Our Last Day of School

All our memories of the past years of school came flooding back as though they were yesterday. Some of them good and some of them bad but all of them interesting.  We hope future classes enjoy the school. Enjoy it, it goes really fast!   Look after our blog.

Walking into the classroom on our last day of primary school we realise that we have three tests.  Oh No!  This was the spelling test.  Can you work it out?
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Milford Trip

On Friday we were lucky enough to go on a trip to Milford.  It was great to go and see such a wonderful place which is on our back doorstep.  Thanks to all the helpers that made this trip possible!

Amazing Race

"Go"! On Tuesday the 2nd day of camp, we set out on an Amazing Race around Dunedin. The Amazing Race involved a lot of running and catching busses.  To brighten up Dunedin we gave out some balloons. We struggled to run up steepest street in the world, feed ducks at the park and did some teaming up. The McChickens won pride but winning isn't everything. There was so much fun to be had on that bright Dunedin.  By Ellie, Sam, Olivia and Esther

Museum

The last activity we did on camp was to go to the Otago Museum. We meet up with the other groups in the entryway. Kate was our day leader. she told us to bring our stuff up to the Discovery Pad. We were so excited that we rushed down the stairs to the discovery world and we hung out down there for 45 minutes after we had done some hands on experiments about vitamin C and what drinks had the most of it out of Broccoli Juice, Lettuce Juice, Orange Juice, Apple Juice and Lemonade. We all went up to the discovery pad again to do some more hands on experiments like testing the D.N.A in a banana, testing for sugar in different types of drinks and cereal. We also did an experiment on bread, rice and lettuce. We had to pore a special scientific liquid on it. Once we had done that we went back to the vitamin C experiments. About 5:00 o'clock we had two different ladies call Alisha and Mel they were our night time watchers. The first activity we did around the museum was looking and learning about what the did to royal Egyptians. we each created a death mask and then it was time to go to bed. In the morning we went to see the butterflies and then it was time to go to Te Anau.

By Lydia, Rosie and Jessica

 

At the Butterfly Museum 

Year Six Camp

On the 1st to the 5th of December we went to Year Six camp we stayed in Waiora Scout Camp which has 9 bunk rooms, 1 hall, 2 living rooms, 1 kitchen, 3 toilets, and 7 showers we woke up at 7am and make our breakfast clean our room for room inspection and made our lunch and left for our activities. after our activities we went back to camp had some free time we had dinner had a shower and went to bed. The last thing we did at camp was we had lunch at Meridian Mall it had Burger King , sushi bar and lots more we had great fun.

By Connor, Cory, Taisei and Asha

Strike Shoot Splash

STRIKE, on the first night of camp we went to ten pin bowling.  We all started off thinking it was easy and we would beat the parents but all of us were wrong.  Strike after miss after spare the parents points grew and ours did too.  The night went on with lots of strikes and misses.  Anna took out a victory with a whopping 143 points.  After our loss we went back to camp.


On the second night of camp we went to lazer strike to shoot our teacher and the parents. We started off with lots of teams. We ran around shooting every one we saw. Every round we changed teams. We had 6 rounds and Patrick Larrivee won three of them.  It was real good fun.


On the last day of camp we went to Moana pool to swim.  When we all  got into our togs we speed walked to the giant kids pool.  We all splashed in the pool and swam in the lazy river.  Then a man came and told us the water slides and diving boards were open.  We played for ages then after a while Mr Excell told us to get out and get dressed.

By Lindsay, Todd, Luke & Thomas L

The Aquarium

While we were on camp in Dunedin we went to the Otago university Aquarium.  Were Josie and Steve showed us around we got to touch and see all these different things such as star Fish, Sea Anemones, Crabs, Fish, Coral, Sea Slugs and and sea cucumbers.  We also went in a submarine we went to the very bottom of the sea and saw lots of different creatures.  But the most memorable moment was dissecting the Spiky Dog Shark.  Crazy Steve decided that it would be funny to freak all of us out by biting the Sharks skin to show us how strong the skin was.  It was good to try something different even though not everyone wanted to do that.  We all had lots of fun and if we had the opportunity to go back we would! 

