WEEK 6

What a busy week this has been

Orange Friday! 

11 March 2016

 A special day where students and staff wear orange to help raise awareness and much needed funds to assist victims of domestic abuse

to all who supported this event

Our Winning Ninjas

This week our School Value winner for RESPECT

goes to Ninja Tovo

for consistently showing respect towards teachers and peers

Our DUFFY Ninja this week goes to 

Ninja Suzanne 

for her enthusiasm in all classroom activities

S W I M M I N G

This week we focused on learning how to kick correctly when gliding on our front and back with the aid of flutter boards

Students must continue to practice the skills taught if they have the opportunity

ESSILOR Vision Foundation visit

We are so lucky to have this foundation come and test the vision of all our High flyers. 

They will also be sponsoring glasses for students who need them

Faith having her consultation  & Ellen-Paige getting her eyes examined

Week 5

Rhythm Interactive - visited our school
A great day learning to drum on the Djembe (South African Drum)
The students had so much fun

FITNESS 

This week our Ninjas focused on BALANCING activities for Fitness
Counter balancing using each others body weight

Their faces tell you how much fun was had

Week 4

Week Four 
SWIMMING

We are so lucky here at Rowandale School to have our own pool that we can use to teach our students the skills they can use to be safe and enjoy themselves around water. 

Our Ninjas will be swimming every even week of the school term

Please encourage your child to take advantage of this great opportunity

Skills Ninja's are learning

                                        - safety around water

                                        Freestyle

                                        - gliding on front

                                        - kicking correctly

                                        - correct arm stroke and rotation

                                        - correct breathing technique

                                        - correct head placement

Ninjas Swimming Days - Tuesday, Thursday & Friday

Please don't forget your togs

Assembly

The Wolf Pack (Rm12) and Legendary Leopards (Rm14) hosted our assembly this week. They have certainly set the bar very high for everyone to follow. Well Done!

our Winning Ninjas

Congratulations to our winning Ninjas this week

Participation Winner - Daynnan Tukerangi - for trying his very best in all areas of learning

DUFFY Ninja Winner

Jadyn Moke - for his outstanding attitude towards learning

A massive Congratulations to our other two Ninja's Ayva who was awarded our Head Girl and Tyson who is our Head Boy

Ninja Tovo also became our Deputy Head Boy 2016

Ninja's Faith T and Poasa became Peer Mediators, Congratulations!

Ninjas Going Noodle

Go noodle gets over 10 million kids moving to be their strongest, bravest, silliest, smartest, bestest selves

This week our Ninjas explored the wonderful world of Go Noodle. 

A great website that we use to energise students for learning by giving them a brain break and also excellent for fitness inside on a wet day

Greetings

Kia Ora

Kia Orana

Bula

Malo e lelei

Talofa Lava

Xin Chao

Fakaalofa Lahi Atu

Hello

Greetings representing the different cultures in our room

Lets see if you can identify each one

we've added colours to help you

We extend our apologies to all visitors to our page

but after overcoming technical difficulties we are now able to access our photos and share our learning thus far

Week One

BRANDING

One of the first challenge for our class was to establish a brand name that we will use to identify our room for 2016.

After strenuous discussions, brainstorms and research, our name was decided by vote

It came down to three finalists - Soaring Dragons, Soaring Albatrosses and Techno Ninjas

Soaring Dragons - Soaring is from our school motto. Dragons are mythical creatures who are very strong, powerful, and can also fly

Soaring Albatrosses - Soaring from the school motto. Albatross is a magnificent bird which is also native to NZ

Techno Ninjas - Techno comes from the word Technology as our students want to learn how to effectively use Technology tools. Ninjas - come through popularity from the Vodafone Ninjas and students wants to be technologically advanced.

With an overwhelming majority of votes 

'Techno Ninjas'

became our brand name with a long term goal of students becoming Technology Savvy

Students were also involved in selecting the pictures for our logo. 

So here's our final product

Three students also collaborated to create a chant for our class

Ayva, Sophie and Ofa

TECHNO NINJA CHANT

Woke up in the morning

Chilling with my Techno Ninjas

Pulled up at, Rowandale

Ready for some learning

Today we’re gonna rock (rock)

And you know we’re gonna soar

Techno Ninjas

PRIDE TRAIL

We visited the PRIDE trail representing the Values of our school.

As a class we discussed the importance and meaning of each Value.

We will happily take you around the trail if you come to visit