Career Day

Over the last wee while we have been looking at the cost of moving out of home, and what sort of income is required to meet daily living expenses. It has been a real eye opener for some students and there may be a few people living at home longer than they thought! The next part of this was to look at career paths. Students have explored a career of interest to them, using the careers NZ website quizzes to help. Today they ran a career day for students from Tawhirimatea. Careers ranged from working at Rebel Sport to marine biologist, pilot to vet. We had authors, architects, rock musicians, you tube bloggers, a Prime Minister, screen printer artists and early childhood teachers. Plus a whole lot more. Personal trainer was a popular exhibit, as was anything that had a hand out. Students who produced pamphlets quickly ran out and the year 6 students asked really great questions.

Robotics

We have been doing programming for robots.  We had to do programmes on the computer and download it onto the robot.   The programming is so the robot can move.  You can also make the robot speak and have smiley faces on the screens.

There are differents types of programmes.  We used mindstorm.
At the start we learnt how to work the measurements to get the robot through an obstacle course.  We also learnt how to make it reverse.

We finished with robot battles.  You had to programme your robot to have speed or spinning advantages to take out other robots.

Awesome mathematicians!

In Tangaroa, many of our students like to sharpen their math skills on a fun, game based website called Sumdog.   This week we took part in a challenge against 20 other schools throughout New Zealand. Students had to answer 1000 questions and results are based on percentage correct.

We topped the leaderboard on Monday, and were third overall, but even better, we had 4 students (Cole, Josh, Lizzie and Dara) placing in the top 6! 

They were closely followed by Samantha, Ruth, Nile, Jayden and Sophie T, all placing in the top 20. 

Well done everyone who took part.