"The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate"

Students from Glenbrae School were lucky enough to be gifted seats from Gift a Seat to watch the performance "The Man Whose Mother Was a Pirate" by Margaret Mahy.

The performance was very entertaining and funny.

Thank you Gift a Seat and thank you Te Oro for having us!

Vodafone Event Centre

Room 9 was lucky enough to go to the Vodafone Event Centre to watch Story Lines.

Illustrators and authors from New Zealand presented their wonderful books.

It was a great day out!

Thank you for the 20 brand new books you presented to us - they will be put to good use in our school library!

New Baby!

One of the students in Room 9 brought their new baby sister in for show and tell! The class was so excited to meet her.

What a great show and tell to share with the class!!

Sentence Starters

In class we have been learning how to write information reports.

We used sentence starters to help us start our writing.

Our day at the museum

For the first hour, students learned how to use the iNaturalist app. Students explored the domain and gardens around the museum and used the iNaturalist app to take pictures of insects, trees, flowers or anything they find.

These pictures are shared to a database and scientists analyse they pictures and let you know what they are!

The second half of the trip, students got to explore the museum with their adult helper. They were split into groups and explored lots of different sections.

They got to use a microscope to have a look closely at different bugs, leaves and shells.

They explored the insect section and got to look at heaps of different insects in glass cabinets.

We had lots of fun!

Cook Island Language Week!

We have had a great week at Glenbrae School celebrating Cook Island language week. On Wednesday we had a mufti day where all the students could dress up in their cultural gear.

We had a disco in the hall and all the students got an island donut. They danced to cultural music and had lots of fun!

Cook Island Language Week

Kia orana!!

It is Cook Island language this week and we started off the week with an assembly all about the Cook Islands. 

We had a beautiful dance presented to us by members of our Cook Island dance group. Thank you to our wonderful teacher aides for organising the dance (and the wonderful assembly).

BEES

Melepalu has been studying bees in her reading group. She created a lovely slideshow presentation about what she has learnt.

Spiders!

Here are some fantastic spider makes that students from Room 9 created on google draw. We hope you learn something new!

Caterpillars and Butterflies

In week 2, students in Room 9 have been learning about caterpillars and butterflies. Here are some fantastic posters that they have created on google draw. Well done Room 9!

Creepy Crawlies

This term we are learning about CREEPY CRAWLIES. Here's a slideshow created by a student in class showing what she has learnt so far.

EXTREME weather

This term, Room 9 has been learning about EXTREME weather. We have had lots of fun learning about different storms!

Well done Alyanna for creating this informative slideshow presentation about different types of extreme weather.

Ready for the day!

At the start of the day, students in Room 9 sit in their house rows (kowhai, kauri, rata, nikau). They receive house points for being the best house! 

Well done Room 9 for always sitting so nicely in the mornings and being ready to LEARN!

Thunderstorms!!

Students from Room 9 created thunderstorm art.  They started off by creating a background colour blending shades of grey, white, purple and blue. Once the background was completed, they drew a silhouette of buildings at the bottom and a big great cloud in the top right corner. Lastly, the students drew lightning strikes coming down from the dark clouds.

Trusting each other

In Kiwican, Room 9 had been learning about reliability. Today in Kiwican, we learnt about people who we can rely on and trust.

The students did a variety of different trust exercises with a partner. They got harder and harder, and they had to rely/trust each other to complete them successfully. 

Thank you Kiwican for a fun filled session!

 

Dialogic Conversation

Room 9 was lucky enough to have Jannie Van Hees come in and teach them about dialogic conversation and how to add detail when they are speaking to others. Students had a lot of fun creating interesting conversations with each other and trying to add more into their conversations.

Thank you Jannie for coming in to work with R9. We look forward to seeing you next term.

THANK YOU PwC

Thank you for the certificates PwC. We LOVED having you in Room 9! We look forward to seeing you at our school next year.

Financial Literacy

Today, we had  employees from PwC come in and teach Room 9 about money. The students learnt about saving and earning money, and also about borrowing. Thank you PwC for teaching Room 9.  We had lots of fun!

Looking after our school environment

We make sure we look after Glenbrae School. 

