OLIVIA'S TEACH THE TEACHER

Today Olivia taught us to make SLIME. If you want to try it out here are the ingredients:

1 C warm water to which you add 1 tsp of borax. In another bowl put half C PVA glue, half C shaving foam, half C foaming hand wash, a couple of pumps of hand lotion and a drop of food colouring and 1 tbsp corn starch. Mix. Add water and broad 1 tsp at a time. Done 

Seniors Who LOVE To Learn!

At 8:41am this morning this is what was seen in Room I. Look at all these eager keen learners. What wonderful children.

Wk 4 Winners...

Congratulations to the Rm I Week 4 winners: Jamie, Cate, Holly and Hayley. Keep up this effort.

We Should...

It's that time of the year again...speeches!

Our topic for 2017 is 'We Should'. Senior classes are very busy preparing for this topic. All children across the team will perform a speech to their class. From here 2 children from each class will perform their speech to the Senior Team and judges and finally 2 finalists will be chosen to perform at the Lions Speech competition 2017.

Kid President has some advice. He is an excellent speaker

Mathex

On Friday the best and brightest mathematical minds from MSS headed off to Palmerston North to compete in the annual Mathex competition. There were Yr 5 and Yr 6 teams competing. It was a day of tough questions that are timed. All the teams performed well and enjoyed the challenge. Our best result was 3rd, well done MSS mathematicians!

Chess Champs Again!

We were in teams of 4 and we competed against lots of different schools. We competed in the Yr 5 and 6 grade. MSS had 3 teams competing. I won 6 of my 7 matches. 3 people in my team won 6 out of 7 matches. It was held in the Feilding Intermediate school hall. In our first round we faced St James who came second last year. I was on board one which means I had to face all the best players. At the end they presented the medals and the trophy. Kellan won a bronze medal. MSS won the 2017 trophy. Winners for the third year in a row! Thanks Mr Cribb.

Written by Akira

Chook Heaven

It's finished and looking pretty amazing. Thank you to the parent and Grandparents who spent a lot of their time over the last 2 weeks on this project. It got the seal of approval from Mr Ward who noted it will be around long after we have gone! Next step when it is a little drier is feathered and friendly inhabitants. 

Wk 3 Winners in Rm I

Way to go all our wonderful winners this week. Many well deserving school stars!

Today we were lucky enough to have Mr Rogers come in to fly his amazing drone. First thing he did  was go over things what his drone could do and the height it can go (which is 120m ). He set his drone autotask to do a task- go round the schools boundary. It had a rough takeoff and flipped over but luckily it wasn' the biggest crash he's had. It flew up to 75 meters then came down. It was a pretty smooth landing. Thanks for coming Mr Rogers.

Wk 1 Winners

Way to go our wonderful winners, Addison, Te Mahia and Sarah.

Future Black Sticks

It's that time again, winter hockey! We all love it. Under the quality eye of Nitin our hockey instructor we have been learning and practicing skills.

Wheely Fun!?

What an amazing day for Wheels 500. The sun was out, the sky was clear and wheels were racing. The Seniors whizzed through the middle part of the day achieving some impressive lap totals. 

The Red Rainbow in Action...

As part of this week's homework Rm I students had to choose an award category, identify a class mate and create a certificate for their chosen winner. What a wonderful effort some of our learners put in. Here are the lucky recipients.

Wk 10 Winners!

Well done Rm I. Another pleasing array of winners.

Isaiah, William, Nolan, Jamie and Kyron

Wheels 500 in the Senior Team

Tomorrow (weather permitting) we will be riding our bikes in class groups between morning tea and lunch. If it is postponed it will be on the MSS site and Facebook page.

Manchester Kindergarten shares Matariki with the Senior Team

Last Friday the Senior Team Kapahaka was joined by some lovely littlies from Manchester Kindergarten who performed their Matariki waiata for us.  We loved it!  They were so confident and cute and a credit to their teachers.

Term 2 Celebration

Wow, what a treat the school had on Friday afternoon. For our end of term celebration we were invited to watch the Middles perform their plays that they had written, designed, created and performed by themselves. The plays had minimal teacher input and were products of each room's creativity and imagination. They were based on traditional tales but rewritten with clever twists.

Thank you Middles, we all really enjoyed viewing your shows and were impressed with the huge amount of time and effort you put into them!

An Extra End of Term Treat...

A big thank you once again to the wonderful Focal Point Cinema. They have issued each class with two free movie tickets and a class set of colouring competitions.

Best behaviour for the last week Seniors and you might be the lucky recipient of a free movie!

Weekly Winners from Rm I

Congratulations to Andrew, Cate, Ella, Kaea, Bryson, Akira and Taihuka!

Meow...

Today I taught the class how to draw a cat for Teach the Teacher. I thought it was a really good lesson and everyone did very well!

Check out Karta's cat

Focus class!

Kyron Teaches the Teacher...

Holly is not sure what she thinks?

Everyone was keen for a pat

 Kyron brought in a small friend for his teach the teacher. She was very well behaved and friendly and by the end of the session she had a lot of fans!
Rats are a lot of work. He has spent so much time training her that she is very friendly and social. She enjoyed visiting and meeting all her fellow ratbags in Room I!

Kyron spends over an hour a day looking after her

Rm I Wk 7 Winners

Congratulations Wk 7 Winners. Well done Hunter, Jamie, William, Ella and Bryson. Thanks Eden and Jodie, I was pretty thrilled with my certificate!

Rm I's Inspiring Enviro Action Day

What a wonderful day we had. Check out what we got up to below...

A big thank you to Atisha and Jason for all their help today!

Planting our fejoa tree

Te Mahia telling us about the pou: Rongo Ma Tane

Making and enjoying all our smoothies!

Rm I Certificate Super Heroes

It's all the girls: Ella P, Ella B, Te Mahia and Madison. Well deserved Super Stars!

Ki O Rahi

Lovely sunny weather meant that our first try at Ki o Rahi was a great success. Thanks Brad Carr for your patient coaching!  Room H and the rest of the Senior Team are really looking forward to next week's session.