By Chloe, Tessa, Paige and Emma

Art Gallery

The Art Gallery
On Thursday the 4th of December Room 12 went to the Art Gallery in Dunedin.
A man named John showed us around and told us about some of the paintings like what they mean and where they come from.
After that he took us to an art room where we made 3D fruit art.
Next we had lunch and watched some short films about Mr Bean,Wallace and Grommit and a couple of old adds.
We had lots of fun at the Art Gallery and hope we could go again soon.
By Jonty and Emmerson

Can We Make It?

Below is a video of our technology challenge we did yesterday.

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Pet Day

On the 7th of November Te Anau school and Mararoa school had a pet day. Not the whole school participated in this event. The children that didn't participate did some fun farm land games to entertain themselves. The winners of the day were William Hamilton,Oliver Mann and finally Hamish Mann. Congratulations to you three. They all won the Landcorp Cup.

By Jake & Cory

Enviro Schools Update

The Green Thumbs Environmental team has been working on getting our Environment Silver Award. We are being interviewed on Tuesday the 11th of November. We helped host the Te Anau Environment Hui. It was such an amazing experience and we enjoyed it so much. We hope we can do it again very soon. Mark, Pat and Amy from Environment Southland helped us a lot throughout all our years being an Enviro School and are so proud of our amazing accomplishments as an Enviro School. We are proud of our fun times as the amazing Enviro School that we are. Hopefully we can continue being an Enviro School and we hope we will get our Silver Enviro School award. Then later on we hope to achieve the achievement of the Gold Enviro School award.

By Fergus, Jake and Jayden

Corrugated Iron Bird

Bird Nesting Box

Willow Hut

Native Tree Area

Enviro Schools Hui

On Thursday the 23^rd of October all the Enviro schools came to Te Anau for a Hui. First of all Kids Restore the Kepler did a speech, secondly we split up in our groups for a tour of the bird park. In the duck enclosure there were two goose nests with eggs. Then we went to see the kaka. The kaka eats kowhai leaves. After that we jumped into the cars and went to the Kepler track. At the track we did all sorts of fun activities like the blind game when a buddy guides you to a tree blindfolded and then you have to find it again with no blindfold. Then we learnt to use a tracking transmitter and find birds. We meet Billy the stoat again and set off a stoat trap. Then we walked deeper down then track to a huge tree. We got back to the car park and did some trading. We traded honey for a bird nesting box and Snapdragons for a corrugated iron bird. We finished and everyone went home.  It was a very enjoyable day. We are looking forward to the next hui.

This is a cat caught in a trap.  

Technology Chalenge

On Thursday the 23rd, the Te Anau technology group went down to Waianawa School. The group is made up of Lydia, Lindsay, Jessica Barnes and William Hamilton. We all woke up bright and early and we meet Mrs Meffan outside the School office. When we arrived there we walked into the Waianawa hall. Inside were 24 1 meter squared 2D boxes. Our box number was number 15. For our first challenge scenario someone had fallen off a 4meter cliff and you had to make a contraption that would drop the Medicine. The challenge was called dropping the goods. We used an egg instead of medicine because an egg is also very fragile. Our parachute was amazing when we dropped it off the playground fort but on the day when we dropped it it didn't go as well as we hoped KA SPLAT!!!. Between the 2nd and the 3rd challenge we got our snacks out and enjoyed 20minutes free time to relax. Our 2nd challenge was the light house. The scenario was the light in the light house had been busted and there was a huge crack in the lighthouse so we had to rebuild it. We used newspaper and other stuff to recreate our version of a lighthouse. We had 1 minute to strategise what we were going to create then we got to work building the best lighthouse ever. We got called up to the stage to assemble the light together in under 1 minute. The judges walked around and measured our lighthouse's height and the structure/safety of our lighthouse. Our 3rd and final challenge the hardest of them all also a mystery!!!! The senareo was there had just been an earthquake and a hard log had fallen on someone and their phone had flown 6 meters behind her. Her feet are trapped so she can't look behind. We had to make a contraption that will retrieve here phone so she call for help. We had a really great time and wish we could go again. We didn't get any prizes but it was still worth the trip and experience. A big thanks to Mrs Meffon who trained us to be as great as we are. 

