How To Set Up Your Maths Book

Here is a video to help you remember how to set up your maths book correctly.

Video made by Sophie F and Leo

The Amazing Vision

The Amazing School Vision 

At Wairakei School we have 5 vision characteristics we work hard, we think, we care, we communicate effectively and we make meaningful connections.We care is just caring nothing less nothing more. We care because we value.We work hard means we value self-management and perseverance. Self-management means to do things by your self. We think means to be creative and inquisitive about your work and choices.We Communicate effectively means we value meaningful interactions. And it also means using your words not using your.-We make meaningful connection means we value transferring and applying our learning.

By Emily,Dain,Daniel,Madisyn

How we do sport in Wairakei school

We have all types of sport hockey, soccer, rugby and netball, we go there every week on a the bus and go to Hagley to play our sport. The team we battled were hillveiw, Shirley, St. Peter's, and the a team for soccer battled was our school a team and b team it was a friendly match. 

Our school train every Tuesday and we allways play on Thursday, but it has been raining recently so we have been talking about strategies and some of the rules. Hockey won 7-1, soccer lost 3-0 netball lost 5-0 and rugby won 43-21. 

The netball team warms up by playing a game called windows what you do is go in a circle and someone goes in the circle and there are spaces and someone runs around the circle and gets the ball passed to them.  This keeps going on until everyone has had a turn.

These are the sports we play at Wairakei school we also do play of the day or POD. 

By ari, Isaac,fletcher and cadie

Blogging time

Finally our teacher let us start blogging we were so excited. Suddenly we all started typing our first blog post on our own iPad for our own blog. It started to be a every week thing so we hade to post once or more everyday still adding in planing re-crafting and G.P.S ing .Then we started having a blog of the week first it was Anna then Daniel (two students from room 1). We also injoy blogging with our Grey Main school buddy's. Finally we have to comment on someone's blog in our class includeing our class blog and our Grey Main school buddy's.

By Olivia,Jack,Crystal,Felix.

cool dot buddies

Cool dots are 5 years old, they are our buddy class.  We enjoy going down with them and learning with them. We go down them once a week on a Wednesday. We help cool dots be sensible on ipads and out on the playground. There teacher Mrs Pringle helps us do our learning but we help the buddies aswell. The apps that we use are Tellagami, Pic collage and Comic life. We have fun with the cool dots and enjoy woking with them.
By Connor,Te Aroha,Phoebe and Cody.

All About Wairakei School

Wairakei school is in Christchurch and has a roll of approximately 250 students from years 0-6. We have 13 classrooms of which two are used for disabled students. Many year 6 students applied for leadership roles earlier in the year. All of the applicants form a student council and 8 of them are also student leaders. An endless collection of facilities is provided to help students learn. These include a music room, library, technology, art supplies and more!

Feel free to comment on this post if you have any questions about Wairakei school or you can click here to check out our school website and find out more!

Written by Sophie F, Shougo, Finn and Tammie

A Little About Awesome Room 1

Room 1 is at wairakei school in Christchurch NZ, Room 1 is home to year 5/6's, with the best teacher in the world. 

In room 1 we have a system called "room 1 settings" like iPad settings (bullying turned off, Hard work turned on). We are all independent learners and can manage our own learning. In room 1 we all can help each other to improve our learning. When we work together we are all awesome.

Room 1 is a free desked and free flowing class room. We are a B.Y.O.D class room. When we are doing B.Y.O.D.before we started B.Y.O.D we had to sign a form that clearly stated that we will not play any non-school related games.If we play any non school related games our iPad will be taken off us.

Must' do-can' dos are a learning source in one setting (maths, reading E.T.C). We have a list of must' dos and can' dos all the must' dos must be done in the time frame that we have. But if we finish early we gat to do the can' dos wich are like maths and reading games.

Isn't room 1 awesome, I hope you now know what a great place room 1 is.

By Rosa, Sophie B, Anna and Mitchell

Our epic room 1 friends

In room 1, we are: fun, awesome, friendly, nice, funny and epic. We are also helpful, caring and cool. Some of us are crazy and weird. Others are hard working, happy and excited. That is what we are in room one! 

Our teacher, the awesome Mrs Friedwald, is so fun and caring. She is so nice and thoughtful that if we do something wrong, she normally stays in a cheerful mood and is happy to help. If she helps us, our work gets easier, more fun and also helps for a smile and happy mood! She is so cool!

Over all our class is a wonderful, amazing and creative class and and awesome place to be. We love our class!

By Leo, Daniel L, Gyle and Kyle

Week 5 - Blog Post of the Week.

Last week's blog post of the week was Daniel L's post on his teams Hockey Game. Daniel wrote clearly, included detail, used photos to add detail to his post and ensured she had proofread accurately. What a great first hook sentence! Check out his post here and leave a quality comment.  Great blogging Daniel !

Finally ....Sport has started !

I wont say much because the kids have said it all.  Be sure to visit their posts about our first competition game that took place of Thursday.  Click through to their blogs to read more ------------->

Week 4 Blog Post of the Week

Last week's blog post of the week was Anna's post on Zone Cross Country. Anna wrote clearly, included detail, used photos to add detail to her post and ensured she had proofread accurately. Check out her post here and leave a quality comment.  Great blogging Anna !