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Goodbye from Team 11

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Presenting for one last time... The Amazing Team 11! Goodbye from Team 11 and we wish you a very happy,  safe and Merry Christmas!!

The Amazing Team 11 Celebration item 2019

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Check out Team 11's Celebration item for 2019 Mambo No. 11

Team 11 GEMS Celebration certificates

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A huge congratulations to Luke's, Zoe, Ryan and Neerav for displaying our Learning for Life and GEMS values throughout the year.  Great role models and well deserved!

Yearbook 2020 Winner!

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Congratulations to the very talented Ben who won the Sunnyhills 2020 Yearbook cover design, and what amazing and clever design. Well done Ben!

Look who came to visit!

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Today our ex-classmate Alex came back for a visit!  There were definitely some excited friends!! It was great to see you, thanks for popping in Alex!

Celebrating Diwali

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Today the students of Sunnyhills are celebrating the Indian festival of Diwali.  Some students came to school dressed in their traditional Indian outfits. Lakshya and Neerav wearing traditional Indian clothing.  Pretty impressive!

Year 6 Cultural Dance

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Jai Ho Our clever choreographers of the Year 6 International Food Festival cultural item  - Lakshya, Mia, Lauren, and Naomi. Thanks for your hard work!

Willy Wonka and his Team visit Sunnyhills School!

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It's Literacy Week, and Team 11 have been busy preparing for a visit from Willy Wonka and his Team of Oompa Loompa's and Golden ticket winners. Check out our window and door displays!

Radha Bollywood Dance by Lakshya

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On Friday at the Kauri assembly, Lakshya performed an Indian Bollywood-style dance. She was dressed in a traditional kurta outfit, and WOW she looked amazing and danced very gracefully. Thanks Lakshya for sharing your culture!

Two of the best things!

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Team 11 had a fantastic morning in the kitchen making our pizzas and pizza dough.  We had to work out the quantities for the dough and convert some measurements in order to get the correct amount for our group's dough.  We let it sit for over an hour in a warm place before starting to prepare the ingredients for the pizza toppings. We made all sorts of pizzas including; Hawaiian, Margherita, Meat lovers and Vegetarian. We had to make sure that the slices were even and that everyone received an equal amount. They were delicious!

Which lightbulb is best?

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Look at what Team 11 have been learning about in Enviro! So...which lightbulb will you choose?!

Speech finalists

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Congrats to Vera and Keeley for representing not only Team 11, but the Kauri whanau in the speech finals.  Vera placed 2nd in the speech final and Keeley made it to the top 10. We are very proud of you both!!

The Crab Rave

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Team 11 performed their own version of the Crab Rave at the Kauri Assembly. Check us out!

Team 11 learn traditional Korean origami

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Last week Hannah and Soyoung taught Team 11 how to make a traditional female and male outfit using some origami paper they bought in.  It was hard work making the outfits, but Hannah and Soyoung made it look soo easy!      Hannah teaching the boys.

I Wonder...

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Team 11 Self-portraits Using the novel 'Wonder' as our inspiration, Team 11 sketched and painted with watercolours, all the things that make us unique and well, US! Aren't they amazing!

Grass to Glass Pt 2

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Team 11 has had the pleasure of working on another School Kit.  It's called Grass to Glass. This is a statistical investigation where we are identifying patterns and trends,  in context, between data sets.  We have been investigating the maths behind the everyday dairy supply chain of cow to tank to glass. Check out our Scratch - Track the Tanker. Here we mapped the route that the Tanker takes from Fonterra to each farm using Scratch and the recording it on our computer. Next step in our learning is to do our Cow Olympics, so WATCH THIS SPACE!

Come take a Tour with us!

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Team 11 have been working hard learning our Pepeha and showing our Turangawaewae journey through Google Tour. Come join us on our journey to our  Turangawaewae. Andrew Neerav Lukas Mia Naomi Aayush Chloe L Sebastian Nikheel Benjamin Tiffany Zoe Lauren Chloe C

From Grass to Glass

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Team 11 have just received another amazing School Kit for Term 2.  After much excitement and teasing (from Mrs Nelson) about the contents of the box, we opened to find... It's... Grass to Glass! What are learning...? To use whole numbers of metric units for length, volume,  capacity, weight, angle, and temperature Use a range of additive and multiplicative strategies with whole numbers, percentages, and decimals Understanding the relationship between input, transformation, and outputs within a simple system Watch out Timeline.ly videos about the Grass to Glass process  that we added a timeline to. Lauren Khan & Aayush Neerav Sebastian & Nikheel Lukas Mia Steven & Andrew Benjamin Naomi Isabella Max & Ryan Diamon Tiffany & Chloe L Chloe & Vera Keeley

Hot Cross Buns...

Baking with the awesome Team 11 Click here for the scrumptious recipe!

Dance Group 2019

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Being Sustainable with our energy

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Esther from Vector came in for a visit today to discuss and teach us  about being sustainable with energy.  We learnt about the different types of energy and how much energy  the average household might use - jeepers!     Making energy by moving a miniature turbine. Moving a helicopter through solar energy.

Team 11’s Cleaty

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There's been a lot of discussion, teamwork, voting and korero  within Team 11, but we are proud to present our classroom Treaty,  or as we call it;  the Team 11 Cleaty!

Census At School

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What is Census At School? A national survey that comprehensively chart children’s views of their own lives. Students were asked a series of questions about issues as wide-ranging as climate change, the amount of time they spend on digital devices, and how they handle interpersonal issues. CensusAtSchool runs every two years, and in 2017, more than 32,000 students took part, representing 534 schools and 1,062 teachers. On Thursday, after filling in a home journal, Team 11 went to the Maths room and spent the afternoon, measuring, weighing, timing and recording our height, schoolbag weight, circumference of fingers, foot length, balance amongst other things. It was a cool way to spend an afternoon!