Kruger Park - Battle

As we talked about in writing today. Wildlife leads into great descriptive writing.

The Battle of Kruger Park for those who missed it at lunch today. This all ends up okay in the end! 

Masterchef Catchup

A few left over master chefs found in the archive!
Well done ladies.

ISS Presentations Day 3

Yesterday was the final day of ISS ('Inquiring about Space Stuff') presentations.
Below are the highlights from each group…another fantastic array of creative and inspiring research presentations.


Georgia and Isabella - Stars

Emily and Desiree - Meteors etc

Tom, Oliver and Henry - Space suits of the Future

Holly and Erica - Colonizing Space

REP card data analysis

Room 5's own little maths sweatshop...

GM docos present PE in Room 5!

Not bad for a couple of injured sports stars…all done in 30 mins on an iPad. Amazing!

Happy Birthday Henry!

ISS Presentations - Day 2

Today saw the second day of ISS ('Inquiring about Space Stuff') presentations.
Below are the highlights from each group…another fantastic array of creative and inspiring research presentations.

Caitlin N and Olivia - The Names of the Planets


Max and Alex - Andromeda


Aaron and Jacob - Ways to die in Space


Mina and Caitlin Mac - Parallel Universes

Michael and Ngakita - The Goldilocks Zone

Congratulations Emily!

A sprint finish saw Emily pip Claudia to take out the year 8 girls event in our school cross country on Friday afternoon.

Great room 5 results all round, with Harry and Matt our best boy finishes. 

Well done to Emily for coming 1st and Claudia for taking out 2nd place, in convincing fashion too!

Room 5 Cross Country

We were victorious in being the top year 8 class for cross country this year. Well done Room 5!
To celebrate here is a short video starring some tired faces!

Happy Birthday Ngakita!

This week was Ngakita's birthday.

ISS Presentations - Day 1

Room 5 have been working on paired inquiries over the last week.
ISS means - 'Inquiring about Space Stuff'.
Today was the first day of the student presentations showing what they've found. The goal is to share the information in an interesting way.

Day 1 - Here's the good stuff!

Cara, Tai-iba and Nikhil - The Solar System

Matt, Harry, Joseph - How The Moon Was Formed

Alex R and Sarah - Black Holes

Jacqui and Claudia - Gleise 581C

Emma and Alice - The Solar System

Welcome Miss Toomey!

We have a student teacher with us this month. Miss Toomey (Melissa) is in her second year of training and enjoying her time with pre-adolescent students very much at Casebrook. 

Tom's Assembly Speech

Tom read out his assertive and moving message to the people that tagged our school this week. We're really roud of you Tom!

Happy Birthday Tai-iba!

Colonizing Space...

We've been investigating the 'mind-blowing' idea that is leaving Earth to live on Mars. If you wanted to look at the docos we watched again, here they are.

The 'American Version' The classier, BBC version Part 1 The classier, BBC version Part 2

The Big Apple

Check out Sarah's mega apple grown on her apple tree at home…comparison with little apple clear!

Happy Birthday Alex R!