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Welcome to Room 4

In Room 4 we celebrate uniqueness, strengths, talent and cultures. We are encouraged to work for each other rather than alone and are learning to be leaders, rather than followers.

In our learning community our long term goal is to be ‘self-managing’ students in the 21rst Century! We encourage each other to use initiative, critical thinking skills, make decisions, solve problems, work independently and/or cooperatively and to always be polite and respectful of others. We are part of and one of four classes in the Senior Team. This term we will be attending camp for 3 days at Camp Adair in Hunua Ranges, Papakura and our main focus will be to form strong relationships, which is important at the beginning of any school year.

Our curriculum is very crowded and our time limited, so we manage this by integrating all our learning areas together based around our major focuses term by term. This term our major focus is Science – Planet Earth and Beyond and our Inquiry Topic is Natural Disasters.

We highly value the importance of Literacy and Mathematics and so we try to ensure that this is maintained on a daily basis, but what we also know is that we need to be confident and connected learners in the 21st Century, and so ICT underpins our classroom programme. Our literacy and maths needs are supported through guided reading, writing and maths groups and we are expected to know and articulate our specific learning goals and where we need to be. Our classroom also encourages flexibility in our programme to cater for new learning opportunities that may arise during the school day. Teaching and Learning is not just left up to the teacher, we are all involved in the teaching and learning process!

Our classroom learning spaces are set up so we can collaborate and work together but independent activities are also highly valued and fostered as well. We all have input into classroom seating arrangements and layout and are encouraged to produce work for our classroom walls. Our classroom goal is to have an online presence in the community by creating a Wikispace. Our Wikispace address is http://mcs04-2011.wikispaces.com (currently setting it up so watch the space).

Class: Year 5 and 6 Curriculum Level: Level 2-3 Total Number of Pupils: 30 Number of Girls: 17 Number of Boys: 13

