Year 6 Dance

At our Poroaki we performed the Year 6 dance. We choose most of the music and choreographed the whole dance! #boom #sprinkler

Year 6 Leavers Song 2015

This week is our last week at CSNS. We are really sad to be leaving. At the Poroaki we played this music video of the Year 6s.

VEX Nationals

Wow! What an amazing experience we had using VEX this year. The buzz started when we presented to Mr Kennedy and Miss Holder about VEX and why we needed it at C.S.N.S. They said yes and so we begun learning how to build the robot, code and drive our VEX machine. We enjoyed our first competition at Regionals and then at Nationals we came an amazing 4th place out of 29 teams! 

Here is Josh and Ben competing in the driving skills competition.

The CSNS Bots crew posing and working hard!

Eating lunch and competing.

We stood out in our CSNS tops!

Thanks to Mr Kennedy and Miss Holder for allowing us to compete, and to Miss G and Mr R for giving us time on our FastTrack to do VEX.

#mattysheadtiltphotopose #vexrobotics

GRi11 VEX team at nationals

Today, Matty, Thomas, Josh, Sam and Ben from GRi11 are competing at the Vex IQ Bank Shot National Championships in Massey University. With their trusty robot "The Flower Plougher" they are ready to have their first match at 10:37 AM.

The VEX CSNS Bots team with their robot "Flower Plougher".

 

The Flower Plougher

Hoisting the Flag Ceremony NZ

In New Zealand there are several alternative flags to the one we have now. To celebrate our 5 options, 5 Palmerston North schools, that were around in the time our original flag was chosen came to hoist the flags. The schools there were: P.N.B.H.S., P.N.G.H.S., P.N.I.N.S., Central Normal, and ours, C.S.N.S. A few of us had to dress in Victorian Era clothes, and the six people from each school got educated in the history of our current NZ flag how it evolved from the Union Jack.

Victorian Clothes

Our Current Flag

First design: Red Peaks

Second Design: Silver Fern

Third Design: Silver Fern

Fourth Design: Koru

Fifth Design: Silver Fern

What flag do YOU want? Write 1, 2, 3, 4, or 5 in the comments below

CSNS Gala Bike Winner

A huge GRi11 congratulations to Sophie for winning the mountain bike draw at our school Gala!! We can't wait to see you pop some wheelies! 

Manawatu Digi Awards Winners + SUPREME Winner

What a week we have had in GRi11!

Last night the Manawatu Digi Awards were held at the Regent. It was an amazing evening showcasing the creativity of Y1-8 children across Manawatu.

We are proud to announce that:

• Sam L won the Y4-6 Digital Photograph Section with 'A Piece of Me'
  

• Sam B and Ben H won the Y4-6 Short Movie with 'History Test'

• Tiaki won the Y4-6 Graphic Design with 'Lest We Forget'

• SAM L also won the Y4-6 SUPREME AWARD as the overall winner for Y4-6 with his digital photograph, winning a Chromebook for the school. An outstanding achievement as it is hard for a digital photograph to compete against documentaries, movies and animations. Well done Sam we are all super proud of you!

Congratulations to you all - Your entries were of a very high standard and showcase the learning we have been doing in GRi11!

Jump Jam National WINNERS!

A huge CONGRATULATIONS to the C.S.N.S. Jump Jam Team who won the Open National Title for 2015!

All your hard work and dedication have paid off. We are proud of you all - but especially our GRi11ers in the team... Kama, Alyssa, Ella, Bella-Rose and Lily - who unfortunately couldn't compete on the day, but was an amazing part of the team!

Can't wait to see you back at school on Monday and to see your trophy!

The girls were on What Now - check out their performance!

Here's the clip of our Jump Jammers on What Now on Sunday. They were awesome!
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Jump Jam National Finalists

Congratulations to our C.S.N.S Jump Jam Team who are off to Christchurch this weekend for the National Finals.

We are super proud of our 'GRi11ers' who are in the team (Kama, Ella, Alyssa, Bella-Rose and Lily). We got to watch their dress rehearsal this week and they were A-Mazing.

All the best for the final girls! Go For Gold!!

F.A.I.L First Attempt in Learning

We have been learning about what it means to 'F.A.I.L' or have a First Attempt in Learning. These are some of our Graphic Designs to show our understanding.

Check out these famous people who have failed but never gave up! Sometimes things are hard - that is where the learning happens.

Manawatu Digi Awards Finalists

Wahoo! The Inspire Net Manawatu Digi Awards Finalists were announced today and there were lots of GRi11ers amongst the Finalists.

