Class Sleepover!

On Friday 8th December we had a sleepover at school with Miss Robinson. We pitched some tents and we had tea together. After tea we had a water fight and we set up a water slide! It was heaps of fun. We played spotlight when it was dark enough and Miss Robinson read us a story before we went to bed. Some children also played soccer and rode their bikes all around the school. We had some parents who also stayed the night with us, some people kept them awake all night!!
In the morning we had breakfast in the staffroom and then some children gave each other special massages - it was very relaxing!!
Our parents picked us up at 10am on Saturday morning.

Constable Garland

On Friday 8th December, Emily's dad came to visit our class to speak to us about his job as a policeman. He has been a police officer for over 20 years! He works in Nelson as an educational officer, this means he goes to different schools to talk to children about the police and tries to educate the community. He said the most important thing you can learn is to get along with each other...this is so that you can make good choices as an adult and not get into any trouble with the law.

Dan Carter!

Miss Robinson was very excited to meet Dan Carter at the Richmond Mall on Tuesday 12th December. He was signing his book that he has just published and is touring around bookshops in New Zealand at the moment to promote it. He is Miss Robinson's hero...(because he is such a great rugby player of course!)
There were hundreds of people at the mall all queueing up to see him and they were all taking heaps of photos. He is one of the best rugby players in the world. He is also Hunter's cousin!

Tasman Store Fire!

Yesterday there was a fire at the Tasman Store and it burnt to the ground. We heard the sirens go past our school about 12.30pm. Luckily the fire didn't spread to the art gallery or the petrol tanks otherwise there would have been a huge explosion!
No one was hurt or killed in the fire but the owners will be very upset as they have lost everything. The police are investigating how the fire was caused.
We have been learning about "People who help us" in our community this term at school. The fire service do a wonderful job at helping people in our town. Firefighters have to be trained especially so they know what to do in a serious fire like this. What would we do without them?

Athletics Day

On Tuesday 14th November we travelled to Lower Moutere on the bus to attend the district athletics. We took part in lots of different events. Hunter came 3rd in the 8 year old boys competition. The relays were exciting to watch, our school was in the lead for ages but then we lost!

Push Play Day

On Friday 3rd November it was national Push Play Day all around New Zealand. We were invited to Goodman Park to take part in a hip-hop dance session. St Peter Chanel and Riwaka schools also came along. We all had such a cool time, the dancers were up on stage and we watched them perform and tried to dance like them.
Taylor, Jadine and Summer were lucky enough to get chosen to dance on stage with the Star Academy performers.
Here is a photo of Jadine on stage - nice moves Jadine!

Rabbit Island

On Tuesday 24th October our class went on a trip to the Aquatic Centre in Richmond. We travelled by car. When we got there, Lisa came and spoke to us about the safety rules for the pool. We all had such a fantastic time in the wave pool and in the heated pools. Some people tried to stand up on the surfboards. Even Miss Robinson went swimming with us!
For lunch, we drove out to Rabbit Island and had a picnic. We spent the rest of the afternoon exploring the beach. We had so many surprises along the way. We found stingrays and a shark washed up on the beach. Some people dug a hole and buried it in the sand and we even had a funeral for it!
Here is a photo of Lenny the thresher shark with some of the pupils from Room 7 - watch out Jonty, it might bite you!

Tennis Coaching

On Friday 20th October we had a tennis coach come to our school from Nelson. Her name was Vanessa and she helped us to develop our tennis skills and taught us some new games. We found out that tennis is a great game for improving our fitness as well developing our hand/eye co-ordination. We had lots of fun and learnt heaps of new things. Room 8 also had a coaching session with her. She is coming back in 2 weeks time to teach the seniors.
We are hoping some pupils might join a local tennis club now that they have seen how much fun it can be.......
Here are some photos of Vanessa and Room 7 pupils practising their skills.

Tree Walkers

On Thursday 12th October we had some visitors to our school. They have been walking school to school around the Motueka District spreading the word about the importance of trees and the need to plant as many as we can. They donated some native trees to our school which we planted next to Room 1. We sang songs and danced with them while they played musical instruments from around the world. Some of the people who spoke to us were from Belgium and one lady was from San Fransisco.

End of Term Party!

We celebrated the end of Term 3 with a class party. We took all our desks and chairs outside and set it up like a banquet table.
A friend of Miss Robinsons came to visit us, her name is Mrs H. She brought some GONK eggs along for us to eat, they were delicious!
We also played "pass the parcel" and Jadine won some gel pens. We played musical chairs and Hunter won that game.
We are hoping to have a "sleep over" at school at the end of Term 4 but we have to work hard and fill up our sticker charts first. We are going to try really hard to make good choices this term.

A tribute to Steve Irwin

Room 7 were very sad to hear that Steve Irwin was killed by a stingray last week.
We wrote about what he meant to us and why he was so special...

Our famous Wildlife Legend
Steve Irwin says "Holy heck what a beaut!"
He loved playing with animals but unfortunately he died from a bull ray barb. It went right through his heart. If it went in his leg he might still be alive. He made 46 documentaries about crocodiles. He is famous all around the world. His family is very sad and his daughter is going to be like him hopefully.
We will miss you!
By Russell


Steve died doing his favourite thing...going near dangerous animals. He got stung by a stingray, it went thorugh his chest and made a hole in his heart. Ouch!.Everybody is sad especially his family and friends.
By Sapphire

JELLYBEAN JUMBLE!

Last week we carried out an investigation for our statistics unit in maths. We wanted to find out how many jellybeans were in a packet and which colour was the most popular.
Each group had a packet of Jaybee Jellybeans. First we had to estimate how many we thought would be in the packet. Next we had work together as a group to sort the colours and then record the data onto a graph.
One packet had 115 jellybeans in it, others had less than 100. The most popular colours were yellow and blue. One packet had 25 yellow jellybeans!
The best part of this activity was getting to eat the jellybeans afterwards..yum yum!

Technology Unit - Bridges

We have been designing and building our own bridges as part of our technology unit.
This is Breeze and Christine busy working on their bridge. We had to use problem solving skills to create a bridge that would be strong enough to hold up a heavy maths book. We were allowed to use cardboard, sticky tape, hotdog sticks and match sticks.

Class Assembly

Yesterday we presented a slideshow to the school about bridges. This has been our technology topic this term and we shared lots of interesting information about bridges. We used Google to search and download photos of famous bridges from around the world. We designed and built our own bridges last week with a partner and some of us shared these at assembly. We had to work co-operatively with our partner and use problem solving skills to carry out practical tasks.

Daffodil Day

Believe it or not...this is Miss Robinson. Did you recognise her? It was great to see so many teachers and staff get involved in "Wacky Hair" day as well. Reporters from "TheGuardian" came along to take photos of us as well, look out for us in the paper!

On Friday 25th August 2006 Motueka South School held a "Wacky Hair" day where pupils were encouraged to create their own wild and crazy hairstyle in recognition of Daffodil Day. Children who donated a gold coin received a cool Daffodil Day tattoo. We raised $204.95 altogether, half of this will go to the Cancer Society.
Thankyou to all the staff and pupils who supported us.
Room 7 had a special visitor, Mr Robinson, who came to speak to us about his battle with cancer. He had a bone marrow transplant over 10 years ago and is a cancer survivor!