Chess tournament

Yesterday 5 of our learners took part in a Chess tournament at Grey High School. Everybody had a great time participating. Griffin came 2nd overall in the tournament. Well done Griffin and the rest of the team.

West-a-Maths

Wow we have had some very busy moments at school the last two weeks. We sent 3 teams to West-a-Maths last Wednesday. Mrs Bellis and some parents took the Year 5-8 teams. They had a little visit to Mrs Cutbush in Reefton and worked hard at the competition. Our Year 7 team came third.

Well done everybody for participating.

SPACE ART

WALT: Create artwork using new and mixed materials.

We have been lucky enough to have Granny Waters in helping us with our art. We used a mix of flotrol, silicon water and paint and we dropped our paint into a cup from different heights  We chose a lot of interesting colours and put a little of each colour at a time.

We had a visit from the John Paul II boys

First Aid

Today we had Kathryn visit us from  St John's. She taught us how to deal with things if there is an emergency. We learnt about:
Danger
Responses
Send for help
Airways
Breathing
CPR
Defib

Making a space themed Gif

WALT: Use digital technologies in new and creative ways

Our theme this term is space. One of the challenges we have given the children is to create a gif that ties in with our space theme. Here are some of the children's work.


Tiara


Raphaela



Tabby


Jessica

Education outside the classroom

Kia ora koutou, in the last two weeks of term we had a couple of amazing learning experiences where we got out of the classroom and into our community.

The first experience we had was creating remote control aquabots and then taking them to the swimming pool to see how they work.  We need to modify our bots and practice using them so we can enter a competition in Westport.

The second experience we had was a walk around town where we tried out geocaching.  Geo caching is like a modern day treasure hunt.  We used a geocaching app on the adult's phones and we searched for the caches.  When we found a cache, we recorded the date and our group name and then made sure we hid the cache exactly how we found it.  We also placed 2 trackable bugs and we hope they end up overseas - so far no-one has logged any activity on the bugs.  We had a fantastic time and we all ended up walking 8.5kms.