tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26980252893111998282024-03-14T05:19:33.174+13:00GATEStAlbans-our spaceThis is a place where children involved in GATE at St Albans can share their thinking, ideas, process and work.
It is also the place for parents and caregivers to find information about Gifted and Talented Education at St Albans.ClaireHowisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151189527996124942noreply@blogger.comBlogger110125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-62675414562662772292020-08-18T20:35:00.001+12:002020-08-18T20:36:14.399+12:00Epro8 Canterbury Competition<p> <span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Epro8 Competition</span></p><span id="docs-internal-guid-3f126176-7fff-631e-8c21-4ee16cc8c318"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The EPro8 Challenge is an engineering and problem solving competition. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Every year over 10,000 students from 800 schools from throughout New </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Zealand take part.</span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">In Term 3 we put together 3 Epro8 teams: </span></p><ul style="margin-bottom: 0px; margin-top: 0px;"><li dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rooms 15/16 The St Albans GONKS: Gus, Harry, Neave and Henry </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rooms 17/18 The Big Brain Bunch: Dylan, Ben, Zeke and Jamie </span></p></li><li dir="ltr" style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; list-style-type: disc; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><p dir="ltr" role="presentation" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Rooms 20/21 The </span><span style="font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Nickin McChuggets Sarah, Ruben, Harry and Leo </span></p></li></ul><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Preparation:</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> During term 2 the teams came together to practice developing </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">their STEM skills with our newly purchased STEM kits. During this time the </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">teams were also developing their ability to work well as a team in preparation </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">for the Term 3 Regional Challenge. </span></p><br /><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Challenge</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Due to Covid 19 this year the competition was held at school </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">and entries were videoed and sent in for judging along with a 1 page report. </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Each team was challenged to create a robotic creature for the ‘Mayors new zoo’ </span><span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">all the while ensuring they met the challenge guidelines and rules! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Congratulations to all 3 teams who created 3 amazing creatures: </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Jamal the Owl, Flumo the Octopus and Crocomotor the Crocodile.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVjgwZj6ZkoTR6KVnStNslFVz9VqT9wqp5pfHx3jZr4NiXnfnPkdLgFT0LtQVeT_bwD1HN7dWqyJJpAuDScLYE92aoWskwWSHJ1qFUF43bhR2oUgj1ZkoEzxb_HCfX-JNzoOGZHp64reqQ/s2048/IMG_2174+2.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiVjgwZj6ZkoTR6KVnStNslFVz9VqT9wqp5pfHx3jZr4NiXnfnPkdLgFT0LtQVeT_bwD1HN7dWqyJJpAuDScLYE92aoWskwWSHJ1qFUF43bhR2oUgj1ZkoEzxb_HCfX-JNzoOGZHp64reqQ/s640/IMG_2174+2.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHsVc4sypBeqC9CQIOQKX3X0K3jGf2mZZ7rvecpU_7jJM8H5og2NWPPFNWS2KrsWqCWrsDam39CX86CZPv7KMGz11vRRMO4v0_hjCS-tJOl2nuxU4MRhOu4X8_KnFL0F6eFQWtBs7WdlbR/s2048/IMG_7225.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1536" data-original-width="2048" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiHsVc4sypBeqC9CQIOQKX3X0K3jGf2mZZ7rvecpU_7jJM8H5og2NWPPFNWS2KrsWqCWrsDam39CX86CZPv7KMGz11vRRMO4v0_hjCS-tJOl2nuxU4MRhOu4X8_KnFL0F6eFQWtBs7WdlbR/s640/IMG_7225.JPG" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnyTr9FSzw6hCUfToWN0y_UeUC_-CAOvZBI59P6rq_fCjLrCJ5Fk3SawSWT0_JEv4pUw3JOUgrbRH4J662eTc_PWVrQwCTK2aXUeSvUBxgS2d0tk8LG2vS1PMjVlGps2S-vbHacLJKoN_a/s2048/IMG_4062.JPG" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnyTr9FSzw6hCUfToWN0y_UeUC_-CAOvZBI59P6rq_fCjLrCJ5Fk3SawSWT0_JEv4pUw3JOUgrbRH4J662eTc_PWVrQwCTK2aXUeSvUBxgS2d0tk8LG2vS1PMjVlGps2S-vbHacLJKoN_a/s640/IMG_4062.JPG" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-5a7bb012-7fff-cebb-4910-b0f3a580ca0f"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">A BIG Congratulations</span><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> to all our teams for their wonderful creations. An extra congratulations to the two St Albans teams who have qualified for the Canterbury semi- finals: The St Albans Gonks who created Flumo the Octopus and The Big Brain Brunch who created Jamal the Owl. The semi finals will be held at Kaiapoi North School on Tuesday 1st September: 9.30-12.30pm. Good luck to both our teams. </span></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;"><br /></p><div><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br /></span></div></span>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-58488914812206675402020-06-28T16:27:00.003+12:002020-06-28T16:31:15.370+12:00Meet the St Albans Epro8 teams for 2020<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.7999999999999998; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">The EPro8 Challenge is a competition, an engineering and problem solving race. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Every year over 10,000 students from 900 schools from throughout New Zealand </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">take part. Next term St Albans have 3 teams entered representing the 3 year ⅚ hubs. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rms 15/16 Team 1 : </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Harry, Gus, Henry, Neave </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rms 17/18 Team 2: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Jaime, Zeke, Dylan, Ben </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Rms 20/21 Team 3: </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Harry, Ruben, Leo, Sarah</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Teams compete to:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">build large sized structures</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">solve practical problems</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">engineer using pulleys, motors, gears, wheels and axles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">invent machines that can complete simple tasks</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">undertake unusual and fun experiments.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">construct basic electronic circuits.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">solve interesting problems using practical maths</span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-75391622900757089672020-04-14T21:24:00.001+12:002020-04-14T21:47:02.975+12:00Supporting gifted students during the lockdownDear Families,<br />
