Cayden's Art for Mr McKenzie

Cayden has spent hours completing another door sign, this time for Deputy Principal, Mr McKenzie. Cayden is proud of his finished work and especially liked his idea of placing different sports balls all over the background as he knows Mr McKenzie loves his sport!

Team 24 do Jump Jam!

These cold rainy winter days can make it difficult to get out for fitness so Team 24 like to take a 'brain break' with a few jump jam tracks. It doesn't take long to quickly rearrange the furniture and we are set to get the heart rates pumping and have a few laughs at our amazing coordination and singing skills (or lack of!) ....... check it out....

Poetry Contest

Last week the class recited their chosen poems to the class. There was a real mixture of poems chosen and it made for great show. Mr McKenzie was our judge.

Congratulations to Connor N, Bridget, Emily, Harlen and Nadun who have made it though to the finals for the Year 5 and 6 Poetry Competition. We look forward to watching you over at English Park on Thursday.

I aim to get video clips of the students doing their poems up here on the blog asap. Just a few technical hiccups at the moment!

Heart Jam

Finally the weather improved and we got to participate in the National Heart Jam day raising money for children through out NZ who suffer heart problems. We decked ourselves from head to toe in RED and enjoyed some great Jump jam tracks with the whole school. We also enjoyed seeing Connor N and Satori perform their Jump Jam A team routine 'Camp Rock'

Check out the photos......

Art for The Principal

Our Room 24 resident artist, Cayden Scott was asked by Mrs Warren to make a door sign for her new office. Cayden is a very talented drawer and enjoys sketching and shading a variety of things. He likes cartoon drawing . He designed a fantastic picture with amazing lettering that is now proudly displayed upstairs to let everyone know exactly where Mrs Warren can be found.

Mr McKenzie is looking forward to getting his door sign in the next week or so.

Way to go Cayden - we are so proud of you!

Our City Uncovered trip

On the 3rd of May our class went into the city for our Big Day Out Scavenger hunt.

Our groups each had a parent helper.

We all enjoyed Our City Uncovered trip, it was a great experience.

For most of us it was the first or second time looking at all the beautiful buildings.

We started off at the Provincial Building with our teacher for the day, Ben. He got us thinking about the role of the City Council. Then we went exploring our wonderful city. At each stop we had to listen to some information and talk about the building or site that we were at. Some of these places were, the Art Centre, the Bridge of Remembrance, Victoria Square, the Cathedral, Antigua boat shed and Rhododendron Island.

After lunch we spent the afternoon designing a city of our own. In groups we had to think about key aspects of a city such as water supply, sewage, electricity, emergency services etc and we could also add some exciting things of our own such as theme parks, museums and movie theatres.

Sadly after our trip we had to go back to school.

Thank you for all the very helpful volunteer parents and all the people who helped organise our trip.

You can see some photos of our day here......

By Rosie

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