The Olympics

In class this term we have been learning about Olympisism. Olympisism is basically a fancy word for the Olympic beliefs and traits. We have been doing lots of brain storms and K.W.L's. We have also been using the S.A.U.C.E  method which stands for Setting the scene, Acuiring, Using Communicating, and  Evaluating ( S.A.U.C.E ). We are looking forward to learning more about Olympisism in class.

By Lauryn and Lara

FRENCH with Mr Searle

In room 10 we have been learning French.
We have been recently learning about greetings and questions by watching and old school cassette tape it is very interesting because it feels like we are really in France.

We have also learned simple greetings like Bonjour (Good day), Salut (Hi), Bien (Good) and Bonne Nuit (Good Night).
We learned about different cheeses like Brie we also learned about different breads and spreads. it looked really good.
French is easier to learn for room ten because it is very similer to Spanish that we learned last year words like Bien and et toi.
Room 10 is really enjoying to learn French and we can not wait to learn more!

By James Fleury and Tait Francis

The Mapua School Magazine 2012

 Brilliant!                 Unique!        What you would never expect!

     amazing!      BOLD!        a great achievement!

and all hidden until next term!

I am a part of Mrs Hosie's Magazine team for 2012, "Every year we build up and learn from our mistakes to make this years magazine even better than last years!" - Quote, Mrs Hosie.

We are going to have a meeting with the manager of Wild Tomato Magazine later on in the year, You might be wondering what we are doing starting work on the magazine so early, what happens every year is that no matter what, we always have a mad rush to get the magazine published, and every now and then we end up behind schedule (I can relate that to what happened every now and then on last years school newspaper!) I don't want to give to much away about the school magazine, but this years magazine is going to be the best one ever!

You will not hear of the Mapua Squawk anymore this year because We are the Magazine Team!!! - Mrs Hosie, Asriel, Cathrine, Maia, Jamie












The Mapua School Magazine 2012!

By Asriel

Time for a new term

We have had a very busy start to this term.  Our class room has been rearranged and we are lucky to have two teachers working with us. We have four goals we are all working on:
1)  Confident Management of Routines and Organisation.
2)  Working Co-operatively with Others.
3)  Demonstration of Personal Responsibility - for work and behaviour
4)  Showing an Enthusiasm for Learning. 

By following these goals we are going to have a successful term, be prepared for next year and they will help us be all we can.
by Michaela

Naratives

Narratives

In our class this term we are learning about Narratives. 

We began this unit by watching a movie called Hugo. It was about an orphan boy, 'Hugo'. His father died in a fire and left him with an Automaton ( a robot wind up machine ) to fix. He thinks that his dad left a message for him on it. During and after the movie, we had to complete a R.A.S. alert form about what we watched. It showed the teachers we understood what narratives are and it helped us analyse the movie. On the form it said to describe the characters, to describe the plot and development, where the story was set ( place, time and environment ), to name the book author and film director. 

We are all looking forward to writing our own Narrative.

By Dylan and Lauryn.