Some more track opening pics!

Congratulations to the leaders who spoke. You did a beautiful job and made us all very proud!

Rm I remembers the ANZACs

Over the holidays we worked on our ANZAC task sheet. Here is some of the amazing work we produced! Mrs Palmer was really impressed with the time and effort we put in.

Haerenga Ora track opening

House colours, energetic chants, speeches, ribbon cutting, turbos - all part of our celebration to open our new fitness track - Haerenga Ora.  Congratulations to Matai who won the loudest chant competition! It was very exciting to be part of the colourful procession who paraded around the track after Mr Wheeler had cut the ribbon. The senior team has already benefited from using the track during their Safe Cycling Unit and are looking forward to using it some more.

Athletic Sports

The sun shone on the Senior and Middle School's Athletic Sports in Week 8.  There were some awesome performances and wonderful encouragement and support for everyone who competed. Here are a few photos from the start of the day - more to come.

Bike out day.

On Funky  Friday 20th of March, 2015  it was the bike out day! All the sensational seniors biked down to Timona park and rotated around many diffident activities. Room T started on the figure 8 and it was challenging and we did the BMX track last. It  was a fantastic sunny day. Then it was morning tea time. After morning tea Room T rode around the endurance track - the most challenging thing was going up the hill. After that we did the bike relays with ms Todd. We finished the day off with the BMX finals. The jumps were amazing and then the sensational seniors biked back to school.                                                                                                                                                                      by: Dylan and David.

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                   

The BMX finals were the final Challenge.

Room T's writing wall

Room T's amazing writing wall looks stunning. Everyone did well designing their own border and writing their autobiography which is currently being displayed on the wall. We were allowed to do any pattern/picture/drawing around the outside. When new work is completed we slot it in and possibly take out the old one.   By Liam Cotton & Jakob Mosby. 

River Trip for the Enviro Kids

On the 1st of April, Mrs Palmer took the Enviro Gang out to investigate Oroua River down by Timona Park!!! We had 4 groups, 4 activities and 6 adults including Mrs Palmer to help us out. One of the things we did was taking the temperature and checking how clear the water was. The average of the clarity and the temperature was 16.5. Another activity was finding creepy crawlies underneath the rocks. We thought that was really cool!!! The 3rd one we did was measuring how deep and long the river was. You wont believe the depth of what Group 2 had at first!!! (They may have misread the ruler) Our final activity was investigating the surrounding environment of the river. 

We would like to thank all the adults that came with us and Mrs Palmer. We had a fantastic morning and it was the best enviro trip ever!

Written by Alyssa and Ella KH

Where are The Wimpy Kids???

Here they are reading to self in Rm I. Can you spot what commonality all the pictured lovely Room I readers have?

Leaning Tower of Pisa

I accepted Mrs Palmer's challenge and this is what I found out...

The Leaning Tower of Pisa is located in the Italian city of Pisa in Tuscany, Italy. It is a free standing bell tower. It is known worldwide for it's tilt or lean. It's tilt began during construction, caused by inadequate foundations on ground that was too soft to support the structure. It has been stabilised in both the 20th and 21st centuries.

It's height on is 55.86m on the lower side and 56.67m on it's high side. The tower has 296 steps leaned at an angle of 5.5 degrees.

Written by Mirryn McCready

Senior Jump Jammers doing it in style!

Really impressive Jump Jam moves from our leaders in the hall yesterday. Way to go Ciara, Jordan and Lily!

We still miss you Mr Wheeler!

It was really nice to have a visit from Mr Wheeler on Friday at Bike Out. 

Stevie's Yoga Sessions?!

It was an exciting Daily 5 session on Monday. Stevie and Mrs Trask got out a yoga mat, we were very interested in what they might do. Mrs Palmer gave up trying to hold our attention with other less interesting activities like reading and allowed us to observe Stevie and Mrs Trask's stretching session. We learnt about all the stretches Stevie has to do and why. We asked a lot of questions and Stevie loved all the attention. Have a look at her in action below.

Reading Rocks!

In Rm I we love our weekly library session. We know how lucky we are to have such a well stocked and broad collection of books. We hope to make it even bigger after the book fair that is currently on display in Rm L. Come and visit and donate a book please.