Room12 and Room 2’s shared lunch

On Friday in Week 8 Room 12 and Room 2 dug up some of the potatoes, corn, marrow and pumpkins from our garden. There were two different types of potatoes, a gigantic marrow, 7 pumpkins and some corn.

There were so many vegetables we had to sell some of them. We took the rest of the vegetables into the staffroom so that Rosie and Thomas P could wash the them. Lydia, Ellie and Jess B cut the potatoes into wedges. After that Rosie and Ellie stayed to cook, with the oil, baking paper and the chicken salt. We had got a tray and had put baking paper on to a tray then we put the raw potatoes on top, then drizzled the oil on we had also sprinkled chicken salt on. We put them in the oven to cook, we cooked them until they turned brown on both sides. Then at 12:30 we came and ate them in the lunch-eating area with our wedges and corn. At 1:30 we had Room 2's pumpkin soup and scones outside the Cayford block. It was very tasty.

Digging our Potatoes

Digging Deep

Us with our produce

Samantha, Emmerson and Rosie

Explorers Day

Yesterday we finished our Explorers unit off that we had been doing with Mrs Excell.  Our celebration included cooking Pompolona Scones, setting up tents, sack races and cooking our lunch and marshmallows on gas cookers.

Click on the link below to see our Smilebox presentation.
Smilebox Explorers

Southland Athletics

On Saturday the 22^nd of March five children represented our school at the Southland Athletics in Invercargill.  They were against the best of the best from around Southland.  The students who went were Jayden, Thomas, Mitchell, Caitlin and Cory.  To get to this event they had to come first or second at the Northern Southland Athletics.  They really deserved to be there.  All the competitors tried very hard.  The results were:

Thomas 2^nd High Jump, 9^th Discus

Jayden 11^th 1500m

Cory 17^th 800m

Caitlin 11^th 1500m

Mitchell 5^th Long Jump, 3^rd 200m Heat, 7^th Discus

Written By Jonty, Luke and Jayden

Takahe Visit

On Thursday the 13th of March Room12 walked down to the bird park to learn about and feed the Takahe.

As well as seeing the Takahe we went to see all the other birds like geese, ducks, morepork kaka and kea.

The class split up into 2 groups and hid the kea and kaka food half of us fed the kea and the rest of us fed the kaka.

On the 28th of March we found out that Te Anau School was adopting a Takahe.  Our school held a mufti day to raise money to feed the chick.  We got to choose a name for the Takahe.  We named him Murchison or Murchy for short. We named him this after the mountain range where the Takahe were rediscovered.

Fergus, Thomas and Asha