Welcome to Room 21
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Welcome back to another busy term here at Te Rapa. Our middle holidays always provide a much needed break from a busy Term 2 however we have another action packed term ready for our students in Term 3.
This term we have a term of learning including our Arts Inquiry, Oral Presentations and working in different maths classes. Along with that we are training for our Full School Cross Country in Week 5, some of our students are gearing up to be on stage for our biannual production in Week 7 and we start to get ready for Camp Raglan in Term 4.
Literacy Learning
This term in writing we will be looking at vocabulary development and writing a strong sentence. We will show this to our Persuasive Writing as well as in our Oral Presentation written work.
During reading we will explore appropriate levelled journal stories and work on our deeper understanding of these.
We will also incorporate some typing, spelling, handwriting and oral language in our Literacy programme.
Thursday Learning at School
When children are not at Tech Arts on Thursday they rotate around each of the five classes at school.
Throughout the course of the year they will spend a 7 week block with each teacher.
Mr Louden - Science
Mr Trafford - Speechcraft (7's) and Debating (8's)
Mrs Hoskin - Spanish
Mr Hunia - Ukulele (7's) and Drums (8's)
Mrs Wilson - Dance (7's) and Dance and Drama (8's)
Tech Arts
In Year 7 and 8 children travel to Te Au O Tamatea each Thursday for Tech Arts. Throughout the year they have a term at Food Tech, Art, Hard Materials and Innovations.
Year 8's need to be at school at 8.30am on a Thursday morning to take the bus down to Tech.
Year 7's depart at 12pm after the morning at school.
Term 3 Inquiry
This term's Inquiry focus is The Arts. We are wanting the children to be creative and see how The Arts are help us to understand things from a different perspective as well as allow us to have better experiences compared to just reading and writing.
The children will show this through a variety of different ways such as oral presentations, poems, debates and forms of drama.
Welcome to Room 21 - A positive classroom environment is what we strive to be.
As part of our Term 2 Inquiry we created a Wacky Animal. The children had to find a picture of a wacky animal or create one. Once they had done this they wrote an animal report about it. They created its environment, diet, description, how it moved and if it had any predators. The creativity of the children was outstanding!
In Term 1 we have been busy creating Mosaics. Here are some of our finished pieces.
Congratulations
Congratulations
Introducing our Student Leaders from Rm 21 for 2025.
Student Councillors - Brodie McDonald, Owen Yin, Blake Quinton, Ning Lu, Charlie Pugh, Madeline Pope, Renee Otto, Venna Rietbrock and Adyaa Srivastava
House Leaders - Frankie Van Den Heuvel, Brendan Munster and Cade Marsh
PTA Ambassador - Isabelle Evans
Room 21 at Tech Arts - Day 1
Year 8's in Innovations with Mr Harrison - listening hard and beginning their work in designing a house.
Year 7's First Tech Day
Students enjoying their first day at Tech!
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