WOW! Good on you Charlotte

Today Nickelodeon came to Merrin School. Charlotte won a competition and all Year 5 and 6 children came to the hall for a "Cracker of a Christmas Party". It was two hours of fun and food! At the end they all received gifts! Thanks Charlotte and Nickelodeon for a great time!

Yummy food being prepared

Charlotte leading the way. What's going to be happening inside?

Having fun - yee ha!

MAGNIFICENT ROOM 13 IXL MATHEMATICS

Wow!!

Take a look at this!!!!

It's about time we had a catch up!

After two weeks with our buddies learning to improve our swimming techniques down at Wharenui Pool, we helped them today with our next activity.

Each class has been working on the Inquiry "UV, You and Me".

Today we helped our buddies thread UV beads to make an ankle band, bracelet or necklace. We made some for ourselves too! It was amazing how quickly the beads changed colour when we walked outside.

Here we are showing off our beads and helping our buddies.

Wearable Arts Competition

William Wray and I designed our toga uniform for the Wearable Arts 2014 show. The ideas came form Astrix and Oblec. The costume was made old bed sheets and recycled cardboard. The costume was called "Domum fecit a'toga." We also used recycled tinfoil. It took five days during the holidays to make.
Thank you William for all your help and encouragement. Thanks also to our mothers for helping.

Ben Yang

Me in the toga

Jess and I designed a dress called "Teardrop" for the Wearable Arts Competition. The dress was made out of an old dress that no one could fit any more. We added a newspaper veil, bottle caps on the ruffles of the dress. We had old chippy packets cut into teardrops.

Thanks goes to Caroline Waddams and Amanda and Richard Simpson for helping with the hot glue gun and sticking it together.

Mia

Jess wearing "Teardrop"

Senior and Middle Stars Athletics Sports Day

What a great day we had for Athletics yesterday. Everyone tried their best with great results.

Connor about to throw a great throw in discus

Mohammad concentrating hard for his throw

Tom threw a distance of over 14 metres

Luke looking at the area to throw his discus in

Go Taylor and Emma

Oakley is way ahead in the 1.2km race

Welcome to Term 4 Everyone

I hope you all have had a great relaxing break. You will need it since Term 4 is flat out just like the other Terms!
Here are some of the events coming up -
This Term we start with the "Life Education" programme - "Friends"
 On the 23rd October is our Athletics Day.
Swimming lessons at Wharenui Pool start on the 31st October and finish on the 13th November.
Kapahaka starts at 2pm most Wednesdays instead of 2.15pm.
The Senior Choir is singing in the ChCh Music Festival.

We will of course be flat out with our Writng, Reading and Maths - lots of planning ready to go there.
Inquiry include "UV and Me" and "Cyber Safe Kids"

A BIG CONGRATULATIONS goes to BEN and Meshwa. They have been working so well on their IXL Maths over the holidays. I receive reports every week on how everyone is going and how many minutes everyone has done. If you get spare time before Monday get stuck in!!

Here are Tom, Yazeed and Connor having fun from our last experiment in the last week of last term!
Can't wait to see you all on Monday.

Have a great weekend.

Mrs McCallum

PS - Some of you need to buy a couple of 1B8 exercise books since we have run out of room in your other books.
PPS - Don't forget to bring your sunhats

Ms DR and Constable Brunton come to visit

Viki, Sapphire and Jenny invited Ms DR to talk to us about Positive Relationships. They had many questions to ask her. She helped us with strategies in how to get along with others and how to deal with problems we may not agree with, for example, how bullying occurs and what stratergies we should choose to help ourselves and others.

Ben, Kevin, Sam and Noel invited Richard Brunton to Room 13 to tell us about the work he does in the community and what we can do to help the Police and our community. He told us that we are the eyes of the community. He was keen to tell us of ways the Police build positive relationships with our community.

Richard also told us of his experiences working in the police force.