Fun Run #1 for 2023

Today, 10th of March, Team Tui participated in the Breakfast Club fun run. This is an annual event and Glen Taylor has been part of it for 4 years now.

We run from Mission Bay to St Heliers (a distance of 2.4kms) with members of the NZ Police. Our next one is King and Queen of the Mountain which is held at Mt Wellington and the last one is usually in Term 4 and thats from the Pakuranga Yacht Club to St Kentigern School.

Here are some photos of members of Team Tui enjoying the day, despite the heavy rain :)

Welcome to 2023!

 Hello Everyone!

It's 2023 and we are all very excited for the year. Term 1 is slightly different this year. We are working in the hall together with Rooms 12 and Rooms 13 in an MLE. Our classrooms are currently being renovated. So far, there are 72 students working in here with 3 classroom teachers and 1 support staff member.

Check out our learning space for Term 1 :)

Team Tui Film Festival 2022

Heyyyy You! Ever dreamt of lying on the beach? The sand between your toes and the sun rays beating against your skin? Drinking fresh coconut and listening to the sounds of the waves?

Yeah I know, we've all dreamt about it...anyhow, the point of this was to get you to imagine you're in the beautiful island of Tonga.

Check out Team Tui's video about the interactive, engaging and fun learning we did for this year's Tongan Language Week! Chooohooo!!

Kia Ora!

 Hi Everyone,

We are the students of Room 11 for 2022. 

24 Funny, charismatic and bubbly learners ready to see what 2022 holds.

Keep an eye on our class blog for all the learning we'll be sharing throughout the year.

ONLINE CERTIFICATES FOR WEEK 4.

 Hi All,

Here are the certificates for the hard-working and well deserved students from Room 11 this week.

Malo

"I AM Affirmations" By Room 11

Movie Title: I AM affirmations 

Created by: Room 11

School: Glen Taylor School

Synopsis: By beginning to think more positively, we learn to believe in ourselves and work towards fulfilling our full individual potentials.

Online Certificates for Week 4

Hi Everyone,

Here are the certificates for Room 11 learners for Week 3, Term 4.

Week 1, Term 4!

Hi Everyone,

Can't believe we're already in Term 4!

Well, we're still learning online and our learners are still working hard and producing some great work. This term, our learn, create, share focus is on CELEBRATIONS! 

With IDENTITY being our Inquiry focus for the year, we've decided that this term is about CELEBRATING US! Term 1 had a heavy focus on ACCEPTANCE, Term 2 was BELONGING and term 3 was focused on CONNECTIONS! This week is about CELEBRATING US and all the wonderful things that make US who we are today.

For writing, we looked at descriptive writing but in a slightly different way. We wrote down words of affirmations about ourselves and created videos about us. 

Here are 2 videos from our very own Catherine A and Destiny F. Enjoy :)

More Student Work from Online Learning!

 Hi Everyone,

Check out some of the great work R11 students completed in Week 10 of online learning.

For literacy, we are looking at cultural history and legends from the Pacific and around the world and for learn, create, share - we are looking at values.

Enjoy :)

What do you meme?

For our google meet sessions, R11 has a challenge to complete. This is to make our calls engaging and fun.

This weeks challenge was inspired by a teacher on tiktok - What do you meme? Basically it's a collection of funny animal photos our teacher chooses and the students must come up with the captions. The best caption is then published alongside the photo.

Here's room 11's "What do you meme?" slide deck.

Enjoy :)

Lockdown Learning Week 3!

Auckland is in its 3rd week of Lockdown. As hard as it is, the learners of R11 have continued to persevere and continue learning from home. Yes, they admit it's hard because they don't have their teacher around, in person to seek help from and they miss their friends.

Room 11 hopes everyone is doing well and continues to soldier on! We hope to be out of lockdown soon!

In the meantime, check out some of the awesome online learning our students have been working on in the past couple of weeks.

Malo

Tracey's LCS work for Tongan Language Week:

  

Extensions for Keke Vei Siaine: 

If the recipe from the video is enough to feed 5 people. How much of each ingredient would you need to feed Rooms 11, 12 and 13. Altogether, there are 75 people in the Senior Syndicate. Present your findings on a google drawing, including your calculations of each ingredient.

