Room 5 Party Political Broadcasts

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…

60 Second Macbeth Part 2

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.

Happy Birthday Caitlin!

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!

Production Rehearsal Getting Serious!

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!

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:

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:

AF: http://youtu.be/jQDduLN9kcY

AH: http://youtu.be/UO5HoOpQnek

AR: http://youtu.be/QplaL2UxvB0

AW: http://youtu.be/DxPMyB4qjHY

CD: http://youtu.be/4wE2tTYd1cg

CMac: http://youtu.be/wEqjfu6yshY

CN: http://youtu.be/K40IPDih1tQ

CW: http://youtu.be/Gp2AswJZDls

DS: http://youtu.be/TlpDzUpFbAw

EJ: http://youtu.be/TlpDzUpFbAw

EL: http://youtu.be/nSw4xwyt_us

EM: http://youtu.be/qIh9x1vjxkc

GL: http://youtu.be/n1roQxUtquQ

HA: http://youtu.be/WbI6RU8vwjg

HE: http://youtu.be/kiKeViu4e78

HO: http://youtu.be/iW1ytAuoZfw

IR: http://youtu.be/Lrw8ouFpQ9g

JB: http://youtu.be/W64J8klw8CY

JL:  http://youtu.be/DkwEGmzrijo

JN: http://youtu.be/DkwEGmzrijo

MC: http://youtu.be/R7juSl4N80k

MM: http://youtu.be/fnfsYXwFa18

MMc: http://youtu.be/NWKozGkN3wE

MT: http://youtu.be/OZQcXcOuRYc

NA: http://youtu.be/g-uXAKA59xs

NP: http://youtu.be/g-uXAKA59xs

OM: http://youtu.be/9gryJvd5lBU 

OY: http://youtu.be/jveHLXsaFg0

SL: http://youtu.be/_oY3riSTNDo

TB: http://youtu.be/q-XRCKsktVo

TH: http://youtu.be/pqv9HpIoczo

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!

Casebrook Team 1 (Alex, Matt, Harry) in action

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...

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