Thank you so much, Jamal and Paisha, for picking up rubbish during your lunchtime. The school looks beautiful and clean!

Library time

Students in Room 9 love going to the library to read. Irene chose a great book from our ANZAC Day display to read. 

Samoan Language Week

Talofa lava

All week we have been celebrating Samoan Language week. Students had a lot of fun learning about Samoan culture and new everyday phrases they can say in Samoan.

At the end of the week, students came dressed in their Samoan/Pacifika wear. An assembly was held at the end of the day where we all sang the Samoan National Anthem together and they students got to come up on stage to show of their beautiful Samoan/Pacifika wear.

Confident students came up on the stage to show off their beautiful Samoan dancing.

Make sure you check out the below slideshow for pictures and videos from our celebration.

Faafetai lava

Assembly time

At the start of each assembly, we always sing the New Zealand national anthem. Thank you Room 9 for presenting such a lovely assembly and singing our national anthem so proudly.

KIWICAN

Thanks to the amazing Kiwican instructors who come every Tuesday to teach students a lot of important things. They love have lessons with you!

Creating with our hands!

In Room 9, we love creating things with our hands! Play-dough is a great way for students to have fun and learn with at the same time!

Karate

Here is a short video from the karate classes that students in Room 9 had the opportunity to do.

KARATE: self defence

  

Room 9 has been learning about Keeping Ourselves Safe. We were lucky enough to have some karate instructors come in and teach the students some self defence moves they can easily use.

The students had so much fun learning new skills.

Keeping Ourselves Safe

In Room 9, students have been learning about Keeping Ourselves safe.

They are learning lots of important information about how to be confident, express their feelings and how to be safe.

It is important for student to learn these skills as they begin to get older. 

This is supported by NZ Police and we were lucky enough to have Constable Paul come in and talk to the kids about safety.

Keeping Ourselves Safe enables children and young people to learn and apply a range of safety skills that they can use when interacting with others. 

Anzac Art

Our inquiry for the first 2 weeks of term 2 has been about ANZAC day.

Students have been learning lots new information and have been really enjoying learning about such an important occasion in New Zealand history.

 Students have started created some wonderful ANZAC art to display in our classroom.

They started off by sketching a hill, covered in poppies with crosses on the top.

Then they painted the sunset background using warm colours.

Students painted the poppies red and the crosses and hill black.

I look forward to seeing the finished paintings.

Well done room 9 for being such creative artists!

Assembly by Room 9

On Friday the 10th of May, it was Room 9's turn to present assembly. 

Seven confident students practiced their assembly script all week to they were prepared.

Room 9 did a great job of presenting and all of the students spoke clearly and confidently.

Well done to the Dance Club for performing a wonderful dance to Shotgun by George Ezra. Here's a short preview!

Sailing

A few lucky students from Room 9, 10 and 7 got to go sailing for the day Okahu Bay. They had a great experience learning new skills and trying something completely different and out of their comfort zones. Below is a piece of writing done by Alyanna which explained her day at sailing. 

On early Thursday we went sailing.

Before we had to go sailing we had to wake up before 8:00 because we weren’t allowed to be late.

Some of the students were almost late, lucky they made it on time before the bus came.

When the bus came, of we went to Okahu Bay.

We needed wetsuits so we won’t get that wet and we also needed a partner to go to sailing.

First thing we did was sail to the end of the bay which was a road I didn’t really understand the name of the road but it was so fun sailing.

My friend and I who went on a sailboat together were struggling a little bit then after a few minutes we got the hang of it.   

We had to follow John and Justin who were the instructors and they were on a speed boat which can fit four students and more. 

At the end after lunch we went to go sailing again and we had to jump out of our sail boat and swim in the water it was fun and also scary but John was looking after the area I was in meanwhile Justine was looking in the other area.

It was so fun and I wanted to stay a little more but we had to go back to school. We received certificates and a sticker it was a super exciting and I liked the part where we had to swim.

     THANK YOU SAILING… HAVE A GO PROGRAM

            IT WAS A GREAT EXPERIENCE AND I HOPE I CAN COME BACK AGAIN.