Garden Club Cooks

Our garden club picked some veges from the garden and made delicious bread cases for the whole school.
 

We had spinach, leeks, carrot, parsley, silver beet and spring onions. We added these ingredients to a cheese sauce then putting it in bread cases. Everyone went back for seconds they we sooooooo nice.

  

Our Kapa Haka

We are REALLY proud of ourselves. We got one first and either second or third in every other section. We have not performed for 3 years.

We had new costumes that reflect our school colours of blue and white. The three koru represent the three bodies of water that surround our school  - first is the beach which is one of our boundaries- second is the lagoon where all the boats are moored this is one block away and third is the river three blocks away. We hope there is never a a Tusnami!!! The white is to represent the Barber. A chilly, damp wind that blows down the Grey Valley is known locally as 'the barber'. Because of the mist that accompanies the wind, you can actually see it as well as feeling the chilly blast.

Kahurangi Dance

We had a visit from the Kahurangi Dance Group and they were fantastic!!!!!!!!!!!!! Even though there were only seven of them they filled our hall with their amazing vocies. The whole school sat and listened in awe. It would have been great if they could have come before we did our own performances as the totally inspired us!!!!!!

  

Toys

Our assisgnment: 

1. Look at your favourite toys. What are they made from? How are the different parts joined together?How are they used? Can you use any of these ideas in your own toy design?
2. Think about the types of toys that children of different ages play with. How might a toy for a baby differ from a toy for a seven year old?
3. Think about the toys that girls and boys might play with. Do toys have to be especially for boys or girls, or can they be used by both?

4. Design a toy -Choose a target audience for your toy and think about what they might like to play with. Create a number of designs and ask children in the target audience for their opinions. Could you create a survey to find out their opinions

5.Think about the cost of your toy. How much do the materials cost? How much might it cost to make? How much will you charge so that you can make a profit on each toy?

6. Think about the instructions that will need to be included with your toy and then write them.

7.Make some packaging for your toy so that it catches children's attention when they are in a toy shop.

8.Create some advertising (e.g. posters, radio adverts, video adverts or a website) to promote the toy to others.  

9. Put your work on your blog (some people are still working on these tasks but keep your eye on their blogs they will appear).

Our Class Bitmoji's Complied By Liam W

We had a Duffy Role Model come to our school today and we all received 2 books.It was former World Champion Black Fern, Regina who is still an active rugby player and has played overseas on many occasions. She spent 2009 playing and coaching rugby and living in Long Beach California. She is very focused on keeping physically fit and healthy and encouraging young people to do the same. Regina enjoys working with all ages and helping people to learn the fundamentals of preparing themselves to do their best to achieve in life, whether it be on the sports field or the academic field. She loves assisting others to set themselves up for the future  this is a skill she prides herself on. Regina still plays club rugby and coaches at McAuley Girls High School in the Auckland competition. Regina was a Police Officer for many years. Regina says if she was Prime Minister for a day she would raise the salaries of Police Officers and Teachers! She was really interesting and motivational to listen to. Some lucky students got to wear her Black Fern World Cup jerseys and hold her gold medals.

School Assembly

As part of our oral language some of our students organised and took assembly on Friday. We started with the NZ National Anthem which we do it in sign language as well as singing it.

We have a start of the week from each class - they get to sit at the front and have a special reward.

Teachers give awards and Duffy Caught Being Good awards. We sing songs (we sang Love Love Love and Count on me).
Assembly usually goes for 40 minutes.

 Classes present items and show things they have made during the week. It is really fun taking assembly as we get to spend a couple of hours on Friday morning sitting in the staff-room preparing and then setting up the hall. The students in our class take turns at taking assembly. We use the microphone so that everyone can hear but still have to think about making eye contact and speaking clearly. We also need to be prepared so that everything flows. sometimes we use notes but it is better if we are confident enough not to need them.