What a massively awesome pet day we had today! We had all kinds of animals - everything from lambs to calves to horses to rabbits to roosters to cats to dogs! Lots of people from our class brought their pets along. We also put a big effort into our indoor exhibits, and these looked really cool too. You can read our blogs to find out more!
Preparing for the Country Kids Interhouse Challenge!
The Year 8 students divided up into their house groups and competed in the Country Kids Challenge. This was a series of tasks that tested their physical and mental strength, as well as their ability to work as a team. Well done Rimu - the winners! Thank you to Mrs Simpson for organising this awesome event.
Last night the PTA visited all the classrooms in our school. Check out this cool message they left us:
Well, what an 'interesting' cross country we had this year... Just as we were about to leave school, it started to pour with rain! After waiting awhile to see if the weather was going to clear, we decided to have an adapted cross country event at school. We knew it wasn't going to be ideal, but it would be better than nothing! The rain didn't let up and we all got soaked! We eventually got to run our race - 6 laps of the field (about 2km). Congratulations to all of you - Miss Simpson did not hear one single complaint! You did very well in difficult circumstances. Well done to those who achieved a placing:
Year 6/7 Girls:
1st: Ffion
2nd: Greer
3rd: Emma
Year 6/7 Boys:
1st: Cameron
2nd: Tyler
3rd: Jed
Year 8 Girls:
1st: Olivia
2nd: Jasmine
3rd: Victoria
Year 8 Boys:
1st: Jago
2nd: Reuben
3rd: Quaid
Not many photos today - sorry team!
We've had lots of comments today - we are definitely on track for 2000 comments by the end of 2014! Thank you and keep up the great work!
We've been working on some creative thinking tasks this week - we are getting really good at coming up with original, creative, outside-the-box ideas for all sorts of problems. You can have a look at our work on our blogs. The work below are examples that Miss Simpson thought were particularly cool!
Check out this cool animation that Jasmine and Tammy made today:
This week Miss Simpson noticed that we have received nearly 2000 comments on our class blog - AMAZING! This doesn't even count the hundreds of comments we've received on our individual student blogs. Thank you to those parents who leave us comments every now and then, it is much appreciated. Will we get to 2000 by the end of the year? Come on team - let's do it!
Here is a sneak peak at the pictures we've taken for the Rural Photo competition. This is one of our class exhibits for Pet Day being held next week. Check it out!
We are pleased and proud to announce that Jago and Jasmine are our 2014 Young Achievers. They will attend a special ceremony being held in Feilding next week. Congratulations!
Jasmine is role model of excellent character,
with a fun-loving personality. Her
positive attitude allows her to relate well to all. Jasmine is always willing to share her talents
and abilities to help others.
Jago fully involves himself in all school
activities, both sporting and academic, making him a true all-rounder. He is organised, mature, has an excellent
attitude and maintains very high standards in all areas.
Last night, Jorja and Jasmine represented our school in the annual Interschool Speech Competition. Both girls spent hours preparing and learning their 3 minute speeches by heart. Jorja and Jasmine did an excellent job of presenting their speeches in nerve-wracking conditions. Congratulations on an awesome effort. A double congratulations to Jorja, who won the Year 7 competition.
This week we've been using Toondoo to create Key Competency scenarios that showed a way to solve a 'problem'. There was lots of great discussion around this activity!
