Top Team

In yesterday's sweltering heat, we took part in a Top Team event. This was run by Sport Canterbury and was meant to build problem solving and team work skills.

Awaiting instructions in the shade

Isaac lining up the catapult

Conveyor belt

Gutter ball

Ski walking

Waiting for the water sponges

Trying to plug the holes so that water didn't escape

Simone got wetter and wetter!

Greta trying to fill the funnel

Build the tallest tower

Stacking boxes

Connor's high tower

Landscapes with the Year 5s

Today the Year 5 students practiced their painting skills. We took photos of our surroundings at school and then had to re-create these with acrylic paint. The students used their previous still life sketching skills to help identify the light and shadows on their scenes.

Our Amazing Learning

Today we were blown away by the projects coming together from our Passion Projects. Check out the variety of learning below!

Leah's watercolour painting is beginning to look stunning

Kuhu is so proud of her oil painting

Leroy's boat is made in a 1:12 scale

This is Rosa's playhouse

Ashton's strawberry plants are sure to be delicious in his planter boxes

Georgia's model is so cool!

Smilla has been working really hard on her watercolour turtle

Ary's drawers are nearly finished

Gabriela's dress is coming together

Jai has worked so hard to make his fish more realistic

Van is sketching a lion

This is Maddox's favourite sketch so far

Lochie has finished his surfboard and has moved on to creating a skate ramp

Jai is taking a break from his art to play his saxophone

We are excited to be able to share our learning with you all soon.

Pump Track Up and Running!

Louis has completed his pump track and today our first riders tried it out!

Cycle Safety

The Year 6s have had two day of cycle safety with the city council. Their attention and learning was fabulous - signalling, turning, riding through roundabouts, so much to remember. Congratulations to all of you on your improvements.

Tuakana teina

Yesterday we were lucky to have Lorenze and Tawera join us in Room 16 and read to us in te reo Māori. We are basing our next writing task off the illustrations in a te reo Māori book and we got the experts in to translate for us.

Thank you very much Lorenze and Tawera!!

Year 5/6 Speech Finals

Congratulations to Ben, Maddy, Louis and Smilla for making it into the Yr 5/6 speech finals. They impressed us all with their presentation and spent a lot of time over the past week practising and preparing for today. 

Smilla sharing her personal speech about being deaf.

Ben humouring us all and convincing us that cats are better than dogs. 

Louis making us all hungry with his speech about waffles. 

Maddy making us fear our friends and convincing us not to be come cannibals. Duly noted!

Mr Mouat and Mrs Pateman, our amazing judges, awarding Ben with the trophy.

Well done to all the Year 5/6 speech finalists.

Our wonderful Navigator 2 speakers!

Congratulations on becoming the Year 5/6 Speech winner for 2019 Ben!