Book Week

Athletics Day 2010

Here is a video made by Dominic of our fabulous Athletics day last Wednesday. Our class did really well achieving some great personal results and a number of students are off to represent the school this week at zones.

Hanmer Springs Forest Camp

In week 2 of this term we headed up to Hanmer Springs for 3 days of fun, adventure and teamwork at the Hanmer Springs Forest Camp. Room 22, 23 and 24 all went together with their teachers plus Mr McKenzie and lots of great parent helpers.

We were split into 6 tribes to rotate around all the cool acitivites. There was orienteering, mountain biking, Conical Hill walk and hot pools, rock climbing, mission Impossible and Games/Free time at camp. Here are some pictures of these activities.....

The first evening after dinner we played Spotlight which was a lot of fun. On the second evening we all went down to the hot pools for a nice relaxing swim........

Jim did all the cooking and the parents and teachers helped serve it up and did the dishes for us, weren't we spoilt! We had 4-5 kids in each bunk room and some of us got a lot more sleep than others. It was a great camp and we were lucky to get fine weather - not like the 3 days of rain we got at Wainui last year!

Cullen's Earthquake Photos

Last Week Cullen brought some earthquake photos taken in the Pines Beach district where he lives.

Liquefaction & Sewrage

Ruined Roads

Adventure Based Learning

On Wednesday the thirteenth of October a group of girls in their last year of High School came to our class to play fun games with us because it teaches us how to work in a team and it teaches them to work well with kids.

Some of the games were 'Chuck-the-Chicken' where (as it says in the name) you have to chuck the chicken away from the other team. Another game is 'Human Knot' where we tangle our arms up and we have to work together to untangle our arms.

Blowing up baloons

'Drop-the-Sheet'

'Human Knot'

Long Jumping!!

We have been preparing for our upcoming Athletics day. Today was long jump. Check out some skillful jumping styles. . . . . . .

Earthquake art

Here are some of our finished pieces of art.