Staff vs Students - Netball

Today we had our annual Staff vs Students (the 'A' netball team) match.  The eagerly anticipated game was played in pretty warm conditions and everyone had a sweat going within the first couple of minutes!  Despite their brilliant skills, the teachers went down 7-5.  Well done students!

Message From The Fire Brigade

Good morning Miss Simpson

Please could you pass on my thanks, on behalf of the entire Halcombe Fire Brigade, to the teaching staff and students for their generosity and support of our 2015 Firefighter Sky Tower Stair Challenge fundraising efforts. Jason, Hank, Robbie and myself thoroughly enjoyed our time with the students on Friday and it’s great to see so many pictures of the event up on the various Class Blogs.

Thanks once again,

Mr Darling

Hannah - The Gymnastics Legend

Hannah has posted some amazing videos of her competing in gymnastics competitions!  Check out the video below!  If you'd like to see others, just follow the link to Hannah's blog.  Don't forget to leave her a comment.

HANNAH'S BLOG - CLICK HERE

Key Competencies - Quote 4

Mother Teresa was a lady who dedicated her life to helping the 'poorest of the poor'.  She started a company that helped thousands of people around the world.  This quote prompted an interesting discussion in our class about what it actually means to be kind.  Here are some of our ideas:

• help those around you
• treat others as you wish to be treated
• make people feel comfortable
• be nice, caring, friendly
• respect people for who they are

Halcombe vs Halcombe - Flippaball

We had been waiting for this game for weeks - Halcombe Black vs Halcombe White!  There was a lot of talk during the week about who would dominate... in the end it was a close match, but the Black team had more points on the board.  Congratulations to both teams - it was a very entertaining match.  Thank you to our coaches: Mrs Alcock, Mrs Skelton, Mrs Ferris and Mrs Langtry.

Choir

The Halcombe School choir performed two songs in assembly on Friday.  With Jasmine on guitar, they sounded incredible!  Thanks to Miss McCartin for whipping this group into shape.  Congratulations team - you were awesome!

Gymnastics Awesomeness

We celebrated the end of gymnastics with a display for parents on Friday.  After six weeks of hard work, it was awesome to 'show off' our skills in front of a massive audience!  Check out the photos below of three of our most talented gymnasts!

Halcombe Fire Brigade

We had a visit from the Halcombe Fire Brigade.  They talked to us about the Sky Tower Challenge, a competition they participate in each year to raise money for the New Zealand Blood and Leukaemia Foundation.  This involves climbing over 1100 stairs, wearing a full fire fighting kit and 25kgs of equipment!  Thanks to a generous community, the Halcombe Brigade has raised over $60,000 over the past three years - AMAZING!  We also got to have an up-close look at the fire engine and some people even got to try on the gear!

On behalf of our school, Jago and Tyler made a presentation to the Fire Brigade for $500.

Red Day

Today was a special day at Halcombe School.  We all dressed up in RED, raising money for the NZ Blood and Leukaemia Foundation.  Everyone put a lot of thought into their costume, and we had lots of fun dancing during the parade.  Congratulations to the Student Council for organising and running yet another awesome event.  We raised $167!  Whoop whoop!

Tech - Week 6

Today we had our last session of the second rotation.  Once again, we've had lots of fun and learnt heaps of new skills.  We will all write about our experiences on our blogs, so feel free to have a read!

Red Day Promo

Our drama group performed a great puppet show today.  We were reminded to dress up in RED on Wednesday, and bring a gold coin to support the Blood and Leukaemia Foundation.

Design Challenge

This looks like a great competition to enter - start thinking of a design plan now!  More detail to come soon.

Halcombe School Quiz

The Halcombe School Quiz was held last night, and was a wonderful success.  Thank you to all those involved in the organisation and running of such an awesome event!  After 100 questions, two teams were tied for first place!  One of the teams was full of parents of students in Room 6!  The tie-breaker question was:

What is the current world record for the most one-fingered press ups in 30 seconds?

Read the article (from the 2014 Guiness Book Of Records) below to find out the answer!

Tech - Week 5

South Makirikiri Winter Sport Exchange

Today was the day we had been waiting for.  Luckily the weather was on our side this time around, and we were very excited as we boarded the bus to Marton.  Unfortunately, the results did not go our way - for more in-depth match reports, please read our student blogs.  Thank you to the parents who came along to watch.  See you next year South Mak!

Mural

We've started work on the first of four murals for our school.  Today, Madison and Tammy took a turn at doing some painting!

Monday Night Netball

We've had a team entered in the Intermediate Netball Competition held in Palmerston North, since the beginning of last term.  We had lots of great wins during the first part of the season, but things have been more challenging since we moved up a grade recently.  With only two games left, the netball season is almost over.  We've had lots of fun and hope we play well in our final matches.  Check out the action shots from last night's game against Monrad:

Dress Up Day!

Tree Art

When sport was cancelled yesterday afternoon, we did 'arts and crafts' instead!  Using our wonderful tree-trunk drawing skills, we sketched out the trunk of a tree, placed it on a hill in the foreground of the picture, then used up all Miss Simpson's coloured paper off-cuts to make the leaves!

Tech - Week 4

Today we started our second rotation!

Photography Project

Earlier this week, we did some photography.  First we talked about how to take a great photo.  Here is the list of 'rules' we came up with:

After taking a series of photos (thanks to the Junior Team for letting us borrow their ipads), we then experimented with several different photo editing sites.  It was fun to experiment with the different effects!