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As we enter the third week of the lockdown we embark on the next phase of - online<br />
home learning. The lockdown can be challenging for gifted children as they may<br />
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anxiety, sadness, intense feelings, and out-of-the ordinary behaviour.<br />
This may be the case for children also not identified as gifted. Please click on the tips<br />
(link below) if you would like to get some tips to support your child during this lockdown.<br />
This has been developed by the NZ Association for Gifted Children. The link below also<br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-26547778075181289202019-10-31T14:46:00.000+13:002020-04-14T20:40:25.047+12:00Celebrating excellence in Mandarin<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last week 17 children were selected to receive a prize for demonstrating </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">excellent</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">learning in Mandarin from St Albans School. The Chinese Prize </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Giving was held </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">at St Margarets College. The evening included the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">presentation of certificates from </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">primary to tertiary level, a Chinese folk song, </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">a Chinese dance and a demonstration </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">of Kung Fu. We have been very </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">fortunate this year to have the wonderful tuition from </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Qihang who has </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">taught whole classes and extension groups across the school from </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Years 2-6. The children have thoroughly enjoyed learning about the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Chinese culture</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">and their language. We would just like to take this </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">opportunity to thank Qihang for all </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">her expertise and hard work in </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">providing our tamariki with wonderful engaging lessons. </span><span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 285px; overflow: hidden; width: 328px;"><img height="240.6086387434555" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/WR7DAI9BE5kStz0COCIa6OTo0RgoxZqTMKwYuqdS6oPhfpXqzvP_Jt5lXvV9O35W-CT7dTnU1SUzencUc7IcpB_7ldq9148Z3OPMA-3W5j2OOm7jt6_88X0sfp5pURA4E3xPyWQX" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px;" width="318.0139449371553" /><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Congratulations to the children who were awarded certificates: Pictured from left front: </span></span><br />
<span style="border: none; display: inline-block; height: 285px; overflow: hidden; width: 328px;"><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Matilda, Hannah,Isabel, Eliza, Cameron, Viktor</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Middle: Clark, Digby, Evan, Josh, Leo, Sam</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Absent: Angel</span></div>
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Last weekend our Tournament of Minds Team (TOM) competed in the<br />
2019 Regional Competition. <span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">TOM offers teams of students </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">the opportunity </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">to solve authentic, open-ended challenges that foster creative, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">divergent </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">thinking while developing collaborative enterprise, excellence and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">teamwork.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #34282c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Teams are required to work together on a long term challenge for </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #34282c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">six weeks without assistance from teachers, parents and peers. They are </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #34282c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">encouraged to explore possibilities and experiment with ideas as they e</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #34282c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">ndeavour</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #34282c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">to produce a creative and original way to communicate their solution to others.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #34282c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On competition day they also participate in a Spontaneous Challenge which </span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; color: #34282c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">requires quick, creative thinking skills. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #34282c; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">T</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">hroughout their long term challenge our </span><br />
<span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">St Albans </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">teams showed amazing teamwork </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">producing 2 quality performances. </span><br />
<span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kāhu North </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">team performed 'A Kiwi Quest' </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">winning 1st place and Kāhu South </span><br />
<span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">team performed </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">'The Wizard of Aus' winning </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">2nd place honours. We are so very </span><br />
