Lola's Poetry Anthology

River Documentary

George and Tom K found out lots of interesting information about New Zealand's biggest rivers and presented it in this documentary. Watch for the blooper reel at the end!

Tom M and Filo's Water Cycle Animation

The Storm by Alex

Alyssa's Speech 'Should you drink bottle water?'

Malachi and Tom K's Water Cycle Animation

Liam and Malachi's SCAMPER Design

Liam and Malachi used the creative design tool SCAMPER to improve the Grey Lynn School pool. They made a model and wrote a letter to persuade Mr Barker to make the changes. Here is their work:

Grey Lynn School

44 Surrey Crescent

Grey Lynn

Auckland

Monday 3rd October 2011

Dear Mr Barker,

We have been working on a task where we had to improve our school swimming pool.

We used SCAMPER to help us do it. SCAMPER stands for substitute, combine, adapt, modify or minify, put to another use, eliminate and reverse. It is a creative thinking tool.

For substitute we would destroy the dirty changing rooms and build them back spotless so we don’t get athlete's feet and verucas.  At the bottom of the pool we would combine a floor vibrator with a wavy floor texture the teachers could create waves and we could learn sea safety. We thought that we could adapt the pool to fit in a massive hydro slide and that would be awesome because we would go really fast and have fun at school. Then we thought that we could also use it for ultimate pool parties which would be fun for teachers and kids. We would eliminate the rough and bumpy concrete floor around the pool and made it flat concrete so we don’t get sore feet.  We also decided it would it would be good to reverse or turn the pool around so we could create a better angle for the hydro slide.

So please consider making these changes. They would be beneficial for all Grey Lynn School students and staff.

Yours sincerely,

Malachi and Liam, Room 11

The Storm by Mary Jane

The Storm by Mary Jane from Room 11 on Vimeo.

Alex's writing about Claude Monet's Water Lily

Claude Monet’s Water Lily

The wind picked up like a bird to flight and I was thrown into the wildness of a deep river. A petal, like a hand, reached out and caught me and I was safe in the depths of a grand water lily. The violent rapids led me to the outskirts of humanity, the ocean. Crayfish swam but scuttled away at the sight of gulls, with their piercing cries and beady eyes, as they caught a glimpse of me. One dived at cascading speed and picked the water lily up and took us to the safety of Claude Monet’s elegant garden, to our home. And since I’m just a water drop, in my mind anything is possible.

By Alex