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Action so far from Term 4

We have been EXTREMELY busy/productive in Rimu so far this term...

Here's a list of our antics so far - 

• Athletics Practices
• Disco
• National Young Leaders Day
• Athletics Day
• Clued up Kids / Chch City Experience
• Athletics Zones
• Softball Training
• Kapa Haka - Cultural fEstival preparations
• Life Education Duck Race
• FLOW
• Iqbal (our shared story)
• Hook (we are watching this to help us with our writing)
• Home Learning
• PALs
• Technology & Super SIX
• Wellbeing with Sparklers
• CyberSMART Lessons
• Assessment...Doh!

And coming up next week we have - 

• A Mufti Day to raise $$ for our new playground
• ASB Getwise workshops
• A Teacher Only Day
• (and Show Day with no show...)
• AND more Assessment... Doh! and only 3 days!

🎂

It is even Birthday season again in Rimu 

with 6 birthdays in 9 days!

HB to - 

Mia, Delilah, Lucas, Alan, Albin and Olivia!

🥳

So, this term we have learnt that when we are busy, kindness goes a long way. 

Oh and we also made this video (at the end of last term).

We have also learnt that managing our time is very important to get our work done. We have been given a lot of trust this term and it is up to us to prioritise, plan, and produce what is due by the end of each week. Some of us are learning quickly and others are making progress. 

We can't wait for all the exciting things that are still coming this term - there are so many and we'll try to share as many with you as we can!

So stay tuned!

We're Back!

We're back and it's Term 4! 

Stay tuned for the final 10 weeks of action in Rimu for 2020!

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A new term, some new challenges...

Week one done, ✅

⬇️ Rimu have had a full on week of getting back into it, here are some of the highlights ⬇️

The Marshmallow Challenge - Build a Tower, Build a TEAM

On Monday our skills in collaboration and innovation were put to the test when we found ourselves in groups of four with limited resources and a tempting task to complete!

We only had the materials below and were to construct a tower in 18 minutes! And the catch was -
DO NOT EAT THE MARSHMALLOW...because it had to be on top of our tower!

This challenge has been done all over the world to test and challenge teams of people in their abilities to work together. It was all about having a team of people who had specialised skills for the task, but in order to succeed, our team also needed someone with facilitation skills (that means someone who is good at running the team - like making sure we listen to each other, that everyone has a chance to share ideas, that we keep checking the time and stay on task etc.)

We had to reflect on our performance afterwards too and that was interesting...
check out our padlet below. 

Marshmallow Challenge materials

Tom Wujec on The Marshmallow Challenge - we watched this after we built our towers

Here are some photos of our creations - 

Then we also had Cross Country on Tuesday - everyone participated and showed excellent camaraderie for the each other. Rimu was by far the loudest and proudest cheer squad of them all!

Well done to our qualifiers for zones!

We also had another highlight this week - 

The CSO came to YMS!

(that is, the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra came to Yaldhurst Model School)

This was an excellent performance - here's a few snippets. We learnt so much about all their different instruments and even about some musical terms. 

Do you know about string, woodwind, and brass instrument families?

Do you know what pitch, tempo and a glissando means?

Come and ask us, we know now 😉

Glissando by Paige from TM

Can you guess this piece of music? Here's a hint - it's from H _ _ _ _  P _ _ _ _ _

Mia from Rimu (a CSO Ambassador) playing her trumpet for us!

We also had Winter Sport start this week, 

and did a lot of work on Matariki BUT that's for another day!

Don't forget to check out our individual blogs for more equally exciting content!

Until next time...