End of Term Update.

This week is the last week of Term Three. We have two weeks of holidays before we come back for the last term of the year.

This week has been very busy (muy ocupado). We have been finishing last minute touches on our wearable arts ready for tomorrow night's show. Our class has five different themes relating to New Zealanders' contributions to the world. We are covering the themes of military, science, motorsport, medicine and movie-making. Hopefully we will have some photos to add after tomorrow night.

We have also had lots of tests. In our "100 Need to Know Basic Facts NZ General Knowledge" test, Gulnoza, Mikayla and Sambit achieved 100%. (That's the 100 questions in the previous post.) Test yourself and see what you get.

In the "100 Need to Know Spelling Words " test Maria, Gulnoza, Mikayla, Ameleigh, Daniel, Nikeeta, Sambit and Aminder achieved 100%.

We also had a test on the correct usage of: to, too or two; I or me; there, they're or their; it's or its, whose or who's ; and theirs and there's. We have been learning about these this term. Gulnoza, Ameleigh, Georgia, Mighael and Maria got 100% - including putting every capital letter in the correct place - there were 22 of them. Jenna got 100% of her words correct...

We also did a 100 Mixed Maths Basic Facts Test (multiplication, division, subtraction and addition.)We had five minutes to get all the answers written and correct. The people who got 100% were Gulnoza, Theo, Caitlin, Andy, Mikayla, Ameleigh, Nikeeta, Sambit, Pooja, Jenna, Te Ana and Maria. Sheena, Daniel and William didn't need to do the test because they have already achieved 100% in over five consecutive months. In fact, Theo and Mikayla have also achieved 5 consecutive 100% results before, but they wanted to improve their time so they did the test again. Mrs Vincent is astonished that her class are so keen to do these tests - especially Shane, Caitlin and Nathan who had already done the test earlier in the day in the maths swap class and asked to do the test again to improve their scores.

All the Intermediate classes have been writing about themselves in Spanish for their portfolio samples. Some students are able to complete a whole page of information in Spanish. We have been looking at SpongeBob Square pants (Bob Esponja) episodes in Spanish on Youtube and have had fun working out what is being said. We also looked at a news video clip about a teacher in Parana. We looked at similarities and differences between our school in NZ and this school in Argentina.

News from Mrs Irwin about Daffodil:
Daffodil the lamb is getting nice and big. Her tail has nearly dropped off so there is no chance of fly-strike. She has also moved in to the big paddock and made a new friend called Snowdrop who is another lamb.

News from the past two weeks:
Miss Gifford came to visit us to show us her wee baby daughter, Imogen, who was born in June. Miss Gifford will be returning to teach in Kea 1 again next term. We are looking forward to having her back again.

Miss Gifford and her baby daughter, Imogen, visit our class.

We have been able to use Skype to speak to some students and their teacher, Gabriela, at the Step English School in Paraná, Argentina, where where Mrs Vincent was in March and April. We were able to talk a little bit and use some of our Spanish. It will be good to do this again soon.

We wish our Principal, Miss Fowler, a good recovery from her operation and look forward to having her back at school again next term.


By Maria and Mrs Vincent