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our brochures:
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Health and PE
We got lots of exercise this term while having fun and learning new skills. In week 4 was the Rural Schools cross country competition at Cannington. It was a tough course but we had trained really hard at school and we all did our best. These people achieved top 10 places in their race:

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{InformationR2.JPG} This helped us to decide what information we wanted to include in our own brochures about Pleasant Point:
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MathsMaths
In Maths we learned about statistics. Some of the things we did were creating bar graphs, stem and leaf graphs and learning how to collect information in a tally chart and then work out what the data is telling us. We designed an inquiry to help us with our brochures. We wrote a question to ask kids our age that live in Pleasant Point. We then used a tally chart with a range of choices to collect our information. Here is an example of one of our questions:
What are the most fun places for kids to know about in Pleasant Point?
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our brochures:
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Health and PE
We got lots of exercise this term while having fun and learning new skills. In week 4 was the Rural Schools cross country competition at Cannington. It was a tough course but we had trained really hard at school and we all did our best. These people achieved top 10 places in their race:

Reefton has lots of old mines left over from their history of mining. You can go and look at some of the old buildings. There is Big River where you have to take a 4WD to see the old mining village. At Murray’s Creek you can pan for flakes of gold. By Harry
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{InformationR2.JPG} This helped us to decide what information we wanted to include in our own brochures about Pleasant Point:
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Maths
In Maths we learned about statistics. Some of the things we did were creating bar graphs, stem and leaf graphs and learning how to collect information in a tally chart and then work out what the data is telling us. We designed an inquiry to help us with our brochures. We wrote a question to ask kids our age that live in Pleasant Point. We then used a tally chart with a range of choices to collect our information. Here is an example of one of our questions:

Writing
We started by looking at a bunch of brochures about different towns around NZ and identifying things that they had in common:
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We used a brochure about Reefton to write an information report. This helped us to really understand the information that we can expect to find in a brochure. Here are some paragraphs from our reports:
Reefton has lots of things to do. You could go to the Inangahua River and catch a brown trout. Or you could go gold panning at Black Point Museum and find flecks of gold. At Bev’s Doll and Toy Museum you could visit Bev to see her wonderful collection of antique dolls, toys, prams and teddy bears. By Lachlan