2017 - IT IS GOING TO BE AMAZING!!

Welcome back amigos - boy have we got a busy year ahead! Lots of twists and turns and a few surprises along the way. We hope you are rested and ready. Hold on tight..... we are off, off and away!
Leave a comment below about something SPECTACULAR, funny, interesting or special that happened in your holidays.

Welcome Back!!

I hope you all had a fabulous holiday and are ready to rumble for Term 3! 

We are starting our learning in Rio. Are you ready? 

Leave a comment below about what you are looking forward to most about these Olympic Games.

 On your marks, set, go!!

Year 7 Waka

At the beginning of term we completed these awesome classroom waka. We discussed how we each bring individual strengths, personalities and characteristics to our community of learning that enables our waka to move forward. We are all in this together and each person has to do their bit to help our waka progress. It is time to reflect on Term 1. What have you brought to our place here at APS that has ensured you have done your part in helping our waka move forward?

Leave us an in depth comment below.......

Year 8 Waka

At the beginning of term we completed these awesome classroom waka. We discussed how we each bring individual strengths, personalities and characteristics to our community of learning that enables our waka to progress. We are all in this together and each person has to do their bit to help our waka move forward. It is time to reflect on Term 1. What have you brought to our place here at APS that has ensured you have done your part in helping our waka move forward?

Leave us an in depth comment below.......

Check out my Pick - a - Path story so far...

Click this link to see my story: http://writer.inklestudios.com/stories/pg5r

I am only a few pages into it and you will find there are some dead ends. I would love some feedback about what could happen next on the pages I haven't yet written!

Leave me a comment below with your suggestions - a prize on the line for the ones I use!!

Sona lá st Pádraig - Happy St Patrick's Day!!

Check out this video below. Leave me a comment below about what you have learnt about Saint Patrick's day over the last few days!!

Our New Enrolment

Check out who turned up for a day with Room 5! He spent all day asleep in our beanbags and I found him after school. Put yourself in his shoes and leave me a comment sharing what you think he might be thinking!!

2016 is here!!!

Welcome back to all of our Year 7 & 8 students and their families! We have another busy and exciting term ahead. Feel free to comment below and tell us what exciting things you got up to in the holidays or things you are looking forward to this term!

Welcome back! While you were away...

I see myself as a learner and I also like setting myself a challenge. So in the holidays, while it was far too windy to achieve anything else, I decided I wanted our blog to have the ability to leave voicemails. I spent some time researching, visiting other blogs and playing around. Guess what?! I mastered how to do it! Now that it is set up all you have to do is click on the Voicemail Bar on the right side of your screen and follow the prompts.

We are going to be quad blogging with other schools from around NZ this term and this will be perfect for other learners, people at home and in our school community to leave us messages.

So let's play a game. At home tonight, send a voicemail telling us about a highlight from your holidays. We will listen to them during the week and see if we can work out the owner of the voice!

Pick - a - path

Check this out team - I think we could make an awesome pick - a - path story too. What do you think? Have a read through this one and leave a comment about how the story went for you.

Winner winner chicken dinner!!

Check out who made it on to the WORLD leader board for Mathletics!!

Kia ora whanau e mau hoa! Nau mai ki te wiki o Te Reo Māori me nga tamariki tuākana.

Check out our Y7 & 8 lads getting stuck into some Māori art...

                

Ghanaian Djembe drums

Every Friday this term we are going to be drumming! We had our first session today and we had lot of fun. We will be using djembe drums which originally came from Ghana. Have a listen!

Welcome back!!

We hope you have all had an awesome holiday and managed to relax and refresh for another busy term!! Keen to share what you got up to in the holidays? Please comment below :)

Ice Skating and Curling Fun!!

We had plenty of fun on the ice yesterday!! We all had a lesson for ice skating and then switched to curling. Jack and Lucas were getting pumped up for their Curling Competition on Friday. Can you find a photo of yourself?
When you have, leave a comment explaining what you are doing and something you have learnt from your icey experience!!

    
     
       

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 

 

 

 

"We had our first Tinkering Day on Tuesday the 16th June. We did lots of fun things including Scratchjr, lego making, felting, fizzy making and makey makey. We spent a whole day doing this!!" Jordan Miller

Student Led Conferences

Thank you to all parents for coming along last night. It was great to see you!! I am very proud of our wonderful Year 7's for the progress they have all made on their learning journeys this year so far :)

Read their comments on how they think things went.....

Today we went digital!!!

                

No more worksheets for us! Using our class website, we were able to access tutorial videos and our learning tasks online. Like anything new there were a few teething problems!!