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!

Rippa Rugby Tournament

From Sunday to Monday and Tuesday our school Rippa Rugby team was representing the Manawatu region in Wellington.

They had been practising for over a month in the weekends, lunch times and in the afternoon block,

but all of their hard work payed of because they came 6th in the WHOLE of New Zealand! 5 of the 9 players were from GRi11!!!

Each team was given a country from the rugby world cup that we had to play as. Our team was chosen as Italy (The blue uniform you can see is kind of what the guys in the real world cup wear.)!

College Street Normal School is very, very proud and we hope that we make it to the regionals next year!

 

Upper Row - Simone, Holly, Liam, Mason, Maggie, Mr R

Lower Row - Cooper, Bella-Rose, Jacob, Georgie, Jamie

 This is us just chilling on the turf!

 Bella-Rose and the team watching the people we are competing do their Haka.

 The team showing off our Italy uniforms (That we play in).

 We found a Street that supports us! Thanks Wellington we really appreciate some luck! 

 #Selfie #RippaRugby #ShotBro #Bestviewintown 

Doing some drills and getting ready for the game ahead!

GRi11 Industries

This term in Gri11, we are creating businesses, making products and selling them for REAL money. This money will go towards a class field trip to Mind lab in Wellington. We are successfully selling our products. Here are our adverts. :)

Badminton Champs in our midst

Today was the finals of the Manawatu Primary Schools Badminton Champs. 

Isabella and Joanne were runners-up in A grade. 

Gayathma and her partner were the winners of B grade!! 

Samuel was a constant threat throughout the competition. 

A huge congrats to you guys from GRi11! 

GRi11 Industries Production Day

Today (Sunday) we had a GRi11 Industries production day. We invited parents to come and help us start our business ventures. It was an awesome day and we made a lot of progress. Keep posted for our final product updates. 

Thank you to all our helpers who came down to help. We couldn't have done it without you!

Parlato loving the power tools!

Designing Designer Bunting 

Putting an undercoat on the tyres ready for our Tyre Ottomans

Creating our Bookshelves

The tops of our Tyre Ottomans are starting to take shape

It was all action today in front of GRi11

Mixing the concrete for our 'Rock Hard' pots