2013 Room 7 @ St Francis Xavier School

Wednesday, 6 November 2013

Tawa Schools Cultural Festival

Our fantastic Kapa Haka and Pasifika groups will be performing at the Tawa Schools Cultural Festival at Tawa Intermediate on Friday morning. Today we saw them all dressed up in costumes and thought their singing and dancing was pukana!

Tuesday, 5 November 2013

Our Cultural Library Display

Room 7 have been busy reading and reviewing the books we purchased with our Library Grant from the Asia Foundation. We enjoyed reading about different cultures and points of view. Some of us have been able to share our languages with other students and it's been fun to share our special stories too.

Thank you, Asia Foundation for making this possible!

Thursday, 19 September 2013

Buzzing with digital learning!

Room 7 is buzzing with digital learning!

We have been learning to use Google docs to present our reports about our trip to see the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra perform Beethoven's 5th symphony and Brahms' Hungarian Dance #5 at the Michael Fowler Centre last month.
We've also been doing Typing Tutor with Alma. She is teaching us to use all our fingers when typing. This makes us much faster and the typing is more comfortable. We're going to be so fast when we get onto the new netbooks and i-pads next term!

The fantastic thing about Google docs is that by sharing our documents we can give and recieve feedback from other students and our teacher. We can also open and work on our documents

from any computer...anywhere!

And then, when we finish writing, we share our wonderful work with our families!

Wednesday, 11 September 2013

Artsplash Festival

We were all on stage at the Michael Fowler Centre on Monday evening for the 2013 Artsplash musical concerts. We were very proud of our wonderful singers, musicians and puppeteers!