R11 School Awards:

At Waiuku Primary School's prizegiving yesterday, several Room 11 students were presented with awards:

Finn - Top Year 6 Academic student, ICAS English Distinction Award:

Jamie - WPS Music Trophy & Merit Award

Natalie - Citizenship Award

Nadia - Merit Award & ICAS English Distinction Award Top 4% in NZ

Abbi - Sports Award

Natasha - Merit Award, ICAS English & Mathematics Awards

Katiana - Citizenship Award

Ashlee - Merit Award

Jayden - Merit Award, Music Merit Award - Choir

Briana - ICAS Mathematics Award

Nicola- Merit

Anthony - Mathematics Award

Shontelle - ICAS English Award

Congratulations everyone!

Mathletics Update Day 4 16.00hrs

Today Room 11 has been distracted with practising for the school's dance show tomorrow night, but even so, we have managed to come 2nd in the world and 1st in New Zealand!

Here are our current rankings:

Ben 4th in the world and 1st in New Zealand

Anthony 35th in the world and 6th in New Zealand

Maddy 41st in the world and 7th in New Zealand

Charis 44th in the world and 8th in New Zeland

Sharon 68th in the world and 12th in New Zealand

Jamie 13th in New Zealand

Jack 24th in New Zealand

Samsara 25th in New Zealand

Katiana 28th in New Zealand

Jayden 66th in New Zealand

Sian 69th in New Zealand

1st in the WORLD!

At 3.30pm today, Room 11 was 1st in the world and 1st in New Zealand in Mathletics, so we achieved our goal of beating the world in only 3 days!

Congratulations Room 11!

Here are our curent rankings:

Maddy 1st in the world and 1st in New Zealand

Ben 4th in the world and 2nd in New Zealand

Jamie 6th in the world and 3rd in New Zealand

Niwa 7th in the world and 4th in New Zealand

Anthony 8th in the world and 5th in New Zealand

Sharon 20th in the world and 7th in New Zealand

Natasha 33rd in the world and 12th in New Zealand

Porsha 38th in the world and 13th in New Zealand

Jayden 65th in the world and 18th in New Zealand

Samsara 68th in the world and 20th in New Zealand

Ashlee 69th in the world and 21st in New Zealand

Aidan 75th in the world

Finn 33rd in New Zealand

Jack 38th in New Zealand

Nadia 64th in New Zealand

Mathletics Update Day 3 09:00

Jack, our Mathletics captain reports:
Room 11 is 2nd in New Zealand and 9th in the world! with 88,748 points total!
Maddy is 5th in New Zealand, and 58th in the world.
Ben is 7th in New Zealand
Jamie is 36th in New Zealand
Finn is 44th in New Zealand
Jayden is 46th in New Zealand
We are very close to becoming number one class in the world and everybody has been working very hard.
Follow our progress on the Mathletics website:
http://www.mathletics.co.nz

Room 11's mathletics war with Room 18!

We won!

Room 11 are the top Mathletes at Waiuku Primary School!

All week, we battled against the Year 8's in Room 18 and at 11am today, we beat them by 19,824 points!

At 11:00 Room 11 was 1st in New Zealand with 177,862 points, and Mrs Kendall's Year 8's were 2nd in New Zealand with 158,038 points.

Room 11 was 8th in the world.

Here are our individual rankings as at 11:00 today:

World Rankings:

Natalie 1st!

Jack 5th

Ben 21st

Jamie 38th

New Zealand Rankings:

Natalie 1st!

Jack 3rd

Ben 15th

Jamie 24th

Thank you Mrs Kendall and Room 18 for a very exciting week!

Mathletics Update Day 4 15:24

Room 11 had a nail-breaking day, as Mrs Kendall's Year 8 class pushed us off our first place in New Zealand in Mathletics ranking at lunchtime today!

We worked hard and came back snatching the first place ranking off the Year 8's and are now first in New Zealand again! Our competition closes tomorrow at 11am, so go Room 11!

World Rankings:

Ben 8th

Jack 13th

Natalie 18th

Jamie 23rd

Aidan 37th

Maddy 57th

New Zealand Rankings:

Ben 5th

Jack 8th

Natalie 10th

Jamie 13th

Aidan 19th

Maddy 23rd

Jayden 46th

Finn 53rd

Porsha 82nd

Abbi 93rd

Katiana 99th

Mathletics 3pm update:

Room 11 is now the top in Mathletics in New Zealand!

and has moved from 32nd in the world to 23rd in the world!

