Term 3 - Week 10

Ava received the 'Principal's Challenge' award for the fantastic "I can do it" attitude she brings to every new challenge.  Well Done Ava, keep up the amazing work!!!!

 We did an experiment using baking soda and vinegar to produce carbon dioxide which was then trapped in a balloon.

Another balloon experiment...this time to see if we could get a balloon to zoom along a piece of string.  The propulsion from the air escaping the balloon pushed it along.

Term 3 - Week 9

Xavier was awarded our 'Star of the Week' award because of the wonderful focus and effort he has shown towards his work this week, well done Xavier!

Our Kapa Haka group performed in the Richmond Mall on Thursday evening...they were AMAZING!

Well done to everyone involved, you should all be very proud of yourselves and the way you have represented our school.  

Thanks also to all those who came along to support them.

Our artwork is now up in the hall, you can buy one framed for $20 as part of a school fundraiser.  All students will eventually take their artwork home (whether it gets framed or not).

 It was such a sunny afternoon on Wednesday so we did some reading outside under the shade of a few trees.

We went tree planting out at Monaco.

We thought it was fitting to have a class photo next to a Ti Kouka tree.

 We discovered that it IS possible to push a skewer through a balloon without it popping!

Term 3 - Week 8

 Louis was awarded our 'Star of the Week' because of the positive attitude and effort he has shown during our science unit.  Well done Louis!

 We have finished our self-portraits...lots of hard work, re-thinking of ideas, persisting through the tricky bits, and use of different techniques has led to awesome work created by every single student, well done team!

The whole school will be displaying their art in the hall in week 10 (the last week of the term) so come on in and check it out!

Note:  We have tree planting down by the Honest Lawyer next Tuesday (15th of September).

We will be leaving school at 9:15, all are welcome to come join us!

 We studied air resistance by making different sized paper spinners and dropping them off a wooden tower in the senior playground.  The spinner with the largest wings fell slowest...it still had gravity pulling it down but it had more air resistance pushing those wings up.

 Yippee skippee!

It's 'Skipping September'....how different would this be without gravity pulling us down?

Term 3 - Week 7

Cody received our 'Star Student' award this week for his effort, and improvement,  in maths.

Cody is now one of our quickest students at basic facts and can solve Stage 5 problems by using tidy tens.

 A dog on our blog!
Saskia brought her dog 'Maisy' in to visit us.

We have been practising our earthquake drills.
We can calmly and quickly get under our desks and hold on to the desk legs in 5 seconds!

 We carried out another forces experiment, this time we used magnets attached to toy cars to test how far away a magnet had to be before it began pulling the car towards it.  Then we tried again with two magnets joined together, then three to see if the pulling force / magnetic field could be increased by adding magnets.  We found that this invisible magnetic field definitely was increased by at least one centimetre (sometimes two or three) each time a magnet was added.

Ze Bong shared his amazing family stories with us.

Some of us had to get up and act out the stories!

Lucia got to join a fierce tribe of women, this story did not end well for the tribe of boys!