Milford Track photos

Milford Track

David was lucky enough to miss 2 days of school to walk the Milford Track last week. He had a great time and shared lots of his highlights with the class. He didn't seem overly excited about sleeping in huts with rat poo though!

ROCK CLIMBING AT LONG BEACH!

Friday of Week 8 saw Room 3 rock climbing at Long Beach. What an awesome day we had! The sun was shining and everyone was busy but very relaxed. My favourite quote of the day was "This feels like a long weekend!"
I was so impressed with the effort everyone put into the rock climbing - even those who were less confident.
A huge thanks to the parent help. They were sensational and helped make the day the success it was!
Now here are the photos.

Week 7

Week 7 was a great week! Room 3 started working on our ASPIREs and a few people got badges! This term, our ASPIRE is about health agencies and what we can do to help them. Everyone has to finish and ASPIRE. We create a big question and then find ways to answer it. Hopefully our ASPIREs will be absolutely brilliant this term. Speaking of great achievements, in Friday's assembly, a lot of badges were given out for different things. There were sports badges, Australasian badges, Robocup and Science Fair badges. Many Room 3 students received badges and hopefully by the end of the year, all Room 3 students will have at least one badge.

Alyssa

Mrs G's update for Week 7 and looking to Week 8

We have been putting in quite a lot of work into our Puberty unit and ASPIRE. We have discussed a number of health agencies and working on our big question for our ASPIRE. Our focus for ASPIRE is: "What challenges do these health agencies face when? and how can we help?"
I was impressed with the quality of the homework this week. More time and effort was put into work and research. Thank you for the effort. I have appreciated it!
We have continued with our hockey skills for P.E. and have started to use our skills in games. The skills are developing well.
Our persuasive writing is developing well. There are some high qualtiy pieces of work developing well and over the next couple of weeks I will include some on the blog.

This coming week we have our rock climbing trip to Long Beach to look forward to. Fingers crossed the weather stays fine for us! Thank you to parents who have offered to help. I will send home information about the day this week - the activities, the groups etc. In class we will discuss the safety aspects of the day so we are fully prepared. In the event of bad weather I will ring More FM to leave a cancellation.

Last note: Best wishes to Kara - she is representing Balmacewen in Christchurch this weekend at the Robocup competition.

Mrs Garthwaite

Week 7

This week we have been learning about health agencies and where they are based. We have also been learning about puberty. On Friday we had this awesome drummer come and play music for us.

Riley

Week 8

This week we had a special assembly with Drummer Dylan Elise who had a huge set up on the stage complete with cow bells. There was a big screen up on the stage with a view of inside of the drum set. He included us with drumming and got us tapping out a beat. Dylan had many cool tricks with the drum and it was very awesome.

Catherine.