BYOD Whole School Survey

Here it is, our whole school survey on bring your own device (BYOD). It will take less than ten minutes to complete.  Following a suggestion from our BYOD CIA seminar (thanks John) here is your chance to have your say.  We are keen to hear your opinions on how to best provide regular access to technology for all of our children and how to maintain this access sustainably over the coming years.

The survey will close on Thursday 7 June.  All you need to do is click the link below. This is intended as a survey for parents (not for the children to complete). We will be gaining their thoughts through a different survey.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/YY8MR7H

The New World Trade Centre

This is the new World Trade Centre. It's now the highest building in the world because they put a giant pole on it. It's called the Freedom Tower.

Spelling in Discover

Ollie's Model Under Development

I'm making a mountain for my model train track so that my trains can go up. It looks plain at the moment. It will look better when it's finished.

My model mountain took quite a long time to build. It looks quite tiny here but it is quite big.

How were the Pyramids made?

Do you agree with this about the way the pyramids were made?

Where in the World?

Where in the World are these buildings?

Wearable Arts

Wow, what a great Assembly. We spent all week making Grand Designs into Wearable Art. Try and work out what Grand Buildings these are.

We'd love to hear your comments!!

A Grand Design

Ella, Charlotte and Annie Banannie all looked up this GRAND DESIGN together. It was really fun . And one day they will have a house like it.

Friday Assembly

What have these pictures and Friday's Assembly got in common?

Come along and find out.

What Grand Designs have you visited?

Kyle made this Grand Design building at home.
It made us think about what Grand Designs everyone has been to visit. Please post your reply and maybe a little story about it, too. We'd love to hear your stories.

Infrastructure Building

We learnt about Infrastructures and how we needed them to bring people together.

We were making a tunnel. 

We learnt how to make a tunnel big and round. It wasn't easy to build a tunnel.

We're building a tunnel. 

Tunnels can be big and small.

We're making a big ditch for the water to flow down. 

It helps the water to flow down the hill and away.

We had to make a bridge. We chose the Golden Gate Bridge.

It was quite hard to make a bridge.

We were making an Eiffel Tower.

We had to make a stand at the bottom so we could make it taller.

We were building the Eiffel Tower. 

We made it taller than us.

We were building a tower. We learnt that towers take a while to build.

I am building the Eiffel Tower. 

You need a certain amount of material to make the tower.

This is our tunnel. We were trying to build the Chunnel Tunnel. 

This was easier to build than the Chunnel Tunnel would have been, because that was under the sea.

We are in the tunnel group and we're trying to build a tunnel with the sand.

This is for Finding Out about Infrastructure.

Are we fit enough?

Look at us practising for cross country. It was a bit harder than we thought.

ChiLLing in the Morning with Grand Designs

Grand Designs is our theme for the term. 

These Grand Designs have been made during ChiLL in the morning and at home.

Come into our learning space to see more Grand Designs.

Guidelines for commenting on blogs

Some of the Aspire children have been working on some guidelines to help people to comment on the blog.  Here they are and please make sure you follow them.

1. Do not use peoples names, only refer to their screen names

2. Spelling should be correct and do not use text language

3. Punctuation is (always) important -please use capital letters

Also, to comment on an image or post, click on where it says how many comments there are been.  Then you will be able to add comments.  All comments will first be approved by the blog admin, so it may not appear straight away.

Any other good ideas?  Please email: chris.ep@clarkville.school.nz

Swimming Sports

Swimming Sports

On the day of the Discover swimming sports I did gliding, starfish, a dressing up running race and a not dressing up running race. At the beginning I was excited because it was my first time.

                                                                                  Ella 

What I liked about the swimming sports is the underwater swim.

                                                                             Kyle P

I liked it at the swimming sports because we did a running race.

                                                                       Ben

My best thing about school is swimming.

                                                                  Jared

I had a great time because we did running races and stars.

                                                             Finn

I liked it when everyone cheered for me when I came first. I didn't like it when I got in and it was cold.

                                                                                           Lily 

In the swimming sports Cassie came first in the underwater race. Grace came 2nd, Lachlan came 3rd. In the last race we did a relay. We had to wear a hat and a apron.

                                                                                           Lachlan

I liked the swimming sports because we had to wear aprons and shower caps.

                                                                                        Annie 

I liked the relay the best. It was funny because they wore aprons and shower caps.

                                                                                                   Brooke E

My favourite part was swimming. I am fast at swimming and I love it too. I got first in every race. I am 7 and I was competing against 8 year olds.

                                                                                              Cassie