End Of Year Items

Turangi Camp Highlights

Pet Day - Indoor Exhibit Awesomeness!

The Git Up Dance Challenge - ACED IT!

CO2 Cars - RACE DAY!

Social 2019

Movie Making Craziness!

Wheels Day

Thank you to the Kauri Y8 students who organised an awesomely cool Wheels Day!

Sir Peter Blake Leadership Award

A massive congratulations to Rhianna, the recipient of the 2019 Sir Peter Blake Leadership Award!

Making Movies!

Whale Song

We have learnt about how whales in the Southern Ocean communicate - they are very noisy and 'speak' an incredible variety of sounds.  We thought we'd have a go at speaking 'whale'...

Check out the real deal.  How  do we compare?

Prize Winners!

Our class has won the most awesomely cool prize - $1000 worth of stationery!  We had to enter a book review competition through Paper Plus, and we won!  It was like Christmas had come early as we opened up the boxes that were full of coloured pencils, fancy pens, books, markers - all sorts!  Thank you for choosing us Paper Plus!

(and thank you to Mrs Waugh for telling us about the competition!)

Technology Update

Everyone has now finished their CO2 Dragsters, and they look fantastic!  We can't wait to race these and find out who has the fastest car!

Tech Group B has also had some fun with Dubsmash today:

South Mak Sports Exchange

Our interschool sports event with South Mak was awesome!  The weather was great, we won some games (we lost some too, but that's okay), and the afternoon tea was delicious.  Well done Team Halcombe!

Colyton Sports Exchange

There was a lot of anticipation ahead of our matches against Colyton School today.  The games were tough, and we were a bit slow to get going in some games.  Once we had warmed up, we were awesome though!  We won our netball and hockey matches, and lost the rugby and football.

Thank you so much to the referees from Feilding High School, and our fantastic coaches.  Mr Oak took some cool photos too!

We are really looking forward to facing South Mak next week!

Gymnastics

We've had three sessions of gymnastics so far, and we have really got into our groove!  We've been practicing our forward and backwards rolls, cartwheels, handstands, balancing on the beam, using the high bar, doing sideys, straddles, leap frogs and long flies on the box horse, and performing cannon balls, pikes, dive rolls, hand springs and flips on the tramp - what a lot of technical moves!

Check out these action photos from our session today!

Tech - Rotation Three

We were excited to kick off our third rotation for Tech today!  Check out what Group A did:

Interhouse Nukumball

Congratulations to Matai who won the interhouse nukumball competition today!  They were awesome, and had a great win in the final against Totara.  Kauri finished 3rd, and Rimu 4th.  Congratulations to the Year 8 students too - they beat the staff 2-1.  Well done everyone!

The Circle Challenge

We've been waiting for the right time to have a crack at this challenge - and yesterday, we finally had time to give it a go.... with mixed results!

Dubsmashing!

Large Ball Skills - Basketball

We had been looking forward to playing some basketball for weeks!  And today we finally had our chance.  We bounced, and dribbled and defended and shot some baskets - and had loads of fun as usual.  Thanks Miss Fleet!

Buddy Class

We had a fantastic time teaching our buddies from Room 4 today - we taught them how to make ROCKETS!  3-2-1 BLAST OFF!

Large Ball Skills - Netball

It was all on today - netball with Mrs Higgie!  Well done to everyone for getting stuck in and giving the game a good go - even those who literally have no idea what they're doing!  Thanks Mrs Higgie!

Kapa Haka

We were blown away by the awesomeness of our Kapa Haka group and their performance in assembly last week!  Good luck for your performance at Matariki this week team!

Large Ball Skills - Football

We had lots of fun - and learnt some new football skills - with Mrs Atkins this afternoon!  Thanks Mrs Atkins!

Photographer:  Rhianna

Rockets!

We've been working away on a wee project over the last couple of weeks - we've been building rockets!  There was a lot of talk leading up to the Big Day:
- did it matter if you had three or four fins?
- what if your fins were 'bung'?
- would it be a disadvantage to have a longer rocket?  shorter?
- would the air pressure be less in a longer rocket?
- how big should the cone be?  
- what if your cone was 'bung'?
- would the angle of release make a difference to how far your rocket would fly?

We had a lot of questions that needed answering!  Everyone decorated their rockets in an ultra cool way, and proudly named their rockets.  Then it was finally time to find out who was the ultimate rocket builder - congratulations to Ashlee H (first), George (second) and Elysia (third).  The rockets that these students made flew well over 30m - AWESOME!

Gender Stereotyping (Sexuality Education)

We had a really important discussion about stereotypes in SE today.  We talked about how we are constantly surrounded by images and advertising and movies and music - and how a lot of what we see reinforces unrealistic stereotypes of what we should be.  After a great discussion, we came up with some helpful information that we've turned into a video.  Check it out:

Mu Torere - The Ultimate Champion... Rhianna!

Crazy Day & Burger Day

The Year 8 students from Matai did an awesome job of organising our day today!  We had a parade so everyone could show off their crazy costumes (well done to the best dressed from our class, George and Rebekah).  We had yummy chicken burgers (with really fancy patties) for lunch too.  What a cool day!

Tech Challenge - Build A Rocket!

Over the past two days, we've been working on building rockets!  In this technology challenge, we were given the usual random pile of equipment (polystyrene cups, straws, newspaper and sellotape), and asked to construct a rocket!  The criteria?
- must be more than 1m tall
- must be freestanding (you can pick it up and move it around)
- must have a seat for the pilot (Marge)
- must be well constructed and look good!

Our team work skills were put to the test as we raced to build our rockets.  In the end, all six teams were able to construct a successful rocket, and they (nearly) all looked really good!  Well done Room 8.

Large Ball Skills - Rippa

We have moved onto our next focus in PE - LARGE BALL SKILLS!  We will have the chance to improve our skills in rippa rugby, netball, football and basketball over the next few weeks.  It should be awesome!  

It was a bit wet for rippa today, but we had heaps of fun sliding around in the mud, getting some great rips, and scoring some even greater tries.

Tech - Week 5

Thank you so much to Mrs Lintott for coming along and teaching us to decorate our cupcakes in an ultra-fancy way!

Reading Reflections

Crazy Day!

Movie Making Fun - Tech Group C

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!