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T E R M 2 - M I D - T E R M R E P O R T<br />
<strong>S6</strong><br />
NEW ZEALAND<br />
MUSIC MONTH<br />
THE SCHOOL<br />
CROSS COUNTRY<br />
BELONGING TO A<br />
COMMUNITY<br />
How <strong>S6</strong> celebrated New Zealand<br />
Music Month including MaranuiFM<br />
Shows.<br />
Plenty of training, plenty of hard<br />
work. How did we get on!<br />
Our Term 2 Inquiry - part of our<br />
overall theme "Belonging"
SO WHAT'S IN IT?<br />
MARANUIFM<br />
Reporters, announcers and others<br />
talk about being on the radio<br />
station<br />
THE GREAT FROG<br />
SHOW<br />
The continuing saga of our pet frogs<br />
PUBLISHED WORK<br />
What we have been doing, how<br />
we've been doing it and where to<br />
find it<br />
ON THE COVER<br />
NZ MUSIC<br />
MONTH<br />
Students write about how<br />
we celebrated NZ Music<br />
Month this May<br />
THE SCHOOL<br />
CROSS<br />
COUNTRY RUN<br />
Students write about the<br />
cross country<br />
INQUIRY:<br />
BELONGING TO<br />
A COMMUNITY<br />
CODE CAMP<br />
Programming @ lunchtime<br />
WEBSITES<br />
Website writing by the students<br />
A BIG THANKS<br />
To John Barrow<br />
COMING UP<br />
Things happening this term and<br />
later<br />
Our major inquiry for this<br />
term. Read about what we<br />
are planning and doing
NZ<br />
NUSIC<br />
THE STUDENTS TALK ABOUT<br />
HOW WE CELEBRATED NZ<br />
MONTH<br />
MUSIC MONTH THIS MAY<br />
I made a PowerPoint for NZ Music Month. It includes the following artists<br />
and bands: Anika Moa, Stan Walker, LadyHawke, Lorde and Split Enz. To see<br />
my PowerPoint check out our class website<br />
By Livvy<br />
Today we're going to be talking about what we did for NZ Music Month, and<br />
by we I mean me and my friend Sanaa.<br />
We thought we'd make merchandise so our teacher suggested we make<br />
bookmarks, but we also made cool creation called mookmarks (mini<br />
bookmarks). We were collaborating with the people who thought of making<br />
the talent show, so we sold our bookmarks & mookmarks at their talent<br />
show.<br />
We were the judges as well ! It was pretty cool being a judge but it was kind<br />
of annoying too because some people tried to look at the scores, but we<br />
managed to cover them up with the special bookmarks . The special<br />
bookmarks were for the top 4 people that the judges chose. In the end the<br />
winners weren't too obvious. Anyways, if you are reading this article and<br />
you’re a child and if you want a bookmark or mookmark then please bring<br />
$1.00 for a mookmark and $2.00 for a bookmark.<br />
We're doing this for the hall extension so if you can, please help us raise<br />
money if you do then a huge thank you!<br />
by Anuksa and Sanaa
THE<br />
TALENT<br />
ZARA, LARA, MADDY AND<br />
MIA'S TALENT SHOW<br />
SHOW<br />
On the 26th of May we (Zara, Lara, Maddy & Mia) held a<br />
NZ Music Month Talent Show. Here are the stages we went<br />
through to make it. First, we designed and made some<br />
terrific posters. This is what they said:<br />
NZ Music Month Talent Show! Everyone welcome to sing<br />
kiwi music, dance to it, mime it, write a poem about it, play<br />
musical instruments to it, and much more! Remember, only<br />
NZ music allowed!<br />
After that, we made the sign up sheets and handed them<br />
out to all of the senior classes.<br />
Next came the tense wait till the talent show was due. We<br />
held a meeting two days before the show with all the<br />
contestants to find out what song they would sing or<br />
dance to. On the day of the talent show we went down<br />
early and set everything up. At lunch time, people came<br />
flooding into watch. Once it was underway everything<br />
went smoothly. Mia and Lara were the hosts, and Maddy<br />
and Zara did behind the scenes. The winners were 4 girls<br />
who did pieface while doing a NZ music quiz<br />
By Maddy and Zara<br />
Every year in May we celebrate NZ Music. In <strong>S6</strong> we<br />
thought "let's go celebrate Music Month" and go and<br />
show and teach more about music to the school.<br />
For our inquiry we organised some things for music<br />
month. We had a variety of options that we could do<br />
