Room 13's Memorial Art

After the horrible event on Friday 15th of March Room 13 made some art for the memorial. We made a huge paper chain consisting of over 400 loops with reassuring, comforting, and caring comments. Poppy and Beth had the idea of doing the piece of art shown in these pictures. They designed and drew the centre picture, with the help of the rest of the class they got enough reassuring, comforting, and caring comments to sellotape around the outside.

NZ Opera Visit St Martins!

The Year 5-8 syndicates had an exciting visit from NZ Opera, they preformed an opera called the Barber of Seville, it had a couple of twists but  everybody still enjoyed it, they even pulled our very own Miss Hill into the act as a police officer. It was amazing to watch, it was great fun and it had quite a bit of humour that the children could understand as well.

There were six characters, The barber - Figaro, The Count/Lindoro, Rosinna's Step Mother - Dr Bartolo, Countess Rosinna, Dr Bartolo's lawyer, and last but not least the Police Officer played by our very own Miss Hill.

The Barber of seville is a love story between The Count/Lindoro and Rosinna, but Rosinna's mean Step Mother, Dr Bartolo, doesn't approve of there affection for each other and tries to shatter their relationship by trying to marry Rosinna to another (rich) man as quick as possible. She tries to trick Rosinna into thinking they are fooling her, and taking away the escape ladder.

But all in all everybody loved it and its humour!

Science Interchange #1: Chemistry!

Our first Science lesson got off to a flying start with a wonderful and keen bunch of scientists in Room 13! 

Our focus for the afternoon was on ...

We spent a bit of time researching about the basic building blocks of matter - atoms - and created a poster to share our understanding around them.

After this we worked in small groups to create our own models of the atoms Lithium and Beryllium. Check out our awesome models below. 

We also had a quick look at the Periodic Table of Elements and had a go at keeping up with this song...

Korfball

High Fliers Pod 2 have had a great time and lots of laughs during our sessions of Korfball. Korfball is a fun sport that is new to most Year 7's, it includes a mix of good defending skills, good attacking skills, lots of running, and all round heaps of energy. We all had a fantastic time, it was really fun and enjoyable. 

Here are the rules of Korfball:

• Teams consist of eight players - four female and four male.
• Korfball matches consist of two halves.
• Each team has four players in each half and during the match they cannot switch zones. 
• In Korfball, the aim is to score by throwing the ball through the opposition’s basket.
• Once two goals have been scored, the teams change zones, with attackers becoming defenders and vice versa. Teams also swap ends at half time.
• On receiving the ball, a player may not dribble, walk or run with it but can move one foot with one remaining planted to the ground as in netball.
• Tackling, blocking and holding are not allowed in Korfball.