<span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">proud of all the </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">hard work these two teams </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: Arial; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">have put into planning, preparation and </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Last Saturday two St Albans teams competed at the Robocup competition. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Our teams have spent weeks under the expert tuition of Sam Pelham, designing, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">building and coding their robots to meet the criteria of the competition. The Rescue </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">team competed in 4 rounds which included 4 different courses. After 2 rounds it </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">was a quick return to the pits to make adjustments for the final 2 rounds. The Soccer </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">team had two robots- a player and a goalie. They competed against an Intermediate </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">team playing 3 games in total. Final result 2-1 to the opposition. A BIG congratulations </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to both our teams for developing awesome robots, clever codes and being awesome </span><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-82917241919304304182019-08-13T19:54:00.002+12:002019-08-13T20:20:08.705+12:00Epro8 Challenge<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Congratulations to our 2 St Albans teams who competed in the Epro8 </span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-80983435723589349462019-08-10T12:57:00.001+12:002019-08-11T11:29:42.323+12:00Epro8 ChallengeThis week our 2 teams were preparing for their Epro 8 Challenge competition that they will be competing in next week. They had 2 and a half hours to complete a variety of challenges.<br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: "roboto"; font-size: 16px;">At the Epro8 Challenge competition teams compete to:</span><br />
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<li><span style="background-color: white;">build large sized structures</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">solve practical problems</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">engineer using pulleys, motors, gears, wheels and axles</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">invent machines that can complete simple tasks</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">undertake unusual and fun experiments.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">construct basic electronic circuits.</span></li>
<li><span style="background-color: white;">solve interesting problems using practical maths</span></li>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Each team of four will be based at a workstation containing an impressive </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">containing a number of challenges. All the challenges are of an entertaining physical nature.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Teams will choose which challenges they wish to undertake. The harder the </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">t</span><span style="background-color: white;">he challenges - so strategy is required to know which ones to go for.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Here are some of our team members working on their practice challenges.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Challenge 1: Create a 4 wheel driverless scooter that can move without humans </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white;">Challenge 2: Create an alien with 5 distinctive 'alien' features that moves under a barrier without a person coming within 2m of the alien. These were great challenges that challenged creative thinking, problem solving and team work. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">learning more about the process of writing and of writing a book. The activity they did was called the Writers Dice where the children created a table of words that had to be included in their story. This was challenging and created some very funny stories! Once the children had finished writing they joined James in presenting their creative writing to the group. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Monday 5th August- NZ Book awards and Writers Workshop</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> with </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">James Guthrie author of Bullseye Bella.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We have a selection of children from Year 4-6 who are attending the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">NZ Book Awards at St Margarets College. They will get to hear various </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">authors present their work. Following the awards they will have a Writers </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Workshop with author James Guthrie to develop their craft of writing. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We are very excited to be working with James.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Tuesday 13th August- Epro 8 Challenge. </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">We have two teams entered in </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Epro8 Challenge which is</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> a competition, an engineering and problem </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "roboto" , sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">solving race. <a href="https://epro8challenge.co.nz/">Read more here about this event.</a></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Saturday 24th August Robocup:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> We have two teams entered in this competition </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">in two events: Robo-Soccer and Robotic Rescue. These teams have been busy </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">building their competition robots under the expert tuition of Sam Pelham. A big thank </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">you to Sam for all her work with the team.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Saturday 31st August- Tournament of Minds(TOM): </span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Tournament of Minds is an opportunity for students with a passion for learning and problem solving to demonstrate their skills and talents in an exciting, vibrant and public way.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Teams are required to work together on a </span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; color: #212529; font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: bolder;"><i style="box-sizing: border-box;">Long Term Challenge </i></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">for six weeks without assistance from teachers, parents or peers. They are encouraged to explore possibilities and experiment with ideas as they endeavour to produce their best possible solution. They develop a creative and original way to communicate this solution to others, working within predefined parameters such as limited materials, complex challenge criteria and the deadline of Tournament Day.</span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "raleway" , sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">The Tournament process provides a platform for excellence and equips participants with twenty-first century skills and strategies.</span></div>
