Athletics!

Athletics is coming up very fast... Next week on Wednesday in fact!!!

We are really looking forward to it and have been practicing hard with our high jump, shot put, discus and sevens!

It is going to be a great evening!!

Safety and Disasters...

This term we have been working on some safety and disaster projects.

Each reading group in the classroom had different things to complete. Some people worked on their own and others worked in pairs.

Reading groups had to make a poster about how to keep safe in a particular event and others researched about disasters.

Researching and making these posters was fun and hard work at times! We found pictures on the internet that we could use, we used google to find information that would help us and we read about our topics in books.

Here are some pictures of the completed posters...

We welcome you to our classroom to come and read each poster in depth!

Emily and Maddi worked together about how to stay safe near water and have some tips about not drowning:

Essendon created a poster about what to do if you encounter a snake:

Caitlyn researched and found information about the Napier Earthquake:

Stella researched and found information about the Tanigwai Rail disaster:

Isabella and Lily chose to find out information about volcanoes and made a poster showing their information:

Emma made a poster showing how you can be safe in a storm:

Alex reserached about tornadoes:

Riley L has some tips if you are ever caught near a volcano:

Eli and Kate worked hard to find out information about car crashes and how you can stay safe in cars:

Katie learned about the Influenze Epidemic that happened in New Zealand:

Anne-Marie has some general tips on how to stay safe:

Samantha has some tips for staying safe during a storm:

Troy researched about animal attacks and why they happen:

Sila has some tips about volcano eruptions:

Estella read about the Tarawera Eruption:

Blake and Riley M have some safety tips about earthquakes and what you need to do: 

Kiera worked very hard to research and find information about tsunami's:

Helena read about the Wahine Disaster that happened in New Zealand:

Cross Country...

Today we had our school corss country. This is where the year 3-6's run the cross country - they run a route around the school and in the neighbouring roads, running back into the school grounds and through the rugby posts to finish!

Cross country is a lot of fun and a lot of hard work! We have training for the cross country along with the seniors and it is great to put it into action!

The year 3 and 4 boys run together and the year 3 and 4 girls run together.

Congratulations to Essendon, Riley L and Helena who took on the challenge to race against the year 5's!

There are some speedy year 3's who will have the choice to run against the year 5's next year!

Also a big congratualtions to Essendon who cam 1st out of all the year 5's! He gave Nathan a very good run for his money and it paid off!!!

Essenson will be joining the other year 5 and 6's who made it through to the inter school cross country next year. He is the only year 4 to make it through. We are very proud of him!

Mrs Reynolds was stationed on the corner of Wharf Rd and took photos as the room 8 people came along!

 Eli coming along...

 Sila leading the way with Blake and Alex close behind...



 Emma coming past smiling...

 Helena giving the year 5 girls a challenge!

Anne-Marie working hard...

Troy running fast...

Check out the school website for more pictures!

The Nukes!

Yesterday (Wednesday 24th October) we had a special concert by the band "The Nukes".

The Nukes are a 3 piece band that play ukuleles. The whole school went to the concert in the hall. It was so much fun!!! the Nukes write their own songs and they are very easy to clap and dance along to. They were very entertaining and very funny!!

We recommend that you look them up on youtube... We are sure that you will like them too!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZjKd_axr8hA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEICvQSvqyc

Art Intensive - term 3

Last term, the whole school had an Art Intensive week! During this week, we had 3 art sessions. Everyone in the school got to choose an art activity... We had to choose based on the art we wanted and the teacher doing the activity was a surprise!

Here are some pictures from what Room 8 children did during the Art Intensive...

We will add more photos as everyone gets their artwork back.

 Sila and Blake made bamboo slit drums with Mrs Meyler

 Kate did rock painting with Ms Sanderson

 Emma, Isabella, Estella, Emily and Helena sewed bookmarks with Ms Dobbie

 Stella and Caitlyn made hanging fish with Mrs Reynolds

 Essendon did paper mosaics with Miss Grace

 Samantha and Riley M did weaving with Mrs Ross

 Eli made windchimes with Miss Muller

Alex made windchimes with Miss Muller

 Maddi designed a picture using dough with Mrs Fa'mamafa

Katrina made a Maori god with Miss Robertson

Anne-Marie did African Batik with Mrs Cronin

First Gold Certifcate!

We want to say congratulations to Isabella for being the first in the class (and second in the whole school!) to receive her gold certificate for this year!

A gold certificate is received when a student has 5 certificates given from their classroom teacher.

Well done Isabella!

Busy Busy Busy!!!

Wow! It has been a while since we posted something up and we didn't realise how much time had passed!

We have been so busy with things at school and are looking forward to the holidays coming up soon!

Our sharing of the "Silly Song" in whole school assembly was a big hit with everyone! We got lots of compliments from everyone, we are so glad that it was enjoyed! We will try to get a copy of the video up on the blog during the holidays.

We had a school wide Art Intensive last week where the whole school went to different classes and completed a special art activity. We will post some pictures of everyone's work when they get them back.

We have our annual Operation Spring Clean coming up next Wednesday (26th September) where we will be going out into the community to help tidy it up.

It is such an awesome thing to do for our community and it is always a lot of fun!

We have Grandparents Day coming up tomorrow and that will be a lot of fun. We will post some comments about it after it is over.

Wow... That is a lot of stuff and it isn't everything!!! We hope that you are enjoying keeping up with us and we will try to not let so much time go by til our next post!!!

Don't forget parents to get out the new @school portal which is another way of keeping up with the school and what is going on!