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media type="custom" key="13554054" **We are Room 13 at** **Meadowbank** **School****. Our class is the only composite class at our school and is made up of both Year 4 and Year 5 students. On our wiki we will be publishing our best work, commenting on other peoples work to give them feedback and feed forward and sharing our work with people from around the world! We would really love you to leave a comment either on the home page or one of our individual pages. Your comments often help us to improve our work and definitely motivate us to keep producing work of a high quality! We love getting feedback on the work we are doing in Room 13 both inside and outside the classroom! We would also love to hear/communicate with people around the world. If you are from a school in a different country then please let us know by emailing our teacher, Miss Bryant on wbryant@meadowbank.school.nz so we can start communicating with each other throughout 2012!**

** Click on the following link to be taken to the 'Great Green Meadowbank Challenge' website - it is here you will be able to register your team, find out more info and become part of Meadowbank Schools big family day out! Great Green Meadowbank Challenge **
 * // TERM THREE NEWS //**


 * // Wow - how is it suddenly Term Three already! The year has absolutely rocketed past and we are well into our exciting learning in the second to last term of the school year. This term the Year 5 classes have taken on a massiva project with planning, making and organising a Rogaine event for early Term 4. The children have all been to a taster session with each teach and then chose which class they would like to focus on for the term - letting them work to their strengths and interests. Topic cross grouping happens on Monday and Tuesday and children go to a different teacher to work on their piece of the Rogain puzzle. Mrs Knarston's class are working on collecting clues and designing the actual maps with Sean from Lactic Turkey helping them. Miss Bell's class are coming up with the Environmental links and activities which will earn teams more points on the day. Miss Carryer and her class are taking care of all the promotion for the event and trying to get sponsorship involved for the big day and Miss Bryant and her techie class are creating a digital Enviro brochure for the school along with a smart device version of the Rogain event. All the children are really involved and interested in the project and we hope that this can be a huge annual fundraising and family event for Meadowbank School. In Literacy we have just completed speeches and are now moving on to report writing where we will be creating a school newspaper which might be part of the Year 5 presentation to the Beyond Green Gold reviewers early in term four! //**

Room 13 have been creating their paper mache Orc and Dragons inspired by the works of art at Wete workshop. These will be our individual contributions to the School Art Exhibition later in the term. Please let Miss Bryant know via email if you are able to help with painting or creating! Speeches - We have just loaded the You Tube videos of our 2012 speech presentations onto our individual pages. Please leave us some feeback and lovely comments about our efforts. For most of us this was the first attempt at writing and presenting a speech. The sound quality on the Ipad wasnt great so we will be uploading a MP3 recording which we also did when presenting to the class - keep tuned for the clearer versions soon.

**__WIKI COMMENTING AND PARENT CONTRIBUTION__ ** **As you can see the class have been working really hard on our wikipage and we would love to see more parents commenting on our work. A letter will be sent home explaining more about our wikispace and telling you the different ways you can comment and contribute to your child's learning. We all get really motivated with feedback - especially from Mum and Dad, Grandparents and Siblings! Also Miss B is so proud of the work we have been doing - especially our fantastic written work and podcasting! SO CHECK IT OUT AND LEAVE A COMMENT! **  We have all made avatars which show as our personal icons when we make comments on our wiki. We used [] to make our manga avatars. This was a really good way to test our ICT skills and see how much we remembered about saving, uploading, naming files and using the mouse/keyboard correctly! We would love to get some feedback out our new avatar identities.

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Earlier in the year we looked at leaders and biographical writing. We chose a leader of interest and in pairs researched and wrote an interview script in the form of a biography. We used Audacity to record them and then converted them to MP3 files so that people can listen to them at home. This was our first attempt and we now know the basics of voice recording using Audacity - please keep tuned to hear more about our radio and podcasting efforts and write some comments about our interviews on the discussion post on this page!

media type="file" key="Billy T James Interview.mp3" width="240" height="20" - Matthew and Jack's Billy T Jame Interview

media type="file" key="Ernest Rutherford Interview.mp3" width="240" height="20" - Abbey and James D's Ernest Rutherford Interview

media type="file" key="Jean Batten Interview.mp3" width="240" height="20" - Jamie and Andrew's Jean Batten Interview

media type="file" key="Kate Sheppard Interview.mp3" width="240" height="20" - Chiara and Billie's Kate Sheppard Interview

media type="file" key="Queen Elizabeth 1st Interview.mp3" width="240" height="20" - Bridget and Elianor's Queen Elizabeth the 1st Interview

media type="file" key="Queen Victoria Interview.mp3" width="240" height="20" - Abigail and Alicia's Queen Victoria Interview

media type="file" key="Richie McCaw Interview.mp3" width="240" height="20" - James C and James M's Richie McCaw Interview

media type="file" key="Sir Edmund Hillary Interview.mp3" width="240" height="20" - Grace and Emily's Sir Edmund Hillary Interview

media type="file" key="Sir Peter Blake Interview.mp3" width="240" height="20" - Ava and Holly's Sir Peter Blake Interview

media type="file" key="Steve Irwin Interview.mp3" width="240" height="20" - Caitlin and Toby D's Steve Irwin Interview

media type="file" key="Steve Jobs Interview.mp3" width="240" height="20" - Sota and Nic's Steve Jobs Interview

media type="file" key="William Webb Ellis Interview.mp3" width="240" height="20" - Toby C and Nicolai's William Webb Ellis Interview

Coming soon - interviews with Princess Diana and Martin Luther King

**EOTC week is always one of the highlights of year 5. We had a week full of action packed adventures. On Monday we went to Extreme Egde Rockclimbing and then did a whole lot of cool cooperative games back at school. Tuesday was a day of orienteering at Waiatarua Reserve. Wednesday was the big day, we went to Rangitoto and carried out a beach clean up then climbed to the summit and explored the lava caves on the way back down. Thursday was another big day considering exhaustion was starting to set in. We had a four-way rotation learning lifeguarding skills, first aid, bivouac building and also a session in the kitchen preparing dinner. That night at 5 we all came back to school and stayed the night in tents which had been sent up in the hall. We cooked dinner in our school pizza oven and completed fun camp activities like nighttime orienteering and tent pictionary. In the morning we packed up 'camp', had breakfast and then spent the day doing EOTC reflections in class! All in all... an awesome week.**

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Click on the link below to view the Room 13 timetable for Term One: **Check out all the visitors we have had to our site on the map below! If you know somebody overseas you can email them our wiki link so that our fantastic work is viewed all over the world!** media type="custom" key="12230236" align="center"