Quikhit Girls Cricket

On Friday some of our GRi11 2.0 girls went down to Ongley Park to take part in the Quikhit Girls Cricket Festival. They played games against other schools and some were lucky enough to get coaching from former Blackcap and current College Street parent Mike Mason.

CSNS 1 celebrating winning the tournament.

The girls posing for the camera in between games.

CSNS 1 receiving their winners certificates.

Most of the girls hadn't played cricket before but they took a risk and ended up having a ball.

Musical Marble Machine

Today at Syndicate Singing Miss G showed us this video of this amazing instrument 'Wintergatan Marble Machine' powered by 2000 marbles. We think it is pretty awesome! What do you think? Maybe we could try and make something ready for marble season...

Week 5 Sports Rotation

Every Tuesday afternoon we do a sports rotation. Today the girls had hockey and then circuits, and the boys had circuits and then badminton.

We always have heaps of fun and learn new skills. We were lucky enough to have 2 of our very own GRi11 2.0 rep badminton players coach us today. Thanks Joonoh and Tyler B - good luck for your rep trial tonight!!!!! 

I wonder what sports we will have next week....??? Golf? Cricket? Basketball? Tennis? Whatever it is it will be amazing- keep posted!! 

It was awesome to see Mr R and Miss G out there having fun too!

The girls ready for hockey

Tyler B and Joonoh coaching the boys at badminton

Shawny going hard at circuits

Hula Girls

Skip Fit

GRi11 2.0 Girls Visit Harold

On the 29th of February the girls in Grill 2.0 had a visit to Harold and Tim in the Life Ed truck.

We learned about how our body uses the food we eat and turns it into energy. Some food gives us more energy than others, so it is important to eat the most of fruit and vegetables and breads, cereals, pasta and rice. Treats are only sometimes foods because they are made out of mostly sugar, salt and fat which are bad for your body if we have too much.

Did you know that your small intestine is about 5 to 6 metres long? It has a very important job to do. It has small holes (villi) that let the broken down food into your blood stream to give you energy.

This links to our Term 1 unit about Hauora - especially our physical well being.

It was a really cool experience - we can't wait for the next session!

Thanks for reading,
From the Girls of Grill 2.0

Here are some photos from our visit....

GRi11 2.0 at Sixtus Lodge Camp

This week GRi11 2.0 went to camp at Sixtus Lodge in Apiti. We had 3 days of fun filled activities and challenges.

When we arrived we settled into our dorms then we were ready to set off for the Heritage Track walk. It was really hot and felt like we were walking FOREVER! But it was awesome to finish the challenge.

GRi11 2.0 Ready to conquer the Heritage Track!

Some of the activities we did were horse riding, target shooting, first aid, all terrain skateboarding, confidence course, exploring insects, making hokey pokey not to mention the amazing river walk and glow worm caves. On the last day we also had a GRi11 2.0 Super Challenge and water slide.

It was such an amazing (exhausting!) experience, I'm sure one that we will remember for a really long time.

Thank you to the amazing parents who came with us to feed us and make the camp possible. We couldn't have done it without you!

Here are some photos of our time at Sixtus Lodge:

On the Heritage Track

GRi11 2.0!!

Finished the Heritage Track

Car Selfie with Miss G

Nada owning the skateboarding

Confidence Challenge

First Aid

On our way into the River Walk

In the Glow worm cave

Team building in Super Challenge

Spiderman and Superwoman helped us through the burma trail

Carter dominating the waterslide

Dorm inspections

Just chilling

Cave Selfie!

Mmmmmmmm.... Hokey Pokey

Target shooting

It was a blast - we wish we could do it all again!

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