Te Tikanga (Tokorangi) Marae Trip

We spent an awesome day at the marae today!  We had a chance to learn loads of new things, and have a go at lots of different activities.  We learnt new skills in haka and poi, had fun playing rakau games, did some sketching and had all kinds of fun.

Thank you so much to the Hallett whanau for allowing us to spend time on your marae, and for teaching us so much.

Thank you to Mr Oak who took the awesome photos!

 

NYLD

Hollie, Amelia, Sophie and Brileigh had an awesome day out at the National Young Leaders Day in Palmerston North yesterday.  Listen out in assembly next week, for some of the things they learnt about how to be a great leader!

Special Visitor

Today we had a visit from Professor Williams from Massey University.  He came along to share his knowledge of the universe to help us with our learning about What's Out There?

Here are some of the things we learnt:

• when stars collapse, they turn into black holes - Dylan J
• scientists have discovered 4000 other planets (so far) that orbit other stars in the universe - Ashlee E
• all living things on Earth need water - Mitchell
• there is an eight minute delay in what we see when we look at the sun - it takes eight minutes for the light to reach Earth - Briar
• dying stars can make a pulse that can be detected by radios on Earth - Dylan P
• during a Transit of Venus, you can see the shadow of Venus as it passes across the sun - Lila
• light travels at a set speed, no matter where you are in the universe - Rhianna
• you can shift objects with light - which is what scientists are doing to help explore the universe - Ryan
• the Earth is definitely NOT flat - everyone!

Rockets!

Mu Torere Championships 2019

Congratulations to Rhianna for winning the Mu Torere Tournament!

People Savers First Aid Course

Today we learnt how to save a life!  Thank you so much to Shelly from the Red Cross who taught us so many first aid skills - everything from how to deal with someone in shock, to what to do if someone is poisoned to how to bandage a wound.  We learnt heaps and even though we'll hopefully never have to use these skills, at least we're a bit more prepared if we do!

Tech 2019

We were very excited to start our Tech programme last week.  Our activities are CO2 Cars, Robotics, Food Tech (cooking) and Hard Materials (woodwork) - we have five weeks of each.  So cool!  We are looking forward to learning loads of new skills, and making some awesome stuff!

The Cup Tower Challenge

While the actual reason we completed this challenge was to test our ability to be a great team member, you might be interested to know how your team stacked up (!) against the others in terms of your Cup Tower.  Well done to the two teams who made a ten-high stack - you win!

Reading Reading Reading

Each group has now finished their second novel for the term, though lots of people have read lots more books in their own time.  We had to push ourselves to get a lot of reading done in the last couple of weeks, but we did it.  Our final discussions and debates focused on the following questions:

• who was your favourite character and why?
• name a part of the story where you were like, "Whoa!"
• if there was another chapter, what might happen next?

We also shared our opinions and ratings for each book.

Wheels Day & Sausage Sizzle

Well done to the Y8 students from Rimu who organised a great day today.  We had loads of fun zooming around the school, and racing our mates.  The sausage sizzle at lunchtime was pretty good too!

Interhouse Patter Tennis

Congratulations to Rimu - the winning house!

1st - Rimu

2nd - Matai

3rd - Totara

4th - Kauri

EPro 8

Well done to those students who competed in the Feilding EPro 8 Challenge!  Teams have to solve problems by building structures and using electronics.  You need to be pretty good at creative thinking too!

Interschool Athletics

We had a number of students from our class competing in the Feilding Interschool Athletics Champs today.  There were some very impressive individual performances, and quite a few people achieved personal bests.  Well done!

Athletics Sports

What an awesome day we had at our athletics sports this year!  We LOVED all the crazy activities, and had loads of fun and loads of laughs!  We put our game faces on for the sprints and blasted down the track as fast as we could!  We supported those who had made the final of the 400m, performed our house chants in the only way we know how - loud and proud - and represented our houses well during the relays.  What a full-on couple of hours!  Congratulations to our champions for 2019:
Girls 400m - Ruby
Boys 400m - Caleb
Girls Athletics Champ - Rebekah
Boys Athletics Champ - Caleb
Junior House Relay - Matai
Senior House Relay - Kauri

Good luck to those who are competing at the Feilding Interschool Athletics on Monday.

FUN ACTIVITIES:

SPRINTS:

HOUSE CHANTS:

RELAYS:

Rippa Rugby

Team Halcombe - Rippa Rugby 2019!

Student Council Event - Coming Soon!

Response To Text

All four of our reading groups are now about half way through their second novel of the term.  We always enjoy the chance to discuss what is happening in the story, and debate ideas. 

Here we are looking at one event from the point of view of three different characters.  This is an excellent way to reflect on the deeper meanings within the text.

Discus - NEW RECORD

A huge congratulations to Ashlee who broke the girls discus record today!  It was a ripper of a throw - 24.90m, beating Holly's record (set in 2018) of 24.45m.  Well done Ashlee!