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<span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;">Objectives</span><span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bolder;"><o:p style="box-sizing: border-box;"></o:p></span></div>
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<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Provide the stimulation of real, open-ended challenges<o:p style="box-sizing: border-box;"></o:p></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Develop creative problem solving approaches and techniques<o:p style="box-sizing: border-box;"></o:p></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Foster cooperative learning and team work<o:p style="box-sizing: border-box;"></o:p></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Promote knowledge and appreciation of self and others<o:p style="box-sizing: border-box;"></o:p></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Encourage experimentation and risk taking<o:p style="box-sizing: border-box;"></o:p></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Expand and reward creative and divergent thinking<o:p style="box-sizing: border-box;"></o:p></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Stimulate a spirit of inquiry and a love of learning<o:p style="box-sizing: border-box;"></o:p></li>
<li style="box-sizing: border-box;">Develop enterprise<o:p style="box-sizing: border-box;"></o:p></li>
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "arial";"><span style="font-size: 16px; white-space: pre;">Our teams have been working hard over the past term developing </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Registrations are now closed for the 2019 ICAS exams and Australian </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The dates for the 2019 examinations are below.</span><br />
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Australian Maths Competition- Thursday 1st August 2019<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">Digital Technologies – Tuesday 3 September 2019</span><br />
Science – Thursday 5 September 2019<br />
Writing – Tuesday 10 September 2019<br />
Spelling – Thursday 12 September 2019<br />
English – Tuesday 17 September 2019<br />
Mathematics – Thursday 19 September 2019</div>
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<i>Good luck to all our teams competing over the next few weeks and </i><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><i>to those that have opted into sitting the ICAS exams and AMC competition.</i></span></h3>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "century gothic"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">run by UNSW Educational Assessment, Australia. The tests are called International Competitions and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "century gothic"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Assessments for Schools (ICAS). These tests cover six curriculum areas and are designed to test and </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "century gothic"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">report to schools and parents on a variety of skills within subjects. A charge is made to cover each paper. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "century gothic"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Papers are quite challenging so are best suited to learners showing a particular strength or interest in the </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "century gothic"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">subject.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "century gothic"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">competitive paper and will be good for children who enjoy the challenge of problem solving in maths. </span><br />
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Science<span style="font-family: century gothic;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span>Writing<span style="font-family: century gothic;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span>Spelling<span style="font-family: century gothic;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span>English<span style="font-family: century gothic;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span>Mathematics<span style="font-family: century gothic;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></span>Australia Maths Competition.<br /><br />Any queries please see or email Mrs Lidstone<br /><ul style="margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Congratulations to the following St Albans Y6 young writers who have all become published </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">authors! Their poetry writing has been selected for publication in the ‘Write On’ magazine: </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Issue 51. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">These children attended the Young Writers Workshop in Term 3 where they had</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;"> the opportunity to </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">develop their poetry writing skills and rework their various poems under </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">tuition from the School for </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">Young Writers. We are very proud of our young writers. Please </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">enjoy the following poems which </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre;">were chosen for the publication. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">By Lachlan Fletcher 2018, Year 5, St Albans School</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 18pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Old TV</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The Poetry Team were a part of the Poetry Pentathlon competition where they competed in </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">5 events. For this event the team were given a prompt- a disco ball, and then as a team, they</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> had 10 minutes to write this poem! Collaborating </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">and</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b> </b>creating under pressure! Well done team. </span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-65106489924058882402018-11-19T15:09:00.001+13:002018-11-19T15:12:05.013+13:00<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.2; margin-bottom: 14pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Last week some of our Year 3 and 4 students were selected to participate in a two day Young Writers Workshop. This workshop was run by Gail from the School for Young Writers. