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Optimist Yachting

 

Last week the year 6’s got an opportunity to get involved with Optimist Yachting.

Everyday a group of year 6’s went down to Pandora Pond. Half of the year 6’s went on Monday and Tuesday and the other half went on Wednesday and Thursday. On Friday a few lucky people got another chance to go.
When we arrived at the pond the first job was to get changed into our warm sailing clothes and put our bags safely away. Then we went through the safety checks, these were:

1.         Ears

2.        Lifejacket

3.        Bungs

4.        Centre board clip

5.        Mast clip

6.        Rudder clip

7.        Hat!

The reason we didn’t have to set them up was because Greenmeadows used them in the mornings. Except for Friday when they didn’t go and we set them up and packed them up.

Room 13 were proud to be involved in the first capsize in 3 years! Maxine and Kassie had a bit of a fall when they misbalanced their boat, spun around and tipped.

“It was freezing, but we just clung onto our boat until rescue came, Mrs Colliss talked us through what to do and Mr Anderson swum out and turned our boat over. Then we had the long (and boring) job of bailing it out” recalled Kassie and Maxine.

This all happened on Tuesday and we couldn’t blame them because the wind kept changing direction which made sailing difficult.
Over the course of the week, everyone’s skills improved as they completed the challenges.
Thank you to all the parents that came and provided transport and supervision.
We had an awesome experience and we are looking forward to doing it again at intermediate.

 

Written by Kathryn, Tyler, Maxine, Kassie

PrEP MARKET DAY!

Today we had our PrEP market day. PrEP stands for the Primary Enterprise Programme. Everyone in years 3-6 were involved in the selling process.

Over the last few weeks we looked at how businesses are run, examples of services and products, the consequence of taking out loans, how to budget and making smart choices. Over the course of the year we have been collect bleds (Bledisloe currency) to be able to buy supplies at the prep store and rent items to create products and services to sell today. We could spend our bleds at the market and the year 2’s also came to shop, Mrs Harris even gave the teachers some spending money.

There was an excited buzz in the air as people arrived this morning. Everyone had been counting down to this day all year. In fact it was one of the first things we told Mrs Colliss when she started. Some of the year 5’s have even started thinking about what they will do next year, now that is thinking ahead! The year 6’s are disappointed that this is their last year for PrEP

 

There was a huge range of products.

Ninja Stars – Te Manawa, Pasa, Liam and Tommy

Balloon Friends – Nicole, Shakira, Kassie and Maxine

Hair Ties – Kathryn, Caitlyn and Tyler

Water Bomb Throw – Sam, Foni, Caleb, Troy and Humo

Window Stickers – Kimberley, Ocean and Fallon

Comedy Movie – Michael, Ian, Ben and Felix

Pop-up Christmas Cards – Janna, Angala, Samantha and Shirley.

Shortly we are going to count up all our takings, hopefully we have made a profit, and not a loss. We just have to remember to pay back loans and subtract our expenses.

It was an awesome day!!!

By Troy, Foni, Nicole and Caleb.

 

Fallon meets Valerie

After the bell rung after lunch today (Friday) a small group of very lucky Bledisloe students got to walk over to Paper Plus to meet Valerie Adams. Fallon was lucky enough to be the Room 13 representative. After joining the long line they got to the front and were greeted by her strong, powerful handshake. Fallon got to place that precious gold medal in her hot little hands. Mrs Dingle purchased her newly released book for the school and Valerie signed it and wrote ‘To Bledisloe School’ making it a very valuable addition to our school library.

 

 

Year 6 end of year song.

Year 6's this is the link to the song you are singing at the end of the year :)

What we've been doing

Rocket Art

On Thursday 25^th October the senior classes had an art day. Room 13 started off in 14. First and we designed our own rockets on paper, then we had to cut out the base shape of our rocket using coloured paper of our choice, next we cut out the nose cone and the fins on the side. The next thing we had to do was measure the width of the rocket and make the thruster (the bottom bit). We added a port hole and a little alien/ spaceman and added glitter for the exhaust fumes. Then we had to get even more creative, we created our own planets for decoration.

Now they are hanging neatly on our windows, they look sparkly and amazing!

By Kassie and Nicole

Hot Air Balloons

In week 2 we made pictures of hot air balloons. First we made the clouds’ with a white pastel. Then we made the straps to hold the basket to the hot air balloons with a vivid. The next stage was to add the balloons. The final step was to dye the page and to not get it on the clouds. We then write on it where we wanted to travel.

By Caleb and Sam

Printing

In room 12 we did printing with Rae Hendry. First we got a polystyrene plate and with our pen/pencil we pushed so hard so it will make a dent. Then we drew a picture of a bird. Next we went to a ink table there was four colours black, yellow, orange and red. We rolled over it with a clean roller. When we thought it was done we took the piece of paper off and the bird was printed on the paper. After that we could add a background if we wanted to. The next day in room 13 we presented them on the wall.

By Kimberley and Shirley

Giant Butterfly

On art day in room 13 had a giant butterfly with lots of pieces to colour in. The senior classes coloured in pieces of the butterfly after they had finished their balloon art. We coloured it in with pastel then we put all the pieces together like a puzzle and put it on display.

