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!

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 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!

Waiuku by Natasha

Waiuku is the place to be
There's lots of cafes for you and me.
Karioitahi, a long black sand beach
the sea looks just like a giant black boy peach.

Go to Fitzy's and buy your chips.
When you eat them and they touch your lips,
You will cry out loud, 'This is delish!'

Natasha's dance exam:

Last Wednesday, Natasha had to leave school early to go to her jazz dance exam in Pukekohe. She had to go to a hairdresser to get her hair done. This Tuesday, she got her results back and she was awarded with highly commended.
Natasha was disappointed that it wasn't the mark she was hoping for even though she had practised.
Her hair looked gorgeous and stayed in for 3 whole days! and we are looking forward to Natasha dancing for us.

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!

100%ers!

After 4 days of Five Frenzy addition grids, 10 people in Room 11 scored a whopping 100%!

Jack

Natasha

Sharon

Phoebe

Jayden

Ashlee

Shontelle

Katiana

Charis

Briana

Congratulations!

Speeches!!!

We are all doing persuasive speeches for the WPS Speech competition at the end of this term.

Some people are finishing their drafts, others are practising their speeches in front of the class, so that they can become more confident when they speak in front of the syndicate.

Brooke's speech is about domestic animals, because they keep you company when you are alone. Sharon's speech is very sad, because it's about her mum who passed away from breast cancer. Charis is speaking on illiteracy and why it should be stopped, and Samsara is doing Katy Perry. We have a large range of topics in Room 11 this term. Natasha won the speech competition last year for Year 5 and 6 students - Shontelle is hoping to be at the top with her.

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!

100%'ers!

Jamie, Niwa, Briana, Natasha, Nadia Shontelle and Sharon all achieved 100% in their Essential List 7 Spelling List, with Jamie also scoring an impressive 100% in the Commonly Misspelt Words!
They attribute their success to having a teacher that has lots of spelling.
Congratulations to all our top spellers!

Ben and Jaydens' Victory:

The competition this morning was stiff between Ben, Jayden, Jamie, Aidan, Natasha and Maygan for the spelling gold medals!
It was hard as, because we had to go back and spell glockenspiel 10 times but luckily, Jamie and Aidan had to spell two words ten times each.
Natasha and Maygan were so close, but Jayden distracted them with her awesome talking powers.
Ben and Jayden said it's awesome to come first, and it's one less medal for Jayden's goals!

The race to the Spelling gold medal!

Katie says:

We didn't take our spelling notebooks home last night because Ms Clydesdale had them. We got them back this morning and we tested each other before school. When we saw Finn and Ben testing each other, Natasha asked if me was fast at spelling and then we aimed to beat the boys, because they had started a minute before us and were already about four spelling words in.

We went faster and beat the boys up to the teacher's desk for the gold medal.
We feel happy, and Finn and Ben feel aggrieved.

Room 11's Top NZ Brains!

Natasha, Finn, Nadia, Jamie, Jack, Maygan and Samuel all scored a massive NINE in the PAT tests that Room 11 has just finished, that makes them some of the cleverest brains in the country!

Natasha scored a stanine 9 for both Reading Comprehension and Reading Vocabulary.

Finn was going for a massive THREE Stanine 9's and missed out by one frustrating point, but with 2 stanine 9's under his belt and a stanine 8, we could call him 'Super Brain'! Impressive Finn!