to celebrate.<br />
We had so much to choose from - we could make a<br />
Sway, Posters and organise activities. Me and my<br />
group decided to put up posters and make a quiz using<br />
Forms, and make a PowerPoint,<br />
Also I helped organise a talent show for everyone to<br />
enjoy!!<br />
We started on our posters to advertise the talent show<br />
and I also started my PowerPoint. After a couple of<br />
weeks we had everything ready and we were done. I<br />
showed my PowerPoint.<br />
The talent show was a big success.<br />
By Mia<br />
The judges - Sanaa, Anuksa, Jumerone and Angus
SCHOOL<br />
CROSS<br />
WE TALK ABOUT HOW THE<br />
RACE WAS FOR US<br />
COUNTRY<br />
On Thursday 25 of May, we went to Cross Country.The purpose of<br />
Cross Country was to see who could represent our school for Eastern<br />
Zones. First was the year 4 girls, then the year 4 boys and it went on<br />
and on. Our course started by the end of the beach by the Maranui<br />
Surf Club, onto the pathway, down some stairs and run to the finish<br />
line. I don't know where I came but I do know that I didn't come in the<br />
top 7. After that I was really tired.<br />
by Jumarone<br />
On Thursday the 25 of May we did Cross Country. The whole school<br />
did the Cross Country. This year we did a different course because of<br />
the buildings going on at the beach. We had teachers standing where<br />
we were going. In the year 6 girls who came first was me Eva!!! The<br />
year 6 boy winner was Harrison!!! The year 5 girl winner was Ellarose<br />
!!!!! We had a lot of fun!!!!!!<br />
By Eva<br />
On Thursday 25 May Lyall Bay School went to the beach to do cross<br />
country . When we got there the teachers put the tarpaulins out. The<br />
year 4 girls ran first. And then the year 4 boys ran and it kept going on<br />
in the same order. The top seven were going to Eastern Zones. Every<br />
body who made it to Eastern Zones will go Wednesday 6 June. I came<br />
11.<br />
By Malachi<br />
We had cross country on the 25th of May 2017.It was at Lyall Bay<br />
beach, It took most of the day. The whole school went.<br />
I felt very nervous and had butterflies but it became easier by the<br />
seconds. I think I came 14th or 15th.<br />
By Bahren<br />
We had cross country on the 25th of May 2017. I came 8th in the year<br />
six boys.<br />
I'm not going to Eastern Zones sadly.<br />
Every person took part in the cross country event.<br />
By Orson<br />
On Thursday 25th May, the whole of Lyall Bay<br />
School and some parents who came to help<br />
did Cross Country. This is the order things<br />
went in: We got in to buddies, We crossed<br />
roads. Then we walked on the sandy footpath<br />
of the beach. The teachers spread out a blue<br />
mat, and we ate a quick snack.<br />
We then cheered the year 4 girls on since they<br />
where first to race, then it was the year 5 girls,<br />
then the year 5 boys, then the year 6 girls,<br />
followed by the year 6 boys, then the year 3's<br />
and at last the Juniors.<br />
It was a lot of fun :)<br />
By Chidy
INQUIRY:<br />
BELONGING<br />
TERM2 INQUIRY; BELONGING<br />
TO A COMMUNITY<br />
Aidan talking about "What is a community"<br />
This term with inquiry we have been learning about<br />
communities . We have been learning about all<br />
different types of communities- for an example<br />
(animal communities and people communities etc.)<br />
We started off by going into S1,S2,S3,S4,S5 and <strong>S6</strong><br />
to look at photos of places in our community<br />
By Meika<br />
We started off by getting into groups larger than<br />
two but smaller than four. Once we were in the<br />
groups we had to choose our parts, the parts were<br />
recorder, reporter and knowledge. Then we wrote<br />
down we thought the definition of communities<br />
were. Next we wrote down some examples of<br />
communities. Once we had done that we put up<br />
some questions.<br />
By Livvy<br />
<strong>S6</strong> Community
MARANUIFM<br />
REPORT<br />
STUDENTS INVOLVED IN<br />
MARANUIFM TALK ABOUT<br />
WHAT'S BEEN HAPPENING SO<br />
FAR THIS TERM<br />
This term our focus was NZ Music Month. We have been<br />
sharing some facts about singers and bands. The<br />
