swimming

Swimming has got off to a great start!
The teachers are very impressed with the confidence of our children in the water, their respectful behaviour towards everyone that they meet both on the way to the pool and at the pool and their amazing listening during their lessons! Kapai!

On the bus with our buddies! 

Starfish floating!  

Captain's coming...water confidence games

Morning tea to refuel, in the beautiful sunshine

What's the plan Stan?

For the past couple of weeks, we have been looking at identifying the differences between hazards and emergencies and how we can be prepared.

We have had lots of drills at school for fire/earthquakes - at lots of different times in the day.

On Friday we were very lucky to have a special visitor come to school to talk to us about her job as an 'Earth Scientist'.

We learned about the earth's plates and how they can move around to cause earthquakes.  We had a go at making our own earthquake with a 'seismograph'! We were very powerful at causing the earth to shake with our vertical jumps!

Lastly, we shared a story from Kaikoura - Moo, Moo and Little Calf too. We saw the effect of what happens when the earth moves around.

We really enjoyed our morning and many of us decided that we too would like to be an earth scientist.  Thank you so much to our kind friend who came to share her knowledge with us. We are so lucky to have such a wonderful school community.

learning about the earth and its plates

Creating our own earthquake! 

Practising what to do if there is an earthquake.

Rosh Hashana

We were very excited today to learn all about the Jewish New Year. We learnt how the moon cycles tell us when the New Year is and some of the things that are done to celebrate the festival. Lots of tasty food, such as apples and honey, is eaten and people get together to celebrate. We were excited to also hear the 'Shofar' this is an instrument that is blown to wake us up for the New Year! Here is one of our very talented students showing her talents off!

fractions-fractions song

Maths Whizz

Hi guys,
I am so impressed to see so many people using our maths whizz program.  Remember the aim is to make 'progressions'.  If you go in through your 'tutor' you can do the exercises and the tests and make the progressions.  I wonder if anyone will get a certificate this week?