Stacey, Cody, Shaydon joined by Daniel from KPS travelled to Blenheim on Monday 19 Sept to compete in Blenheim Zone Chess Championships.
The group played 7 games. Gathering the results showed that the team won BRONZE.
We are very proud of the team as a couple of them had only just started playing recently. Credit must go to Alistair McNaughton and Catherine McNaughton for coaching and teaching the team.
Well done.
The team
Shearwaters joined Brett Cowan on the annual beach clean up on Friday. The class picked up litter from the corner of State Highway One along to the boat park at South Bay. The students found broken glass, jandals, fishing line, parts of craypots, plastics and foam. Although they filled a black bag absolutely full to bursting point they were pleased to see that the beach was pretty clean. Thanks to Brett for joining us and for reading ‘The Waka’ to us at school.
Treaty of Waitangi
As part of our Globalisation Inquiry we have all been learning about New Zealand history and places. The Treaty of Waitangi is a very important part of past, present and future New Zealand. It is therefore very important that we all have some understanding of how and why events took place. To help make this more possible for all the students The Treaty of Waitangi was brought to school by Year 6 students and teachers last week. Enjoy the attached movie!
Students had the most incredible treat on friday morning as the Kings and Queens College Band from Dunedin played Jazz for almost an hour. The experience was amazing for all!
Click on the link to enjoy a snapshot.
John Orchard visited school today to present a powerpoint and Maori artifacts to Pukeko and Shearwaters classes. The students found out about the lives of early settlers and had the opportunity to handle many weapons, tools, eggs and bones. John shared lots of interesting information and the students really enjoyed seeing a Moa’s foot and skull.
Thank you very much John!
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Fantails arrived on Thursday to find lots of things from
‘Canada’ throughout the classroom. We had a huge flag, toy animals, maps, books, photos and much, much more.
It was Canada Day!
We spent the entire day learning all about Canada.
We started by flying from Kaikoura to Canada on ‘Google Earth.’
Mrs Chambers flew us to Vancouver because that is where she flew to when she visited.
Next we coloured in Canada on the world map and labeled Ottawa, the capital and Vancouver.
After play we looked at one of Canada’s most popular sports – ice hockey. We watched the highlights of an Olympic game on You Tube and then headed to the courts to play our very own game – it was a draw!
We came back to class and learnt about maple syrup and how it is collected from trees, again we looked at You Tube and watched a family collecting from their trees. Mrs Chambers told us that she would make us pancakes to have with maple syrup the next day – we couldn’t wait!
After that it was time to take a trip through the Rocky Mountains on the Rocky Mountaineer train – we went through tunnels saw moose, bears, waterfalls, mountains and learnt what a beautiful country it is.
Now we were excited to learn more about their animals. We googled National Geographic Kids and looked at Canadian animals.
Lastly we made animals masks – it was cool fun!
Here are some photos of us enjoying the yummy pancakes with maple syrup.
This maple syrup is yummy!
Delicious maple syrup and pancakes!
