Week Nine

Mathex Competition

On Tuesday I was fortunate enough to take the Mathex team to participate in the annual inter-school Mathex competition which was held at Manurewa Intermediate this year.  Six of our Year 5 and 6 students trained for the competition and it involved groups of 4 representatives from each school working together to solve maths word problems.  The students who trained and attended the Mathex this year from the High Flyers were Timothy, Apoua, Paul, Taare (Rm 20), Tovo (Rm 23) and Jack (Rm 24).  It was such an amazing experience for our children to take part in and has left us eager to train for next years competition.  Thank you to all our parents who came to support us...it was awesome having you there. Here are some of our pics...

Topic Studies

As part of our topic studies theme PRIDE in my community, we have been investigating some of the work that some of the support agencies in our community do to help others. Some of the organisations we have been looking at are the Red Cross, Auckland City Mission, Kids Can, The Salvation Army and Feed the Need.  We have been working on forming our own questions, and finding and selecting information to answer those questions. We recognise the importance of putting the information we find into our own words and are thinking about the audience this information is for and how we can present it in a way that is informative for our class. Here are some pics of us working in our groups and presenting some of our findings.