Friday Sport

Hi Guys


Friday sport is now all organised and ready to go. Hopefully we will get a fine day for tomorrow. There have been many question around what is happening with the students who are remaining behind. As previously stated in the sports notices, all schools have been restricted in the number of teams they can enter due to the damage the February Earthquake has caused to Hagley Park. 


Bryan Brown (Oaklands School's Sports Coordinator) has been arranging with Halswell School a sports competition for those children remaining behind. Halswell School is in a similar position to us with 100+ students not going to Friday Sport. 

This is a very quick run down of how it will work.

• Oaklands and Halswell have roughly the same amount of students left over (100 - 120). Each school will split their left overs into 6 teams of yr 5-8 mixed teams,(about 20-24).
• The 6 teams from Halswell will play a rotation of sports against the 6 teams from Oaklands.
• The sports are netball, football,  rippa rugby, volleyball, hockey and  basketball.
• This will be run as a competition - 5pts for a win, 3pts for a draw and 1pt for a loss with a further 2pts for any team that shows fair play,(sportsmanship) on the day.
• The interchange between Halswell and Oaklands will only happen every second week to allow the students to have skill sessions at school.
• Volleyball will be played at Halswell as well as one netball game.
• Basketball will be played at Oaklands as well as one netball game.
• Hockey, football and rippa rugby will be at the domain. 

Our aim is to have all students involved in a meaningful sport competition in this difficult time

School Newsletter

newsletter

Inquiry update and assessment

Last week the Supernova team had a fabulous week assessing the students understanding around the cause of earthquakes and their effects on buildings. This has been a major focus over the last 5 weeks of school and has even seen some students watching lectures from the University of California on the subject.

This learning will help the students in their quest to redesign the Christchurch CBD over the next few weeks.

The assessment was in the form of an art. The students chose whether they would show their understanding of the cause of earthquakes and their effects on buildings by either using drama, music or visual art. This assessment process was fantastic for all concerned as it really showed which students had this understanding that perhaps a written test may not have.

Here is an example of the Drama

And here is an example of an Music

In both cases a high level of creativity and thought was used. I was blown away with what the students came up with and are very much looking forward to what they come up with in their designs for the CBD!

A copy of your child inquiry assessment will be on their e-portfolio later this week.

Wellington Notice 2

Also contains dates for a couple of open nights for High Schools coming up.

Wellington Trip Notice 2

School Newsletter 12

The newsletter is here and you can read a couple of Room 2's reports on the damage to the Christchurch CBD.

My maths goal

Well Done Sophie!

Last Friday Sophie organised a can collection at Oaklands School as part of The Breeze Radio Station's "Can Crusade". With little time she was able to organise a school-wide mufti day that raised nearly 500 cans to be be donated to the Red Cross. You can see more here 

This task was part of the Supernova Challenges. In order to complete this Sophie had to;

• write a letter of proposal to Mrs Trotter the school principal.
• contact The Breeze radio station to enter
• advertise the mufti day by creating a series of posters.
• organise collection of the cans

Within this one task Sophie needed to perform a series of tasks in order to make this happen. This is an example of authentic learning in action!

As an aside, in recognition of Sophie's efforts The Breeze radio station gifted her a Canterbury Rugby Jersey and a $150 voucher at Hornby Mall.

My Fitness Goal Reflection

Kate K's Fitness Reflection

Cool Earthquake Videos and Information

GNS Website


How stuff works


National Geographic

Damage to Christchurch

Location:Cunningham Pl,Halswell,New Zealand

E-portfolio notice

Notice about setup

Red zone video

Red zone video of the Christchurch CBD filmed a few days after the earthquake.

School newsletter 10

Newsletter 10

Term 2 Class Newsletter

Term 2 is upon us!

I trust that you have had an excellent holiday. I have spent the last week putting together the class programme for the term. I am very excited by this and can't wait for the term too start!

Term Overview
A major component of this term will be our investigation around the impact of the Christchurch Earthquake. At the end of last term the class decided that we would redesign the Christchurch CBD and submit it to the City Council for consideration. There is further explanation here. Also we are visiting the Christchurch CBD on Wednesday and the $5.50 and permission form need to be returned before then.
Winter Sports start this term in week 3. Unfortunately due to earthquake damage we won't be able to take as many teams as we have previously. There will be more information coming out about this.
This term Room 2 will be focusing their attention around excellence. This will comprise of children learning about striving for their "personal best" and persistence.

E-Portfolios
This week your child will design their e-portfolio and begin sharing their learning on it. Last term the students set some learning goals. These will be accessible on the e-portfolio as well as updates on how the students are going at achieving these. In addition, over the next couple of weeks I will start adding some of the results from the standardised testing that was conducted in term 1. When something new is added to your child's e-portfolio you will be alerted via email. We will be having a Parent evening around the e-portfolios in week 3/4 of this term for parents.

Homework
There have been lots of questions from parents and students around homework. Here is some Informationthat should answer most of your questions

Email Notifications
Be sure to enter your email address in the "Follow By Email" Box on the right hand side of this blog. This will mean that every time that some new is added to this blog you will be alerted so that you never miss a thing.

Warm regards
Steve Ladbrook