Friday, 19 June 2015

Production costumes

Please bring along a white tshirt, black pants, and a tie or suspenders for rehearsal on Monday.  Please don't go to any expense to buy any of these items.  If you are having trouble sourcing these items through family and friends let us know. :)



Maths peer tutoring

This week, we had students teaching others about trigonometry, Pythagoras theorem and how to calculate the volume of a sphere.  We'll be doing a lot more peer tutoring next term.  It's so cool to watch our students grow in confidence as leaders, teachers and collaborators.

Anu and Kelley teaching trigonometry
Jonas and Max Cr.  teaching trigonometry
Ella and Madoka teaching the volume of a sphere
Nyah, Lauren and Holly R., teaching Pythagoras theorem

Nyah, Lauren and Holly R., teaching Pythagoras theorem


Celebrating Room 18/19 effort and persistence!


In total, Room 18/19 students have spent 728 hours on Mathletics this year.  We have signed in 2200 times and earned 803, 870 activity points.  Students have persisted over the past two terms to achieve 378 bronze certificates, 78 silver certificates and 5 gold certificates.  

Remember: purposeful practice and persistence pays off!

Term 1 and 2 Gold Award Recipients (1000 activity points over 20 weeks): 
Jonas, Jake, Rosie, Anu & Max Cr.

We have a number of other students who are ALMOST there.  Keep going team!

Friday, 12 June 2015

PJ Day - Tuesday 16th

Fundraiser to Support Education in Afghanistan
On Tuesday 16th June (Week 9), we are holding a Pyjama Day fundraiser (gold coin donation).  The funds will go directly to a school in Afghanistan.  The money is needed to finish off the classrooms with painting, windows, doors and insulation etc.

Here is the link to the charity site. The focus for St Martins is Hashimi School in Herat City - http://aidachildrensfund.org 

A youtube clip of the school itself - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSYy315-W28  


Monday, 8 June 2015

Home Learning & E.O.L. Reminder

Term 2 Home Learning


If you are working towards a Senior Success Badge for Home Learning, please have all of your evidence and your application completed by Friday of Week 9.

Point of Challenge Reading Programme


So far, we have had some brilliant Evidence of Learning tasks handed in.  The programme will run until the end of Term 3... so keep them coming in. 

An example of some of our E.O.L. tasks





 Book Review - Divergent
Beatrice Prior, a 16 year who has an aptitude for not one, but three factions. She is special. She is 'Divergent'. However, it's not safe to be Divergent and Beatrice must hide it what she is, as there are dark forces and people at work, who will stop at nothing to protect the secret that her original faction hides. Beatrice commences on a captivating journey to reveal the secret kept from the factions, protect herself from those who threaten to harm her for her divergence, and discover what lies outside the chain link fence… Divergent is an exciting book and it pulls you in.
Molly