At Peachgrove Intermediate we are committed to providing our students with a stimulating two year educational programme focusing on continuous improvement of academic results. We also offer a wide variety of extra-curricula activities in music, sport, outdoor education and cultural experiences. We encourage students to take advantage of as many of these varied opportunities as possible.
As part of our creative writing unit, students are asked to create a hero using a website called HERO FACTORY.
Room 11 students will be trying out a new tool that will aid and support their learning towards their Sustainability Inquiry unit
Some of our students have taken up the challenge to be part of the "SUBWAY: Feel Good moves." Eight year 8 students choreographed this awesome dance routine. We need your help and we need your votes. Please click here to vote for the boys. Please get other family and friends to vote as well.
Last term our team the Titans won their divison in pool B's YMCA basketball comp. This term we are very privileged to have the expertise of Albie Ellis who is a sports acdemy coach for basketball at Hamilton Boys High School. Here is video footage of our first basketball training with Albie.
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It's been an awesome term people. You have completed some amazing tasks. Well done!
As you can see Whaea Christine and I were very busy in Flaxmere. We presented two sessions on the PRS clickers. We had a good group of teachers who made a lot of noise and who were intrigued about how the clicker could help their students learn better in the class. As a result of our presentation, Whaea Christine and I would like to "Share the love" to all classes at Peachgrove intermediate. So rooms 11 and 22 will be doing a school wide PD on the PRS and blogging. We have taken our approach from our school motto which is, "FIRST LEARN TO SERVE." We will give both classes more information tomorrow.
Total 100%
Assignment is due 3:10 on Tuesday 7th April 2009
All final grades will be sent to your Gmail account by Thursday 9th April 2009.
(I will send a test email to make sure that your account is still active)
If you have any problems, just Hola!
Room 11 had a special visit from our school Principal, Mrs Louisa Barham. This is a formal meeting that Mrs Barham has with all classroom teachers and students about our schools exxpectations. She spoke about our school's values which are: Respect, Resposibility, Quality, Fairness and Passion.
She gave examples of what each value looks and feels like when a student is learning at Peachgrove. She also said that, "Peachgrove is a place of learners" Teachers, office staff, cleaners, caretaker, teacher aide etc are all part of a collaborative team that makes our school an awesome place to learn.
Mrs Barham concluded with a question and answer time which can sometimes be dangerous for any principal. The students asked questions like, "How old are you?" and how long have you been at peachgrove? cheeky little monkeys!
I won't say how old Mrs Barham is, but I will say that she is a very experienced eductor with 29 years of teaching. Farout, I was ony 5 when she first started teaching! "Kaumatua Status"
Something that I didn't know, was that she taught Mr Blair Cocks when he was at intermediate. I bet you he was a little rat-bag and had lots of detentions.
Thank you for visiting our class Mrs Barham and we'll hope to see you soon when we showcase some of our awesome projects this year.
Please give constructive feedback on all students presentations.
Nominated for Most Creative VideoTomorrow we will be looking more into the mathsmate website and how skillbuilders can help improve your marks
Please bring your togs tomorrow, unless you have a signed note from home.
*Try and be witty with the wording of each slide. E.g. For the value fairness, I had a student who made a poster of two boys eating a cake with writing down the bottom saying,
"I'll cut, you choose." Fairness: It's the icing on the cake!
At a later stge I will teach you all how to upload your presentation to your blog and classroom blog. This will also be judged and commented by your peers from room 11, (maybe even from another class)
I will put onto the blog an exampe later tonight
Enjoy this assignment bloghetty bloggers
Matua
Due Date: 6th March 2009
With a simple click, I've used my mobile phone to upload this photo of my son to the classroom blog. What other innovative ways could we use "Mobile Blogging" as a learning tool to engage students learning in room 11? What are your thoughts and comments?
and heaps more stuff.... (Lets make this term the best ever room 9)
We will still be using Marvin to make the values posters. OK (I learnt some cool stuff about Marvin)
If any of you have any cool sites that might be beneficial to your classmates, blog it to our bloghettyblog. The more the better.
Collaborate, Innovate, Educate: Theme for Ulearn 2008
