Eden use the ipads before lunch to follow up on skills taught in the morning. The apps we currently use include Seesaw- All curriculum and Epic- reading. We are looking into getting another app on the ipads for our juniors students, possibly Maths Seeds?

Nazareth

Nazareth have been learning about solids, liquids and gases as a class. We finished by making some ice cream together.

Zion 

This year has brought an exciting new opportunity for Zion students – their very own Chromebooks! They've already learned about the important Kawa of Care to ensure their devices are looked after. The students have been absolutely thrilled to use their Chromebooks for "epic reading" sessions and are clearly enjoying this fantastic new learning tool. 

Junior school Science in a van!

Bubble fun- solids, liquids and gases!

Science and Technology for our Year 7 & 8 students

Year 7 & 8 Science and Technology Day at John Paul II

Students are very excited to attend JPII for one full day a fortnight to experience authentic learning in the science and technology space. They attend a science class in the lab, and alternate between technology, art and language classes.

Cana

In Term 1 Cana attended Science in a Van where the students learned about different states of matter. Cana learners have spent time this term learning about blogging and how to create their own blog post. We have had fun creating these posts and now we are also going to focus on commenting on our class blogs and others within the Toki group here in Greymouth. Our blogs are a fun way to share our learning with whanau.

In Nazareth this term, we have been learning about growing plants as part of our topic. We learned that in the olden days, they didn't have refrigeration and supermarkets so it was important that they were able to grow their plants/food. We took this opportunity to learn about plant life cycles and what things plants need to survive.

In Term 3 of 2023, the junior school was learning about clouds and weather events. In Nazareth, the children were learning about the water cycle, and then they created their own rain clouds. They had to add water and shaving cream to a cup, then they added food coloring. As the food coloring dripped through the shaving cream cloud, it created a visual display of the rain/food coloring coming down. My class's favorite word during this topic was cumulonimbus, which is a type of rain cloud. We also created landslides out of shoeboxes, plaster of Paris, polystyrene, paint, and twigs. We learned all about how landslides happened first, then the kids created their art.

Scientific Method 

At the core of biology and other sciences lies a problem-solving approach called the scientific method. The scientific method has five basic steps, plus one feedback step: Make an observation. Ask a question. Form a hypothesis, or testable explanation. Make a prediction based on the hypothesis. Test the prediction. Iterate: use the results to make new hypotheses or predictions.

Science and Technology at JPII

Each year the Year 7 and 8 students attend science and technology at JPII. This is a great opportunity for our children to be taught by specialist teachers in specific areas. The children learn subject specific skills and have the opportunity to use tools, machinery and equipment that we are not able to have on our site.