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the first day, the students used metaphor, simile and other language devices, such as appealing to the senses, to write their poems. Writing list poems and persona poems, they learned about shaping words into line-breaks and stanzas.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">On the second day, the students worked on some aspects of sound, namely using rhythm, repetition and onomatopoeia in their poetry. They also worked on re-drafting and publishing their poems, which have been sent to </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Write On </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">magazine for consideration for publication.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: "arial"; white-space: pre-wrap;">This group of students were engaged and hard-working, and some wonderful creative work was produced.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Please enjoy a sample of the children's poetry.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The people just come in</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and yell, scream, count down</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the seconds. I can smell </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">donuts, chips and burgers</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The people watch the All Blacks</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">play with the ball,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the Crusaders kicking, Hurricanes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">versus Highlanders.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The people leave.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Nothing’s going on.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I get so lonely, but</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the next night</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">it all happens again.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Archie McCormick, Year 4, St Albans School</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Down the street, I was walking </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">with my pet, Speedy </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the Cheetah. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">People gazed at Speedy and</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Speedy gazed right back.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">“Sam, you forgot your lunch!!!” yelled Mum.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Speedy was spotted,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Monty wanted to race </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Speedy. So did Tommy</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and Jill.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Do you want to see Speedy? </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My cheetah, oh please come,</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">come to me!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Scratch scratch</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Go the cat’s claws on the wood.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Scratchy scratch</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Meow</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Ollie Ellis year 4 St Albans School</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The very hot, deserted island</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">What I need here:</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A spare army of mosquitos</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">so the mosquitos on the island</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">don’t bite me</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A heater to heat me on a cold day</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">A shovel to dig for gold</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">A bucket to make sandcastles</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">A plank of wood to</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">attack dangerous animals</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A surfboard to go surfing on</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">An icepick to climb the ice</span><br />
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; white-space: pre;">if it snows</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A skateboard to have fun when I’m bored</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Training wheels for the skateboard</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">An electric guitar </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A cup to drink the salty water</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Coffee to drink if I don’t l don’t like the salty water</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Hot chocolate to drink if I don’t like the coffee</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">A flag so savers can see me</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">waving on the beach</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Gus Strieker Year 4 St Albans School</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-weight: 700; white-space: pre-wrap;">Sydney Harbour Bridge</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">On high rocks</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I stand astride </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I see ferries, fishing boats and freights </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">sailing past me.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Trucks, Mitsubishis and two-wheel cars</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">cruise on and off me.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My best friend has enormous sails</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">but cannot float.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I love my life, but</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I wish I were a car.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Bella Tume y4 St Albans School</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The beach</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The sand beneath my toes </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">a bed of feathers.