newsletter 4th september 2019 rotorua intermediate school · te roro o te rangi 5 collaborative...

Rotorua Intermediate School 83 – 95 Malfroy Road

ROTORUA Telephone: 07 348 9888 Fascimile: 07 348 8421

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School Values: Respect for self

Respect for others Responsibility for all your actions

Kia Ora Garry de Thierry and

Staff

Rotorua Intermediate School

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Our Mission Statement: Courage & Commitment Kia Kaha, Kia Maia

4th September 2019

UP AND COMING EVENTS

Thursday 5th September ICAS Science - Testing today Thursday 5th September FOTS Disco 6 - 8pm $2.00 Entry Mon - Fri 9 - 13 September AIMS Games - Tauranga / Mount Tuesday 10th September ICAS Writing - Testing today Thursday 12th September ICAS Spelling - Testing today Mon - Fri 16 - 20 September Water Safety Programme Y7’s Tuesday 17th September ICAS English - Testing today Thursday 19th September ICAS Maths - Testing today

Think Student Safety: Alert Measles - There are cases in our community.

Toi Te Ora - Public Health and the Ministry of Health are continually reviewing and updating their advice for schools along with the Ministry of Education.. Rotorua Intermediate are following through with the following recommendations from Toi Te Ora, (specifically for the AIMs Games, 8 September - 13 September) and the latest Ministry of Health communications sent out to schools. Our school community: Informing our school community and staff to be well aware of the first symptoms, and immediate actions to take to limit this very infectious disease. Detailed information provided by the Ministry of Health is included in this newsletter. AIMs: the organisers created an online medical form for the organisers and schools. There is a section for recording measles immunisation data. This register will allow our managers to identify students who are vaccinated and those who are not, and for the manager to isolate any non immune person at the first sign of illness. Term 4 Camps: parents will be asked to inform class teachers if there child is vaccinated or not to allow for the same protocols at camp, if there is illness, non immune children can be isolated. For further information please see health.govt.nz/measles

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This term we have focused on science—Planet Earth and its systems. We have created

models, attended an education session at the museum tearooms, visited Te Wairoa (the

Buried Village), Whakarewarewa Village, and we have conducted experiments in class to

better understand the formation and behavior of volcanoes.

Making a model of Earth’s structure using modelling clay and sand.

On our Tarawera Legacy trip we learned that Lake Rotorua is a caldera. We made models from flour and a balloon to show how a caldera can form after a volcanic

eruption.

For the First 5 Weeks of the Term we were very lucky to have Whaea Felicity in our classroom , working with us for her final teaching practicum. She taught us lots of exciting and interesting things. Our favourite part was ‘Mindfulness’, which we did after lunch each day to help calm us and resettle back to our learning.

Our Inquiry unit this term has been learning about Planet Earth and Beyond.

We have been investigating the Solar System and learning about the different Planets. As a wrap up to this part of our unit we had to make and construct our own

solar systems.

We had a great day out recently on the Tarawera Legacy. We went to the Tea Rooms in the Government Gardens, Whakawerawera Village and the Buried Village. It was a fabulous day and we learnt a lot about the Geothermal activity of our area and the affects of the Tarawera Eruption

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Social Dance practices have been great fun.

Tarawera Legacy Trip at Whakarewarewa Thermal Village for

waiata and haka performance.

Tarawera Legacy Trip at Whakarewarewa Village viewing and learning about

geothermal activity.

Tarawera Legacy Trip, exploring The Buried Village.

Rotorua Museum ‘s Tarawera eruption education session

finished with activities to make a caldera and identifying volcanic

rocks.

Term 3 Photo Diary of

Activities and Trips

Artefacts that have been uncovered after the eruptions

Students walk through the Whakarewarewa thermal area. Completing learning

activities at the Museum

Te Roro o Te Rangi Whā Wow, what a fantastic term we have been having in Te Roro 4.

We have been focusing on geoscience this term which has lead to some great curiosity time and time exploring geo science that interests us.

We were lucky enough to attend the science roadshow and learn some awesome new facts about the world around us.

At the beginning of the term we headed out to explore the science around Rotorua and took the opportunity to learn about the volcano that we live in through the Tarawera legacy trip.

It was a great day and we all came back with lots of new knowledge.

Te Roro o te Rangi 5 Collaborative Maths! A focus in Te Roro 5 is working collaboratively where we learn from each other, share ideas and strategies to solve problems. In this session below we had student teachers working in pairs to teach a group of learners how to convert between decimal numbers and decimal fractions. They also covered addition and subtraction of decimal numbers and putting decimals and fractions in correct order from smallest to largest. It was amazing listening to the conversations from all groups around the learning happening.

A great effort by all.

Te Roro 5 took the opportunity to join an experience called Moostery Skype where our class was matched up with another class from a rural school. We shared postcards, a visual scavenger hunt about our school and then we had a skype session. Leading up to the skype session we were learning about the regions and cities within New Zealand and how to use google maps and a focus on questioning skills. The goal of the Skype session was for both classes taking turns to ask questions to try and find out what Island, Region and City each class lived in and also the name of the school. The first class to get all 4 areas correct was the winner. We missed out by one question as it was their turn and they guessed where we were. We also knew where they were at the same time so a very close game. The rural school was Mangawhai Beach school. What a lot of fun this was for our class.

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