Kaikoura Suburban School

Congratulations Shearwaters you won the under 15 category in the Canterbury Biodiversity Film Competition 2010!

Your entry was fun, informative and was a great use of technology – well done!

You will  be receiving your award at the Biodiversity Express Roadshow in Kaikoura on 23rd October 2010 and presenting a form of artistic work to represent Brett Cowan. Keep the evening free!

Scott and Vinnie are visiting Kaikoura this week delivering a smorgsboard of sporting disciplines as a ‘tastier’ of what they deliver to some 50 schools in the North Canterbury area.
We are thoroughly enjoying their enthusiasm and fun ways of teaching new skills and sports.
Thanks Scott and Vinnie and we hope you come back to Kaikoura again.

Congratulations to all of our competitors. You all made us proud as you portrayed good Fyffe Force qualities by having Fun, being super Organised with following the days programme and course, showing Respect to yourself, fellow competitors and Woodbank School environment, you Communicated with many friends, family and other peers from other schools, and Excellence as you competed.
Thank you so much to our school families for transporting and supporting the students – a great family day out.
Results in Thursday’s school newsletter.

Congratulations to Kaikoura Suburban School, major sponsor Kaikoura 4 Square and the Kaikoura community for putting on another extremely successful running event. The people, the courses, the environment, the success were evident at all times.
Competitor numbers were well up on 2009 from 163 to approximately 230. Well done.
Thanks so much to:
The teaching staff and support staff of the school
BNZ Kaikoura, Cays and Crays, Donegal House, Downer EDI Works, Encounter Kaikoura, Fonterra Kaikoura, Gordon Handy Machinery, Harcourts Kaikoura, Hairy Mussel, Hislop’s Wholefoods Cafe, Kaikoura Cottages Motel, Kaikoura Physiotherapy, Kaikoura District Council, Mounatainview Honey, Reader Fishing, Star Roast Coffee, Subway Kaikoura, West End Clothing, Westpac Kaikoura and Whale Watch Kaikoura.
The support you give make our event very possible and rewarding for the competitor and businesses.
Next years event is 17 September 2011.

Just a quick update to let you know about our recent activities and learning in Shearwaters.
In maths we have been learning about direction and position for geometry, we have had lots of interesting tasks to increase our knowledge and ability to follow instructions accurately. We are now working on multiplication and division until the end of this term.
We have had a very successful art unit exploring the natural environment of guinea pigs with pastel. Shearwaters will start a six week block of P E skills this friday.
In literacy students have been undertaking numerous tasks involving researching, skim reading, note taking and presenting. We are now concentrating on persuasion…….sorry folks! The students are learning this skill for a debate that will be taking place in week 10.
News has been a huge success this term with competition heating up all the time for the acknowledgment of King and Queen of homework.
The students are busy filling their backpacks as life long learners with positive and determined attitudes.

Shearwaters have made a movie to enter the Canterbury Biodiversity competition as part of the celebrations this year towards biodiversity awareness. As part of our Inquiry “Getting to know our mountain” we are studying and researching native and introduced species, which is of great interest to all the students. The Shearwater class are particularly interested in the Hutton’s Shearwater and thought they would take this opportunity to do a little further research into this amazing endemic bird.
Enjoy the movie!Hutton’s Shearwater biodiversity entry