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The waves and sea </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">cold as melted ice </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">when I dip my toes</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">in the water.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Monty Baker, Y3 St Albans School</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The jacuzzi</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">The steaming air above me, the feel</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of my jets, spying people </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">in my water, playing,or relaxing.</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">When night falls </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">I get switched off</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">And have a still sleep.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Monty Baker, Y3 St Albans School</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "cambria"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Blowing bubble gum</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pop goes my gum</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Pop pop goes the</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Fireworks over</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">head as I lay </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">in bed </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">pop pop pop.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Audrey Worsley, Y3 St Albans School</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">I have a pet blobfish.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">He is very blobby.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">When I take him for walks,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">people point and stare,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">And then they say </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">“Look it's a blobfish, one of the top ten ugliest animals”</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">I feel sad for my pet,</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">but then I think </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">“what if he could be famous.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">Luciana Willmott Dalton Year 4 St Albans School</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;"><br class="kix-line-break" /></span><span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline;">Going to the sun!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">I need enchanted macaroni that cooks itself</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">in case I get hungry,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">maybe a sun-bathing towel</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">so I can get a tan!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">I will take my fire-proof bed</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">in case I get sleepy,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">a wooden plank to stand on,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(which will burn straight away)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">so I don’t get burnt!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">I will take a trained penguin,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(it’s not trained)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">to teach me how to keep cool,</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m going to take a very light, light bulb</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">in case it gets dark!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">(it’s the sun, it won’t get dark)</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">My house!!!</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline;">I’m going to live there!!!</span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-87834906570427623022018-09-06T12:20:00.001+12:002018-09-06T12:20:34.325+12:00Young Writers Workshop<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">As part of our GATE programme students were selected to participate in the Y5 </span></div>
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<span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">Young Writers. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">On the first day the student’s focused on the skills required to create images in </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">writing: using metaphor and concrete sensory language. The students worked at </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">taking their writing from description to poetry with shape, pattern and layers of </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">meaning. On the second day they worked on some aspects of sound, namely </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">using rhythm and repetition in poetry. Students wrote poems using onomatopoeia, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">assonance, echoing phrases and following a rhythm. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #222222; font-family: Arial; font-size: 9.5pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Please enjoy a small selection of some of the student's writing.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">through the door, knocking </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">my coffee all over the floor!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">“That is it!” I yelled </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">at the top of my lungs,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I searched for the pink bottle </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">on top of the shelf, once I found</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">this bottle of mine, I squeezed </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">his trumpet right inside! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I tied him to a pole outside </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I sat back down and thought </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">about my coffee, then</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">I realized it wasn't fun</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">to have an elephant </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: italic; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;"><b style="font-weight: normal;"><br /></b></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">So I gave it back for awhile</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">and drank my new coffee </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: Arial; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">while I smiled.