On
                                Tuesday a team of
                                              students went to Hanson park for athletics.
                                The sports were high jump, distance,  sprints,  shot pot,
                      discuss, long jump and relays.  Miss Wilson and Lina were amazing and
            tooks the team there. Hoani came 1st on 50 metre sprints and Chris came 2nd on 50 metre sprints.  Davinia came 6th on long distance. 
              

The work this term has been so much fun with Digital Ignition.We have enjoyed Lyn coming and finshing our lessons.We have been learning how to code words into the M Bots.If your wondering what a M Bot is its a little robot that can code letters into words.Also we learned to decode words.


Swimming has been fun.We have been learning how to swim 200 meters also known as 8 lenths.We get to swim for two weeks at Aquagym.At the last day of swimming we can choose between doing the princibels swim challenge or just swim normally in the little pool.At the very end we do a werl pool in the little pool.


On Friday we had to dress up for book week. We found lots of Wheres Wally characters. Lots of genius ideas were roaming around the school. There was super heros, witches, fairies of death, pirates and lots more. We had a parade and winners were picked it was an awesome day.

From Hannah.

Aquagym

Students have enjoyed aquagym for the past two weeks and many of them have achieved some swimming goals. 

Science Experiments

As part of our Science topic, students went through a process of making papier mache volcanoes and painting them. The final product looked amazing. We then made the volcanoes erupt - I wonder if you know what we used to do this?

Science Investigations

This week, Room 10 has been working on some super science experiments. We are looking at physical and chemical changes. Students enjoyed making sherbert on Wednesday and they will be able to replicate this at home. On Friday, students observed what happens to skittles when they are placed in water - and we watched the difference between normal and sour skittles.

Have a Go Day at Bromley School

On Wednesday, Year 5 and 6 students enjoyed a day at Bromley school 'having a go' at a range of different summer sports! It was a day enjoyed by all

Room Ten Pounamu Art

In Room Ten, We have been learning and making Pounamu or Greenstones. Some of us are currently working on drawing their's and some of us are practicing making our Pounamu with Play-Doh. We are all making different designs of Greenstones. Some are making the Swirl design (Koru), Fish Hook (Hei Matau), Adze (Toki) and more! After we practice and draw our designs we will make it with plasticine or clay. We have been having so much fun while researching and learning about Pounamu and Greenstones


By Zoe and Mahalia