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.

Tuesday 8th August

Life Education Bus visit

Today we had Pip and Harold come to school to teach us about Food and Nutrition. The Middle Room learnt about the different food groups and how many servings we should eat of each group.

Food servings:

Dairy products 2-3 servings a day

Proteins- meats, nuts etc - 1-2 servings a day

Fruits and vegetables - 5+

Breads, cereals grains  - 6+ servings a day

Treats - once a week

We also looked at the sugar and fat content in foods and how to read the information on the packaging. The best part was when we got to see inside the human body by scanning Caitlyn!

Thanks to Pip and Harold for coming in to teach us about healthy eating!

 

Monday 7th August

Matt Randall Olympian Visit

On Friday we had Matt Randall visit us. He is a former Track Cyclist, Olympian and now he is in an Olympic Support role and an ambassador for the Olympic Committee. 

Matt is a very inspiring speaker and interacted with the students very well!

He shared some key messages with the students. These included:

• You can give your best and still lose because there will be people who are better than you. 
• It is how you lose that matters.
• Challenges make you more determined.
• Only you have the power to change the outcome of something. 
• Don't lose focus.
• A balanced life is key. 

Friday 4th August

Cross Country

For the last couple of weeks, we have been practicing for the cross country. Everyone will make their way around a map of the South Island and then the North Island for each lap of the block that they run. When a certain destination is reached, such as Christchurch, children will earn awards.

It is great to see the fantastic effort everyone is putting into their training.

The Small Schools Cross Country will take place on Wednesday the 16th of August in Clinton.

Wednesday 2nd August

Health

Last week for health we looked at the food pyramid and how many serves of each food group we should be having. This week we decided to look at our own lunches. We sorted the food in our lunchboxes into 5 groups: Protein, Fruits & Vegetables, Fats & Oils, Wheat & Grains, and Dairy. It was very interesting to see which groups had the most food in them. Everyone had a lot of wheat and grains as well as fruit and vegetables which was great.

Tuesday 2nd August

Sports Activator 

Today we had our first visit for Term 3 from our Sports Activator Greer. Today’s focus was on Netball. We learnt a new warm up game which we all really enjoyed. We all had to run around and find people to tag. Once we tagged them we played a game of rock, paper, scissors. The winner got to carry on running while the other person had to sit down. If the person who got you out lost a game, you got to stand back up and carry on. It was heaps of fun and one of our new favourite games. We then moved onto passing skills. We practiced chest passes, high lob passes, and bounce passes. Finally, we had a game of numbers. We split into two teams with the winning team being the one that counts to 10 first. To do this a player has to catch the ball and place it on the ground and count 1. They then pass to another teammate who would count 2. If the ball got intercepted, the score starts at 1 again. There was a lot of excitement and energy with this game!

These skills we have been practicing will come in handy when some of us participate in the Netball Tournament in Balclutha next Thursday.

Thursday 27th July

Inquiry

Last Term our inquiry topic was ‘What makes a Kiwi Inventor?’ Today we presented our Going Further projects to the rest of the class. Some of the ways we presented these were slides and posters. Some even made a prototype of their inventions to support their presentation. It was great to see the time and effort that went into these projects.

George and Flynn looked at Handpieces. 

Courtney told us about the Gold Coast Theme parks. 

Emily showed us her poster on Bungy Jumping.

Hayden telling us about remote control cars. 

Esther did her presentation on bikes. 

Caitlyn looked into robots. 

Taylor sharing her findings of spaceships. 

James explaining his prototype he made for his invention of a citrus powered clock. 

Rylee told us about headphones.

Bree's presentation was all about cars. 

Nikita telling us all about the invention of T.Vs.

Kordelia made a slide about computers. 

Tristan sharing the slide about computers that he created with Arthur.