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Ted and Tom the wondrous pair </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Ted has fur instead of hair</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Then in the morning </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">One eyed Tom wakes up yawning </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">As the suns dawning </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">They go to the beach to have fun in the sun</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">He walked to the beach</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">With Ted hand in hand</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">To have a small chat with the crabbes in the sand </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">To bought along a peach </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">To share with Ted</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">They walk home to check the time </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">They decide to walk to the market to spandex a dime </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Buy gumdrops, jelly snakes and sour chews of lime</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Then in the morning</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">As the sun was setting </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">Tom wondered to himself</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">what it’d be like to have two eyes </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; white-space: pre;">instead of one</span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-3777651245466694442018-09-03T15:17:00.001+12:002018-09-03T15:19:37.904+12:00Tournament of Minds<div dir="ltr" style="background-color: white; line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Tournament of Minds</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> is a problem solving programme for teams of students </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">from both primary and secondary years. The Tournament's aim is to enhance </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">the potential of youth by developing diverse skills, enterprise, time management, </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">and the discipline to work collaboratively within a challenging and competitive </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">environment.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Students are required to solve demanding, open-ended challenges from one</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">of the following disciplines:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre;">The Arts</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre;">STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) </span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre;">Language Literature</span><br />
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: arial; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre;">Social Sciences</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>St Albans entered 3 teams</b></span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;"> from Year 5 and 6 led under the guidance of </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">Carmen Aldridge:</span><br />
<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Team 1: Arts Challenge:</b></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"> Sophie, Matthew, Ava, Stella, Alfie, Rory</span><br />
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<span style="color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><b>Team 3: STEM Challenge</b></span><span style="color: #212529; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-numeric: normal; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">: Olivia, Emily, Ciara, Lily, Georgetta, Senha, Isaac</span></div>
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<b>Lonely Eel</b><br />
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I chew on my slurred up dinner and wait for something, or someone. My slimy stomach slides across the rocks as I stare at my surroundings. Just me, myself and I. My black eyes tear up. Why? Why do I not have a buddy to be happy, sad and excited with? Does nobody like the fact that my body is covered with thick, black skin that feels like gooey seaweed? Or is it that I love to chomp on chewy fish? Please, please be my buddy.<br />
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<i>Written by Aoife Maher Y6 and published in 'Write on' Magazine, Issue 50</i>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-28784306088919532122018-08-22T17:18:00.000+12:002018-08-22T17:25:59.764+12:00Robocup Regionals Competition 2018<div dir="ltr" style="line-height: 1.38; margin-bottom: 0pt; margin-top: 0pt;">
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre;">Soccer or Rescue. </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre;">Each team created a robot for the specific skills needed for their event. These </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre;">had to follow the trail to find the silver </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre;">can. Modifications and improvements were needed on the day </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre;">with no adult input. The children showed the </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre;">many skills they have learnt including working together, </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre;">problem solving and the practical skills needed to make </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre;">improvements on the spot under pressure. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre;">Our teams made St Albans proud competing against tough </span><span style="color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">competition </span><span style="font-family: "arial"; font-size: 10pt; white-space: pre;">and many carefully created </span><br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-55833004837874646402018-07-24T14:48:00.001+12:002018-07-24T14:53:17.643+12:00Congratulations Aoife MaherA very BIG congratulations to Aoife Maher who is a St Albans Year 6 student, for becoming our very own published author. Earlier in the year Aoife attended the YWW here at St Albans which was run by the 'School for Young Writers.' During the workshop she worked and reworked her writing to create the 'Lonely Eel'. Her work has been published in Write On- the best New Zealand writing by kids for kids: Issue 50. We will post Aoife's writing as soon as it is received.<br />
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-41324361394066157502018-07-24T14:46:00.000+12:002018-07-24T14:49:40.344+12:00Term 3 GATE eventsHere are our upcoming events for our Term 3 GATE programmes.<br />
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<li>ICAS English: Week 2 Tuesday 31st July</li>
