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=Welcome to Ruma Iwa =

Hi everyone, If you are looking at the wiki to see any updates on what is going on at school, we do have some news. School will be closed until Monday 13th September at this stage due to the Ministry of Health advising all schools to close until everything can be checked out. The main thing is to stay at home and keep safe! If you want to post any news on our discussion page, please do so. Will see you hopefully on Monday morning with lots of time to talk about your experiences. Mrs H

Well done to our AMAZING tournament teams; Netball A and Netball B won the tournament in their grades, Soccer A came second in their pool, overall 3rd/4th. And hockey did not lose a game, placing still to be worked out. Ruma Iwa children in the tournament gave their B.E.S. T (Better Every Single Time!). We are all proud of their achievements.

This is a new way of sharing our work and ideas. Please feel free to contribute ideas, reflections and examples of great things going on in our classroom. **Term 3 Week 6 ** || What has been happening this term:
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 * Winter sports on Thursday afternoons (weather permitting)
 * Winter NW Zones Tournament (Wednesday 25th August)
 * Swim fortnight starts on Tuesday 24 August. Swim days are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday both weeks.

Come on down to the school and see what we are studying, look at our work and visit our cool classrooms. This term we are studying:

'How have people changed the World?'

We will be looking at famous events and people that have made significant changes to the World. Some of these areas we will be looking at are: inventions, medicine, technology, explorers, humanitarian, and human rights. Some of these topics will hopefully start some interesting conversations at home. Some people we will discuss are: Malcolm X, Nelson Mandela, Mother Teresa, Bill Gates, Christopher Colombus, Captain Cook, Leonardo da Vinci, Sir Isaac Newton, Thomas Edison, The Wright Brothers, Albert Einstein, Galileo, and others. We will be talking about what these people did to change the world, how and why they changed it and how this had an affect on us. We will also look at common values or beliefs these people had that helped them change what they saw or experienced and how these values helped.  

This term we are also learning about respect. We are exploring what respect looks like, feels like and sounds like. We are using our knowledge and skills to show these skills to ourselves and others consistently.

<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Mrs Hewitt has been learning more about using some of the cool software for computers. In term 1, Mr Morgan, Mrs Oldfield and Mrs Hewitt went on a course and learned how to make movies. This is what they spent the day making:

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<span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">Please visit our blogspot : []. <span style="display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">This is a place for us to write a short blog about something we are learning or experienced in class.

​ <span style="color: #08126e; display: block; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 110%;">We also have a school blogspot for you to look at and share our fantastic work. It is for the whole school. Feel free to click the following link and see what we have been up to: [] ||
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