Mathletics Results Week Four

Results: REID WINS AGAIN!

Reid 20,960

Tessa 14,097

Will 12,194

CYCLE GROUP - Permission

Dear parents
 

Your child has expressed interest in taking part in a school cycling group. The main objective of this group is build up cycling fitness to enable children to compete in the ‘Tour of the Bay’ (14^th October), the HB Triathlon Championships (7^th November) and/or Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge (24^th November).

The cycling sessions will take place on Thursdays (weather permitting) at lunchtimes and will be of approximately 30-40 minutes duration. During this time, the children will be developing their fitness along with cycle safety skills, cycling techniques and learning a bit about bike maintenance. It is also hoped that the children will continue to build on fitness with weekend rides as well.

Some children have already started training for these events. In order for your child to keep up, it would be beneficial for them to start cycling to school from now, weather permitting
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Children will require a road worthy bike (preferably with at least 24-inch wheels and slick tyres), a correctly fitted cycle helmet and closed footwear.

Safety is of utmost importance and the children will be supervised by one or more adults (parent riders/drivers are welcome). As it is necessary to use public roads, we require parent permission.

Please email me david@haumoana.school.nz with a permission statement.

First ride: Thursday 6^th September.

Cross Country Run - Permission

Dear Parents
As an extra build up to Inter-School Cross Country competitions in Term 3, there will be training runs for enthusiastic athletes from the school. These will be taking place on Friday at lunch time. To add variety and to provide a challenge these runs will take place in Parkhill Road and through Parkhill Farm roadways.

This training is voluntary, for enthusiastic runners and additional to our regular Cross Country programme which starts later in the term. As it takes place outside the school we do require your permission for your child/children to take part.

If your child has an interest in participating in these training runs (starting this week), please email me with permission statement.

david@haumoana.school.nz

Bike X

Barney was the sole rider from Room 6 taking on the Bike X challenge as it returned to Black Barn last weekend.  A week or more of rain ensured that there was enough mud to make it more challenging than the previous visit.

Helped  by a new bike Barney fought his way to a strong 3rd place!

Fishing Stories

Last term Haumoana School had a visit from The Minstrel.  His unique blend of singing and story telling provided inspirtion for the 'fishing stories competition'.

Room 6 children applied their talents to this challenge with James taking out top prize of a fishing rod. Madeline C provided Mr Mettrick with a judging challenge by writing 10 stories and received a prize for her enthusiastic attitude. Well done children!

MATHLETICS RESULTS WEEK 3

It was another great week for Mathletics. In Term three week three they made another great effort. I finally made it to the top spot!! Well done guys.

By Reid

Results

Reid-22,111 pts

Will-18,676 pts

Oscar-14,037 pts

A Week of Rain. . .

A week of rain and lots of Olympic discussion have brought out the competitive natures of Room 6 children... Saturday morning and Room 6 made it to the top of the Mathletics World ladder in the weekly challenge.

It is a close battle at the top!

Weekly Habits of Mind Certificate

The HoM Certificate this week went to Reif for 'asking questions to clarify his understanding' and 'persisting' with tasks!

Congratulations Reif!

Geometry Evening

Lauren and Andrena deep in concentration.

This problem took us a while . . and then "How did I not see that!"

The geometry evening with Dinah Harvey proved to be a big success with many families braving the rain for a couple of hours of maths fun. It was fantastic to see the focus and obvious enjoyment of the children and adults learning together.

Patrick and his dad, problem solving together.

All concentration when drawing maps of the hall.

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ASB NZ Maths Challenge

The 2012 ASB NZ Maths Challenge is taking place on the 28th-29th August. 

Last year Room 6 gained more points than any other New Zealand class, won the Lower North Island 'small school section' (based on the average points gained) and had 2 Mathletes winning an ASB Bank account plus other prizes.

We intend to participate again this year and will be fine tuning strategies and improving our accuracy so we can be competitive again. 

The event will involve 2 days of intensive maths at school and at home so we require lots of parental support and understanding as we give it our best shot.

More information posted shortly.