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Great start team!

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:03:07 +0000

Shearwaters Thinkery is certainly going to be an exciting and dynamic place this year!
We started with a bang today – some great thinking and commitment to share and help each other succeed.
Thinkery
For all the things I hear and see
I have this thing called a memory.
It holds on fast to what I wish,
To anything quite usefullish,
And everything else, regrettably,
gets lost in my forgettory.

Shearwaters Camp

admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:39:23 +0000

This year Shearwaters class stayed at The Point Woolshed!
The team were incredible!
The class worked with The Hutton’s Shearwater Charitable Trust, Department of Conservation and Trees for Travellers. The weather was incredibly hot but that didn’t stop all the students walking miles and working hard.
Thank you so much to Peter and Gwenda for allowing us to use their amazing woolshed, Lindsay Rowe for spending time and knowledge with us, Brett and Dave for providing water, humour and knowledge, Sarah for providing such detailed knowledge of the past at Fyffe House and all of our amazing parents for making our camp so successful!

Shearwater Camp 2011

Annual Beach Clean Up

admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:44:11 +0000

Shearwaters joined Brett Cowan on the annual beach clean up on Friday. The class picked up litter from the corner of State Highway One along to the boat park at South Bay. The students found broken glass, jandals, fishing line, parts of craypots, plastics and foam. Although they filled a black bag absolutely full to bursting point they were pleased to see that the beach was pretty clean. Thanks to Brett for joining us and for reading ‘The Waka’ to us at school.

Shearwaters Scakss book

admin — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 08:37:12 +0000

Congratulations Shearwaters!

Shearwaters have written a book to show their learning about Planet Earth and Beyond. It is a great narrative and explanation text about their imaginary microscopic creature named after Shearwaters Class at Kaikoura Suburban School.

The class have also recorded the book on Little Bird Tales website. So sit back, relax and click on the link.

Enjoy!

Shearwaters Big Question

admin — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 09:01:02 +0000

This week has been about creating big questions and action plans to lead our learning for Planet Earth and Beyond Inquiry. Shearwaters big question is:

What would the significance of finding life on other planets be for humans?

Shearwaters Earth and Beyond Reflection

admin — Wed, 06 Jul 2011 05:58:33 +0000

Shearwaters have had yet another busy and exciting week of learning about Planet Earth and Beyond. We have been researching and discussing the possibility of life on other planets and whether sightings of UFO’s are true or false. Shearwaters have mixed opinions and we have had some lively debates on the possibilities. So much research is happening in Space and we are very interested in the International Space Station. Neil Armstrong is a hero in the Shearwater class, although a few questions arose whether the landing could have been a hoax?
The class surprised Mrs Rogers with a fact recall the other morning – we hope it surprises you too! (Although we still have a lot to learn and many questions we want answers too).

Mini golf working bee

admin — Sun, 03 Jul 2011 02:15:16 +0000

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Thank you to all those that kindly gave up their time to help construct Shearwaters mini golf this Sunday.

After consultation with The Board of Trustees, Shearwaters did a little research and got quotes for marine ply and astro turf for the course but both would cost around $1000. The original design brief was to create the mini golf from recycled materials, to be sustainable and cost effective. So we decided to stick with that to make the first stage of the full scale courses. Shearwaters will review its effectiveness, durability and use during the winter months and then consider modifications.
Four of the eighteen courses designed by Shearwaters have been created out of recycled materials behind the school house for all the children to enjoy and learn new skills.

Matariki celebration at Takahanga Marae

admin — Sun, 12 Jun 2011 04:24:27 +0000

Our students had the most incredible opportunity this week!

They celebrated Matariki with an exciting jam packed day full of activities with Brett Cowan at Takahanga Marae.

Our students managed themselves perfectly to participate and cooperate in the following activites:

Planted 230 native trees with Department of Conservation on Kaikoura peninsula.
Created Matariki telescopes and mobiles.
Made kites.
Cooked in bull kelp
Created meals to share.
Made Putiputi flax flowers for their buddy.
Sung 3 waiata.
Set new and exiting goals for 2011.

Then many of the middle and senior took up the challenge of staying the night at the marae and face an unknown task in the evening. ………….

The students were given a Maori legend in the form of a book that they had 45 minutes to recreate into a play for the audience. It was a colossal challenge but as always our Fyffe Force Learners reached the summit. The resulting movie will be shown after assembly this Thursday, or see Sue Rogers for a copy on dvd.

Thank you to Brett Cowan, the whanau of Takahanga marae, all the incredible parents that contributed to this unique experience and to the students for demonstrating The Force and key values of the school.

Congratulations to all that took part in the day!

FORCE Discovery 2011 ………1,2,3 LIFT OFF!

admin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 09:32:53 +0000

WE HAVE LIFT OFF!!!

Planet earth and beyond Inquiry launched with squeals, shrieks, yahoo’s and open mouths this week as the students discovered space had come to Kaikoura Suburban School!

Shearwaters is now a black hole full of stars, planets, aliens, rockets and Nasa control station (lots of new Mac computers).

The purpose of our classroom is to really inspire our learning and curiosity for the unknown. Also to question information and its authenticity. We are going to think critically about all the information that we find during our research into planet earth and beyond.

A huge thank you to ITM for donating the black paper to make this all possible!

Terrific Toys Models

Principal — Tue, 29 Mar 2011 19:11:40 +0000

Fyffe Force Learners are all very busy creating their terrific toys, each Inquiry class has chosen the toy design that best fits their design brief and they are now busy creating the first model to test and modify. Teachers have managed to convince husbands yet again to bring some expertise to the classroom (Thank you boys!)

Rainbow Roller (model 1)