Announcers and News Reporters have learnt new bands<br />
and singers like Th' Dudes, Kora and Steve Mc Donald. As<br />
an announcer our job is to announce each week at a given<br />
time. We prepare our show by the day before our show<br />
begins. As News Reporters our job is to get our news ready<br />
before the announcers go on radio.<br />
By Jumarone<br />
Orson and Bahren's show is on Thursdays at 11:30. This<br />
month was NZ Music month so we focused on Barry<br />
Saunders, gThe Dudes/Dave Dobbyn and Steve Macdonald.<br />
Our news reporter is Jumaraone.<br />
On Wednesdays at 9:30 me and Esme have our radio show.<br />
For most of this term we've been doing our shows about<br />
New Zealand Music Month. We had to chose one or two<br />
New Zealand singers or bands and find out some<br />
interesting facts about them. We can chose loads of<br />
different songs by different artists. We also have roving<br />
reporters from Avondale Primary School and Ashley<br />
Primary school. They send reports from their areas .<br />
By Sophie<br />
Our show is at 11:30 on Wednesday we have talked about<br />
Fred Dagg , Fourmyla , Kora and When the cats away in our<br />
NZ music month show our news reporter is Lara , we do<br />
our show so that people find out facts about singers and<br />
bands.<br />
By EllaRose and Keith<br />
Did you know that <strong>S6</strong> is awesome at being on the radio. We<br />
did on our show about Dave Dobbyn. Me and Sanaa were<br />
talking about Dave Dobbyn anyway. Our news reporter was<br />
Meika . She was talking about the latest news .We also had<br />
some technical difficulties but we went through the hassle<br />
By Anuksa and Sanaa .<br />
Wednesdays at 9.30 me and Sophie do our<br />
radio show. Lately we have been doing our<br />
shows about NZ Music Month because it was<br />
NZ Music Month. What we do is we get a run<br />
sheet and we find out what we are doing. For<br />
NZ Music Month we have been doing some<br />
facts about the singers then we go on the<br />
radio.<br />
By Esme<br />
Roving Reporters<br />
The Roving Reporters are children from<br />
different schools around the country that send<br />
our school reports about what is happening in<br />
their school. When they send us their reports<br />
we play them over the school radio station. So<br />
far we have two reporters from Ashley School<br />
and three from Avondale Primary School.<br />
By Sophie
THE<br />
GREAT<br />
FROG<br />
SHOW<br />
FROM TADPOLES TO FROGS<br />
AND MORE!<br />
Tadpoles To Frogs by Lara<br />
I hope you've heard about the tadpoles! Well that was so<br />
last term because now they're frogs! Ready to live life to<br />
the fullest. Which isn't very full when they're stuck in a<br />
tank. But soon they will live free to have their adventures<br />
in the best ways possible, but lets stick to the adventures<br />
in the tank!<br />
(P.S. We are only guessing their genders!)<br />
Froakie:<br />
Our poor little Froakie - he is the smallest frog here,<br />
but with the biggest appetite! He did use to be the biggest<br />
tadpole. However he never had the most legs. We think<br />
something must have happened because he only has 3 legs<br />
now. We have been have been waiting a while for his last<br />
leg but it doesn't seem to come out. Right now he is<br />
hanging out at Maddy's place for his safety.<br />
Sharky:<br />
Sharky has always been the second to try things, until<br />
climbing! He has been ruling the glass skies with no fear of<br />
falling! He has made his kingdom in the top right back<br />
corner of the tank. Right now he is eating well and<br />
healthy, He is also the biggest.<br />
Bubbles:<br />
Bubbles was always a shy tadpole at first and the smallest.<br />
She is still rather small , but to our surprise she was the<br />
first to metamorphosis with her front legs. She dropped<br />
her shyness at the bus stop. After finding Sharky and<br />
Bubbles were best friends, she (we think) is small and thin,<br />
not getting as much nutrients as she should.<br />
Last Notes:<br />
Please if you're able to bring blowflies or mayflies, that<br />
would be fantastic for the frogs!<br />
They are all pretty happy and healthy, so be ready for<br />
more adventures!
