Room 8 Bootcamp!

Thank you Tia for organising our fitness this morning. Everyone worked hard and it was a whole lot of fun!

Lunchtime in the garden!

Check out these keen gardeners! They have been busy weeding as well as harvesting the broccoli and strawberries (straight into their mouths!)

Pedal Power

How lucky are we?! Every Thursday we have the awesome coaches from Pedal Power come and run a session with us. As well as having a load of fun, we are also learning lots of Important skills to help us care for our bikes and keep ourselves and the people around us safe.

Check us out!

ChatterPix

Last week Room 8 was introduced to an app called chatterpix. It allows you to make any object talk!

After having a bit of a 'play' with our buddy class and becoming familiar with how the app worked, we did some writing.

We worked with a buddy and chose an everyday item. We then wrote as if we were that character. We imagined what it might say if it could talk. We wondered what type of personality it might have. We used words to bring our character to life.

The challenge was making sure our writing was no more than 30 seconds long as that is the time limit the app allows.

When we were finished writing, it was time to record. We had fun experimenting with expression and accents as our aim was to make our reading entertaining and enjoyable for the listener.

Here is our first attempt!

Niuean Language Week - Goodbye and Thank you Monica!

Last week was Niuean Language Week. We celebrated this during our opening and closing assemblies through the Niuean language, listening to prayer, singing songs and watching performances by our amazing Niuean Culture group.

This year we had a special focus which was farewelling our Niuean treasure Monica who has been a special part of BMPS but who has sadly left. Luckily we still see Monica around school as she works at SKIDS.

The ‘challenge’ for each class was to create a farewell gift which was presented on Friday. Room 8 decided to bake cookies. Alongside this, we worked with a buddy to write recipes for Monica. This was a fun and creative activity. Some of the ingredients the we came up with were...

* 2 cups of cool Niuean dance moves

* A sprinkle of cheekiness 

* 4 heaped tablespoons of love

* 1 large loving heart

Baking the biscuits required careful reading, following step by step instructions, communication and teamwork as well as applying our maths skills in a real life situation. Take a look at the messy deliciousness!

Thank you Monica all that you’ve done for us. We will miss you!

BMPS Athletics Day

What a fantastic day we had on Friday! It is always great when our whole school gets together and athletics day is always a highlight.

There were a mixture of emotions...nerves...excitement but everyone did their absolute best and should be very proud of themselves.

Congratulations to those children who placed in the finals, particularly the Room 8 relay team which came first, even beating the parents team! 

Our vision for BMPS

At BMPS our staff and community have begun creating a vision for the future of our school. This term Room 8 added their thoughts and ideas about what they love about their school and ways they believe it could be even better.

We brainstormed our thoughts and presented them as word clouds

 We created vision boards with ideas for the future:

We also created a video - check out our acting skills!

...and we designed new school logos!

 
On Thursday we presented our learning to Mr Lyth, Mrs McAree, Miss Peter and Wayne.

It was so great to be able to share our learning with an audience.

Even though we are year 6 children and only have 1 more term at BMPS, we feel proud that our ideas may benefit children at our school in the future.