Northern Bays Cluster Festival

On Wednesday the 26th of June a group of fantastic dancers took part in the Northern Bays Cluster event at the Bruce Mason Center. These dancers performed in front of more than two thousand people and danced as the country Korea. They performed hip hop and korean fan dancing. The dancers from Room 20 were Jade, Cassady, Mackenzie, Tyler, Lauren, Eunchae and Kamil. With them were more than 10 schools who got together and performed two songs together at the end World in Union and Aotearoa. They did a great job. Here is a video of Upper Harbour's performance.

The Cup Song

Some of the girls in Room 20 have become "Cups" experts. "Cups" also known as "Cups (Pitch Perfect's When I'm Gone)" is a song by American actress Anna Kendrick from the film Pitch Perfect. It is a cover of "Lulu and the lampshades" song "Cups (You're Gonna Miss Me)", a rendition of a 1937 old-time folk song "Miss Me When I'm Gone" by J. E. Mainer's Mountaineers. Here they are performing "Cups".

Cross Country at UHPS!

Yes it's that time again. On Wednesday we headed off across the boggy field after lunch for our annual Cross country event. Spirits were high, and we were keen to show everyone how much stamina we had developed over the last few weeks of training. 
It was a challenging run, and Room 20 students were impressive both in their attitude and in their placings too.
Well done Liam for coming 1st in the 9 year old boys, Nicole and Tyler for coming 2nd in the 9 year old girls and 10/11 year old girls respectively. 
Also, congratulations to Harrison and Kieran for your 3rd and 4th placings in the 10/11 year old boys!! Great running and fitness training everyone. 
Thanks to Vasti, Lauren, Liam and Kieran for leading the 5 and 6 year old children around their tracks. You were awesome leaders!!!

Luscious lolly learning!

Last week Room 20 had a fun toffee and easter egg experience. We paired up and took the roll of a controller where we directed our partner to eat the lolly or chocolate egg. We were able to stop our partner at any point in order to take detailed notes about the lolly or egg eating event. Here are some recounts about the event.

The Mouth watering lolly. By Lauren T

"Go!" I directed Tyler. She carefully twisted the wrapper off the creamy delicious Macintosh. She grasped the lolly in her hand and precisely brought it to her watering mouth. She was just about to pop it in then, "STOP!" I ordered Tyler.
As she had the toffee pinched in her hand the syrupy lolly started to melt into her fingerprints. "Go!" I chuckled. 
She inserted the caramel lolly into her mouth. She chewed the sweet as it molded into her teeth shape. As Tyler chewed, it got smaller and smaller.
Eventually the delicious treat was miniscule so Tyler took a final gulp and the lolly was gone.

Death for the Lolly. By Jack Cr

 "Go Mitchell!" I told him. Mitchell's hand rushed to the lolly sitting next to him. His index finger and thumb carefully pinched the two ends of the Macintosh treat like a crab. He twisted the lolly wrapper as fast as a tornado going round and round. "Stop!" I shouted. Mitchell froze and the lolly started to fall out, bit by bit. 
When I released him from the frozen state he grabbed the treat and threw the wrapper over his head while sinking his teeth into the the toffee like a vampire seeking blood. Slowly he ripped it in half and sucked on it. It was in his mouth and his eyes were transfixed on the yummy treat.
After he swallowed he closed his eyes and went into his own little land and hummed.

 "Gooey, gloop, Pop!" By Brandon

Sherrp, twist, twist! went Jack's lolly. "Stop!" I demanded in an angry voice.
"No...why didn't I eat the chewy lolly!" cried Jack.
"Sorry, but we have to." I explained. "Go!" I commanded.
Chew, chew.."Stop!" I said again.
"Not again! whined Jack. "My mouth is literally watering."
"Mine is too," I said with a glint in my eye, "but it's fun!" Then I let Jack eat his lolly.
"Yay!" said Jack gratefully. "That was awesome!"
"So was it good?" I inquired.
"Yes!"   

Our Trailblazer logo becomes a banner!

In Room 20 we have been creating logos and slogans to represent our trailblazer community. We had a competition to create these and after voting decided that Tamzin's logo with a big letter T trail and blazing base fitted the concept perfectly. We still needed a slogan and chose Nicole's "Blazing the trail of learning together". Next, Tamzin and Nicole drafted their design on a huge banner. All that was left to do was to paint it. Which a group of girls did.

Here are photos of our banner and those that helped create it.

Room 20's leaders

This week some of the Room 20 learners have been finding out what it's like to be a leader. 
Every day this week a number of Room 20 students lead UHPS students through conflict resolution as peer mediators. 

On Wednesday, Tyler and her sister Jade taught us all how to play a fantastic new board game. 

On Thursday, Harrison, Joseph, Liam and Mitchell organised and ran a game of Tee Ball on the field at lunchtime for some Year 3 and 4 children. 

Wow! How fantastic to be so good at something that you can teach others how to do it. I wonder what other leaders will emerge next? Is there something you might to lead?

Welcome back to Room 20- 2013!

Hi and welcome back to Room 20 at UHPS. I'm looking forward to this blog becoming everyone's place to share our learning journey. There will be loads of stories and posts about our learning this year, and you can also link to some cool games and resources available in time too. Enjoy the ride...