Our New Road Patrollers

It's that time of year when things start getting ready for the following year.  One of the things to do was to select our Road Patrollers for 2014.  Room19ers will have Sharysse, Sophie O'S and Eloise making sure that the roads are safe for us to cross at the beginning and end of the day.

Thanks girls!

The Green-Gold Award (Week 2, Term 4)

On Tuesday, a group of visitors came to our school to judge us for the Green-Gold award.  This is the third time that our school has been reviewed and a lot of work had been completed by the EfS (Education for Schools) Review team to ensure that we were ready.  

The visitors were welcomed with a powhiri in the school hall.  After that, Keagan and Brianna (our class representatives on the EfS Review team) went to the library to show the judges a presentation about the murals that we created for the juniors and how they were made.  Then we went to the juniors' area to see the murals and the butterfly garden.  By then it was time for morning tea; we went to the staff room to have some food (it was very tasty!!).

After morning tea we went up to the top field to show the judges our fantastic Kaiawa Gardens.  We explained our interactive challenge and looked at the insect hotel made by Room 21.  It was very interesting. After that we went to see the skunk home which is next to the Oasis (after school care) room.

We had many things to show and tell our judges.  Later we worked together to discuss what learning has taken place and make suggestions for our next steps.  Ms McLeod says that we have so many brilliant ideas that we will be busy for quite a few years!

The most exciting moment of the day was right at the end when we were told by the judges that we had retained the Green-Gold award.   We were all so delighted!

Week 1, Term 4

Halberg Sports Day
This Friday we had a sports day to raise money for the Halberg disability foundation. We dressed up as our sports hero, or our favorite team.  Dylan dressed up as All Black Ben Smith, Sophie O'N dressed in her hockey uniform - she was Sophie Cock from the Black Sticks and Ryan dressed as a Springbok. Everyone caught being FERN got a FERN card and some people got a little prize.  These were some of the activities: hurdles, frisbee tag, tennis, Jump Jam and dodge ball.


Citizenship
This term our inquiry is focused on citizenship and what it means to be a citizen.  We have been contributing ideas to the citizenship window.  We have also been learning about filling buckets and emptying buckets.  This means that each time you say or do something positive, your bucket or someone else's bucket, will be filled with a drip.  If you say or do something unkind, your bucket will loose a drip.  You can take drips out of other people's bucket too if they feel upset by what you say or do.   We have watched and listened to some videos about being a 'bucket filler'. Everyone in the class likes singing to the 'Bucket Filler Rock Song.

We used window chalk to show our current thinking about citizenship and will add any new learning to it.

Enviro Expo

At the end of last term, our school celebrated our environmental education with an Enviro Expo.   We all had a product and a service stall which we organised with our buddy classes.   Each class had a competition for baking, sustainable craft and art.   Here is a collage of photos from the day.

Body Sculptures

To be a Beachlands Learner, we need to be adaptable and problem solvers.  One way to do this is to be placed in random groups then asked to use our bodies to create an imaginary creature.  We had a fabulous time exploring shapes, getting involved and presenting to others.  Here are a few of our "creatures".