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Term 3, Week 9 – Wednesday 20 September 2017
Kia Ora Parents and Caregivers
Another great week at Waitākiri with the very successful PTA Walkathon last Tuesday, a great day’s skiing for Korimako at Porters and the outstanding result for our two school Year 5 and 6 basketball teams (the Breakers and the Rams) on Thursday. The Breakers won the Cowles tournament for our zone and the Rams also won their division. A special thanks to their coaches Woody and past pupil Jesse Webb. Congratulations also to our fabulous dance team who won first place at the Primary Sports Dance Competition at Hornby High School. A special thanks to their coaches Chrissie Balloch and Holly Paine.
Maths, as you know, is one of our Professional Learning (PL) foci this year and we are now three terms into our first year of learning which we’re all really enjoying. It has sometimes been challenging letting go of some of the more traditional approaches to teaching maths and being open (displaying a growth mindset) to new ideas and approaches. One of the attitudes we’re working really hard to change is that only certain people/children can do maths. I’m sure you’ve heard adults say this eg “I was no good at maths” or “I hated maths”. Unfortunately this type of talk is unhelpful and for many children is the biggest hurdle in their maths success. We strive to ensure our maths programmes are challenging, engaging, allow for deep thinking, explaining and justifying answers and ultimately where children believe that they can be successful at maths.
The following video clip is an excellent talk about maths mindsets from Jo Boaler, Professor of Maths at Stanford University in the US. The talk is worth watching and is just over 3 minutes long. Fixed Mindset v. Growth in Maths
On Monday evening we had Professor Bobbie Hunter speaking to our parents about our maths programme (Developing Mathematical Inquiry Communities -DMIC) and It was a very informative hour and a quarter. Parents also got to work in collaborative groups to solve a challenging maths problem. Some of the key messages from the evening included:
Mathematics is culturally embedded within everyone’s life and culture - hairdresser, building - to do anything, you have to have maths.
Maths is something that can be learnt by everyone - inclusive and respectful learning cultures are created - we want the students to know everybody can do maths
Playing with maths and being creative is an important part of learning maths We learn maths by working together - as children work together they learn prosocial skills not
antisocial skills - they learn to listen and unpack what they are talking about Learning maths involves taking risks and struggling with problems - teaches children resilience Students become flexible, and open to other’s perspectives The focus is on explaining and justifying the children’s maths thinking
On the next page are some examples of the problems our children have worked on this term. You may like to try these at home.
Enjoy the rest of your week everyone.
Nāku iti noa, nā (Yours sincerely) Kaye Royle , Acting Deputy Principal
New Entrant _______ has 7 stickers on her chart. To get a prize, she needs to have 20. How many more does _______ need to get? Miss Brown had 8 pens and 12 children. How many more pens does she need? Year 1 and 2 Flight times for our suitcase! It is not a direct flight to Egypt, The plane needs to make three stops. The plane takes 12 hours to get to Hong Kong. It then travels to Egypt taking another 6 hours. It ends up in Greece after travelling another 13 hours. How long has our suitcase been travelling in the plane? It is 2341 km to Egypt, this is one way! If the plane travelled there and back how many km would it have travelled? Year 3 and 4 Measure using a ruler Draw a square where the perimeter is 20 cm. Label the length of the sides. Draw a rectangle. Two parallel sides are 14 cm in length and two parallel sides are 6cm in length. Label the length of the sides. Draw an equilateral triangle. You can select the length. All sides are …………… cm. Label the length of the sides of the triangle. Draw an isosceles triangle. Two sides the same length. Label the length of the sides of the triangle. Draw a scalene triangle. All sides are different lengths. Label the length of the sides of the triangle. Draw a pentagon. Year 5 and 6 Waitākiri School is having a Market day. Each studio is planning a stall to raise money. Korimako decided to run a die throw. Before the day the students needed to work out what prizes they were likely to need. The students decided there would be different ways customers could win a prize.
Rolling a 6 Rolling a number greater than 4 Rolling an odd number Rolling a prime number
1. Rank these possibilities in order of likelihood. 2. The highest prize would go to the most unlikely possibility. Which one would this be? 3. Which is the luckiest number on the dice? 4. Which number does not win a prize?
After the Christchurch earthquakes, the city decided to use shipping containers fitted together to make some shops. Using the 10 blocks, join them together to make a model for a group of shops. There must be at least 2 storeys on part of your model, try and be creative.
1. Build your shops using the 10 blocks. 2. Draw a front, side and top view of your shops. 3. Create a net for your shops including a base.
KORIMAKO LEARNING
HERO MORNING TEA
Congratulations to the Learning Heroes from
Korimako Studio who had a Learning Hero
Morning Tea with Mrs Royle last week. Pictured
are Prechysz, Liam, Kieta, Shayla, Esther, Alex,
Hannah, Emily, Brett, Georgiana, Hunter, Mila,
Evie, Brooke and Jayden.