We have heaps of published work available on our website<br />
As well as written work, we have Sways, PowerPoints,<br />
Comic Strips, Websites and more.<br />
<strong>S6</strong> has been publishing some work by using Office 365 .<br />
In this report I am going to be talking about what I<br />
published. First I have STRANGE Part 1. In this fiction<br />
story there is a boy who think his dad has died. He hadn't<br />
seen his dad since he was born. One day the boy finds a<br />
room that wasn't there before as he opens that door he<br />
also opens the door which leads to the un-solved mystery<br />
of Jack Silverstein. Will he be able to defeat Jack<br />
Silverstein with only one companion, his dad?<br />
By Ali<br />
PUBLISHED<br />
WORK<br />
We do free writing on Mondays.<br />
On Monday 13 March 2017 I started a story (fiction) about<br />
me, a 10-year-old boy riding my scooter down a hill until I<br />
fell into a narrow hole.<br />
Ahead of me I meet an adventure....<br />
By Chidy<br />
A man and a picture!!!!<br />
This story is about a man who moved in to a new house<br />
where there was a picture of a boy. When the man tried to<br />
remove the picture hec couldn't but at night the<br />
picture..........<br />
By Eva<br />
This year I have been doing some published work. In <strong>S6</strong> I<br />
have been working on an aeroplanes PowePoint with my<br />
friends. It has 14 slides and also has heaps of different<br />
kinds of planes.<br />
By Malachi<br />
Before we publish writing, we always make a draft.<br />
In a draft you can plan and edit. You can't make a draft for<br />
storyboards, Sways or PowerPoints but you can plan and<br />
edit them.<br />
We like to publish Sways, PowerPoints, Storyboards,<br />
websites and written work.<br />
I have published a PowerPoint about animals, two<br />
storyboards about the Island Bay Marine Reserve.<br />
Check them out in our class website!<br />
By Brielle<br />
And a poem by Ali<br />
Wellington<br />
Wellington is nature<br />
She is the summer time.<br />
In a flower.<br />
A shining shooting star.<br />
Wellington is a forest full of nature.<br />
Her heart and her people garden happily.<br />
Kia Ora to Wellington.<br />
Whistle Song<br />
(to tune of "If it weren't for ya gumboots" made<br />
famous by Fred Dagg)<br />
Whistles, they are wonderful, whistles, they are<br />
great<br />
Coz they call ya dogs which herd up all ye sheep.<br />
And when you're sittin' round at home, you can<br />
always tell<br />
When one of the Trev's has blown his whistle.<br />
If it weren't for your whistle, where would ya be?<br />
You'd be shivering round at home without ya<br />
jersey<br />
Coz you would have a dose of the 'flu, or even<br />
iceasy<br />
If ya didn’t have ya whistle around your neck.<br />
Now there's rugby whistles and racing whistles<br />
and whistles for chasin' thieves.<br />
But the only whistles I'm never without are the<br />
ones that Start with "D".<br />
If it weren't for your whistle, where would ya be?<br />
You'd be shivering round at home without ya<br />
jersey<br />
'Coz you would have a dose of the 'flu, or even<br />
iceasy<br />
If ya didn’t have ya whistle around your neck.<br />
By Angus
CAMP<br />
CODE<br />
AND<br />
WEBSITES<br />
The teacher at code camp is Peter.<br />
It is on Wednesday lunch time. It is starting<br />
tomorrow I'm so exited.<br />
I hope we do python, Scratch and other cool<br />
coding programs because I haven't tried<br />
coding before.<br />
By Toby<br />
I'm really excited for code camp. Aidan and I<br />
used to go to Samuel Marsden collage for<br />
code camp every Tuesday Afternoon. Our<br />
teacher/instructor is Peter and he is very<br />
good at coding. He said that FAIL stands for<br />
First Attempt In Learning. Now code camp is<br />
