Epic News by Charlotte, Georgia and Sofia

TASK: Imagine Earth is being explored by aliens as a possible colony. What evidence might you find that this is happening. Present this as a news report.
Starring Charlotte, Georgia and Sofia, guest starring Malachi

Epic News Show from Room 11 on Vimeo.

New Zealand's newest colony! By Felix

Task: Imagine a continent has just been discovered. New Zealand has gained control of part of the new land and want to set up a colony. Design an ad to encourage New Zealanders to move there and help establish a colony.
Here is Felix's ad:

New New Zealand

Come to New New Zealand! 

We have lots of tropical fruits like mango-tango, 

peach-beach, strawberry-berry and we have these because we are right under the equator. 

You can choose where you want to live: countryside or city. We have lots of schools and new types of animals such as flying cats and super monkeys. 

Come now to New New Zealand!

We have a special offer. Come now and the first seventy people will get a free house, free car and $50,00 dollars!      

So come now and the first seventy people to the airport get their flight free too! 

So come now to New New Zealand. See you there!

George's SCAMPER

SCAMPER George from Room 11 on Vimeo.

TASK: To use SCAMPER to improve the design of an item that someone might have taken with them to their new colony in the 1600's. Be creative.

Adventures of Anonymouse

Task: Use the experiences of your colony during the Colonisation Game and write a narrative from the perspective of one of the survivors

As I rocked gently back and forth while waves hit the cabin window, I realised, twitching my nose, that maybe this wasn’t the best of all decisions after all. After a while, the same thought ran through all the passengers minds as the weather turned to a sailor’s nightmare and the journey became hard and rough, as rough as the captain’s beard.
The captain was a short plump man with wide beady eyes, high expectations and a dry sense of humor. He believed his colony was going to work whatever hardships came his way. I hoped this turned out to be true. The captain’s comforting words were whipped away by the wicked wind and the treacherous waves which slowly grew in front of our eyes making us look powerless sailing on the never ending sea.
The crew was devastated as they received the news that we were blown of course over night .The consequences of this were endless but the captain still had hope of what would happen in the future. Those wise hopes were true as the storm slowly started to clear after two days of raging weather. Our journey was delayed by two weeks and the food stores gradually started to run out.
As we sailed into a tiny bay and heard a hungry sailor shout the beautiful words, ” Land ahoy!”, a smile stretched over the captain’s face that was as wide as the land itself. However, as we reached closer the smile shrank to a frown. Suddenly the man in the Crow’s Nest was hit by a blow and fell to the deck. There was no movement from the motionless man. Gone.
There was havoc from the crew as they realized what had happened. Miles of bush were visible from my small rodent sized hiding spot at the bow of the boat, but humanity was rare. A man stood at the edge of the bay with lapping waves at his ankles. The hostile man paused, looking for sense of why we were there. The same thought occurred to us as we docked our boat on the opposite side of the bay.
I scuttled along the mooring rope and into the shallow waters.The breeze was cold and eery. This is the place for me I realized, as I twitched my whiskers back and forth as if I was in a deli filled with cheese. I was finally there.

By Alex, Year 6, 2011

Camp Conga Line

Camp Conga Line from Room 11 on Vimeo.

Camp Breakfast

Camp Breakfast from Room 11 on Vimeo.

Camp Bentzon 2011

CAMP 2011 from Room 11 on Vimeo.

New Zealand Discovered by Ariana

New Zealand Discovered from Room 11 on Vimeo.

My keynote is on the discoverers of New Zealand and the dates they came here.

3 Pistachio News by George

George's News Show from Room 11 on Vimeo.

WALT: explain how and why countries are colonised

George planned, wrote, recorded and produced this news show about aliens colonising Planet Earth. This is how he is sharing his learning in social studies. Enjoy!

Lucy's ship menu

WALT: summmarise information.

Lucy read some information about what sailors in the 16th Century and presented her learning with this menu plan... Would you like  to eat it?

What Floyd would take with him to start up a new colony...

WALT: explain how and how countries are colonised

This is what Floyd would take with him to his new colony:

• seeds
• food
• water
• saw
• hammer
• tool box
• bible
• telescope
• lamp
• paint
• lime
• flag
• nails

Traveling to a new colony by Georgia

In social studies WALT: describe how and why people colonised countries

Georgia's task was to pretend that she was part of a large group of people setting off to a distant land to start a new colony.
She drew a labelled diagram that shows what she would take with her:

Scratchy The Wolf Bio read by Tom M

Scratchy The Wolf from Room 11 on Vimeo.

Living Heritage by George, Alex and Lucy

During Terms 1 and 2, Alex, Lucy and George from Room 11 and Maia, Kyle and Faye from Room 15 worked with Dorothy (our school librarian-teacher) to record some of the most important aspects of Grey Lynn School's history.

The team worked incredibly hard and their articles published on the Living Heritage website are fascinating to read. We are so proud of them!

Grey Lynn School has been around for 100 years (nearly 101) so we have a rich history of interesting events. Our school has grown, developed, changed, grown again and changed some more over the last century. Click on the green link below to read these wonderful writers work.

Link to Living Heritage website

Biography: Shaun Tan by Alex

WALT: summarise information and write a biography

Pixar Pictures are proud to say that Shaun Tan did animation on ‘Wall-e’ and ‘Horten Hears a Who’. Who’s Shaun Tan you may ask. He is an author and illustrator who has written many books, all being amazing enough to inspire me to completely change my view of life. 

Shaun Tan was born in 1974 and grew up in the Northern suburbs of Perth, Australia. All the people who went to school with Shaun say he was always known as ‘the good drawer’.

By the age of 14 Shaun had started doing pictures in small press magazines, his career had started. By the age of a young adult he had started writing amazing books like ‘The Red Tree and ‘The Tales of Outer Suburbia’. These most outstanding books are now all  over the world, in every book shop and have been translated in to more than 7 languages. 

A few of Shaun’s picture books have caught the interest of film and theatre producers and directors and his book ‘The Lost Thing’ has been recently made into a Oscar winning movie.

As a teenager Shaun achieved honours in fine arts and literature and has cherished that award to the age he is now. He also works as a artist and paints scenes of average life for people. People buy them to have at home. Most of them are semi-abstract and he has become a world sensation in the art world. His most arresting books have made people stunned by his creativity and originality and one day I want to do the same with my writing.

By Alex, Year 6, 2011