Awakeri School

Room 15

Who are we? Room 15 is an extension room run by the wonderful Mr. Sheather.
This class is also a reading swap and maths swap class.
It Is around behind the B block toilets with a nice big deck so you can work in the sun.

Class News
18.11.09
Room 14 is editing their end of the year movie which is written and directed by Susannah Williams.
Here are some of the photos of room 11's technology challenges

Jordan and Kylie creating their 3 litre bottle holder	It works

Here are some photos of editing room 14's movie.

Our director/writter/editor Susannah Williams.

9.11.09
Mr Sheather has been going through the results of the Australasian maths, English and science tests. Here are some photos of the group.
The tests are known as the ICAS.

Here is the cover of the Mathematics.	From left Georgia, Monique, Alex and Mr Sheather.

12.10.09 Last term was packed with Mr Sheather doing production.
Any way on with this term.
This term Mr Sheather is training up a group of people to go in to the BP technology challenge in 3 weeks time.
He is having trials for people from year 4 to year 6.
Last year both teams won prizes.
Fingers crossed for this year's team!

11.09.09
Two days ago it was good luck day for the Chinese 09.09.09.
Tomorrow is 911 which was the bombing of the twin towers.
On to more important things like Mr Sheather and his work around the school
he has been helping Mr fits with the directing of the annual production which this year is Sheik Rattle 'N' Roll tickets are on sale next Monday $8 for an adult and $4 for a child.
This involves year 5-8.
Today the cast will be doing a special sneek peak preformance.

1.09.09
middle school maths extension have been working on complex word problems
here are some of their word problems:
How long would it take for a sneeze particle to get from whakatane to wellington?
how many blades of grass are on our fields?

ummm 1 million??

If you could walk non stop to Australia how long would it take?


19.08.09
Mr Sheather has been working on science and videos with the junior. Scroll down to Students' Work to see some photos.
Mr Sheather has a new interactive whiteboard. He was the first teacher in the school to get one for his class. The reading extension.

5.07.09
next week Nikoli, Dillon M, Dylon H, Luisa ,Ruby, Katy-Rose and Miayaare competing in a challenge at Apanui school will they get a place ill post the results next week after the competition.
Rooms 5,6,and 7 are going to research an animal as part of their computer reading.

27.03.09
This morning Room 14 set off their hot air balloons. In action - 3 caught fire and 2 launched and didn't come back. Most of them launched and couldn't get away.
click here to see the awesome photos!!

3.07.09 Wow it has been a long time since we last did the news. Here is the last
news report for the term holidays yes!!!!!!!!!!
Shane, Jordan , Louisa , Briar , Susannah and Jarrod with their star Sophie.
Today the video extension's Video is being shown at assembly.
Everyone is looking forward to next term.
Here are some photos from the film.

Here are the masterminds behind the film.	Having fun with friends Briar and Sophie.

18.06.09
RM 14 started their new topic with Mr. Sheather which is geography which they finished on Tuesday.
Everyone improved by lots but the top score was 97 set by Susannah Williams. So Suzzy knows where 97 countries are on the World map. I hope she gets to visit them all!!
Here is a funny thing that Mr Sheather told room 14: Hungary got Hungary, slipped on Greece and broke China.
The final stages of the senior school video clip has started with lots of editing and adding and a few more filming pieces to be done.
Room 9 have been studing about chemistry and they made crystals.
Here are some photos.

This is the salt they use to make the crystals.	This is a close up photo of the crystals.

8.06.09
Mr. Sheather and his video extension group are adding and editing their video.
There are some photos of the juniors doing their Robotics and Technic lego scroll down to see them.
With 3 weeks left of term 2. New extension groups are forming with new people which will mean cool exciting photos and stories.
Room 14 have been issued a challenge to know 30 countries and some continents in 3 weeks their test is tomorrow to see if they meet the challenge.

20.05.09 Mr. Sheather has been working with the junior extension group
the members of the extension group are
Emily Robbie (RM 5)
Zoe Bennet (RM 5)
Elisha Williams (RM 5)
Jayvin Neupane (RM 6)
Nicolas Jones (RM 7)
Finn Spod (RM 7)
Lucas Clarke (RM 7)
There are some photos scroll down to students' work to see them.

5.05.09
There is a new teacher's message from Mr Sheather .
There are photos of 2 of the finished projects that room 14 completed scroll down to see them.

30.04.09
There are some new photos on the page scroll down to students work to see them.

9.04.09
Sorry for the delay.
Hannah and Katy have been finding out how much a Grape weighs.
Dillon M and Dillon H are seeing if a fan really cools down a room.
Jared and riobert are making a paper chair that can hold a person.
Maiya and Olivia are finding how much liquid is in a apple.

17.03.09 There are some cool photo's of the young scientists of room 10.
Scroll down to students' work to see them.

16.03.09 Here's the list of topics that the room 14 students are studying.

11.03.09 Hey I have added some cool photos of the room 10 group that is working with Mr Sheather on energy.

6.03.09 Hey everyone I have just talked to Kelsei Ingle about how much she enjoys working with Mr Sheather. Scroll down to students work to see the interview.

26.02.09 P.A. test have been going all week the main tests that Mr Sheather has been doing with the junior school
are the Reading, Math and the Listening P.A tests.
This afternoon Mr Sheather is working with the group of senior students with their video abut how cool Awakeri School is.

19.02.09 Mr Sheather has been working with the middle school finding out about how electricity is made in NZ and safety points around electricity.
Some of the senior school students have been working with Mr Sheather making a movie about how cool Awakeri School is.

12.02.09 Hi my name is Kayla and I'm the website monitor for RM 15.
Mr Sheather all ready has his hands full with tech angels and his lessons with all of the middle and senior classes.

Students' Work

Lucas Clarke is launching a bottle rocket.

Here is Rylie Cavey-Bruce highlighting the word shoveled with the mimio.	Lucile is highlighting the with mayonaise.

Nicolas has created a car with a controller.	Kaya is pushing the technic lego together with his awesome strength.
Oli is focusing on his reading with Mr Sheather.	Emily is holding her robot that is got a programme to set tasks for it.

Zoe Bennet is working on the same model as Elisha but of course hers looks better.

Elisha Williams is working hard to get his model made out of technic lego.	This is a robot that you can programme to do stuff for a certain time limit, like go backward and spin around.

This is Aroha Leighton's project on the Grand Canyon.

Hamish Inwood worked hard to get his project on the Nasa Space Shuttle finished.	Tiaan is happy to start maths swap with Mr Sheather.

Interview with Kelsei Ingle.
We have been working with Mr Sheather on the 7 wonders of the world.
We are doing a study on the wonder that we thought was a cool thing to learn about.
I chose the Leaning Tower of Pisa (a.k.a the Leaning Tower of Pizza).
We get a black piece of paper and we glue our stuff on to the paper so we dont mess up the paper.
They haven't started research yet but the title look pretty awesome.

Room 14 has been working with Mr. Sheather on the wonders of the world. The wonders are buildings like The Space Shuttle, Taj Mahal, Stone Henge and the Sophia Heige.
Room 10 have been attaching batteries to their lightbulb circuits to make the lightbulb light up.
Room 13 have been working with Mr Sheather as well. They are learning about useful computer skills.

Teacher's Message

Everyone enjoys working in the new room, which smells nice and is really cool in the hot afternoons. Mr. Sheather is not giving up his new class to anyone else.