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!

Briana's cool complex sentence:

Every night, in Briana's homework book that she does her maths questions in, she writes one complex sentence to help her with her writing, to make better sentences. When Briana got the class pamphlet for Term 3, it told her what she had to do for homework, so she set out a schedule with her dad, for her to do every night.
Her writing is getting better and her confidence in writing stories or poems is improving. Here is the complex sentence Briana wrote yesterday in class:
Rainbow's End is a fun-filled adventure theme park, with rides that will make your heart pump with excitement.

Waiuku's Beauty by Briana

Lots of rolling hills,

grass so green the whole hill's filled.

Beautiful beach bouncing by.

Hey look! there goes a butterfly.

Sand so sparkly, water so clean,

everyone is happy not mean.

Houses so big, houses so small,

none of them are really tall.

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!

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!

Briana's Mathematics success!

Briana works harder to do her maths so she can get a higher level. She does impressively big maths questions every night with her dad. She scored 100% in her basic facts test yesterday, which gave her a 3A! She also got 23/25 in Monday's pre-test on the new maths unit, Number, making her the top scorer!
Briana feels great that she is at the level she is supposed to be at by the end of the year. This makes Briana one of the top Year 6 srtudents in the school for maths!
Congratulations, Briana!

Successful Speech Competition!

The final session of Room 11's speech competition was held this morning after morning tea, with our special adjudicators, Rose and Arabella.

Maddy, Sage and Samuel were the top Year 5 speeches, with Ben as reserve. The Year 6 competition was very tough, with Jayden, Phoebe, Briana and Sharon being choosen, and Maygan is the reserve.

We were also lucky that three parents came and enjoyed our speeches. Hopefully, we will have more parents watching next Friday, when we compete against the other Year 5 and Year 6 students .

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!

3 x 4B in Writing!

Last Wednesday we had to take a writing test. Jayden thought that it was going to be really hard, but it was really easy. Maygan said that Ms Clydesdale a whole lot of good stuff about how to make the writing interesting. Briana thought it was really hard remembering all the information about her ancestors.
Jayden, Maygan and Briana all got a 4B in the test, this means that they are the top in the class. They are supposed to be 3A at the end of the year, and the expected level for Year 7's is 4B, so they are ready for next year!
Well done girls!