Doodle For Google - JADE IS IN THE TOP 5

AWESOME NEWS!  At the end of last term, some students entered the annual Doodle For Google competition.  The challenge was to redesign the Google logo under the criteria, 'If I could travel back in time...'  Google received more than 4500 entries, and we're thrilled that Jade has made it through to the final round - the Top 5 for Year 7 & 8 students. Congratulations Jade!

There are some incredible prizes up for grabs, so now our job is to spread the word and get people voting for Jade (you can only vote once on each device).

TO VOTE - CLICK HERE

Here is Jade's design:

If I could travel back in time, I would go to the 70's and see what life was like in the days of the flower power.
I would like to wear bright clothing and have a fun time!

Potato Project

Today we topped up our potato buckets with compost - this should help them to grow like crazy over the school holidays!

Let Us Entertain You Show

Well, what an awesome night!  Congratulations to all everyone involved in our show - it was awesome!  Check out the video of our class items:

All Blacks Art

Potato Update

Our Potato Project is off to a cracking start and all potatoes have now sprouted.  We are awesome potato growers that's for sure!

Murals - DONE!

The murals are done!  This has been a 14-month project that lots of students from Room 6 and Miss Simpson have been working on.  Mr Tunnicliffe put them up in the hall yesterday and they look awesome!

Chess Final

Jack and Jensen are in the middle of the final of the Halcombe School Chess Champs... good luck boys!  Wonder who will win?

TV Special

Earlier in the week, Hamish from the 'Kiwi Living' show contacted Miss Simpson to say that they thought our All Blacks video was pretty cool and asked if it would be okay if they showed parts of it on TV.  Of course Miss Simpson said YES! So, on Friday night, some Halcombe School students were on TV!  

Tech - All Done!

Our Tech programme has now finished - what an amazing 20 weeks it has been!  We've learnt lots of new skills and made some really cool things.  Thank you to our awesome Tech teachers; Mr Stoneley, Mrs Nevile and Mrs Alcock.

Here are some photos from our last session today:

We also had our RACE DAY today - this was a chance to test out the CO2 cars we've been making with Mrs Alcock. There was a massive variety of designs, colours and styles and we were very excited to see which cars would be the fastest!

The ICT Group made vines too:

To cap it all off, the Food Tech group made lunch for everyone!  Yum!

Goal Kicking Competition!

Twitter Action!

World In Union

Looking and sounding pretty good team!

Amazing Skills

The Tech ICT Group had some fun showing off their incredible skills today!  Wow, they are talented!

Go All Blacks!

Sausage Sizzle!

Today the Student Council cooked sausages for lunch - 200 of them!  Ffion, Sophie, Danielle, Jed and Daniel did a superb job of cooking the sausages and onions and everyone thought they tasted delicious!  Thanks team!

Go Black!

Jensen and Jack had loads of fun making this video last week - we're getting excited about the start of the Rugby World Cup... only a few days to go!

Whale Pot Bay - Des Hunt

Created with Padlet

Response To Art

Some students have been working on giving a response to some famous paintings, some of which have been painted by New Zealand artists.  Jack, Lydia and Grace used a presentation site called Bunk Rapp to produce the following:

Black Day Coming Up!

Tech Update

Here are some photos from some of the action in Tech today:

Geometry Fun

We're learning all about shapes in maths at the moment.  One of our challenges was to build a 'shape' using mulitlink cubes.  Then our partners had to use a computer programme to reconstruct the shape.  It was a bit tricky, so we had to use our problem solving skills and persevere.

The All Blacks Have Replied

The Social

Last night we had our Social to celebrate the end of our dance unit.  Everyone looked fabulous and had heaps of fun dancing to lots of different songs.  #funtimesathalcombeschool

Exciting News!

Aaron Smith (yes, we're talking about the All Black and best half back in the world), retweeted the message that we sent him.  This had the link to the video that Jensen and Jack made.  Aaron has 60,000 followers on Twitter, so they will all see the video too!

Superman - Real Or Not?

There has been some intense debate in Room 6 this week... is superman real?  And then Jack caused a massive stir when he said what he said in the video below.  What are your thoughts?

Staff vs Year 8 Students - Nukumball

Well the staff tried VERY hard.  But the students smashed the teachers.  Twice.  It was very sad.

Photographers:  Grace & Leah

Show Practice

We're putting on a big show for our school community in a couple of weeks, and we've been practicing hard.  Here is a sneak peak at the three items our class is doing:

Creative Photography Round 2

Creative Photography

We had some fun taking some 'creative' photos today!

The Cooks

This Tech group is supposed to be cooking our class lunch in a couple of weeks... do they look trustworthy?

Tech

The ICT group had awesome fun making these cool animations today.  Check it out!

DANCE DANCE DANCE

It is one week till the SOCIAL - exciting times!  We've been working hard on our dance moves!

Buddy Class

We were happy to help our buddy class with a photography project today!

Mural Update

The first coat on the fourth and final mural is nearly done.  Another couple of weeks and this year-long project will be completed!  Thanks to Ffion and Sophie who have been giving Miss Simpson a hand to paint this mural.

Interhouse Nukumball

This week, we've had the Interhouse Nukumball Challenge, and the competition between the houses has been intense! First we had a round robin competition where everyone played everyone, winning points along the way. The second day of competition was interesting, as the yucky weather forced us to play in the hall.  The court was a bit smaller than we are used to, which caused some problems for some teams!  

On the final day of competition, Matai faced Totara in the playoff for 3rd and 4th.  Some smart play by Matai meant they won the match.  The final between Kauri and Rimu followed and there were some great tactics and skills shown by both teams.  Congratulations to Kauri, who were the eventual winners!

The winning team:

The Top Four

Here we have it, the top four flags.  What do you think?