Marae visit

Room 9, 10 and 11 visited Araiteuru Marae on Tuesday. The teachers were so proud of the children's excellent behaviour during the powhiri. A special thanks to the girls who led the waiata - how cool is it when children step up and do what they are good at?!

We had a fantastic day and participated in some fun activities.

The children in the Middle Team now have a much better understanding of what happens on a marae.

The Kindness Elective and Octacan

During Friday Electives, Mrs King and Mrs Spencer focused on Kindness!  As part of this, our Elective asked other children in the school to bring along cans for the Octacan collection. This collection helps out people in our city who are struggling to feed their families.

Eli, Bella, Juniper, Freya and Mrs Spencer took the cans down to the Octagon on Thursday. It was a chilly day but luckily for them, it wasn't raining while they unloaded the car.  The people gathering the cans said they had changed the name to Octavan - all the cans were counted and loaded straight into vans so that they didn't get too wet! 

Our school collected 157, according to their count.  Well done George St Normal!

Lucas and his Strength Goal

Lucas presented his poster to Room 10!

Poem Recitals

Last week, all classes in the Middle Team recited their poems in class. From this, we each chose two Year 3 and two Year 4 children to go forward to the semi-finals.

Here are our four Room 10 representatives!

The competition was tough and none of our children got through to the final, which was held yesterday.

We were entertained by some amazing speaking from children with a real stage presence.

Have A Go Day

On Wednesday 6th, all the children from the Middle Team spent the morning at the Edgar Centre at 'Have A Go Day'. This was a wonderful way to experience some winter sports that children might not have tried before.  Have a look at the fun we had at Miniball and Hockey!

Other sports we tried were: Gymnastics, Rippa, Soccer, Netball

A great day was had by all!

I smell baking ...

As part of our learning about Anzac day, we had a go at making Anzac biscuits.  They ranged in size and shape but we all agreed that they tasted delicious!!!

If you want to have a go at home then the recipe we used was:

1 cup flour, 1 cup sugar, 1 cup rolled oats, 3/4 cup of coconut (put into a bowl)

125g butter, 2 Tablespoons of golden syrup (heat on stovetop or in microwave)

1Table spoon of boiling water, 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda (dissolve soda in water and then add to butter and golden syrup mixture

Add dry ingredients to wet and mix together

Roll into balls and place on baking tray

Bake for 20 minutes at 180 degrees.  Yummo!

Ode of Remembrance

Arrochar's parents Adele and Mark have recorded a special tribute song for Anzac Day 2015.  Click on the link to watch it.  What talented people they are!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTU_xWUcRXg&feature=youtu.be