<li>Australia Maths: Week 3 Thursday 9th August</li>
<li>ICAS Maths: Week 4 Tuesday 14th August</li>
<li>YWW(Young Writers Workshop) for our Y5 tamariki: Week 5 TBC</li>
<li>Robotics competition: Date and time TBC</li>
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-12983790198965367922018-06-18T15:15:00.000+12:002018-06-18T15:33:17.777+12:00EPro8 Technology ChallengeIn T2 Week 7, 8 children from St Albans Year 5 and 6 competed in the EPro8 Technology Challenge. Team 1: The St Albans Einsteins consisted of Charlotte, Sophie, Magnus and Isaac.<br />
Team 2: The St Albans Wizards consisted of Josie, Erin, Rory and Tim.<br />
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Throughout the competition the teams had 2 1/2 hours to complete 4 major challenges which included numerous mini challenges. Both teams had to work collaboratively as a team to problem solve. Congratulations to both our teams who made St Albans proud competing against tough competition and in tough challenges.<br />
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<br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-33492709340602289522018-06-18T14:07:00.001+12:002018-06-18T14:49:24.275+12:00Young Writers WorkshopA few weeks ago a small team of Year 3 and 4 students were chosen to work alongside Gail Ingram in the Young Writers Workshop. This workshop was held over 2 days and their writing focus was on developing their poetry skills. These children beavered away over the two days creating, drafting and re-crafting their wonderful imaginative ideas.<br />
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Pictured here are Luca, Hannah, Joey, Harry, Evie, Mikko, Millie, Zena, AJ and Rosie working with Gail. Here is a small sample of some of their awesome poems.<br />
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<b><span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Scribble world</span><span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span></b></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">I see ABSOLUTELY nothing </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">but arguments. The colours</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">are screaming and shouting.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Purple yells, “Why am I even here?”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Blue answers, “Because </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Joey scribbled you!”</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brown screams, “Stop arguing or</span></div>
<span style="font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt; white-space: pre-wrap;">you’ll get rubbed out.”</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-size: 14.6667px;">By Joey Ward Y4 St Albans School</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">My dad is very mad,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">he’s a beast all the time,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">he doesn’t even pat the cats!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">he doesn’t let me do a thing,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">he has no respect,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">agh help! my dad’s tickling me </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 11pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">to death.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">By Luca Maxwell Y3 St Albans</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">it’s 12:00 midday.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">It feels happy and cozy,</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "times new roman"; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre;">He hugs and smiles,</span></div>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-16098960832532992842018-05-08T15:17:00.000+12:002018-05-08T15:37:18.411+12:00Welcome to 2018<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: x-small;"><b>Tuesday 8th May 2018</b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Dear Whanau, Please see upcoming events for our GATE programmes.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ICAS Digital Technologies - Today(8th May)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">YWW- Young writers workshops for Kahikatea - Tuesday 29th and Wednesday 30th May</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ICAS Science- Tuesday 29th May</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ICAS Spelling- Wednesday 13th June</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">ICAS Writing- Thursday14th June</span></li>
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<li>ICAS English- July 31st</li>
<li>Australia Maths- August 9th</li>
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<li>YWW- Young writers workshop 4th and 5th September Year 5</li>
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Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-64226834588165455772017-08-31T10:40:00.002+12:002017-08-31T10:40:18.992+12:00Robotics<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">Last week we participated in Robocup. We have been working on our robots for several weeks. There were three teams chosen from year 5&6. Our team chose to do rescue, where you follow a line and the goal is to find a can and push it out of a green area. It sounds easier than it is. Other teams did soccer. It's basically a robot soccer. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">We used Ev3 to build everything. At the competition we had lots of malfunctions but it was still a learning experience. Our favourite thing was that there were so much cool stuff we could make our robot do.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Blogpost by Cindy and Rory</span>ClaireHowisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151189527996124942noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2698025289311199828.post-86061233339138450252016-12-06T15:00:00.002+13:002016-12-06T15:00:51.924+13:00Year 6 Cantamaths CompetitionA Year 6 Cantamaths Competition was hosted by Susan Rogers and her Year 8 class at Heaton last week. St Albans school had spent a couple of weeks preparing for this event. The questions were similar to Otago Maths problem solving questions. We entered three teams of four students.<br />
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St Albans 1: Rico, Thomas, Jacob and Mani<br />
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St Albans 2: James H, Ron, Neo and Samuel<br />
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St Albans 3: Emily, Phoebe, Max and Lucy H<br />
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Congratulations to James, Ron, Neo and Samuel who won the whole competition. This bodes well for 2017 as this team are all Year 5 students.ClaireHowisonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11151189527996124942noreply@blogger.com0