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.

From
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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

Year Six Camp

Ring ring the bell rang for class. The year Sixes were off to Dundien to start there camp. After shopping they arrived at the Scout Camp. During the week we did lots of interesting things, some of these are to follow.

Year 6 Camp: Games And Activities

Last week the year 6’s went to Dunedin for their camp.  On the camp they did activities with the parents, Mr. Excell and Mrs. Fuller at Waiora Scout Camp.
Some of the activities were:
Kick the can, the obstacle course and a very awesome campfire that almost everyone took part in.
When I took part, I did some modeling with Georgia Mitchell and Alicia Duncun. It was a better version of N.Z got talent! It was called Year 6’s have talent! It was so awesome!
Kick the can was the first game that we did on the camp. It was very enjoyable! For the obstacle course, there were so many extraordinary obstacles we had to jump over, go under or even climb into! I came 5th overall with a time of 2:05 minutes. Anyway, the year 6’s loved the camp! Thanks to everyone who helped make the trip! We couldn’t have done it without you!
By Hazel Allen.

Year Six Camp : Art gallery
Last week the year sixes went to Dunedin for camp and on Thursday we went to the Art gallery when we were there we looked at some amazing paintings and played some tunes on some cute little bells , they were all different colours and when the man pointed to your colour you would ring your bell .
After that we went up to the work shop and made some funky robots it was so much fun you had to put on cool accessories and make faces for them it was great fun and I would do it again !!
By Lily K-T

Movie and Dessert
Last week a bunch of year sixes from Te Anau School went to Dunedin for year six camp. On the second night all the year sixes went out to a movie then to dessert at the Lone Star we all left from the scout camp to the movie theatre to watch a movie Hotel Pennsylvania the movie was about a hotel for monsters so they could get away from humans for a while. And Dracula owned the hotel and his wanted to go into the world but Dracula wouldn’t let her if you want to see what happens you’ll have to go and see it. After after we all went to the Lone Star for desert the options were chocolate surprise Pavlova or just vanilla after we all went back to camp to go to sleep.
By Jez

BALDWIN STREET
The year sixes of Te Anau School went to Dunedin for the week. Last Thursday we walked up Baldwin Street. Once everyone was there we all walked up Baldwin Street. Some people found it very easy and others found it quit hard. Once everyone was up the top all of the children went together to get a group picture.  We all looked around for a bit. Dave rolled down some Jaffa’s some went all the way and some didn’t. Off we went back down everyone found the walk down so easy and when we were nearly at the bottom some children ran the rest. Once we got to the bottom everyone started driving off to the Museum!

BY KAITYLYN MULLALLY

Movie Making
Last week the year 6’s went on a school camp, and some iPads with them. On the iPads the year 6’s used the app Movie Maker. During the entire week the year 6’s had to capture what did in the week. On Movie Maker we were to make a short video clip using photos taken from activities, or short films.

Fruits of our Labour

These are the strawberries we had from the hothouse today.  We had to do the weeding first of course.

Celebration

Celebration
On the 30th November 3 days ago, at Te Anau School in Room 11 we had a Celebration.
We started off with singing a happy birthday to Nash, we also had a little treat with cupcakes with really extremely sweet icing.
All of us had a choice out of green and pink icing; it was oozing down your throat like a slimy snake.
We got two lollies to go on your own cupcake or cupcakes you get one big cupcake or two little ones everyone went for the small because they were adorable.
The butter icing was the best icing in the world.
Once we all finished our yummy cupcakes we all had a game of volleyball, the girls one of course we all had and awesome time eating our scrumptious cupcakes that Mrs. Foote made.

By Courtney

Mapping

Last week Mrs Foote was teaching the year 5’s. For Maths we did mapping , it was all based on new Zealand. We Had to measure the distance   from place to place example Kaitaia to Auckland the answers are 324km by road,300km by air as the crow flies,24km difference. Marking took forever because Mrs Foote had to measure on her map and then calculate it. Some of us found it easy and some found it hard.
By Mackenzie and Taylor

My Trip to Dunedin

My trip to Dunedin

Last week I, April Clarke went on a trip to Dunedin with my family for a science course.
On the way I stopped at my grandparents in Invercargill and stayed the night there in me and my sister’ room which is also the office.
The next day we set off for Dunedin and went straight to the Adrian motel and unpacked our bags as soon as possible and my brothers went to get a movie.
We had the same apartment as we had last time that we were in Dunedin, the beds there are really comfy and cosy!
We went to the beach twice and had so much fun letting the waves crash through our legs but there was a undertow so we came out after a while, we also went to Moana pool twice and I loved the hydro slide and the swirl pool and we had races and it was so fun!

                                         By April Clarke

75 Years of Te Anau School

JUBILEE
This weekend I sour 75TH Jubilee Te Anau School has been teaching children since 1937 it will be held at Te Anau School at 10AM on Saturday. There will be a ceremony, a statue, speeches, Haka, the cutting of the cake, Te Anau School Song, Food, Hip Hop Dances, A family afternoon & dinner. This Friday is the tours 5:00PM-6:00PM held at Te Anau School and at 6:00PM is Wine &Cheese held at Te Anau school ends till late.

Alyssa's Korero Mai

CINDERELLA

Every week 1 or 2 people tell the class a once upon a time story for the Korero Mai. This week Alyssa did one based on Cinderella here is the story.

Once upon a time...ok, you know how it goes. Let's just skip to the good part.....

