Term 3 is underway!

Backwards Maths
We have been learning to count backwards. It is very useful for working out subtraction problems. We went out and wrote numbers on the court with chalk. We counted back from 10, 20 or 30. We are getting pretty good but will need a little more practice.


Reporter: Asinate

Augmented Reality Pukeko
We did our very best colouring so we could make our pukeko come to life!


Reporter: Lilly

Buddy Reading
Watch us reading our reading books to each other.

On Show

The fantastic performers of Room 17 are pleased to present to you....

Three Billy Goats Gruff (The Musical)

We would like to thank Anatoly Khorozov (Veronica's Dad) who filmed and edited our musical for us. Kia Ora!

Buddy Skipping

Snigdha reports on our skipping with our Room 10 buddies.

Week 8 News Reports

Sam reports on the Kakariki and Karaka maths groups sorting numbers from smallest to biggest. To make it a tricky challenge not all the numbers are there! We have to be very careful to count properly.



Nicholas reports on R week activities.

It's a small world

The P.T.A's fund raiser had us all learning greetings from other countries.
We had a wonderful cultural assembly on Thursday to celebrate the many cultures of the whanau of Russley School. Some children wore outfits or dressed in the flag colours from their native countries.

We all tested our knowledge of flags and greetings and have sent the marked 'test' home to help with gathering the sponsorship money for the P.T.A. Please return this money as soon as possible.

Go Emirates Team New Zealand!

We sent our racing boat designs to Team New Zealand.  We told them we have been adding up their wins in maths.
Here is their email reply....

Hi Room 17,

Thank you so much for your wonderful artwork – we have printed it out and it is on our notice board so that the whole team can see it every day.  It looks like there are quite a few future racing boat designers in your class!

It’s great to have support from such good artists and please keep up the good work with your maths.

We have sent you a photo of our boat….

Kind Regards

Emirates Team NZ

Volcano Experiment

Which vinegar will make the best 'volcano'? We tested white vinegar and brown vinegar.


Photographer: Harry

Vegetable Soup

Mmmmmmm, the smell of vegetable soup was all through the classroom. We put all the ingredients in and let them boil. The smell was wonderful - we predicted if we would like it and wrote our names on the board under 😊or😟. Most of us liked our soup, lots of us had two helpings and some even had three!


Thank you to Perez's mum who helped us.

Kia Ora

This is Tuliliau our very last Room 16 learner to start in our class. What a great first day Lili!