Author Visit

We were very lucky to meet Josh James and his lovely family yesterday.  Josh has written a book with his boys about their adventures in the bush around Ross.

Swimming!

It has been a very busy week for us with swimming in the afternoons.  The programme is being run by the fabulous instructors at the Solid Energy Centre.  The children all seem to be enjoying it.

Award Winners Week 5

Well done to our award winners this week!

Principals Award:  Brody Burnie-Tagastad

Great attitude to learning Aliana!

Awesome work in reading Connor!

10 Certificates for Mata!  Tumeke!

Swimming!

Room 12 are very lucky to have been chosen for the Swim Safe Programme run by the Solid Energy Centre.   We will begin next week so please remember to bring your togs and towel (and goggles if you need them).  Any child who does not bring their gear will have to stay back at school and do work.
You may want a bit of a snack for the end of the day and definitely a warm jacket/fleece to put on after swimming.  As the weather is so unsettled at the moment we have ordered a bus to transport them there and back.  The cost for this is $10 per child.   Happy swimming everyone!

Science Experiments...

We have been working with a buddy on the Chrome Books to find kitchen chemistry experiments to carry out at school.  Below are Izabelle, Mikah and Sienna carrying out their experiment "What makes the best SLIME?"

 Issac and Bailey are making Rock Candy Crystals...  Unfortunately they won't be ready for a while yet boys!

Shampoo and baking powder... a bit doughy!

Salt, Baking Soda and Liquid Soap... Too light, foamy and runny.

The winning mixture... blue tack and liquid soap!

Thanks Issac for bringing along all these ingredients!

Pukeko Reading Group Projects...

Aliana and Izabelle chose to learn about the famous New Zealand Scientist for their independent reading project.  Well done girls.  Great to see you choose a Kiwi and a woman!  

Hand Around the Hospital

Thank you to all those parents who came along and helped out with transport today at the "Hands Around the Hospital Protest".  We certainly did have the luck of the Irish with the weather!

Class Awards Week 4

Class Star Finn Lemass

Ka Pai Awards:  Jack Anderson, Logan Reid, Izabelle Saunders

Principal's Award:  Sienna Dorey

Baking Bread with Mrs Russ

Today we were very lucky to have Aliana's Mum, Lana Russ and Katie's Mum Abby, come in and show the children how to bake bread.  We have been learning about how Yeast makes bread rise.  Thankfully we didn't set off the smoke detectors!  We all agreed that it was delicious!