Whanau Fun Day

What a fantastic day today.
Thanks so much to the Dynamo Leaders and Whaea Aimee for organising the games and Mr Tayor and parents for cooking all those sausages.
Thanks to all the families who came to share our lovely day and to all our wonderful Broadlands Learners who showed fantastic virtues all day.

Hit It Session #1

Erin from Sport BOP took Room 3 for a session on volley ball skills today.
They learnt how to serve and then return the shot using a forearm stroke.

Dynamo Leaders Workshop

Our School Dynamo Leaders had a leadership session run by Sport BOP today. We can't wait to see them in action around the school.

Assembly #4

Thanks to Luke and Lucas who ran this week's assembly. It was a special assembly as our Leaders were announced. Check out some photos appearing soon.

Triathlon 2017

Thanks to Whaea Aimee who organised a very successful triathalon today. Thanks also to all the Dynamo Leaders who helped set up and supported the juniors. Your leadership was amazing.

Mathematics in the 'Real World'

Mykayla in Room 2 said last week, "Your room is bigger than ours."
That got us thinking... and investigating...
After lots of measuring and calculating we can accurately state that Room 2 is bigger than Room by 3 square metres.
Here's  few studetns showing how big the difference is.
You'll need to check out some students blogs for more information about this maths investigation.

Morning Jump Jam

Whaea Aimee gets us going in the morning with Jump Jam. These are our new Jump Jam leaders for 2017.

Library Time with Tracey

We love Monday's in the library. Tracey always has great teaching points to share to help Room 3 make better use of the library.

Home Learning Task #3

Here are some examples of this week's Home Learning task about area. Students were challenged to measure objects in a room and calculate the area.

Assembly #3

Congratulations to Shila and Sara who led assembly today.
Our Monitors for 2017 got announced too. Congratulations to all our new monitors for this year. We love the new wrist bands.

Tweeting with our Buddy Class

We had our first kidsedchatnz session today.

Communicating Whanaungatanga Through Art Work

Our wonderful Release teacher Mrs Maria Fitzgerald talked the students how to depict whanau using koro in the style of New Zealand artist Reuben Patterson. Here are a few photos of the process.

Life Education

Andrea (and Harold) are sharing important information about how to be a good digital citizen.
She says we are all unique and a VIP - A Very Important Person with Very Important Personal information.
Whatever we do online should reflect that we are unique, one of a kind, special and proud.
The main message today was to stop and think before you post anything. Ask yourself," Is this going to spread kindness or sadness?" "Will  this show others that I am a unique, proud and amazing person?"

Assembly #2

Thanks to Phoenix and Usionae who ran a very successful assembly today. A group of students shared their research into school banking and hopefully persuaded a few more students to bank more regularly. Check out Angus's video on his blog to hear an explanation of how to bank at Broadlands School.

Team Singing

Room 1, 2 and 3 are going to makeing some beautiful sounds this term, if today is any indication. What a lovely first session we had.

Swimming

Wow! Room 3 are all demonstrating  an effective freestyle technique. I can't wait until Swimming Sports. There's going to be some close competition.

Assembly #1

Congraulations to Angus and Caleb for running a very successful assembly today.

Collaborative Learning

The senior students joined together to research which virtues would help them be a better monitor. They could present their work in any way they chose as long as the message was clear. We will use these as a resource to apply for  monitor jobs next week.