Self Portraits

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

Constable Graham



We welcomed Constable Graham in to share her knowledge on bullying as part of our Kia Kaha Health unit. We explore ideas including who or what makes a bully, the different types of bullying and text bullying - all relevant topics for our learners as they make their way to intermediate next year.

SCIENCE EXPERIMENTS

As part of our Change topic we are looking at scienctific experiments. Check out our sherbert and ooblick recipes on the publishing page. Try & make some at home if you DARE!!! Mrs T let us do some taste-testing too........











Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Swimming for seniors







For the last 2 weeks we have been enjoying our swimming programme at the Gore Multisport Complex. It has been a wonderful experience for us all. We have been enjoying our snorkelling sessions with Mrs T, swimming techniques with Martin, survival skills with Mr Sutherland and exploring water confidence.

Check out our photos!

Friday, June 24, 2011

SWIMMING, SWIMMING, SWIMMING!!!!



Our swimming programme kicks off on Monday 28 June - Friday 8 July.
Don't forget your togs - we are looking forward to an exciting time at the pool.

The children will be participating in basic confidence and swimming techniques right through to survival skills. Feel free to come along to the Gore Aquatic centre on any of our swimming days - 11.10 - 12.10 daily.

Hokonui Gold superstar!





Check out Cate from Hokonui Gold and the Room Kowhai kids. Cate recorded us singing Happy Birthday in English & Maori to play before the birthday calls on our local radio station. We will be included on a rotational basis alongside other Gore schools and kindy's. It was so cool to meet Cate - she was a funky lady!

Tune your radio's into 94.8 at 7.45am to hear us. Or you can click on the link and check out our tuneful voices....

Wednesday, June 15, 2011

The Amazing Chameleon

For shared reading this week we have been learning about the chameleon - check out the clip below and ask your child for some amazing facts.