The Victorious Year 7 & 8 Basketball Teams

I had the pleasure of coaching a wonderful group of Year 7 & 8 girls in Basketball. They competed in a Manurewa interschools Basketball Tournment today and came out victorious in first place!! The Year 7 & 8 Boys (coached by Matua Tuiono) also competed and came first overall as well!!

Both teams beat out The Gardens, Randwick Park and Finlayson Primary! Well done guys, you were awesome and such good sports! GO CPS!!!

Maths Buddy Sharing with Room 11

Today we joined forces with Room 11 to share some of our Maths learning and celebrate the last day of Maths Week.

First we went to Room 11 to show their students how to play the strategy game '21', they really enjoyed it! Room 11 also showed us how to play some Place Value games.

After we finished playing our games, we all went out to the courts and were split in to teams to create (with chalk) and navigate a basic maze, as we are looking at Position and Orientation this term. We were only allowed to use directions such as 'step forward/backwards, turn left/right' etc to move a person in our team successfully through the maze. We even tried it with our eyes closed. This was a real challenge for our students but we had a lot of fun trying!

We may need some practice on our directions for left and right : )

See us in action - CLICK HERE!

Day 3 of Maths Week

Room 13 are really enjoy trying to figure out the daily Maths challenges on the Maths Week Blog http://cpsmathsweek.blogspot.com/.

Below are some pictures showing some of the answers our students came up with.

The Estimation Jar - Who can guess correctly?

This is the estimation jar that has been travelling around to all our classes for our students to try to figure out how many objects it contains! Miss Breen had the awesome task of counting every last bean and counter that went in it and only she knows the magic number. A big hint is that it is in the thousands!

Do you think you could guess the correct number or close to it?

Day 2 of Maths Week

We were being busy little bees working hard on the Day 2 Maths challenges off the Clendon Park Maths Week Blog. Some of us were working in pairs while the rest of us worked on the mat with Miss Breen.


See photos below:

Maths Week - August 8th - 12th

Hi everyone and Welcome to Term 3

Maths week is fast approaching, so in preparation for this below is a link to the Clendon Park, Maths Week Blog where you will find a page with links to many great websites for our children to pactise their Maths learning!

www.cpsmathsweek.blogspot.com

Our Police Visit

This morning we went to the Whare to learn what the Police do in our community from Constable Glenys.

First she showed us her uniform and tools and what they are used for. Our favourite tools were the baton and handcuffs! Next we watched a DVD called "Bryan and Bobby" which showed us what the Police do for us. We learned that the Police help people by teaching them how to be safe, how to do the right thing, by rescuing them, finding lost things or arresting people who break the law/rules.

Then when we had finished watching the DVD we discussed all the things that Police do to help us. After that Constable Glenys took us outside to see her Patrol Car. She turned on the lights to show us how they flash when the Police are going to an emergency and then we heard the siren, it was loud!

Finally Mya was lucky enough to get a chance to sit in the patrol car and use the loud speaker on the radio to call out instructions to the rest of the class, Miss Breen even got a "Hi". After the visit, most of our class want to be Police officers when we grow up.

Recount by Room 13

Constable Glenys

Discussion time

The Patrol Car

Colouring in our Police Cars

TERM 3 - UPCOMING EVENTS

Maths Week 2011

8-12^th August

What’s happening at Clendon Park School?

Event	When	Who is involved?
Daily problem solving challenges on school blog	All week	All students
Estimation challenge	All week	All students
Open morning	Thursday 11th August  9.30am-10.30am	All classrooms will be open for parents/caregivers and whanau to come along and see the wonderful  maths learning that is happening at Clendon Park School
Buddy swap	Friday 12th August	All classrooms will share a maths game/task with a friend from a buddy class

Room 13 performing their song 'Kiwi Ukulele'

Check us out!

It's hip to be a square!

This morning our wonderful Maths group - The Squares were demonstrating how to use their Stage 5 Doubles strategy and Making Ten to work out addition equations. 

Here are some of our students explaining what they did in their group today:

Boston:

To work out 8+7 I use my doubles 7+7=14+1=15 or 8+8=16-1=15

 Boston's work

Daphne:

We can also use our Making 10 strategy to help us when we can't use our doubles. To work out 9+7 you go 9+1=10+6=16

Daphne's book work