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.