New School Leaders

Congratulations to Michelleyah, Myrakyll, Macayla, Alyiah and Lauryn for being our first School Leaders for 2014.

School Leadership at Ebbett Park School is about being willing to follow our school values, support all and to serve our school with pride.

Well down girls. Wear your blue shirt with pride.

Macayla, Apyiah, Lauryn, Myrakyll, Michelleyah and Mr Stevenson.

Our visitors from Van Asch.

We were very lucky to have Paul and Nirvana from Van Asch. They were with Mr Dufty and Miss Avie to see how we can make learning more successful for Dontaey.

Camp Whakamaru 2014

 Well done Room 7 on a fantastic three days at camp.

Actionword

 Mr Dufty's Challenge!!

 Activity Rotation

Huka Falls

Lunchtime Sport Champions - Tawhirimatea!!!

Winners of Capture the Ball for lunchtime sport were Tawhirimatea. An amazing team who were unbeatable.

Winners are Grinners!!!!

DJ Toki - Competition MVP & Lauryn Te Aho - House Captain.

Problem Solving in Room 7

Room 7 are working hard on showing they can use more than one strategy to answer addition and subtraction problems. They are also looking at how they read word problems and find the basic idea or strategy - what does the problem what me to find out? Students have to work in small groups and the key is the sharing and talking students do. They need to be able to explain their ideas, strategies and agree. Here are examples of their first sharing session.

Often students needs to be reminded to make things simple. Two good strategies they are remembering to use are reversibility (If a problem is hard as a subtraction problem turn it into an addition problem i.e. 234 - 150 = ? could be written as 150 + ? = 234) and using number lines.

Using materials.

Having the chance to share knowledge.

Sharing ideas and writing down their thinking.

Being focused on the task.

Book of Winners. Week 8.

Well done Vincent for being selected for the book of winners this week. Vinnie got his award for his effort with his writing.