School Triathlon

Today was the CSNS Triathlon. Even though it was raining to start with, that didn't stop us from having heaps of fun in the run, bike and swim!

Here are some photos of the event.

The Girls excited at the start line

And the Girls are off!!!!!! 

Amber leading the pack

Milla owning the bike ride

Well done girls! You made it!!

Getting pumped up...

It was a very close competition and we had lots of GRi11 2.0 competitors finish in the top ten.

Year 6 Boys:
Costa 2nd
Cole 4th
Baxter 5th
Terado 6th
Tyler G 8th
Carter 9th

Year 6 Girls:
Amber 1st
Holly G 3rd
Milla 4th
Zara 6th
Dorothy 7th
Ava 8th

We can't wait to hear who makes the inter-school team... Good luck guys!!

GRi11 2.0

This year our class is called GRi11 2.0. This is our logo. We had a home learning task to create a logo for the class name we chose. Then we voted on the finalists. This is the one we chose.

The G is for Miss G, the R is for Mr R, the i is for Room 10 and the ll is for Room 11. This year we are the second version so the 2.0 is in the i.

It was designed by Carter.

What do you think?

We are excited for a fun year of learning. Keep posted to see what exciting things we are learning about.

The Impact of Sugar

Watch the Sugary Truth video. What does it make you wonder?

Write your wonderings/questions into the padlet.

Digital Citizenship 2016

We are learning about our responsibilities as Digital Citizens.

Record your initial ideas of what Digital Citizenship is on this padlet.

Created with Padlet

This clip shows some of the key ideas we need to remember when we are online.

Are you a responsible digital citizen?

Do this quiz to learn more about Digital Citizenship...

http://www.digizen.org/resources/cyberbullying/interactive/


OUR NEW LEARNING... This is what we think is important...

TO BE RESPONSIBLE DIGITAL CITIZENS WE WILL...

• Keep our personal details safe (passwords, addresses, phone numbers...)
• Only use trusted websites
• Tell an adult if there is anything we are unsure of
• Respect the devices (Think about how we carry them, where we leave them)
• Think about what we post/comment - it is like a tattoo (make sure it is kind/appropriate)
• Think about the information/images we are using (have we used free images?)
• Make sure we are using the computers for learning (follow the school procedures)

2016 Welcome

Kia Ora and welcome to GRi11 for 2016. We are excited to get to know you and your whanau throughout the year.  We are really looking forward to teaching in an Innovative Learning Space (ILE) again this year. We both love teaching and providing children with exciting, fun, and memorable learning opportunities. We are also interested in children developing an understanding of themselves as learners and how technology (particularly Google Apps) can help children manage their learning in a ILE.

You will be able to find regular updates of what we are up to with our learning on this blog. We encourage you to leave a comment on blog posts.

For those of you who haven't met us...

Hey my name is Clive (aka Mr R). My passions include sports, coaching, gardening, DIY, teaching and my family. 

Hi I'm Katie Rose (aka Miss G). My passions are music, art, e-learning, water skiing, my family (including my dog Ralphy) and teaching! 

GRi11 Song - Happy

What an amazing year we had in GRi11 in 2015!! This is a video to our class song 'Happy'.

#Stayawesome #GRi112015

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!
Posted by College Street Normal School on Monday, 9 November 2015

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!