Lockdown Learning Week 2!

Week 2 of online learning and we're still going strong!

Check out some of the amazing work produced by Room 11 students online. Feel free to check out the students individual blogs for more.

Malo

Danait's optical Illusion work (Summer Learning Journey activity)

Tracey's LCS Task

Destiny's LCS Task

Lockdown Learning by Room 11!

Hey Everyone,

I'm going to share some of the amazing learning tasks Room 11 students have been working on during lockdown. You'll find below some Daily 5 tasks and a Cybersmart challenge completed by Tracey, Catherine & Sar Yar Chan.

We hope everyone is staying in their bubbles and taking care of themselves.

Feel free to check out individual student blogs (you can find the links to their blogs on the right panel) and post a comment on some of the informative and amazing work they've produced. 

Regards,

Room 11 champions!

Bike Skills of Room 11

 Hi Everyone,

Today our class went for our first bike skills lesson. We have an amazing bike track at school and each class has an opportunity to use. We went through the helmet safety first (with our teacher Mrs Tupou Fonua) and help from our classroom expert on bikes - Dontae.

Here are some photos for you to enjoy.

Day 1, Term 3!

Where has the year gone?

We're back for Term 3 and ready for some new learning. Every morning before the school bell rings, we come into class and complete our Quick Write that Mirs Tupou-Fonua writes up on the board. Here are the early birds enjoying a good talanoa with each other and working on our quick write piece of writing.

Tamariki Korero - 1/7/2021

 Week 9.

One more week to go before the end of Term 2. Our school is having Tamariki Korero. This is an opportunity for students to lead a talanoa/conversation about their learning with their Whanau. They share and talk about the artwork displayed around the class, their class sites they created for camp (including content about camp the learners had researched about) and their LCS passion projects.

Here is a photo of some of our learners sharing about their learning journey so far for 2021, with their lovely mothers.

Senior Camp on Kawau Island!

 In Week 4 (Monday 24th of May - Friday 28th of May), the Y7&8 classes from GTS went to Kawau Island for our Senior School Camp. We absolutely loved it. For many of us, it was our first time away from home so it was frightening but the FUN times outweighed that.

We got to go kayaking, sailing, raft-building, orienteering, rock-climbing and abseiling. 

On Wednesday night, we had to do a Burma Trail through the bushes and on Thursday night, we had a FIAFIA night. Our students were organised into groups and each group performed a dance performance and came up with a chant!

There was a big group of us who went. 12 teachers/staff members and 63 students. 

Here are some photos of how camp went for us!!!

Classroom Paepae

 This Term, Room 11 has made a commitment to learn more Te Reo and about Te Ao Maori. Every morning we begin our day with our classroom paepae. We have someone to lead our Karakia Timatanga, then we have someone who acknowledges the karakia and continues to share the Kupu o Te Ra and Whakatauki for the week.

Here is a slide of what we go through!

Maritime Museum Trip 12/4/21

 On Monday 12/4/21, the Senior School went on an expedition to Maritime Museum. 

The highlight for us all was the Waka experience. The Waka called Haunui is 1 of 7 that are part of the Te Toki Voyaging Trust. 

Te Toki is dedicated to revitalising and celebrating traditional Pacific voyaging culture. We heard stories about our Pacific Island ancestors who travelled the Pacific Ocean to settle and inhabit the islands that we know today as Hawai'i, Tonga, Samoan, Rapanui, Cook Islands and Aotearoa and many more.

This trip was amazing! Here are some photos from our day at Maritime.

Room 11 Chocolate Hedgehogs

 In Week 9, Room 11 learnt about Procedural/Instructional Writing. We studied the purpose of Instructional Writing, the structure of writing recipes and looked at including action verbs, linking words and precise vocabulary in our writing.

As an incentive, our class decided to make some chocolate hedgehog slices. We worked in groups, created our recipes and then on Wednesday, we spent the whole middle block making our slices.

Here are some photos of how our cooking day went.