24th August 2016

Today we created short films using Stop Motion and iMovie on the iPads to promote our 

Linwood Learner Qualities!

What an exciting and busy start we have had to Term 3 and our Community topic! Last week we visited Shupayi and her team at the Linwood Community Governance Group. We learned about how decisions that affect us and our community are made, and what a community board does.  We also learned why it is really important for our family, friends and whanau over 18 years of age to vote in the upcoming local body elections. We discussed some really important issues going on in our community around fast-food and the skatepark. Finally we got to vote for one of the initiatives we would like to see happen in our school like new science equipment, a dodgeball pit or a friendship bench.

This week we have had guest speakers Jane, a nurse from The Loft upstairs at Eastgate Mall, and Jordan, from the Ara Institute of Canterbury, come and speak to us about the role they play in our community. We learned that Ara offer 150 different courses of study!

Finally a MASSIVE congratulations to Angela, Summer and Tahilanu for being selected for the Canterbury All Stars basketball team The Wolverines!

Probability

Summer's Writing Sample

“Hey look” shouted Jamie.

“Their it is, the glowing beautiful moon.” replied Oscar.

The two kids had finally got their. ‘Pssshhh’ the door had opened and Jamie and Oscar had seen beauty. “Hooray, we have made it” cried Jamie as she jumped off into the open.

“Now come on don’t play around we were sent here to collect some samples ok.” demanded Oscar.

“Ugh fine then” moaned Jamie. After 10 minutes in Earth time Oscar had spotted something very strange.

“Hey Jamie, come here” Oscar cried.

“Yeah ok then” replied Jamie.

“Ahhhh what is that ugly thing!!” screamed Jamie. It was a dark, green slobbery, slimy thing and it looked more like an “ALIEN!!”  Screeched Jamie

“Oh don’t be a scaredy cat it’s just my pet alien.” laughed Oscar.

“I’m not a scaredy cat” mumbled Jamie.

“He’s called umm Sid for now” Jamie

Soon nor later Jamie had began jumping again, but then maybe she had jumped a bit too high. “Huu” Gasped Jamie. “HELP ME, HELP ME,!!!” Shouted Jamie. Luckily she wasn’t so far away from her big brother Oscar.

“What’s that noise?” wondered Oscar. As he looked around he caught a little thing floating away. ‘Crcrcr’ as he grabbed his binoculars out of his backpack, and Oscar had recognised this object. “Oh No it’s Jamie!!” he cried. ‘Shuffle, Rattle, Shuffle’ as Oscar was scavenging for a rope in his emergency backpack. “Ah ha, there it is” cried Oscar. He had tried to lasu it, and again, and again, and again, but it just wouldn’t of worked. Jamie had also tried to swim towards the closest position to catch the rope.

‘Whoop” finally in ages the rope had grabbed onto a floating rock right next to Jamie. “Come on Oscar you can do it!!” yelled Jamie. It looks very easy to pull some rope, but actually it’s pretty difficult because you are pulling a floating object into the moon. After 1 hour of pulling the rope Jamie had finally returned back.

“Oh thank you Oscar, how could I repay you back?”cried Jamie, hmm well… as Oscar explained what he hadn’t kept track of the time.

“Huuu it’s 4 minutes left quickly get packed and run straight to the ship” gasped Oscar. ‘Psshhh’ the ship door had opened widely.

“Hurry!!” Shouted Jamie. At last Jamie and Oscar had hoped into the ship. 5,4,3,2,1, and BLAST OFF!!

“Ugh it was very nice on the moon”Jamie cried.

“Yeah it was very nice, but I prefer Earth more.” replied Oscar

Room 10 and Room 3 Buddy Class

Fun times in the hall with our buddy class on Friday the 8th of April 2016.

Welcome Ms Steele

Meet the Student teacher

 Kia ora whānau of Room 10/11,

Ka nui te mihi ki a koutou katoa.  My name is Bex Steele and I will be student teaching with Mr Hill and Mrs Brookland from the 14^th March until the end of Term 1.  I am in my final year of my Bachelor’s Degree of Teaching and Learning.

I am a born and bred Cantabrian. When I am not studying or in the classroom I am usually spending time with my whānau, or on the golf course.

I am very excited about my time ahead at Linwood Ave School.  Feel free to come and meet me in the classroom before or after school.  I look forward to getting to know you and your child. Together we will have some awesome experiences and opportunities to learn

Water Fight Writing

Water  Fight

“3, 2, 1, GO!” yelled Mr Hill as the team Kea water fight starts. I could hear the water splashing against everyone and I could even hear Paige and Angela screaming when they got wet. In my head I knew that I made a mistake by not bringing my togs.

I saw Tyreese hiding away for a bit trying not get wet. There were tons of water guns shooting out rows of water heading directly for target. Half way through the water fight I could still hear people screaming when they were blasted with freezing water. Meanwhile I could see Anahera tipping a whole bottle of water on Tahilanus head, I started laughing to.

It looked so fun and will never forget my togs again.

By West

Water Fight

As I crept around the corner I noticed that I had bumped into Aimee.

She was determined to call for back-up. Her back-up was none other than Keith, Jason and Zoe.D.I was standing in shock wondering how Aimee got her back-up soo fast. I knew i had to get what was coming to me.

So I covered my face so that I was positive that my eyes wouldn’t get splashed. Before Aimee soaked me I noticed a huge grin on her face like she had won the match.

Aimee placed her hand on the pumper and took any chance she had to squirt me. I tried backing away into the only thing I backed into was a brick wall. I weave my way around her back-up and ran until I thought it was safe.

I stopped running once I had reached Room 11’s back door. There were bushes surrounding the area so I snuck in there when I thought nobody was watching. But Mrs Thompson had her eye on me and she couldn’t keep a secret.

She revealed my hiding spot and I knew it was all over.

By Tyreese Sweeney