We have looked intensively at the language used in political campaigns in Room 5, leading up to the NZ election. The students have created their own parties to campaign and created advertisements one might find on TV. Enjoy the simple, effective, and sometimes slightly worrying ideas for change in our country…
Tuesday 23 September 2014
Monday 22 September 2014
Sunday 21 September 2014
Irish Debate (Last week)
The girls took out a very tight debate win in the Room 5 Irish debate last week.
The moot was "Guns should be made legal for all ages to carry and every 13 year old should get on on their 13th birthday".
Well done ladies on expressing their affirmative point of view.
Thursday 18 September 2014
Election 2014
Room 5 is staging their own election linking in with all the democratic action taking place in the community. We have created our own parties and platform to campaign on. Stay tuned for the political broadcasts. Some great language used!
Thursday 11 September 2014
60 Second Macbeth
We have been studying the 'Scottish play' this term. As part of the assessment tasks for this the students were asked to show their understanding of the key events of the play by performing a retelling or a scene from Macbeth in 60 seconds…not easy at all!
Here are the first efforts. The rest are to come soon!
Tuesday 9 September 2014
The Giver Audiobook
If you want to check back in with The Giver before we go see the movie then here is the audiobook from you tube:
Monday 8 September 2014
Room 5's Speech Challenge 2014
The speech challenge is finished for the term in Room 5. Below are the links to click on for each student in the class.
The speech links below are listed in first initial order:
The speech links below are listed in first initial order:
Saturday 6 September 2014
Room 5 Current Events Quiz Success!
A big congratulations to Alex R, Matt, and Harry who dominated the ODT Current events quiz to score 96 points out of 100 and place 3rd equal out of at least 70 teams.
Jacob, Georgia and Aaron scored 83 points to place in the top half of the competition. Well done everyone and thanks to all the parents who helped support us!
Jacob, Georgia and Aaron scored 83 points to place in the top half of the competition. Well done everyone and thanks to all the parents who helped support us!
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| Casebrook Team 1 (Alex, Matt, Harry) in action |
Wednesday 3 September 2014
The Room 5 Irish Debate
Students have started planning for the great Room 5 Irish debate. In true gender separatist style it's boys vs girls!
Stay tuned for the results...
Monday 1 September 2014
Band quest
On Friday Henry,Aaron, Matt and I went with the rest of Ace of Spades (our rockband) to the Aurora Centre to perform at bandquest. We arrived at 4.15 for a rehearsal in front of the other bands and got a little bit of mentoring. Then at 7.00 people started arriving for a 7.30 start. The stage looked really cool with the multi- coloured lights and a smoke machine but instead of it making us excited, the nerves kicked in. Finally after several hours it was our turn to perform. Walking onto the stage was really exciting with the crowd cheering. As we got ready Chris (the m.c) introduced us. Then we were ready to play our first song; One day by Opshop. We began and the crowd went wild. The next song we played was Mercy which felt incredible to perform.At the breakdown in the song we got the audience clapping along,it was awesome. As it concluded we walked off the stage. When we got backstage our excitement levels were through the roof!
Alex R
Alex R
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