Clock Tower

Our clock tower had a make-over recently. It has been painted bright colours. Not everyone approves of the new colour scheme. Some of us think it is nice to have a change, some of us think the colours are ghastly!

No matter what you think, the clock tower is still an important part of our community and it can be easily seen from a distance.

Bakery Visit

A group of Room 7 pupils went to the New World Bakery early on Friday morning to have a look at the machines that are used to bake bread there. Terry, the baker showed us around and explained what everything was used for.

Here you can see some of the bakers making quiches and sponge cakes for customers to buy. This lady is piping some whipped cream onto the sponge using a special bag with a hole in the bottom of it.

These ladies are wearing aprons to protect their clothing and they are wearing hair nets to stop them from getting food in their hair (and also to stop their hair landing in the food!) No one wants to buy cakes or bread with other people's hair in it!

High School Band

On Tuesday 5th June we had a visit from the Motueka High School Band. They played a variety of tunes on a range of different instruments. These students are all very talented and have spent hours practising how to read music and play different songs. There are a few pupils in our class this year who are learning to play the piano and guitar and they have special lessons each week.

We hope Mrs Bolt and her band of young entertainers will visit again next year.

Gymnastics Festival

Measurement

For maths we have been learning how to measure lengths accurately using centimetres, millimetres and metres. This week we had fun measuring various things in our playground such as the distance between the oak tree and our classroom and the length of the netball and tennis courts. Some of us were more accurate at measuring than others! The netball court recorded lengths of 27m, 28m, 29m and even 30m!!I wonder who was correct?

Breadmaking

The new classroom

We have an update on the new classroom that has been moved to our school and refurbished. The builders have nearly finished and now the painters have been in to paint the outside walls. The builders are busy making a deck to go around the outside and the corridor has now been completed. It looks great and Mrs Nicholls is looking forward to moving in soon with her pupils.

SHREK 3

Our school is holding a premiere viewing of the new Shrek movie on Thursday 7th June. We are selling tickets to help raise money for the middle and senior school camps at the end of the year. You can buy tickets at the school office for $10. The first show is at 5.45pm and the other is at 7.30pm. Be in quick before they all sell out! If it's anything like the first 2 movies, it will be hilarious...

Giant Carrot

Look at this huge carrot! Mac brought it along to school to show us. It looks like it has been injected with steroids. Mac will be having carrot soup, carrot stew, roast carrot and baked carrot for breakfast, lunch and tea!

Hockey Coaching

We have been lucky enough to have a coach called Fiona come over from Nelson recently to teach us some basic hockey skills. She showed us how to dribble and trap the ball carefully and then we played "Creep up Jack" using hockey sticks and balls. After that we played another cool game where we each got given a number. When your number was called out, you had to run into the middle and try to score a goal between some cones against your partner. We really enjoyed this game, (it was exhausting though) and it got a bit dangerous with hockey sticks flying everywhere at one stage!

Lots of pupils have said they going to choose hockey as their sport for Winter Tournament next term now that they know how much fun it can be.

Room 7 Superstars!

Cinderella

This term our class has been reading this well known fairytale.

We created our own invitations to the Royal Ball as well as written apology letters to Cinderella from the stepsisters. We also pretended to be one of the main characters and wrote a diary based on the events that happened.

Our class are going to present this story as a play to our school assembly in week 6 so we are now busy rehearsing our lines and getting our costumes organised.

By Chloe T and Chloe G

Nelson Giants

Basketball

On Monday nights after school, junior basketball players from around the district come together to play in a competition at the Rec Centre. We have 2 teams entered this term. The Incredibles and The Squarepants. It is a lot of fun and good for our fitness as there is a lot of running around required! We are learning to dribble the ball with more control and defend the opposition so that they don't score too many goals against us. Our skills are improving every week and we are getting better at working together as a team and passing the ball around all our players. We also need to keep practising our goals so we become more accurate shooters in the game.

