Koru 1

Year 5/6 class from Bromley School in Christchurch, New Zealand.

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We are proud and excited that the Air Force Museum of New Zealand have featured our Flight Academy story and resource on their own website 🛫 Check it out here https://t.co/4dyflR6OS6 #bromleyschoolnz

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We only see this tree blossom for a short time each year. What a beautiful sight to return to after the holidays. #bromleyschoolnz

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We are excited to share Koru 1 Flight Academy! You can build aircraft, learn about the science of flight and access resources to help run your own paper plane competitions in school, or with friends and whānau. Have fun ✈️ https://t.co/ZsvWm2lve9 #bromleyschoolnz

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We have been collating the measurement data we have collected in our garden diaries over the year. This morning we interpreted line graph samples together and will be interpreting our own line graphs independently to find out what stories they might tell #bromleyschoolnz

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Some footage from our paper planes air show last week. We are creating something interesting out of this so stay tuned! #bromleyschoolnz

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Enjoying exploring what a journey looks like this morning at Diving Deeper. Some great pastel art of native NZ birds being created #bromleyschoolnz

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Family portraits in drama today. Can you guess what ��family’ we belong to?

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Making predictions about colour combinations based on the data we collect and relating our data to fractions

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The next phase of our flight inquiry is planning our Air Show - A paper planes competition designed and run by us students. Check out some planes we have been testing to enter the longest distance category #bromleyschoolnz

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Measuring the perimeter and area of different spaces around our school this morning, collecting accurate documentation to share back with Koru 1 #bromleyschoolnz

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As we moved into the ‘create’ part of our inquiry into Matariki some of Koru 1 decided to make manu tukutuku. This required them to ‘get on the tools’! We even got an expert in to show us how to use the tools!

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Another garden checkpoint this week. Checking the data from our sensors, which show a recent wide range in temperatures with very cold nights. We wonder when we will be able to harvest some vegetables #bromleyschoolnz

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Beginning our inquiry into Matariki. Today was all about building our knowledge and understanding ready to create and present next week

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Using Minecraft to show our understanding of the different parts of an aircraft

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Noticing a few more surprises during our garden checkpoint today. Some plants are well established. We are also beginning to see some longer term trends in our measurement data #bromleyschoolnz

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Exploring ‘momentum’ by creating our own Rube Goldberg machines, how much force is required to trigger our chain reactions?

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Awesome day out today at the Air Force Museum. Our facilitator, Chris, expertly delivered the Exploring Flight programme. So interesting and plenty of ideas to build on in the coming weeks #bromleyschoolnz

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Constructing mini straw rockets today. Challenging having only written instructions and one viewing of Mr K’s example. We saw how the trajectory affected the distance #bromleyschoolnz

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Exploring balanced and unbalanced force and Newton’s 3rd law of motion with our balloon racing today

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What makes our heart rate increase or decrease? How can it be measured? Comparing our estimated and actual measurements using fitness activities we’ve created to get our hearts pumping #bromleyschoolnz