By Lydia and Lindsay.

science

On Friday the 5th of September some students from the Otago Univirsity came to Te Anau School to share some science stuff with us here are some pictures

Musical Art

Spring Art

On Wednesday we sprang into action with spring art.  This is us working on our pictures.  First we did a background of a tree or stem then we had a choice of how we made our flowers.

This is Chloe doing her spring art.

Tis is Tessa and Emmerson doing there art

This is Paige and Jessica using there fingers on there paintings.

This is Destinee,Lindsay and Samantha using craft paper.

Jumping Pillow

Today we were lucky enough to get invited to the camping ground across the road to try out their new 'Jumping Pillow'.  It was great fun. We now want one at school!

Vader the Rabbit

I brought my rabbit 'Vader' in today for my Korero Mai. I was on 'Introducing'.  Vader usually stays in his cage but today he came to school.  Everyone patted Vader.  Some people held him.  He is cute and soft. His ears go floppy and up.  

Written by Thomas

Our Poetry Morning

In Room 12 we shared some poems we wrote or found.  We had shared snacks and when we were ready we shared our poems.  In the posts below this one there are videos of each of us sharing our work. We hope you enjoy our poems.  There are more videos on our YouTube channel.

Connor and Cory

Here are Connor and Cory sharing their poem.

Connor and Cory

Jayden

Here is Jayden sharing his poem.

Jayden

Connor

Here is Connor sharing his poem.

Connor

Jessica B

Here is Jessica B sharing her poem.

Jessica B

Todd

Here is Todd sharing his poem.

Todd

Fergus

Here is Fergus sharing his poem.

Fergus

Jonty, Emmerson and Taisei

Here is Jonty, Emmerson and Taisei sharing their poem.

Jonty Emmerson and Taisei

Chloe

Here is Chloe sharing her poem.

Chloe

Paige

Here is Paige sharing her poem.

Paige

Cory

Here is Cory sharing her poem.

Cory

Tessa

Here is Tessa sharing her poem.

Tessa

Esther

Here is Esther sharing her poem.

Esther

Jake

Here is Jake sharing his poem.

Jake

Jessica M

Here is Jessica M sharing her poem.

Jessica M

Todd and Lindsay

Here is Todd and Lindsay sharing their poem.

Todd and Lindsay

Caitlin

Here is Caitlin sharing her poem.

Caitlin

Ellie

Here is Ellie sharing here poem.

Ellie

Samantha

Here is Samatha sharing her poem.

Samantha

Teagan

Here is Teagan sharing her Poem.

Teagan

Rosie

This is Rosie sharing her poem.

Rosie

Destinee

This is Destinee sharing her poem.

Destinee

Taisei

This is Taisei sharing his poem.

Taisei

Thomas P

This is Thomas P sharing his poem

Thomas P

Asha

This is Asha sharing his poem.

Asha

Thomas L

This is Thomas L sharing his poem.

Thomas L

Asha and Taisei

This is Asha and Taisei sharing their poem.

Asha and Taisei

Paige, Tessa and Olivia

This is Paige, Tessa and Olivia sharing a poem.

Paige, Tessa and Olivia

Luke's Poem

Luke reading his poem.  Enjoy!

Luke

Snow and Billy

You know those predators that have been threatening the Kepler track? Well.... on the 1^st of September Mrs Ball brought Snow and Billy to school.  By now you probably thinking who Snow and Billy really are? Snow is a ferret and Billy is a stoat.  Snow is cute and active but Billy he can get so scared he could jump out of his coat.

They came to school in a glass cage so they could not get out. There was also a piece of glass between them so they can not fight, but if they did, who do you think will win?

Snow the Ferret

 Billy the Stoat

Their glass cage

Enviro jobs

On Friday the 29th of August we did enviro jobs around the school like filling the sand pit, repairing the willow hut, picking up rubbish, weeding the garden and filling in the hangi pit. It was our spring cleanup for the school. We had lots of fun doing are jobs and we wish we could do it again.

