Room 5 Champion- Week 2

Orkut Scrap Toys

School Open Day Monday 19 September

 

Hampton Hill School Open Day

Netball Tournament

On Tuesday the HHS Netballers played against netballers from all over Wellington at the Haitaiti Netball Courts. The HHS Fire Ferns won all their games but one was a tie, then the HHS Firebirds won two, lost two and drew two. We all had a fun time and enjoyed playing against other schools and challenging themselves.  

Many thanks to Mr Barnao for giving us this opportunity and to the parents for helping.

Reporter: Madison     

Maths Week

Yahoo! Maths Week 2011 is here- bring it on!

Room 5 Champion- Week 1

This term sees the start of a new accolade for the awesome students in Room 5. (Thanks to Steven and Cloud Nine for this idea) Each Friday a different student will be honoured.


Orkut Scrap Toys

Term 2 Market Day. A great day again. Thanks to everyone who supported this!
Market Day Term 2 2011 on PhotoPeach

Polyhedra- 3D Shapes

We were looking at Polyhedron shapes (3-D shapes with straight edges and flat sides) today. We had a go making them with play dough and iceblock sticks.
We were counting up (V) Vertices (Corners), (E) Edges and (F) Faces. Back in 1750 Leonard Euler discovered this pattern. The pattern was V+F-2 = E. With a cube you have 8 vertices and 6 faces (8+6=14) and subtract 2 and you get the number of edges (12). That’s pretty cool!

Reporter: Sam

3D Shapes on PhotoPeach

Looking at electric circuits

We've been having an awesome time making Electric Maps- Learning about circuits, bulbs and batteries. A special thanks to Mr Geismar who has been helping us out.
Electric Maps! on PhotoPeach

Road Patrol March 2011

Boys Group- repainting Shade House

Our Shade House looks all clean and green thanks to the "Boys Group" today. Getting stuck in with sanding and painting. Many thanks to Bunnings for donating the paint and also to Aru Makirere and Mr Hammer for their supervision and painting skills!

Jump Rope for Heart

On Tuesday the 24 May Kate, Joseph, Mark, Teara and Madison went to Te Rauparaha in Porrirua for the Jump rope for Heart foundation. When we got there,  a lot of other schools were there already.

 We were introduced to Peter Nestler who has won the skipping world championship, seven times in a row. WOW!

First he showed us two skips in one jump, and then the same one backwards. After that he showed us a routine that he has been working on. It was amazing he did three skips in one jump he through the rope up in the air and caught it again on the handles then he did a jump sideways and skipped. It was INCREDABLE!

Peter asked all the children to come down and get a rope in our age group. First we skipped forwards for a minute and then skipped backwards for another minute. After that we all tried to do two skips in one jump. It was hard.

After morning tea we got with a partner we didn’t know and got a longer rope to try do something called ‘The Traveler’. It is when you have a partner and try to skip over the other person.

We had an awesome day learning new jumps and seeing what fun you can get out of a skipping rope. We slept well that night!

                                                                                                                     Reporter: Madison 

Check out Peter Nestler on this clip

Key Competencies and How We Can Use Them on the Computer

We have been going over the 5 Key Competencies and looking in particular at how they relate to us online.
Here is a neat poster we came across that gave us ideas. Looking closely at it, we think we are working on our KCs pretty well! Click on the picture to enlarge it.