on every Wednesday lunch time here in <strong>S6</strong>.<br />
By George<br />
Code camp is at 12:30 Wednesday. I think it is<br />
going to be fun.<br />
It will probably be a cool experience.<br />
The guy who takes the lessons name is Peter.<br />
I think you will be able to code with<br />
computers and stuff.<br />
By Bruno<br />
It started Wednesday in s6. It is taught by<br />
Peter. He is a very good teacher and it is<br />
really fun.<br />
You can do lots of things by using Scratch<br />
and Tynker<br />
By Aidan<br />
Websites<br />
Using a website called Wix, I created a site about<br />
NZ Music Month.<br />
In the website I put information about some NZ<br />
singers and bands, such as, Lorde, Crowded House,<br />
Dave Dobbyn and many more!<br />
There is also a special thanks page so you can see<br />
who helped me.<br />
Check out my website:<br />
https://briellemorgan.wixsite.com/briellesnzmusic<br />
month<br />
By Brielle<br />
NZ Music Month Websites<br />
Thanks to Chidy, Brielle, George, Keith, Toby and<br />
Aidan for making a NZ Music Month website.<br />
To take a look at these websites goto -<br />
https://s639101.wixsite.com/s6lbs/publishedwork<br />
By Toby<br />
For NZ Music Month some of us made websites. If<br />
you want to check mine out its<br />
http://nzmusicg.strikingly.com/ ! Big thanks to<br />
Toby, Aidan, Brielle and Keith for making websites<br />
and making this paragraph possible! Some of us<br />
used Strikingly.com for our websites but others<br />
used Wix.com.<br />
Thanks Strikingly and Wix!<br />
By George
A BIG THANKS<br />
JOHN<br />
BARROW<br />
On the very last day of term one my<br />
father – John came into class teach<br />
us some interesting something<br />
unique, robotics!!!<br />
We never got to write about him in<br />
the Term 1 magazine so we are now!<br />
Thanks dad. You have taught us so<br />
much and maybe created new<br />
careers for us.<br />
By Lara
OTHER<br />
STUFF<br />
COMING<br />
UP<br />
The Rubbish Shop<br />
On Wednesdays at lunch, Sophie, Eva, EllaRose and<br />
Livvy set up our Rubbish Shop. We sometimes stay in<br />
at lunch and make stuff to sell. To buy the stuff we<br />
make, bring 5 to 10 pieces of clean recyclable rubbish<br />
and you can have whatever you want.<br />
Wig Wednesday<br />
On the 21st of June Lyall Bay School is taking part in<br />
Wig Wednesday to support the Child Cancer<br />
Foundation. You can bring a donation and dress up or<br />
wear a wig. You don’t have to dress up but it would be<br />
awesome if you brought a donation. Our school is<br />
aiming to raise $500 for the Child Cancer Foundation.<br />
By Sophie<br />
Athletics<br />
Every year our school has athletics. Athletics is fun and<br />
we try and get into the team to represent the school in<br />
the Eastern Zone Sports. Our school athletics will be on<br />
October 30, and the Eastern Zone Athletics will be on<br />
November 7.<br />
Other Happenings<br />
Miniball Tournament<br />
Matariki<br />
Eastern Zone Swimming<br />
Fund raising<br />
Year 6 to EBIS<br />
Year 6 Graduation and Disco<br />
By Keith
We have been using StoryBoardThat for two terms now. Below are two<br />
examples of how we use it in the classroom.<br />
WAYS WE HAVE BEEN USING STORYBOARDTHAT<br />
Collective Nouns by Toby<br />
Letting Teacher know work is finished by Maddy
We have been using StoryBoardThat for two terms now. Below are some<br />
more examples of how we use it in the classroom.<br />
WAYS WE HAVE BEEN USING STORYBOARDTHAT<br />
Collective Nouns by Ali<br />
Maths problem by Chidy
Have you visited the <strong>S6</strong> website yet ?<br />
https://s639101.wixsite.com/s6lbs<br />
This Mid-Term Report was created by the wonderful, hard working<br />
students from <strong>S6</strong> @ Lyall Bay School, using a programme called<br />
Canva