Mathex Winners

Four Year 5 and 6 teams competed once again in the Remuera Zone Mathex Competition this term with great success. At great speed and under considerable pressure the teams race for 20 minutes to solve some very challenging maths problems. A huge congratulations to all four teams as they all did us proud. The Year 6A dis particularly winning the Year 6 competition.

The Year 6 winners!!! 

EPRO8 Challenge Success!

This term four Year 5 and 6 teams participated successfully in the heats of the EPRO8 Challenge. In this competition they worked for three hours to select from a range of problems and design solutions using a range of technological equipment. Their thinking, creativity, innovation and collaboration was impressive.
Congratulations to the 'Tech Storm' team who came in third place and 'The Children of Tech' who came first place. Both of these teams will compete in a further challenge in November.

Tech Storm came in third place

Children of Tech - Overall winners!

The Nanodragons hard at work

Well done to The Electromagnets also!

Congratulations to Our Lit Quiz Teams!!!

On Wednesday 2 August two teams of Year 5 and 6 students took part in the Remuera Cluster Literature Quiz at St Thomas’s School. Last term the teams were provided with a prescribed list of 13 books, and all students worked extremely hard to read, understand and recall quotes, authors, characters, events and details in these books. We are very pleased to say that both teams did teams achieved extremely well in the competition. Team A came 6th (out of 28 teams) and Team B won the overall competition. We are very proud of them all!

Team A

Fiona He (Yr 6), Reeve Innes (Yr 6), Caroline Wang (Yr 5)

Sub - Duncan Isherwood (Yr 5)

Team B

George Cullen-Hieatt(Yr 6), Maya McCarthy (Yr 5), Anna Schellekens (Yr 6)

Sub - Shaelyn Greene (Yr 5)