"I'll never get to go to the ball!" cried Cinderella.
"Yes you will my child." said the Fairy Godmother as she suddenly materialized in front of Cinderella.
"Oh!" Cinderella exclaimed looking up in surprise. "Who are you?"
"I'm your Fairy Godmother." she replied.
"I didn't know I had one." said Cinderella.
"Well you do, and I'm here to gaurantee that you get to that ball." said the Fairy Godmother, "But I can only grant one wish."
"Wow! If I wish to attend the ball then I'll need a dress- the most beautiful in the land of course! And shoes to match-nothing but the finest! Oh, and I'll need accessories!"
Cinderella continued her long list of wishes to herself while her Fairy Godmother looked on incredulously. Finally reaching the end of her list, Cinderella looked up in time to catch her Fairy Godmother casting a spell.
"Bibidi-bobidi-boo!" she cried, and ball attire magically appeared on Cinderella.
"You mean all I get is this passé gown and these cheap glass slippers?!" exclaimed Cinderella, "I wanted the finest things possible!"

What are you doing here?! Your stories finished; this is Cinderella's story!

I came here to see if the Fairy Godmother can change me ack! PLease Fairy Godmother, please help me!" said the very unhappy fisherman/woman.
"Well, I think you'll appreciate my skills more than this ungrateful child, so I'll give you one wish." replied the Fairy Godmother.
"Oh thank you Fairy Godmother! I wish to be a man again!" cried the fisherman/woman. He waited excitedly as the Fairy Godmother cast the spell.
"Bibidi-bobidi-boobless!" she cried and poof! The fisherman/woman turned back into a man.

***THE END***

"That is NOT the end!" said Cinderella. "What about me and my problem?! How am I going to get to the ball now?"
"Oh bibidi-bobidi-boo-hoo." said the Fairy Godmother, "Here's thirty-five cents. Go call someone who cares."

Here are some comments from room12

Hazel thought- it was different and really funny.

Taylor thought- it was funny and was well written.

Jacob thought- it was good and a wee bit funny.

Will thought- it was really funny.

Zac thought- It was funny.

Esther thought- it was good because she didn’t go through the boring bit.

Te Anau School's Got Talent

Today was the final of Te Anau Schools Got Talent.  Room 12 had three groups in the finals.  Emily Calderlarie-Hume who sang and tap danced, Sarah Hughes and Lily Kito-Thomas who danced and Jez Nicholson-Kelly and Will Murrell who played the guitar and sung.  There were some amazing performances but two of our finalists came out on top.  Emily who was second and Jez and Will who got first.  Louise Shanks from Room 11 got third.. Congratulation to all those who performed today and thank you to the Young Leaders group who organised the event.

Jez and Will performing

Emily performing

Lily and Sarah performing

The winners receiving their prizes from local personality Ray Willet

Well done to all the performers we are all very proud of you!

Hunting's in the Blood

      I went with my dad to set a pig trap. We caught three baby pigs, a sow and one boar we kept the sow and the babies and the boar.  We are waiting until they grow up and let them go so we can hunt more pigs.  We went hunting last night we shot a boar it was the boar we let go.  It had grown from the last time I saw it.  It was 300 pounds with the guts in! 

Last night we caught a hawk. Dad had to grab the hawk up by its wing. He chucked it out of the pig trap it collided in to the trees and then flew away.

By Rylie Welsford

Jez Mob

On Friday the 19th of October Jez played the guitar and sung the song 'Beautiful' by One Direction.  This was the result!

Swimming

Today Room 12 had Chris a visiting swim teacher.  This is us making waves for each other to swim through. It showed how had it can be swimming in rough water even if we do have life jackets on.

The Bug Man

Bug man comes to Te Anau School

On the 3rd of August, Ruud Kleinpaste (The Bug man) came to Te Anau School, to talk to us about bugs and how they help the world.
First we started off with singing the finale song of the Lorax Production.
He started talking about poo, and without bugs, we’d be covered in it.
After that he took out his weta, Dorothy. He explained how a female has a type of tube on their bottom which helped them lay eggs. Weta have special sensors on their rear-end which helps them tell the weather.
We started with the questions. We found out that when he was younger, he was more of a birdman. His fascination started with bugs, when he was researching about the birds food chain.

After that Ruud came to our Enviro Groups to see what we have been doing.

Ski Trips

Ski Trips

 

In the past few weeks there has been 2 ski trips at Remarkables, Queenstown and a lot of people enjoyed it. The two trips included half of the students from Te Anau school in each one. The dates were the 10^th and 31^st of August.  Lots of people enjoyed it and I would recommend it for all people on the next ski trip. Here are some opinions from other people who went on the ski trip.

Alyssa said it was fun.

Emily said I liked it.  It was fun.

Sarah thought it was extremely fun.

Lily K-T thinks the ski trip was great fun.

Jack thinks the ski trip was really awesome and cold.

Korero Mai - Punchline

Room 12’s Korero Mai, Punchline.

There is a roster in our class that tells you when and what you’re on.

Korero Mai is an oral language program that helps us with confidence of speaking in front of an audience and you get marked out of 10.  5 for organization and 5 for presentation.

 Punch line is one of the options we have to do.  It iswhen we tell jokes.

In Week 8 Jacob Robertson did punch line. Here are 2 of his jokes.

1.       Why does a flamingo lift up one leg?

Because if he lifted up both he would fall over!

2.       Did you hear about the little boy who got named after his father?

They called him Dad!

Comments:

Lily Campbell thinks Jacob’s jokes were funny but he did stumble.

Lily K-T thinks that Jacob’s jokes were good and funny.

Matiu thinks that Jacob’s jokes were awesome.

Rylie thinks they were cool.

By Hazel , Taylor and Vision.