Thursday 10th August

Netball Tournament

Today some of us participated in the inaugural Balclutha New World Year 5 & 6 netball tournament at the Cross Recreation Centre. Maddie, Cooper, Bree, Esther, Taylor, Courtney and Kordelia represented Waiwera South at this tournament. They played very well and showed some great skills. Unfortunately, we just missed out on getting into the finals. Thanks to Warepa School for organising this event and to Stacey and Tania for helping with transport. It was a fantastic day which we all really enjoyed.

Wednesday 23rd November

Technology

Over the past couple of weeks, the Middle Room have been very busy with our technology. We were given a brief that related to our inquiry topic of “Watch us Grow”. The brief was to design and make something that helps things grow. To be successful we had to design something that:

• Can be used in the garden
• Helps things to grow
• Is our own design
• Doesn’t cost a lot to make
• Works properly
• Is interesting
• Can work independently on this
• Doesn’t take a lot of time to complete

We have been really engaged in our work and have been working very hard to get these completed. Have a look at some photos of us busy creating our designs. We can’t wait to show everyone our finished projects!

Girls painting their designs. 

Courtney decorating her worm farm. 

George drilling holes for his worm farm. 

Cooper filling up his bird feeder. 

Boys helping to saw the wood needed fro a planter box. 

Cooper helping Maddie with her bird house. 

Flynn helping out on a planter box. 

George is layering his worm farm. 

Nic is making a container to grow wheat.

James is filling up his worm farm.

Thursday 22nd September

Sports Activator

We have has a busy last week at school. We had a great day for Greer to visit to have another session of touch skills. We start off with some warm-up games which were a lot of fun. Then it was time to practice our skills especially passing and stepping. We round off with a quick game which was very fast paced. We are all improving so much each time Greer visits. These lessons are going to help many of us with our after school touch.

Practicing our passing.

Keep an eye on the ball.

Rats and Rabbits!

Testing our reactions.

Georgia on the run!

George stepping.

Baking

The past few weeks for Maths we have been learning about fractions. We have all worked hard and learned a lot. For our reward for working hard this term Miss Chapman let us do some baking! We had to deal with lots of measurements like ½ cup, ⅓ cup and tsp. The class split into two groups and made lolly cake and russian fudge. They both tasted so yum! Unfortunately we didn’t take any photos of the end products as they were gobbled up so quickly!

James checking Bree has measured correctly. 

Flynn stirring the fudge. It was delicious!

Oral Presentation Day

This term our inquiry has been focussed around Then and Now. We have looked at things from the past to what they are like now. These included transport, household items, clothes, and schools. We have worked really hard to produce a speech about a topic we are passionate about. Today was the day we presented them to the whole school, parents and friends of the school. We were all very nervous but everyone of us did a fantastic job. Then it was time to perform our dances we have been learning with Kayleigh Broad after lunch on Thursdays. These were performed down at the hall and we got a big crowd watching us. We got a lot of great feedback that we did an awesome job! Check out some photos of us delivering our speeches and our Then and Now dance performance.

Esther talked about computers from Then and Now.

Bree dressed as a soccer player! 

Georgia taught us all about singer Daniel Skye.

Nic came as his role model: His Dad. 

Taylor makes a pretty good queen!

George explained all about harvesters.

Flynn had a lot of knowledge about farming.

Kordelia transformed into Justin Bieber.

James told us about old and new tractors. 

Julienne delivered a speech about Meghan Trainor.

Maddie knew a lot about dolphins!

Courtney dressed as her Dad!

Cooper transformed into a logging truck driver. 

Middle and Senior Then and Now dance. 

It was great to watch!

Wednesday 14th September

Sports Activator

It was a beautiful sunny day to be outside today. Greer was back to take us for some touch again. We warmed up with a game of tails where we had to grab the tail of another player and try to avoid ours getting taken. George was the winner of this game every time! We then moved on to our passing, dodging and defending skills before bringing these all together in a whole class game of touch. 

Its's great to see all of our skills improving. This will be important when we start playing our touch games.

Check out some photos of us below!

Everyone into their passing drills. 

Great technique Maddie!

Cooper diving for his ball!  

Who will grab the ball first? 

Go Georgia! 

Draw and pass! 

George making a break. 

Away goes Bree!

Thursday 4th August

Morning Programme


Our Oral Language programme has started again this term. Morning Programme helps us improve our skills of speaking in front of people. We are all excited for the new topics this term and have already started preparing for weeks ahead. We have been practising speaking clearly and confidently and presenting our talk in a variety of ways. Everyone is all constantly improving. Some of the topics this term include Then and Now, Olympics, Recipes and Jokes and Pranks. Check out some photos of us presenting our morning programme from the first week.

There is also a copy of the schedule for this term down below. Underneath the timetable is an explanation of the different topics if you are unsure.

Esther showing the class her photo book from her holiday in Thailand.

Courtney brought along her netball trophy for player of the day.

George showing off his rodeo banner.

Maddie told us all about rocks and gemstones.

Bree made a poster about the heavy snow she got in the weekend.

Savannah explained the difference between Marmite and Vegemite.

Flynn showing off his trophy he shot. 

Taylor with her pillow that is both cat and dog!