Christchurch Symphony Orchestra at Banks Avenue School

This week we have been so lucky to have 5 awesome musicians from the Christchurch Symphony Orchestra (CSO) in residence at Banks Avenue School.
Each class has been learning a piece to play at a concert on Friday at 1.15pm as well as take part in a massed item with the whole school.

We have been learning to play the ukulele and the hand drums to play along with Sarah on the violin in an Irish Medley.

We have been practicing hard and can't wait until our performance at Shirley Boys High School.

Marvellous Mathematicians

The Triangles maths group has been busy learning to add big numbers and have been using Animal Arrays to help them with their learning.

Team Unicorn singing Whakataka te Hau

Whakataka te Hau has been our morning waiata during term 2. Here we are singing it.

Team Assembly - Week 8, Term 1

We hosted a team assembly this week. All of us had to stand at the front. We shared some of our letters to the Queen and sang Motueka with Ms Watts. Some lucky people received certificates for great learning. Keep it up Learning Hub 17.

 

How does my brain help me?

This term our Inquiry topic has been How does my brain help me learn. The children learnt many things from all of the teachers in Team Kahikatea then the children in Learning Hub 17 & Room 18 made posters with information that they had learnt about the brain. 

Everyone worked with at least one other classmate they would not normally work with showing our school value of Togetherness. We also worked on Excellence to try and make our posters as neat as possible and to the highest standard.

You can come and see the finished posters created by our class in Learning Hub 17.

#BanksAveRocks . - Painting Flowers on Rocks

Today Team Kahikatea did some Rock Painting. We painted our rocks with Flowers on them to put around our school and the local neighbourhood. If you find a Banks Ave Rock you can share it by sending an email to ederrick@banksave.school.nz and if you want to upload it use the hashtag #BanksAveRocks if you post it on the New Brighton Rocks or Christchurch Rocks Facebook groups.

Writing, writing, everywhere!

We took our writing out of Learning Hub 17 yesterday and wrote in the library. It was really nice to have a different setting to do our writing in.

Co-operative learning together

This morning we worked together in pairs to complete our poem which had been all mixed up. We worked cooperatively to cut it up and stick it back together. We checked we were right by reading it aloud and checking with the poem on the wall.