PLANT TO PLATE

Manchester Street was very lucky to be part of Plant to Plate in November and Room H was VERY lucky to one of the 4 classes selected to participate.  How lovely it was to see Mrs Duker again.  We had a very busy morning working in the garden and cooking lunch.  We learned heaps about growing our own vegetables and cooking our own healthy food.  Thanks to all the wonderful volunteers who helped us.

Smack Bang M.S.S Takes the win

On the 15th of November, the Manchester Street Table Tennis Team took on the best the Manawatu had to offer in the  battle to win the title. Who was in are team you may ask. It was Brooke, Crystal, Ella, Quinn,  Kade, Nic, Nickolas and finally me/Cate.  It was a great day as some of us won our own separate titles as well as some team ones. The boys came second  overall and the girls came fourth overall and all together we came SECOND. Round of applause please...  I would definitely do it next year. 

Here are some photos:

Go Juniors, go!

Look at the Seniors enjoying the sun and encouraging their little buddies in the Junior Cross Country. A wonderful afternoon with perfect weather.

Inspiring Rm I

More wonderful winners from wk 5. Congratulations to Eden (again, well done) and Sarah.

Rm I Winners

Well done to Eden and Stevie. Excellent attitude and effort.

Our second session of Forced perspectives

This week we got items to create forced perspective images. Toy dinosaurs, watering cans, shoes and even some of the new toys from the sandpit.We had to think carefully about what we could do with the items. Body language and facial expressions can make our break the realism of the image. We also had the challenge of being restricted in our spaces, as it was raining. Forced perspective needs to have a long distance to allow for the different layers to change the size of items. Lucky for cloak bays and verandas. It is pointless having a photo of something that looks ordinary, like holding a toy car.
Once we took the photos we had to crop the images to get the best effect. Remembering what we wanted as the main focus gave us a better idea about what to cut out.  Chopping of hands never felt so good. We even found that big blocks of colour are not good things.

Digital Art - Forced perspective

Today Room S got the opportunity to use their green hat thinking and think outside the box with photography. Each student was given a piece of a photo, then they had to find the rest of their group by making the photo. Once the photo was made they then had to go and have ago at recreating their photo. How? That's where the green hat thinking came into it. Some groups were really successful, some groups weren't. But we all learned a lot about taking forced perspective photos. We can't wait until next time.

Before school in Rm I

There are many reasons why Mrs Palmer thinks we are wonderful, we are a super class! Here is one of them. This is all of us playing in the room before school. We are an amazing group of students!

Chuchitta the amazing chinchilla

A beautiful pet visited some of our classes today. It was Chuchitta the chinchilla. He belongs to the Palmers and is 8 years old. He has beautiful soft fur. 80 + hairs in each follicle! He ran round sniffed us and tried to escape. 

Wk 3 Winners

The wonderful members of Rm I that received certificates this week were: 

Trident, Kaden, Jacob, Quinn and Hunter T.

Gemma makes magic crystals....

Gemma had a fascinating Teach the Teacher session. With Borax ( a household cleaning product), water and food colouring she grew pure crystals!

She also gave us some of the science behind these amazing formations.

. A crystal is made of molecules of a product that come together in a repeated pattern

. The size and shape of the crystal depends on the amount of Borax you dissolve in the water and the rate at which the water cools.

Congratulations Wk 2 Winners

Well done to our Wk 2 Rm I winners, Hunter, Olivia, Gemma and Cohen. Hard working students from Rm I who deserve to be acknowleged for their excellent attitudes and focused efforts.

Intrepid Journey...

This afternoon the flight crew from the Rainbow Airlines took the senior students on a flight around the world. This lucky group of passengers flew to Chile, Finland, Spain, Egypt and Japan. They were in the safe hands of the experienced cabin crew but also flying under the duo Captain Ward and Co-pilot Crib who seemed less safe as they snacked, gossiped and left the auto pilot to fly their passengers around the world.

It was a fascinating journey and a great ignition activity to kick off our new Inquiry topic: Intrepid Journey.

Fabulous cabin crew Todd, Burtenshaw and Ellis attempt to keep the pilots focused!

CRAZY HAIR DAY - CELEBRATION - LAST DAY OF TERM

Crazy Hair Day on PhotoPeach

Keep NZ Beautiful

Room H had a great Enviro Action Day - here's what we got up to!

 

Senior Team Showcase

All the seniors did an outstanding job on Thursday evening demonstrating their musical skills. Thanks to Mrs. Beckers and all the extra practises in their classes they showed a range of skills. It was great to hear all the feedback. This was some of the feedback students in Room S received. 

Another busy enviro day.

 Straight after morning tea Room S and T ripped into our butterfly garden. Last enviro day we all submitted our ideas and plans. Mr Belk edged it and the new compost was delivered on Thursday. Mr Ward worked with a group to spread all the dirt out ready for planting. It was finally time to get the plants in. Ms Ellis has been organising a range of plants to attract butterflies and other insects too: swan plants, lavender, Rosemary, nasturtium, daisies, cosmos, lemon balm, scabiosa, etc These plants all work together helping each other, that's why they're called companion plants. Having the rain come later was great for our newly transplanted plants. It was great to have so many dedicated helpers, especially in the clean up stage. It isn't over yet though. It's great to have our long term project finally created, now we need to monitor the swan plants so that they get a really good headstart before the butterflies begin laying eggs. Just before Ms Ellis left for the day she noticed the wind was whipping around the corner so Mrs Finlayson helped her stake the scrawny stalks of the swan plants.

What a busy day! After the enviro assembly, our first task was going with our buddy class to pick up litter in our assigned area around our community. Everybody was amazed how much glass we picked up. The weirdest item probably was a coat hanger and the grossest was a dead hedgehog. But we did leave that where it was. 

 

Food always tastes better when you have been working hard outside in the fresh air. It was great to have our pizzas to keep the machines fuelled up. Mrs Munro we are really fortunate to have you on days like this. A big thank you to our chief oven supervisors too.  Our pizzas were perfect.

 

Hunter and his million can tabs

Hunter is really showing his support for the Kidney Kids can tab appeal. Look how many he brought in!

                                  
Last Friday I did “Teach the Teacher”. It was all about Gymnastics. I taught my class some basic skills. (Cartwheels, Handstands and Bridges) Then I did a presentation.  They had lots of fun!  By Charlotte Murray      

Summer's Message

Summer created a poster to show her feelings about being an Enviro Kid...