We had Dr Fiona Beals visit as part of the Sir Peter Blake Dream Team. Both her and her husband are ex West Coasters and worked with us doing hands on tasks that fostered team work. We had to make stretchers using duct tape, these had to carry a junior student. It was heaps of fun. We ran out of time as she had also planned for us to make towers using spaghetti and 1 metre of masking tape, the tower had to hold a marshmallow on top. We ended up doing this task after she left then eating the marshmallows. It sounded like this was going to be easy but it took lots of thinking about as well as everyone working together. When we researched this we found that younger students are more successful at this task ad they don't over think things they just build and change things as they go.

We are doing Buddy Reading with the Junior School. This is working well and is really enjoyable with all of us learning new things about listening, praising and reading strategies. We do this four days a week. Each day we not only read, we evaluate and do a related activity if we finish early.

We had a fun run to raise funds for our end of year mystery bus tour. We do this on the last day of school. We get a list of what we need to bring r.g. togs, towel, lunch etc. We then get on a bus and the only the teachers know the final destination. We have been canoeing, tube riding behind a just boat, tramping, golf panning, treetop walk, movies etc. The more money we raise the more exciting things we can do. We also love the fun run.

We had a technology bus visit. It is sponsored by Noel Leeming. The whole school got time to try all the  equipment that they bought. It was a fun time and we all wished that they were here for a longer time and that we had heaps of money to purchase some of the new technology we got to try.

Twenty students went to National Young Leaders Day In Christchurch. We went over on Monday, visited Imagination Station, looked at art installations, went to the Margaret Mahey playground and  visited the Westfield Mall. The next day we attended Young Leaders and drove home. It was snowing so we traveled in convoy with Runanga School.

Room Two Mihi

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Room Two Mihi 

Room Two Mihi	Tasman	Jyvhen	Sara	Alyssa
Nevvynn	Jessica	Corbin	Fa	Ethan
Caitlin	Blake	Jamie	Madison	Kobe
Faith	William	Flynn	Patrick	Daniel
Harry	Liam E	Liam W	Fynley