Rippa Rugby

Life Education

Gymnastics

We are practising our gymnastics skills in PE at school at the moment. Our class are competing in a gym festival on Wednesday 30th May at the Rec Centre. There will be over 250 pupils competing at this event from our district. We need to be able to balance along a beam and perform a cross vault on the boxhorse as well perform floor routines. Here is Chloe and Josh showing off their skills in the hall during one of our practices.

By Zoe

RNZAF

The netball season has begun...

There are several members of Room 7 who are playing netball on a Saturday morning at the Rec Centre. They are playing in the Future Ferns competition and usually play between 10am and 12noon. Our teams are called the Mot South Stars and the Mot South shooters. The players are learning to spread out on the court and defend their partners closely. They are all very enthusiastic and are showing great sportsmanship skills on the court. Come down a watch if you get a chance...it is great to have supporters on the sidelines cheering us on!

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Our new classroom

The builders have started renovating the new classroom. They have joined room 2 onto

it with a deck and corridor area.

Mrs Nicholls is hoping that it will be ready to move into soon!

Cinders' Shoes

We have been reading this poem in class and some of us have even learnt it off by heart...

Cinderella tripped and stumbled
Through the palace door
Perhaps that might have been because
Her feet were really sore

Glass shoes would pinch your toes and heels
And make your ankles hurt
Not only that, they wouldn't hide
A single trace of dirt

Though in the end she really had
More luck than both her sisters
Poor old Cinders must have had
Some big and painful blisters!

Jump Jam

This is us teaching the some other kids the new moves to Jump Jam in the hall. We were teaching them the Macarena dance on Friday, it was fun. On Fridays we have privilege where we get to have three choices of fun activities but only if you make good choices - you don't go to privilege if you make bad choices!

Sometimes we get to make pop corn it tastes GREAT! Other times we get to play dodgeball or soccer, we even bring our bikes and skateboards to school and ride them around the school as a treat.

By Jadine

Autumn is here...

In Autumn I see the colours, pretty leaves falling down my neck.

In Autumn I like having leaf fights.

I love to see the leaves shining in the sun.

We discovered what colours they turn into.

I like the colourful leaf carpets that your feet sink into.

Slowly the leaves fall on your head.
In Autumn I hear the leaves swishing and falling to the ground.

Our class went out to the oak tree in the playground and had an Autumn leaf fight at school -it was so much fun, some people ended up with bits of leaves all through their hair!

by Luke

End of term party!

On the last day of school we had a class party. We had lots of yummy food and drink. We played pass the parcel and musical chairs. Breeze won pass the parcel, she won an Easter egg, some pencils and a notebook. Miss Robinson gave us a balloon each and a funny hat to wear. We also had an Easter egg hunt with clues. We had to run around the school finding the clues that Miss Robinson hid. The eggs turned out to be in our desks!

Monarch Wings on Fire

Butterflies fly and caterpillars chew
Everyone sees them flashing out of
the sky
See it's bright colours in the sky
The caterpillars move so slowly
But butterfies fly a little bit faster
Their wings are so pretty in the big
blue sky
Your wings are on fire
I try to play with you but you just fly
higher

By Chloe G

A zoomin' life cycle

A sparkling butterfly
zooms past me with
It's beautiful colours
It flies past
Drinking nectar from flowers
It's such a shame that it dies
After it lays it's eggs
As little as can be
As you hatch from a tiny egg
You turn into a squirming
Caterpillar

By Corban

Butterfly Day

Yesterday the Middle Syndicate had a "Butterfly Day". Pupils dressed up in costumes and at 9am we watched a video about butterflies in the hall. We visited the elderly patients at the Commmunity Hospital. We joined together and had a shared lunch in Rm 6, there were lots of delicious cakes and biscuits in the shape of caterpillars, chrysalis and butterflies. Mrs Latimer read us a story called "Hurry and the Butterfly". We all had a fantastic day, thankyou to all the parents who helped to make this such a success.