What a Week!

Room 20 has capped off a brilliant start to Term 2 by winning an amazing 3 awards at Assembly this afternoon - Zero Waste Wally, Baby Shrek and the Mathletics Class Award.

Elm Park School is an Enviroschool and at each Assembly, we recognise the classes that are contributing in positive ways to the environment.  Zero Waste Wally will be visting our classroom for the next couple of weeks to see how great we are at turning off lights to conserve energy.  

Baby Shrek is awarded to the class with the best behaviour at Assembly.  Room 20 did an outstanding job and we were surprised and excited to win the award.

But the award that was the most special for us was the Mathletics Class Award.  At the beginning of this term, we set ourselves a class goal that at some point this term, we would win the Mathletics trophy.  To achieve this, we would have to work together - everyone had to play their part and work towards gaining bronze certificates.  Every morning, we tally up the bronze certificates earned, the total class points and also who our top Mathletes are.  This has been so motivating.  We went over to Assembly knowing we had a good chance, but we just didn't know how the other classes had been doing.  When we heard that 3rd place had earned 25 certificates, we knew we were in the top two.  Second place - 33 certificates.  We knew our tally was 41.  We had done it!  This has been a real team effort and we took the award after earning over 100 000 points over the past 3 weeks.  We were so proud of this because we had worked so hard.  

Our next challenge is to see if we can all earn a gold certificate by the end of the year.  26 weeks left - it's entirely possible...

Our fourth celebration at Assembly today was that our classmate, Anahita, was named Head Girl for 2013.  Congratulations to you Anahita!  We are all so proud of you.

What a week in Room 20!  We are looking forward to seeing how much more we can achieve over the term.