ACTION DAY! Our Garden Display

This morning Room 12's Student Volunteer Army, led by our two platoon leaders Imogen and Maiah, walked down to Ranolf Medical Centre to deliver our creations and set up our garden display.

Over the past two weeks we have worked incredibly hard to plan, design, create and then present our sculptures. We worked in groups to collaborate on these designs, and collectively as a class worked together to make sure each team's product fitted in well with our spring theme. Our platoon leaders coordinated the entire project, making sure we were all on track with the timeline, that our creations were weather durable, and that they suited the theme.

Everyone did an amazing job. They all displayed creativity and worked hard to collaborate and debug any issues that arose, and most importantly they all problem solved so that their creation was their very best work.

We know that our service to Ranolf Medical Centre has met our goal, which was to bring joy to sick children in a creative way! If you are ever there, have a look out the window and see if you can spot all of our creations. If you want to learn how to make them, have a look for our book in the waiting room that describes each creation and also has instructions for how to make it yourself!

Ka Pai Room 12! I am so proud of you all and am looking forward to seeing what our next service to our community will be!

Progress Towards Our Garden Project

This week we have begun our first Student Volunteer Army Challenge. We are aiming to bring joy to sick children, by being creative in designing a spring themed garden display for Ranolf Medical Centre. Imogen and Maiah are our platoon leaders; they visited the Medical Centre on Tuesday to draw a map of the garden and put together a plan. We have now been working in small teams to plan and create various sculptures for the garden. Here is a sneak peek into our creations in progress!

Reminder: we are going to set up the garden next Thursday and we need a few parent helpers to support us please! Please let Mrs Hunter know if you are able to help out. Thank you :)

Parent Helpers Needed

WHEN: Thursday 25th October from 9-10.30am

WHAT: Ranolf Medical Centre Garden Project Action Day 
* We will be walking from school down to Ranolf Medical Centre to arrange our sculptures in the Garden and then walking back to school. 

We will be needing a couple of parents to walk down with us and help us to arrange the garden. Please let me know ASAP if you are available to help out.

Thank you!

Lego Challenge

This afternoon we had 20minutes to collaboratively build a model of a transportation device. The challenge was we could only use 20 pieces! We had to problem-solve, be resilient, work collaboratively, and use our knowledge of transportation. Have a look at these photos of what we created!

Room 12's Healthy Cook Off!

Wow what a week this week has been! The children have been so engaged in our healthy cooking challenge and time has flown by! Today we finally got to cook the meals we have been collaboratively planning. I am so proud of every single one of us. Everyone collaborated brilliantly in their teams, worked hard researching ingredients and recipes, created some very persuasive and creative digital recipe books through Book Creator, and cooked wonderful meals! 

Our guest judges (Jasmine and McKenzie - contestants in 2017 Junior Masterchef and creators of the chicken parmigana meal at Giovanni's restaurant) really enjoyed tasting our meals. They found it really tough selecting the top three because they thought every group did an incredible job! After lots of contemplation and discussions, they awarded...

First place to the creators of the Tomato and Basil Pasta (Mya, Tinky, Mia and Emma)

Second equal to the creators of the Mince Ravioli (Team Ratburgers - Avaani, Richard, Alan and Charles)

...and also to the creators of the Yoghurt Berry Cups (Team Cookinators - Lola, Imogen, Leah and KJ). 

Congratulations to every single Room 12 child...you all did an amazing job and we have had a very successful week filled with lots of learning and fun! Ka Pai :)

Also, a big thank you to our wonderful parent helpers who came and supported our mini chefs. We could not have completed this without you, so thank you so much! 

Check out photos from our cooking spectacular!