Soccer Fun

Today we had our second soccer session with Mr Ricketts. We've been practising our dribbling technique ...

Next week, we'll be working on Netball skills. We've really enjoyed practicing large ball skills - and we've been so lucky with the weather too!

Learning About The Past

Over the past few weeks, Room 3 have been working on our Inquiry topic - Learning About The Past. We've focussed on learning about early explorers to New Zealand, and the early European settlers who came to Aotearoa.

We've been using the skills of skimming and scanning for keywords to find information quickly AND we've been learning how to use KEYWORDS to write notes from. It was 'tricky' to start with, but the more we practised - the better we became.

Here's an example by Anthony...

We learnt about how Edward Wakefield started an organisation called The New Zealand Company, which brought many Europeans from England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland to New Zealand in the 1800s. We made our own advertisements using Power Point, trying to persuade people to migrate to New Zealand.

Here's Georgia and Erika's ad ...

We gathered information on the types of jobs people did when they came to New Zealand, and worked together in groups to present it using Comic Life




 We look forward to showing you all the work we've been doing at parent conferences!

Winter Sports

Over the past 3 weeks, the senior school have been participating in various winter sports - to learn large ball skills. Room 3 have joined in with the fun. Here's a few pics of what we've been up to ...

Ripper Rugby with Miss Simpson ...

 

 

 

Basketball with Miss Campbell ...

Next week we have another session with Miss Campbell, then we're off to learn soccer skills with Mr Ricketts.

PJ and Pie Day

Last Friday the student council organised a PJ and Pie day. Everyone came to school in their favourite pyjamas - including the teachers!

We had lots of fun dancing around in our PJs...

But the best part was tucking into delicious PIES!!!

PJ and Pie Day was lot of fun. We look forward to the next fundraiser from the student  council.