improper fractions, decimals to fractions and many more.  Our next plug in will be percentages and integers.  Super proud that everyone in Room 2 are having fun while learning maths and they are enjoying the challenges.  Very proud to share a few of the blogs from Room 2 students today:   

PE poolside action

 Room 2 in action spec 4 today poolside - Team building activity before kicking into a refresher on the 'torpedo position and glide' 😀 using their legs to kick only while they glide across the pool to the other side.  Good practise and some of our students had great technique (all the lessons with Mr Ball paid off).  While the hype was still fresh - Room 2 under very close supervision 👀 decided to create a class memory in slow-motion getting some bombing practise in 😏.  Highlights this session was Jonathan hyping his peers up in the pool playing volleyball 'come on guys lets get it', followed by Javarn 'Team work makes the dream work'.  Blessed to have such an awesome class 👍

            

Ice-Ball Experiment

 Check out the cool learning happening in our Careers in STEM class this week - 'Ice-Ball'  (click here)

Learning objective 'Gather and interpret data' Check out some of the fun we had in our Science Lab yesterday finished off with a ice-ball smash in slow-motion. What I enjoyed was the engagement happening through the conversations my students were having 'look at the cracks after I added the iodine' 'look at the food coloring spreading all over the ice-ball'. Great hands on activity 👌