Room 11's world rankings:
Jayden 31st
Jack 32nd
Samsara 34th
Ben 45th
Natasha 78th

Room 11's NZ rankings:
Jayden 6th
Jack 7th
Samsara 9th
Ben 11th
Natalie 65th
Niwa 70th
Jamie 77th

Congratulations Room 11!

Wonderful Waiuku by Jamie

Wonderful Waiuku

sometimes sunny and sometimes gray,

have a good old kiwi barbecue,

and you don't even have to pay.

Sunny Waiuku,

takes my heart away,

for this is where I belong,

and this is where I'll stay.

Please note that Jamie says that he'll probably move to Auckland City.

The answer:

Room 11 started studying the first man in space, Yuri Gagarin. He flew Vostok1 once around the Earth in 1961. He had a just better than 50% chance of coming home alive, and he did!
Jamie was lying on a chair on the floor trying to interpret him in his rocket flying into space.

Why is Jamie sitting on the floor in a chair???

Watch

tomorrow for the answer!

My Fabulous win!

Ben says:
Today was my first time beating Jamie in the Five Minute Frenzies, by 3 seconds!
And I also scored a perfect 100% with it as well.
It's been a goal of mine to beat Jamie in the Five Minute Frenzies for a very long time, and now I've done it!
I feel so good about it because I'm going to beat him again tomorrow!

100%'ers:

Today was the first day that Niwa and Tuko scored 100% in the Five Minute Frenzy (C)!  Niwa feels happy, because it's her first time to score 100%, and she only scored 46% in her first test.  Tuko feels proud that he scored his first 100% as he only scored 27% in his first test. Their goal was to achieve 100% and get a good time under 5 minutes.  The whole class is proud of Tuko and Niwa's success.

We had an astonishing 17 people achieve 100% in this morning's Five Minute Frenzy:

Tuko, Niwa, Jamie, Abbi, Ben, Shontelle, Sian, Jayden, Phoebe, Briana, Ashlee, Finn, Aidan, Sharon, Charis, Katiana and Maddy.  Only 5 people scored 100% - Jamie, Natasha, Abbi, Sharon and Jack - when we first started doing Five Minute Frenzies.  Natasha would probably have scored 100% too, if she hadn't been at music.

Fantastic learning Room 11!

100%ers in Five Minute Frenzy Multiplication:

This week's timestable frenzy was easier because there was 1X tables and sometimes 2X tables. Room 11 is getting better because they are getting used to the format and layout. Ben, Jamie, Abbi and Sharon are practising them at home.
Eight people scored 100% correct this morning within 5 minutes:

Natasha

Jamie

Nadia

Jack

Sharon

Abbi

Jayden

Congratulations!

Хорошая работа Джейми!

Good work Jamie!
Jamie has been learning his Russian alphabet at home. He knows how to pronounce and write the Russian alphabet off by heart. He is learning by printing the alphabet off at home and he has been writing it down and saying it lots of times. Jamie also made this clip on Garageband to demonstrate his new skills!
Jamie says learning Russian is awsome as!

Россия алфавита Джейми

Chemical Reactions Rock!

Yesterday morning my science group and I found out that we were awarded 3rd equal in the school's science fair. We felt really great about it, because we stuffed up our entry and then we fixed it all up and then it looked much better.
Our question was does the colour of hair affect the amount of static electricity that it can hold, and we concluded that yes it does - darker coloured hair can hold more static electricity than lighter coloured hair.
Aidan and Jamie attended the science fair prize giving last night and were presented with a certificate - they felt very proud!

Jamie under 12 Winner!

Last Friday, Jamie went to his guitar competitions in the Pukekohe Baptist Church. He won 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medal. He also came home with the trophy for beating all the under 12s. Jamie should have been competing against the under 11's because he is only 10 years old.

He wants to be a rock star and win 3 Grammy's!

We know he will, so keep an eye out for Jamie in the future!

Sullivan's Champions!

Today we went to the Sullivan's Tournament at View Road School in Waiuku. Sullivan's is an inter-school competition for Uni-Hoc and soccer.
We versed Aka Aka, Otaua, View Road 1 and 2, and Waiuku 2 in soccer. Our team won every single game we played, therefore, we assume we won the tournament for soccer.
Out of all our games, the last games was awkward, because we versed our own school and there were no bibs, so we couldn't tell who was who!

Level 8'ers!

Natasha and Jamie scored a Level 8 in the GLOSS test last week. We think that it's spectacular progress and they are awesome! So now they get extension work to add to their brain power.
They ROCK!