Coming Events Term 4

11th October: Term 4 Begins at 8.55am.
13th & 14th October: Tennis Lessons Programme - Whole School.
14th October: Board of Trustees Meeting - 5pm.
15th October: Sausage Sizzle.
18th October: Cricket Coaching.
19th October: Casebrook Testing for Year 6 Students.
21st October: Kids in Town Performance - 12pm-12.30pm.
22nd October: Assembly/Sausage Sizzle - 12pm.
25th October: School Closed for Labour Day.
29th October: Sausage Sizzle.
5th November: Assembly/Sausage Sizzle.
8th November: North West Zone Athletics at QEII.
10th November: Junior Syndicate trip to A & P Show.
12th November: School Closed for Show Day.
18th November: Board of Trustees Meeting - 5pm.

Room 12 Swimming Reflections

In room 12 we have been reflecting on our swimming the week before the big earthquake.

by Saskia and Anella

I see the land pulling itself apart.
I smell the smoke of the burning fire.
I hear the ground shouting under us.
I feel like my heart is beating to death.
I taste the dust passing in my mouth.
It makes me feel very scared.

The Earthquake

I see a big giant crack in the ground.

I smell the fish tank.

I hear crying babies.

I feel broken glass.

I taste dust in my mouth.

It makes me feel angry and scared!!

By Dianna

Junior Syndicate visiting Ferrymead in June 2010

The Wonky Donkey Man

Last Tuesday we went to see the Wonky Donkey show .

It was fun!

My favourite song was the bee song and the square eyes song.

BY KARL DICKSON

Foam

We did science with Miss McKenzie. It was fun! my partner was Dhontayne. Our colour was blue. it felt hard and gooey we were making foam. we put water and we put powder in to.we had turns at stiring with a spoon we had touched the soggey soap and it was warm then we washed our hands. by Anton

Room 10 & 11 at Ferrymead

Yesterday Room 10 and 11 went to Ferrymead because we are learning about how has the world has changed. Jenny took the girls to get changed into maids outfits while Robert took the boys to go get changed.

We went to the house and we had to do the washing and ironing. We also hadto make the bed. Next we went to the bakery, we made cookeies.

Some of us made kiwis and some of us made love hearts.

We put them into the oven.Then we went to the general store to buy some groceries.

We had to weigh out the rice using an old scale.

It was a really fun day.

By Te Paea and Moana

cross country zones

Today Saskia, Kevin, Taani and Shagufa went to the cross country zones at Jellie Park.

Shagufa and Saskia ran in the 9 year old age groups. Saskia and Shagufa got tired but they kept on going.

Saskia came 10th!

Shagufa came 41th!

Taani ran in the 9 year old boys group.

He ran too fast at the start but he kept on going.

Taani came 9th!

Kevin ran in the 10 year old age group.

Kevin was slow but then he went fast.

Kevin came 30th!

The fun run

On Friday we did the fun run. I came forth. Dhontayne came first. We had to go under a tunnel and then we had to jump over the seats that we sit on to eat at playtime and lunchtime. We had to do two laps. I came first out of the year threes . When I am a year four I will have my turn at being in the championships.

By Dayton.

room11 science experiment

This morning Room 11 did science. We used water, scittles, milk, dye, dish washing liquid and glitter.

First we put scittles in the water to see what would happen. The water changed colour! First the water stayed white for a while then it turned brown and we had to tip it out.

After that we used milk for the second experiment. We put in some dish washing liquid the middel of some drops of dye. When we put the dish washing liquid in every thing started to move around in the container.

Then we put some green and orange dye in we put some glitter in it the dish washing liquid made the glitter move around.

Room 4 went to the Art Gallery. There were paintings at the art gallery. We went to the Art room. We were going to do prints. It was good fun.

We were split in two teams.I was in Mrs Gordon's group. We went on a bus to go to the art gallery.

The other team went to see the paintings. We went to stay in the art room. Then the other team went back to the art room. Then my group went to see the paintings. Then my group went back to the art room. Then we were going to do the prints.

We wrote are name in a piece of paper.We had paint in a table. There was a little paper in all of the tables.We went to the table where there was paint.

Then we rolled it with a big paint brush. Then my drawing showed up in the paper.Then we went back to school.

Photos of Room 12 students in Science Alive ! We made bridges by using K'nex...

Brenna making her arch bridge.

IT WAS REALLY FUN MAKING BRIDGES and Anna was so nice... (someone actually thought it was intense!!!)

pumpkin soup in room 11

On Friday Room 11 made pumpkin soup with Mele,Luseta,Ako,Harrison and Anton. We made the pumpkin soup with Miss Mckenzie. She came with all the ingredients but some of the ingredients weren't for the pumpkin soup (they were just there to make us think).

When we finished the chefs went to the staff room and cleaned the dishes we used. When we came back from the staff room Miss Mckenzie checked the soup.

After that at lunch time Miss Mckenzie scooped some of the pumpkin soup into the cups we had made and gave some away.

When we were making the pumpkin soup Mr Morgan asked some of the label makers and reporters if they would like to ask the chefs some questions to help their writting. They took some pictures too.

Pumpkin Soup in Room 11

On Friday 14 May Room 11 made pumpkin soup with a pumpkin they found growing outside the classroom.

Students applied for the job of chef and spent the morning cooking. Other students become journalists and others made labels for the polystyrene cups.

This was a really fun day that was part of of our study about food packaging.

Stay tuned for photos