Lindsay, Connor, Jonty and Cory filling the sand pit.

Jayden, Caitlin, Fergus and Teagan fixing the willow hut.

Luke and Esther are weeding the garden.

 Tessa filling the hangi pit.

Thomas and Destinee are filling the new garden boxes.

Learning the Guitar

Thomas's brother Jackson has been teaching a small group some songs on the guitar.  We are going to play these at the end of the term.  They have been learning Superstition, Country Roads and This Old Man.  We will post some videos of our progress soon.  Thanks for helping us Jackson.

Limericks

We have been writing some limericks in Room 12.  Click here to to read our limericks (or just click the 'writing' tab above)

Cinquin Poems

In Room 12 today we wrote Cinquain.  Below is a description of how they are written then our first attempts.    

Cinquain

Line 1: Title (noun) - 1 word 
Line 2: Description - 2 words 
Line 3: Action - 3 words 
Line 4: Feeling (phrase) - 4 words 
Line 5: Title (synonym for the title) - 1 word

Guitar

Long neck

Strumming, picking, chords

They’re easy to play

Instrument

Written By Fergus

Kees

Loud, Squirmy

Loves to eat

Loving, grizzly, giggly, cute

Brother

Written By Jessica B

Money

Paper, metal

Buys us things

It’s needed to survive

Cash

Written by Jake

Riddles

Hard, Confusing

Make me crazy

Interesting, fun and exciting

Complicated

Written by Samantha

Mum

Loving, helpful

Works really hard

Caring, fun and great

Rachel

Written by Paige

Planet

Round, Big

Spins around stars

Far away in space

Wakusei

Written by Asha

Flowers

Petals, stems

Love to sway

Lovely smell, pretty petals

Roses

Written by Rosie

Socks

Smelly, sweaty

Just like brothers

Very powerful gas tank

Terrifying

Written by Chloe

Library

Quiet land

Fun computer games

Makes me feel happy

Books

Written by Destinee

Dad

Funny, nice

Plays with lego

Tickles me all day

Shaun

Written by Teagan

Jimmy

Cute, cuddly

Funny, loving boy

Loves playing on tractors

Brother

Written by Caitlin

Dog

Swimming, running

He’s always active

He likes to play

Woody

Written by Todd

Homework

Boring, timewasting

Helps to learn

Writing riddles and facts

Book

Written by Jayden

Punkley

Energetic, crazy

Cooku, and awesome

Loving caring and cool

Milo

Written by Lindsay

Milkshake

Yummy, frosty

Good when blended

Good, milky, cold, unhealthy

Drink

Written by Jonty

Beach

Waves, crashing

Sea salt running

Blue crystal water, warm

Swim

Written by Jessica M

Hannah

Sweet, cheeky

Crazy energetic girl

Small, hyper, innocent, cute

Monkey

Written by Esther

Olivia

Funny, awesome

She loves gymnastics

Makes me feel happy

Friend

Written by Tessa

Tessa

Amazing, crazy

Loves to travel

Loves to do cubs

Trampolines

Written by Olivia

Scotland

Rain, mountains

Loves playing bagpipes

Adventurous, people are funny

Family

Written by Emmerson

Earth

Green, sphere

Goes around sun

Makes me feel safe

Chiqu

Written by Taisei

Milkshakes

Yummy, milkshakes

Tastes like strawberry

Makes me feel cold

Tasty

Written by Thomas P

Pop

Quiet, Lovely

Loves fixing things

Fun, helpful, teaches me

Jeff

Written by Luke

Cat

Fluffy, cute

Very good hunter

Clever, can be cuddly

Deadly

Written by Thomas L

Rabbit

Fast, fluffy

Can be pets

Like to play with

Bunny

Written by Connor

Esther

Kind, helpful

Loves doing art

A really friendly person

Friend

Written by Emma

Jess

Loving, friendly

Best friend ever

Makes me feel respected

BFF

Written by Lydia

School

Small, Environmental

Helps to learn

Crazy, outgoing and fun

Educational

Written by Room 12