Merry Christmas

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What a Great night we had last night.  Well done Room 14.  We have had and amazing years learning, have a great holiday and I look forward to seeing you in 2015.

2014 Moa Awards Highlights

Here is a highlight video from the MOA Awards made by Sonic Vision Studios.

"The 2014 Moa Awards were held on November 11th at the Sandfords Event Center Opunake. I had the privilege of putting the show together and so created a MTV styled Awards Show. Created the Transformers intro and put Mt Taranaki in the shot with Optimus Prime (At the end)."

-Sonic Vision Studios, (Facebook Post, Dec 2014).

Wahine News

BREAKING NEWS!  BREAKING NEWS!

We read the story 'No Safe Harbour' by David Hill.  As a follow up we have been doing a lot of research about the tragic events that happened on the day, including writing and presenting news bulliten scripts…

'KN' Chunk of the week, Term 4, Week 8

Week 8's Chunk of the Week is 'kn'  In the comments below, write a word for the chunk of the week. You will get house points for every comment that you leave.  Put your word into a sentence to get bonus points!

Well done to Zane who started posting kn chunks on last weeks post.

Juliana Shields2 December 2014 20:08

Knight. There was a knight outside.
Darkness. I was in lots of darkness.
Knots. The wind was blowing at 100 knots.
Knew. I knew I was awesome.

Our School - Close Up!

Here are our entries for the 'Original Image' for the MOA Awards. We took Mr Lodge's camera for a walk around our school and took photos of ordinary everyday objects we pass right bye without even looking at them.  Close up they are extra-ordinary...

The Wonderful Place We Live...

Home Reading Tree

With the end of the year fast approaching we are now double jumping branches on our Home Reading Tree.  Keep up with your Home Reading everyday, we may even have 'Random Lucky Reading Days' when those who have completed home reading will

            move up the tree.

Homework and 'Chunk of the Week.' Week 6.

Week 6's Chunk of the Week is 'sk'  In the comments below, write a word for the chunk of the week. You will get house points for every comment that you leave.  Put your word into a sentence to get bonus points!

Well last week was certainly a busy week.  It was great to catch up with a lot of Room 14 parents at the MOA Awards and Gala Day.  It was great to see a large number of people out to support the children at our school.  This week we start the 'Skills for Life' programme run by Sport Taranaki.  This is a once per week lesson where students learn a variety of different offense and defense skills that can be used across a variety of sports.  Don't forget, all of our MOA awards work is on our blog, we have a page dedicated to all of the wonderful work we completed, click on on the page link above and take a look.

Wahine Update

We have been reading 'No Safe Harbour' by Taranaki author David Hill.  It is a story of Stuart and Sandra, 15 year old twin brother and sister and their survival of the Wahine Disaster on the 10th of April 1968.  This has inspired us to look deeper into the events of April the 10th 1968.  We are completing research mini studies, writing newspaper articles, using the green screen to take photos of us there on the day.  We are even writing and presenting newspaper articles using 'Lifecards' as well writing and filming TV news bulletins as if we were there on the scene reporting the news.  Keep checking back to see how we got on.



We have also been using the APP 'Lifecards' to make these newspaper front pages.  This is Jazlins, more will follow...

MOA Awards Evening

The Big Night Out...

MOA PROJECTS

Check out the page above 'MOA PROJECTS' to see all of the great work we did for the MOA Awards.

AWESOME US!

Best Intermediate Short Movie - Witch's Hut

Congratulations to Lia, Naleeah, Sayen, Kaiden, Daragh, Bella and Summer for winning Intermediate Best Short Movie at last night's MOA awards.  It really was a magnificant evening, congratulations to all of the winners from all three schools.

Congratulations to all of the Team Kauri (RM 14) students for what they produced for the MOA Awards.  You can all be very proud of what you achieved.  

MOA Awards TONIGHT!

The MOA Awards are on tonight.  Remember to be at school by 6.15pm for your ride to the Red Carpet!  

Don't forget formal dress for the evening.  
Good luck to everyone who made the finals.

UPDATE, UPDATE, UPDATE...

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Only one more sleep for the MOA awards.  Keep donations coming in for the Gala.  Bike Safety day has been postponed due to a double booking.  Lots on at the moment, keep checking in...

Our Calendar Art

Here is our Calendar Art.  We used a green screen as part of our work for the MOA Awards to take these photos.  Make sure you order your calendar quick.

Hello Everyone,

Well the MOA awards are finally here.  Tomorrow night sounds like it is going to be a great evening.  I can’t wait to see if our movies, photos or graphics have won an award.  At this stage we are still looking to have the children travelling in style to the ‘Red Carpet’ in classic cars from 6.30pm from the school car park (unfortunately the weather looks like it might be against us).  I know a lot of tickets have been sold so get there early.  As I understand it once we are there the children will sit together near the front with adults behind the children. This Wednesday is bike safety day.  I will let you know more details as we find out.  Check in with our blog, as this will be the first place I put information as I get it.  The final day for ordering Calenders is this Friday, once again I have put the students Art on the class blog so you can see what they have made.  We have used a green screen photo from our MOA awards work.  Get ordering, quick!  Gala Day is this Friday.  It always amazes me how a community gets behind a school for fundraising events like this.  Keep those donations rolling in.  There is a lot on at the moment so keep checking in on our blog.  It is the fastest way to let you know what is happening.

