Maths Week

It is maths week 10th to the 14th of August.

Click on the image below to go to an awesome website full of maths challenges and competitions.

Easby Park

Today we went to Easby park as part of our water unit. We went there to look at what is needed to make a healthy river and the different ways to measure its health. 

The students searched through the stream for different life that live in there, even finding some huge water spiders. It was a great day and a huge thanks to the parents and Mel for making this happen. 

Minstrel

Today we had a visit from the minstrel. He comes around to our school once every two years. He was very entertaining with his creative songs and informing us about the fishing issues in New Zealand. 

First Aid Course

Today we had Jen from Red Cross to work with our class on first aid. We learnt so much today - thanks Jen 

Speed touch

What a final day for the term - Daniel & Morgie from Waimea College came down and taught us an awesome game of speed touch - great fun!

Performance

Today we had an amazing group of performers. They are part of a group called Strike Force that are touring the country. They play drums and percussion instruments. It was impressive. 

Hip Hop with Dean & Ezra

We had an awesome opportunity to learn some dance moves with Dean & Ezra from the Stepping Out programme.  It was awesome to learn these flash moves. Hopefully we can master them before the school disco. 

 Ms Thurlow dominated. 

Matariki

Today we celebrated Matariki. Both the middle and senior kapahaka groups performed in front of the school. It was ver impressive! Well done. 

AMY MCILROY

Today we were able to have a chance to meet one of the members of the New Zealand Commonwealth Team. Amy came to talk about her journey to become one of the best players in the world in bowls. Thanks to Mrs Brenton, the sports council and Amy for this presentation. It was a fantastic experience. 

Football World Cup

Today we had a fantastic day competing in the senior syndicate Football World Cup. Thank you Mrs Brenton and the sports council for organising this event. We had so much fun. 

Football with George

This morning we had an awesome session of football with George. With our own football World Cup coming soon, we needed to get some practise in. 

Peter's Solar Presentation

We were able to have a wonderful presentation from Peter this morning on the solar system. So many of our questions were answered from this and our solar system put into context. The size of planets and the distances between each one. 

Thank you Peter for taking time to come and speak to us. 

Solar cooker cooking pop corn for the class. 

Assembly Item Term 1

Here is our classes assembly item to farewell Ms Simpson who is leaving to go to Oman in a few weeks.

Room 5 Assembly 2015a from Room 5 on Vimeo.

Calendar Art 2013

Available now is the calendar art. Here is a chance to look at what the class has produced.

Calendar Art 2013 on PhotoPeach

Ancient Civilisations

Here are some of the presentations that some of the students have presented to the class on ancient civilisations. Click on the picture to view them.

Google Apps Accounts

For the students who have new Google Apps accounts, use these set of instructions for logging in.

Flying Mexican Wrestlers

During this term we have been spending time making these flying Mexican wrestlers. We covered a balloon with 3 layers of paper mâché. When it was set, cut the balloon in half and glued it onto the card. Using a simple pattern, we drew the faces on the balloon and painted it. We used rolled up paper to make the fists and added vivid to clarify the lines. They look awesome!

Hockey PD

Over the last few weeks we have had a teachers from Tasman hockey taking skills training with our class. Today was our final session with Tom. It was so much fun playing and we want to thank Tasman Hockey. Here are a couple of photos playing one of the hockey games.

Rugby Skills with Shaun

We had Shaun come in and teach us some awesome rugby skills. We found it fantastic as we got better at passing a rugby ball and playing rippa. We had a lot of fun and want thank Tasman Rugby for sending Shaun out to our school.

Crossword Puzzle

Amber, Eva, Finn and Dylan have created crossword puzzles. Click on the picture to see a slideshow of them. Choose one, print it out and solve it. The class have done more presentations on our topic work. Click on the 'Class Presentations' button at the top of the page to look at them.