From thousands of entries, each category has three-four finalists from schools across Manawatu.

Congratulations to our talented GRi11ers who are in the finals and will attend the awards evening.

Yr4-6 Digital Photo Finalists:
The theme this year was 'Selfie'

A Piece of Me : Sam L

Unnoticed, Unequal, Unappreciated : Olivia G

Yr4-6 Photo Essay Finalist:

itSUNstoppable : Olivia G

Yr4-6 Graphic Design Finalist:

Lest We Forget : Tiaki P

Yr 4-6 Mini Doco Finalist:
Learning in GRi11: GRi11



Yr 4-6 Short Movie Finalist:
The History Test: Ben H and Sam B

The GRi11 documentary will be uploaded soon! All the best to everyone for the awards evening at the Regent. Go GRi11!!!!!!

Paper Challenge

After the balloon cars testing our ability to work as a team, we are back again! But this time it's a paper challenge. Some it finding easy, others finding hard. We are currently learning about 'The Learning Pit'! As you see below, the learning pit tests how we learn. The picture shows that you do fail and that failing is a good thing! When we went to Mind Lab, we found out that FAIL can stand for First Attempt In Learning. We believe that you have to be in the learning pit to learn. And even if it is extremely hard, we all eventually get out of of the learning pit and have that "EUREKA!!" moment. For example, have you ever been on the trampoline attempting to do a flip for weeks, months and even years and then finally do the flip!? If so, it feels so good, doesn't it? In conclusion, we all enjoy these technology challenges and learning about the learning pit! :)

Balloon Powered Cars

This morning Miss G and Mr R gave us a challenge. This challenge was to make a balloon powered car. We grabbed the instructions and started our work. Our cars look great and hopefully the cars work great as well!

Did you know, in 2028...

Today we watched this video 'Did you know, in 2028...' and recorded what we thought and what we it made us wonder.





These were some of our wonderings...

I wonder...

• How they know this will happen?
• How many jobs will be available?
• Will the world really change that much in the next 13 years?
• What people will do if technology does everything?
• Will we be like robots?
• How much pollution is there going to be?
• If there will be any space left on earth?
• Will there still be computers?
• What jobs we might have?
• Will we use water from Mars? Does it have oxygen in it?
• If we will still have cars?
• How we will earn money?
• Will artificial technology be safe, especially around young children... What if it glitches?
• How we will afford to have houses and buy food if our jobs are replaced with artificial intelligence?
• If 3D printing will take over the need for shops?
• If there will be viruses that effect this kind of life?
• Will Apple still be around?
• What environmental problems there will be?
• Will there still be conversations?
• How will we be learning?

Watch the video and see what questions you have... What do you think the world will be like in 2028?

GRi11 is Back!

GRi11 is back from Holiday break, and although there are some tired faces, we are mostly READY TO ROCK!!! We have had some pretty awesome Holidays, basing on what we've heard, and if YOU want to hear about it, then take a look at some of our individual blogs. We will keep you updated throughout the Term, and we hope you have a great Term!

Doodle 4 Google - congrats Wendy!

A huge GRi11 congratulations to Wendy  Zhang who made it to the top 100 finalists out of thousands of entries!! 

Selfies all the way

Here is a selfie that we took on the bus to Mind Lab  :)

Trip to Mind Lab

This term in GRi11 we have been learning about businesses. We split up into small groups and made products for real money. The reason we have been selling our products for real money is because we have been raising to go to The Mind Lab in Petone (just out of Wellington).

At Mind Lab we did 3D printing, stop motion animation, makeys makeys, scribble bots and we also made motorised cars out of certain materials.

We had to take the bus to Petone ,which was good because us kids got to catch up on some sleep. We had to be at school by 7.45am so that we would not miss the bus and then we got back at 5.30.

Even though it was raining in Petone, and it was a long long day, all of the GRi11ers had a great day and there was no part of the day where people got bored. We had a great day at Mind Lab. We would love one here in Palmerston North.

Hannah and Wendy's Car ready for racing!

Jack and Xavier think they have made a winner

Makey Makey - Coding a game

Our set for Stop Motion Animation

JJ and Gautham making an animation

Jo-Jo creating music using Makey Makey

Parlato thinking carefully about his car

F.A.I.L cars - keep on trying girls

Making Scribble Bots 

Ready to Race!!!

Creating games using Makey Makey

Animation sets

Playdough is a conductor for Makey Makey

3D Printing

GRi11 at Mind Lab! Thanks for an amazing time!