Term 4 update

The school year is quickly nearing its end with year 7s soon to become the Year 8s at Broadgreen and our Year 8s nearing the step up to College.

The focus for this term is enterprise where students work towards creating and marketing a product or service for Market Day in week 8. This follows on from some of the great work the class produced during their Wolves Lair challenge last term.

Our literacy work complements this by focusing on advertising. We will look at how we are convinced to buy products and services and how we can use these tools to promote our own products in print, radio and television. We will also be looking at synthesising, evaluating and visualising during reading comprehension.

Mathematics this term looks at geometry and then algebra to finish the year. Students in Whakatu are streamed among the three teachers in our house.

Sport in term 4 is based mainly around athletics as we build to Athletics day on November 23. The interschool athletics day is on November 26. We will also complete fitness testing to compare against personal fitness scores from the first term.

The Christchurch South exchange goes ahead in week 6, there is a school disco in week 8 and the year finishes with a talent quest and assemblies in the last week.

There will also be a class/house outing later in the term to celebrate our year - time and event yet to be decided.

Wolves Lair

During term 3 Room 13 worked through a Wolves Lair challenge where they learned about creating a new product with the aim of getting investment in their business. If you have ever watched the programme Dragon's Den then it is a similar pitch we were looking for as a final product.

The students were challenged to create a product or service that could be sold during next year's Rugby World Cup in New Zealand when there will be a lot of extra tourists in the country.

There were some brilliant ideas featuring loads of Kiwiana including NZ t-shirts, coasters, calendar/diary, Kiwi goodie bag, Kiwiana clocks, collage, hand-made wallets, dice, sheep, wool, postcards and more.

The panel decided the idea that would most likely make money was a set of three shaped and iced gingerbread - a rugby player, a rugby ball and a William Webb Ellis Trophy - created by Kate, Kanya and Hien.

The panel thought the presentation that was most like one you could see in the business world was from James, with his graphs, explanation of how the investment would be spent, how much he expected to sell, and profit expected.