Spudchef Preperation

Right now room 12 are organizing our spudchef (our version of master chef) using the potatoes from our garden.

We have found our parents to help and on Friday the 22nd of March we are getting with our groups to organize what we are going to make. We are having a spudchef because we didn’t know what to do with all of our potatoes.

Our real spudchef competition is on Thursday the 28th of March.

Swimming

Room 12 has been swimming on Wednesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. We are organized in to three groups: Octopuses, Lobsters and dolphins.

We practice: freestyle, backstroke, and sometimes breaststroke.

The other day we played pool netball girls v.s boys! And this is how you play: girls are on one side of the pool boys are on the other. The spikey ball is placed in the middle and when the whistle blows we start.  The aim of the game is to get the ball and pass it to the girls or girls team and throw the ball out of the school pool and then hit the back wall!
We do this swimming programme because the we can learn how to swim and not drown in deeper water.

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Life Education

Life education
From the 25th-28th February Te Anau School did Life Education.

Life Education is when you learn about your body, Harold the giraffe talks to you.

The Life Education bus that visits us only travels around Southland, but there are other buses that travel around other parts of New Zealand.

The sponsors for life education are: ILT foundation, Rural Women, HWRichardson, AMI, Konica Minolta, The Batch, ILT, GWD and Community Trust of Southland .

Te Anau School is looking forward to have the life education bus visit us again.

Northern Athletics

On Friday 15th of March Te Anau Northern competitors went to Northern Southland College in Lumsden for the Northern Athletics.
Everyone had a great time. They did very well with lots placing 1st 2nd and 3rd. There were 35 people from Te Anau school going to Northern but only 8 or 9 are going on to Southland.
Placings in Room 12 were.

Reece:2nd in long jump -3rd in discus 1st in high jump-2nd in 1500m-1st in 800m.

Johsia: 2nd 800m-2nd 1500m.

Thomas:1st in high jump- 1st in discus. 

Lucy:3rd 1500m-2nd 800m.Emily mo 1st high jump. 

Olivia 2nd long jump.
The events were: High jump – Long jumps - Discus – Shot put - 100m - 200m - 1500m - 800m -Relay.
For me it was hard training for these events but I guess it makes a big difference the end.

Reece Rush

Class Hero

Room 12 have been deciding a class person/name for the past couple of weeks. All of the class split into groups of 3-4. Someone for each group went up to Mr Excell and picked a name out of a hat. That would be our subject person for our research.
A week later we started to eliminated people but our list was still long. Finally we did it we had our person Bear Grulys !!! We had some back up’s. They were Willie Apiata, Sir Edmund Hillary and Sir Peter Blake. I personally thought that Sir Edmund Hillary would of won.

Aisling

Brod Bay Camp

On the 26th of February Room 12 walked into Brod Bay to camp.  We tented in groups of 2 to 4.  We had to put up the tents and then set out our own equipment.

We did a range of activities including swimming, bivouac building, a burma trail and sandcastle making.  It was fantastic fun and a great way to get to know each other at the beginning of the year.

One of the reasons we were doing this trip was because our school is part of the Kids Restore the Kepler Project which aims to bring back birdlife to the Kepler area.  As part of this we set up some tracking tunnels to see what creatures were crawling around at night.  The good news is that there weren't too many pests.  Only two mice were tracked!  The bad news is that there weren't any good tracks such as wetas.
We also did a presents absence test for the birds we could here at seven o'clock in the morning.  Were heard a few tomtits, a robin and a parakeet but not as much as we had expected.  It's a good thing that we are part of this project!

The camp was great fun and we would recommend it for all!

Room 12