Year 7 Presents...

Year 7 Presents

Week 6 Assembly Award - George

Well done George for receiving this week's assembly award for "A positive attitude towards all of your learning and always sharing a great smile" Good stuff George!

Norway's National Day

Last week we had Kaja and her Mother share some info and activities about Norway's National Day - Check out the PhotoStory that Kaja, Gemma and Jocelyn have put together below by pressing play - the background music is Norway's National Anthem.

Week 5 Assembly Award

Well done to Kaja who received this weeks assembly award for "Continually Showing a positive attitude and giving everything her best" well done Kaja keep up the great work!

Week 4 Assembly Award

Well done to Alex Hanan for receiving this weeks Award - A super effort and improvement in our May Mega Maths result this week. Keep up the efforts here Alex!

The Room 13 Top 5 Pics...

Above is a photo story made by Ella and Brianna with some photos from our trip to the Orokonui Ecosanctuary.

Orokonui Photos

Above is a slide show of our best photos from Orokonui. We have to choose our top 5 photos from these to enter against the other year 7 classes and then make choices for the Otago Wildlife Photography Competition. You can post your favourite photo numbers in the comments section below the photo show (each pic has a small number at the bottom of it). All voting must be made asap as our school entries must be in by Monday 17th May.

Week 3 Assembly Award

well done to Mike for receiving this weeks assemby award for - A super contribution to our Science Experiments and discussion work - Good Stuff!!

Food For Thought....

It has been quite alarming to me to see the amount of good food being thrown in the bin each day here at school. (The Photo above shows the Croissant, Biscuits and Sandwich that were dumped yesterday - maybe you recognise them?) We have talked about it and I hope that students start to realise the cost and effort that goes into providing them with school lunches! I have worked in schools where students werren't even lucky enough to come to school with lunches, so it concerns me when students are throwing away food that many children aren't lucky enough to get at all!! Hopefully we can see some improvements here soon... some eye opening statistics below that have been highlighted to students...

The World Health Organization estimates that one-third of the world is well-fed, one-third is under-fed one-third is starving- In the time you have taken to read this blog page today at least 200 people have died of starvation. Over 4 million will die this year.

Every 3.6 seconds someone dies of hunger

It is estimated that some 800 million people in the world suffer from hunger and malnutrition, about 100 times as many as those who actually die from it each year.

One out of every eight children under the age of twelve in the U.S. goes to bed hungry every night.

Half of all children under five years of age in South Asia and one third of those in sub-Saharan Africa are malnourished.

Every year 15 million children die of hunger
statistics taken from http://library.thinkquest.org/C002291/high/present/stats.htm

Week 3 Term 2 Puzzles to solve

2 puzzles to solve this week. All answers must be in to me by 9am Friday!

May Mega Math Month has started...

Today we sarted our baseline testing for our Maths Multiplication Month. All students were given 3minutes to complete as many of a 100 times tables sheet as possible. The final scores have been recorded and students wil be coming home tonight with their summary sheet that we will be using to track progress and improvement over the next 4 weeks. Our class average today was 54.1 - which is the average of all student scores completed and answered correctly. We had 2 people complete the 100 in less than 3minutes with only 1 error each! Students should be making basic facts recall a part of their home work and spending some time reciting these in order to improve. The notice that came home last Friday has some good ideas for improving and practising these skills. The links to some of the good sites to visit are below:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/skillswise/numbers/wholenumbers/multiplication/timestables/ The BBC’s website has a huge amount of educational material including a great section on times tables
www.mathisfun.com – Some great tips on how to learn your times tables in the number and then multiplication section
www.multiplication.com – Lots of good times tables ideas and games
http://www.prongo.com/math/multiplication.html - A class favourite here at Balmacewen.
http://www.helpingwithmath.com/resources/online_flashcards/flashcard_multiplication03.htm - Simple online flash cards