Year 7 and 8 Spotswood College Visit

Today the pupils from Oakura School visited Spotswood College to find out a little bit more about what year 9 learning is like. Mr Knapton had a really fun social studies activity where groups were put into different countries. Each country had a different amount of items/resources depending on what country they came from. If you were in a group such as the U.S.A or the U.K you automatically started off with more resources. Poorer countries like Bangladesh had fewer resources. Students had to bargain and trade to gather the resources they needed to make money for their country. The students learnt that team work and discussion were a must and that it was important to protect the resources they had. They also learnt that if you were a poorer country it was harder to make money.
Mr Scott showed the students how mathematics can be exciting using programmes on the internet. Room 10 and 11 learnt how to read coordinates using a BBC Bitesize programme.

Powerco Technology Challenge 2014

POWERCO TECHNOLOGY CHALLENGE 2014       

 

On Wednesday the 25^th of June, 4 teams consisting of 21 year 7 and 8 pupils competed in the Powerco Technology Challenge (formally known as BP Technology Challenge). The Powerco Technology Challenge involved 5 small challenges on the day and one prepared challenge complete with a portfolio. This year’s prepared challenge (which needed to be completed before the day) was called the ‘Dream Sleep Out’. Each team had to design and build a, one story, dream sleep out with a maximum size of 1m cubed. There were lots of different and quirky things in all of our sleep outs. Some examples were; flipping ping-pong tables, jelly filled swimming pools, flashing lights and a solar powered T.V. All of the teams that entered did very well and one group even finished up with a third placing for their dream sleep out. Another team received a special mention by the judges for their great circuitry work. If you would like to view the sleep outs, they are on display in the foyer at Oakura School. Thank you to all the parents who helped, teachers of Devon Intermediate who organised the event and most of all Powerco for sponsoring the event.

PHOTOS TO COME

Written by: Hamish

Introducing the absolutely fabulous and wacky room 10

The Fun Starts At The Run

An extaordanary ultra fun run happens every year at Oakura School. It's a fun day full of awesome activites that will get you up and active. The day is all about raising money for our year seven and eight classes. Every student is put into a team run by two year 7 leaders. There's a cool, funky theme for every team and we are encourging everybody to dress up as there are prizes for best dressed girl, boy and team.This year the fun run is being run on the 5th of December at 12:30. From there on in, you're guaranteed to have a fabulous time working together in your team. There are water activites, running activites, puzzles and many more awesome games.

As we said before, there are a ton of exciting themes for each team. Some include: clowns, pjs, tropical, athletes and fluro. Here are some of the year eights thoughts on the activites they have chosen for the fun run: Kate - drift wood boats "We chose it because it's different. Noone's done it before and kids enjoy making things. Eleanor- Egg obstacle course: "We got the idea from last year and changed it into more of an obstacle course so it will be more competitive and kids will enjoy it more."

We hope that this year absolutely everybody will immensly enjoy the fun run and that it's better than ever before. So come on Oakura school dress up, get wet, have fun. Then at the end of the day you lucky children can have a tasty lemonade iceblock to cool you down and give you a sugar rush after your long fun day in the sun at school.

Written by- Kimberley and Rhegan

Jason's Oakura WIX Page

Check out Jason's informative web page on Oakura. Check out all the interesting facts, photos and locations. http://teambon9.wix.com/jasons-site#!gallery/ccjb

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