We are a class of creative Year 6 & 8 students at Yaldhurst Model School who continually aim to be 'Heroes' in everything that we do. This year we hope to develop our skills and confidence, collaborate with others, reach our goals and extend our learning in a 'Learn, Create, Share,' environment. Come along on our 2021 journey!
Today at 12pm Rimu joined a LOT of other New Zealanders and took part in the World Record attempt for having the most people speak an endangered and indigenous language at the same time.
This was called Māori Language Moment 2021
and last year over 1 million moments were recorded.
Here's a short video of all you had to do, explaining how it works!
We were lucky because at 12pm on Tuesday's we have our Kapa Haka session so wet set it up with our tutor, Matua Anton, and took part in this amazing movement!
Here is our moment that we shared on the reomaori.co.nz website -
And here we are, famous on the 'Share your Moment' page on the website!
Can you spot our post?!
Did you take part in Te Wā Tuku Reo Māori this year or last year?
She is the Author from Treasure Beyond Measure, a New Zealand children's book.
We were able to ask Helen lots of questions, she did a quiz with us about collective nouns, and she also read her book to us.
We learnt a lot about conservation, collective nouns and illustrating a book!
The pictures in this one are amazing!
Here are some of our thoughts -
"I learnt that we should save the world and about conservation." - Max
"I learnt a lot about that a group of fish is a school. I also found it really fun and interesting because she made it rhyme." - Sahil
"What I found interesting is that we all learnt something that we didn't already know." - Nishka
"Something that I found interesting was that she had a lot of other jobs and she wasn't just an author. Something that I learnt is that groups of animals can be called a lot of strange things." - Amelia
"What I found interesting was how she added a globe to each page and try to make it fun." - Zahrah
Today in Rimu's Google MEET we had some gatecrashers!
All of a sudden we thought it was 2020 again because
two sneaky people broke into our MEET!
(Well not actually, it was all planned with Miss Rennell.)
Can you spot the Imposters in the slides below?
It was Abby and Grace from Rimu last year (2020)!
Abby goes to Cashmere High and Grace goes to Middleton Grange. They both keep in touch still and thought it would be fun to jump on one of our Google Meets in Lockdown.
We got to ask them all sorts of questions and learnt a lot about how things have changed for them! It was so cool to see them again and we hope they enjoyed themselves too!
What would questions would you ask a Year 9 if you could?
Hi everyone, welcome back to the Rimu Class Blog for 2021!!
Rimu has changed quite a bit since 2020. We have -
18 new faces
and
3 familiar faces from last year.
Can you spot our returning Year 8 Leaders??
Our first week has been full of learning the ropes in class and... swimming in our school pool!
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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!
⬇️ 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!