PICNIC WITH THE ACTING
PRINCIPAL Congratulations to the Learning Heroes who had a Picnic with Mrs Malham yesterday. Pictured right are Jayden, Alex, Roma, Ashley, Esten, Izzy and Lily
MESSAGE FROM VODAFONE RE EMAILS From the 30th November 2017, Vodafone will be closing their email service. This may impact members of our parent community.
To ensure our families continue to have access newsletters and information from teachers, please ensure you update us with your new email address if you have any of the following emails that will be made redundant: clear.net.nz es.co.nz ihug.co.nz
paradise.net.nz pcconnect.co.nz quik.co.nz
vodafone.co.nz vodafone.net.nz wave.co.nz
To find out more information about the pending change please follow this link: https://www.vodafone.co.nz
OSCAR OCTOBER SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAMME
Please contact Amanda
027 655 8104 or [email protected] for more information.
SPORTS NEWS YEAR 5 & 6 BASKETBALL Basketball for the year 5 and 6's has finished for this year. What a great couple of terms we have had with our teams. A big congratulations to the Rams and the Breakers for winning their sections. Basketball is becoming a very popular sport and our teams have done really well. Well done to all the children involved. But mostly a huge THANKS to our coaches once again! Thank you very much Woody, Dean, Tony, Leanne, Murray, Renzo, Jesse and Anita. And to everyone that helped them.
WAITAKIRI DANCE CREW
A team of eight Year 5 & 6 children competed at the Canterbury Primary Sports dance
competition at Hornby High School and were placed first in their division. Pictured below is
the team in action. Well done to everyone involved!
ALL SPORTS UNIFORMS TO BE RETURNED PLEASE All children who participated in sport for Waitākiri, please return to the sports uniform box in the CHOICE room by the end of this week once they have been washed. Thank you.
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OCTOBER SCHOOL HOLIDAY
UNIFORM COLLECTION
FRIDAY 13 October 9am - 3pm from the school office Orders close at 12noon on Tuesday 10 October
WALKATHON SUCCESS – THANK YOU! Children Walk the Length of N.Z! (And some)
Our Walkathon was a great success with 650 children, plus teachers and family members joining in the fun last Tuesday afternoon.
Windsor and Burwood children walked 2.4km (460km in total) Otakaro and Travis children walked 4.1 km (790km in total) Ruru and Korimako children walked 5.8km (1380 km in total) That’s over 2 600km altogether -equivalent to walking from Cape Reinga to Bluff and back to Christchurch. What an amazing effort from everyone. Please pass on our thanks to your family, friends, neighbours and workmates who supported our fundraising efforts so generously. Prize winners will be announced at our school Learning Celebration on Friday this week and the total money raised will also be revealed. All are welcome!
REAL Challenge Thank you! Thank you to everyone who supported us by buying our
goodies for the Leukaemia & Blood Cancer NZ. We raised
$213.20 and will be presenting this to them on Thursday.
Leukaemia & Blood Cancer NZ were thrilled that we raised
this money for them, and wanted us to thank everyone who
supported them.
From Mia, Danielle, Ayla and Sophie
KEEP NZ BEAUTIFUL “CLEAN UP WEEK” Miley and Cole took time out of their lunchtime to collect rubbish around the Red Zone and Horseshoe Lake last week during “Clean Up Week”. Fantastic environmental Heroes!
KEEP COLLECTING EVERYONE – COMPETITION
CLOSES AT THE END OF OCTOBER!
COMMUNITY NOTICES
Are you ready to vote in the 2017 General Election? You’ll be able to vote here at Waitākiri
Primary School on Election Day.
The voting place will be open from 9am to 7pm on Saturday, 23 September 2017.
For more information on enrolling and voting and a list of other voting places go
to www.elections.org.nz.
MESSAGE FROM CHRISTCHURCH CITY COUNCIL The tsunami sirens will be tested this Sunday, 24 September at 11am. The sirens are located along the coast from Taylors Mistake to Brooklands. The sirens will sound for approximately three minutes, and are designed to be heard within a few blocks of the coast. Sirens are tested twice a year on the Sundays that daylight savings starts and finishes. Further information on the tsunami evacuation zone, the tsunami sirens and preparedness information can be found at: https://www.ccc.govt.nz/services/civil-defence/what-to-do-in-an-emergency/tsunami/ Kind Regards Coastal-Burwood Community Governance Team
Tennis in 2017 starts with Hot Shots. Come to any of Burwood Park’s Community Play days and you’ll be in the draw to win one of a
dozen GIANT tennis balls.
Community Play days: Saturday 23
rd September 11:30am to 1:00pm
Saturday 30th September 11:30am to 1:00pm
We’re at 55 Cresswell Ave
All you need is a good attitude and your sports shoes.
Register at www.burwoodparktennisclub.kiwi or email [email protected] The giant tennis ball draw will be at 1:00pm Saturday 23
rd September.