Not long now for the MOA Awards evening, will Room 14 snatch a win with one of our entries? 

CHUNK OF THE WEEK

Week 5's Chunk of the Week is 'pl.'  In the comments below, write a word for the chunk of the week.  You will get house points for every comment that you leave.  Put your word into a sentence to get bonus points!

Kapa Haka Crew

OPS Kapa Haka group performed their set to the rest of the class today.  Unfortunately there was a big of a breeze coming through the speaker for the camera.  They did a great job.

Halloween Disco

Here's a short video put together by Miss Ogle from our Halloween Disco.....  Scarey.....

Opunake Primary School Website

Have you checked out our new school website, click on the link below to check it out.

Opunake Primary School website

Chunk of the Week

This week's Chunk of the week is 'dr.'  In the comments below, write a word for the chunk of the week.  You will get house points for every comment that you leave.  Put your word into a sentence to get bonus points!

MOA AWARDS NEXT TUESDAY!

Congratulations to all of the students who received nominations for the top four in their category for the MOA awards.  Students in the movies ‘Witch’s Hut’ and ‘Fire! Fire!’ Charlie and Sean (Short Animation), Travis (original image), Daragh (Graphic) have made the top four for their sections.  Our class has also received a top four nomination for our Music Video ‘Happy.’  Don’t forget the awards night is next Tuesday the 11^th of November at the Event Centre starting at 7pm, get their early for a good seat and enjoy the evenings awards, remember tickets are limited to 4 per family.  Once again congratulations to all of the students for their great work last term.  

Kapa Haka

Mr Lodge happened to pass the Learning Centre when our Kapa Haka Group were getting ready for their Kapa Haka competition in Waitara.  Don't they look great?

Calf & Lamb Day 2014

On the 23rd of October we had our Calf and Lamb Day.  Students participated in showing their Calves and Lambs as well as entering items for indoor exhibits.  Thank you to Brydee who took the time to take the photos and Miss Ogle who let us share the movie from her class blog.




                                          Check out Room 15's Class Blog

by clicking on 'Check out Room 15's Class Blog above.

CHUNK of the Week

This week's Chunk of the week is 'unk.'  In the comments below, write a word for the chunk of the week.  You will get house points for every comment that you leave.  Put your word into a sentence to get bonus points!

Holiday Photo Competition

Congratulations to Lia and Jonathan who came first and second respectively in our holiday competiton.  Well done, it looks like you both had a geat time during the break.

Lia exploring Wanganui

Jonathan's workshop creations.

Happening Holidays

           

 Hello From Disneyland in Los Angeles...

As the holidays are rolling on it would be great to keep our ‘blog’ current with what Room 14 students are doing during the holidays, so if you have some interesting photos of the things you are doing please e-mail them to me so I can share them on our blog, you never know their may even be prizes for interesting photos!

email:  andrewl@opunakeprimary.school.nz

MOA Project TWOOOOOOO

With the MOA entries due in this week, here a couple more snippets of what we have put together...

Term 3 Comes to an End, Holiday Photo Competition

Hello Everyone,

Wow, it’s hard to believe that we have made it to the end of another term.  This term has gone so quickly, looking back we certainly have achieved a lot over the last 10 weeks.  This week we are putting the finishing touches on our MOA award entries, these are due in on Friday to the judges so during the holidays check in on our blog to see samples of the magnificent work that the students have put together.  As the holidays are fast approaching it would be great to keep our ‘blog’ current with what Room 14 students are doing during the holidays, so if you have some interesting photos of the things you are doing please e-mail them to me so I can share them on our blog, you never know their may even be prizes for interesting photos!  Our homework sheet for this week has been updated on the Homework page above.

email photos to:  andrewl@opunakeprimary.school.nz

Cross Country @ Manaia

Congratulations to Lia, Dinah and Jonah and the other OPS students from our other classrooms who represented our school at the inter-school cross country race this week.  

A Big thanks to Miss Ogle who made this video and let us share it on our Blog.

Movie Filming

Here's a sneak peak at some of our MOA Award entries...

Our School Close Up

Jonathan

As part of the 'MOA' Awards we have been learning about photography and have been taking photos of unusual things around our school, 'CLOSE UP.' These are things that we pass everyday and normally don't think about, but if you stop and look, it is amazing what you might see...

Daragh

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LIBRARY BOOKS

As the term is winding down to an end we are once again 

on the search for School Library Books.  Could we please 

have these all back to school as soon as possible.  It would 

be great for Room 14 to be the first class to have all of 

our books returned for Term 3.

CHEERLEADING SUPERSTAR

Dior went to Wellington to compete in a Cheer Leading competition as part of Elite Cheer based in New Plymouth.  Dior's group came first in the Level 2 competition.  Well done Dior.

WANTED

 We have a couple of wardrobe issues for our upcoming movies, so if anyone could help that would be great.  We need a white dress for Little Bo Peep (Naleeah), a red cape for Little Red Riding Hood, (Bella), brown pants and top for our dog, a witches hat and broomstick for our witch and four sacks (that you don’t mind being cut).  If anyone could help us with these items it would be great. 

Green Screen Fun

We had a good explore with the green screen today, we had a lot of fun hanging out with famous movie stars and Brody enjoyed dancing with 'The Wiggles!'

Music Video Production

We started to cut the grooves for our 'Music Video' to enter into the MOA Digital Awards.  

A bit of a giggle...