Room 6

Yesterday four Room 6 students (along with students from other classes) competed in the Taranaki Championships at Fitzroy Beach.  They had great success. Darcy got two first placings and finished first overall in her age group. Ella received a first and a second placing, finishing second behind Darcy. Duncan received two seconds and a fourth overall and Benjamin received two firsts and a first overall. Congratulations team!

This term we have been looking at toys and their ethical and environmental sustainability. We had a guest speaker come and talk to us about Trade Aid and their efforts to be an ethical organisation by paying the creators of their goods directly without need for a 'middle man'. We looked at different countries and their toys and mapped where our own toys come from. We also looked at the NZ Buzzy Bee toy and other NZ made toys. We have finished our unit of work by planning, creating, revising plans and then finally building our own toys and games. This afternoon we spent some time playing one another's games.

My goodness, it's Term 4 already - we have hit the road running with Golf and Athletic Skills.  This term we spend some time doing assessments so it is really important that all tamariki are at school unless they are sick.  It can be difficult and disruptive to continually run 'catch up assessments'. It is also the season of 'school hats'.  No hat, no outside play unless it's in the shade, hats are available for purchase from the school office. Thank you for your continued support with homework - please ask your tamariki what their oral language choices are going to be this term.  When they are preparing an oral language presentation they may choose not to do spelling for that week. Enjoy our photo's from golf this morning.......

Well done to all those involved in this year's Science Fair.  Thank you to all the whanau for the support you gave your tamariki in creating their entries.  We received 3 prizes: Holly Robertson got 4th in show, Sam Knapton & Robert Harrison received the prize for best poster and Oakura School won $500 for the most entries (pro-rated).  

This term we are all getting an opportunity to teach Mrs Salisbury something.  Week 9: We had two lots of Teach the Teacher this week, one on Thursday and one on Friday.  Thursday's champions were Duncan (card trick), Sophie (Eiffel Tower in string) and Jessie teaching me to make yummy tortilla chips.  Yum! Week 8:  What fun we had today with Oliver teaching us how to make hummus with peanut butter and not tahini, Benjamin taught Mrs Salisbury how to throw a card and have it cut through paper (very cool!) and lastly Rory taught Mrs Salisbury how to rugby tackle......yes, it 's true......rugby tackle.....ask your tamariki about it! Week 7: Brody demonstrated a fun science trick as above.  It shows that when the air pressure exerted on the card from underneath is greater than the weight of water inside the glass the card holds the water up - cool trick!  Leon tried to teach Mrs Salisbury to do the floss (sorry Leon!), Emosi (mod...

Last week we had three of our students attend the North Island Ski Champs.  Benjamin was one of them.  He showed us lots of his photos and a couple of video's of him skiing.  He was really pleased with his result of coming 50th out of 150!

Goodness me - look what happens when I'm away for a couple of days.......the many Mrs Salisbury's that appear!  I'm pleased you missed me enough that you had to 're-create' me Room 6!  Thanks Mrs Day for an awesome Wednesday!

How lucky were we that the weather didn't truly open up and drench us all!  I think I had the best spot of all up the top under the trees!  Well done Room 6, all of you participated - I'm so proud of you all!

We were lucky enough to have St John come to our class today to do some first aid training with us.  We learnt how to look after an unconcious person, dress a burn, bandage an area that is bleeding and other general first aid ideas.