By Samantha

Chess Tournament 

   

On Friday the 26^th of October some people went to the chess tournament. It was at the Hastings Sports Centre. When we got there we all got a different number on our hand. The first number was what year you were, the second number was your starting table number. We got a draw so you knew who you were facing, and told if we were going to use black or white chess pieces. Over the course of the day we all played 5 games of chess, each one was 20 minutes long. It was a great day. The most successful Bledisloe person was Humo who won 4 games out of 5 games.

By Tommy and Kathryn

Tyler’s badge

On Monday 29^th of October, Tyler Brown got called up in assembly to get special badge because she was the first person in the school to get 10 CBG’s.  A C.B.G is a ticket which get when you are caught being good in the playground. It gets recorded on a chart in each class. When you get 5 you get a certificate and 10 gets you the badge that Tyler go today.

“I felt excited and proud’’ said Tyler.

Term 4 Sports

At the end of term 3 we had a meeting about the sports in term 4 and what sports we wanted to play. The sports were Cricket, Basketball and Vollyball.

This term we are doing Athletics in class P.E. We are split up into 4 ability groups and we rotate around each station. The stations are softball throw, high jump, long jump and running. We are training towards the interschool athletic tournament.

Michael and Liam

I SPY

Today we started planning our I SPY books which we are going to start creating next week.

They are based on the popular I SPY books that we all love to read and search for items.

We are working in pairs and we could select our own theme for our photo. Our job over the next few days is to start collecting bits and pieces which fit our selected theme and will be able to be included in our photo.

 

This cool website allows you to create you own pictures online and write the matching rhyming sentence. Great practice because our photos will have a sentence in a similar format to the books.

 

http://www.scholastic.com/myispy/



I am a verb song

We have done some learning about verbs, both in te reo maori and in class.
Mrs Colliss showed us a youtube video which teaches about verbs.

The Verb Song

We thought we would sing it to you. The boys are singing the first half and the girls the second. Who do you think sung it better?

 

 

 

Study Ladder

Today we started back at school for the first day of term 4!
Wow the year has gone fast!

Over the holidays Mrs Colliss signed us up to the website

www.studyladder.co.nz

We each got our own log in and when we sign into the account we can do activities that Mrs Colliss has assigned to us. When we complete the activities we gain points which we can then spent in the game.

We just had a look at it today and checked we could sign in and then tonight we can go onto the site and begin the activities. @e will have some time at school to work on the activities.

A good part of this website is Mrs Colliss can see when we logged in and then see who has gained the most points.

LAST DAY VIDEOS

On the last day of term Mrs Colliss had set up 9 large paper bags at the front of the room. They appeared to have something inside them but she wouldn’t tell us what! After a wet lunchtime we finally turned our attention to these bags.

All our names where placed in a container and groups of 3 names were pulled out.

These were our working group.

Next we had to send one person from our group up to select one of the 9 bags.

When we opened our bags we found some very random items, ranging from cat food to an xbox game, to washing powder to makeup.

The task had to do with advertising, which linked into our PrEP unit.

Our first task was to talk about the target group for each item.

Then we were given 20 minutes to plan and practice an advert for the product that we would then perform to the class (and camera).

We hope you enjoy them. Please remember they were filmed at the end of a very long term J

Basketball

Hello to my Basketball team.

I have received the details for our first game of the season. Which is on the first day of term 4.

It is 4.30pm at Centennial Hall against Onekawa Black. 

We will sort uniforms on Monday morning and I'll give you a copy of the draw. 

I hope you have all had a great break.

See you Monday 

:) Mrs Colliss

Te Reo Maori

Circle Time

On Monday the 24^th of September a special teacher from England came to Bledisloe School to teach the teachers about how to improve their teaching of circle time. Her name was Mrs Jenny Mosley and travels all around the world to teach circle time.

 

Room 13 were lucky enough to have her in our classroom for over an hour taking us for circle time. She played some fun games with us like keeping a puppet seal moving around a parachute, which was held by all of us. To get the seal to move we had to gently lift out arms up and tip it to the side, the point of the activity was for us to work together.

Another activity she did with us was we sat in a circle and shared one thing we would change about school. We weren’t allowed to pass or mention names. Once we had been around the circle, she selected 3 people to develop their ideas. They told us about the details of their issues and then one persons issue was selected.

This students issue was: when people walk away from games when they don’t get their own way. The class then offered suggestions, directed at the person with the issues, she had to thank them for their suggestion and let them know if she thought it would work. These solutions have been tried out and some of them have solved the issue.

Mrs Mosley asked us ‘who do you think makes this class a great place to be?’ You could nominate someone and explain why; you couldn’t nominate your best friend. Once someone was nominated the class had to decide whether they agreed. If the person received enough votes they would receive a class certificate.

The people who received the certificates were

Nicole: For being an inclusive member of our class

Liam: For being nice and friendly to everyone.

Shakira: For getting on with everyone.

The last activity that she did with us was a calming activity. We all had to close our eyes and pretend we were on a beach, and the sand was diamonds and other jewels. After a while she starting moving her instrument which made a soothing sound, it sounded like water washing over stones.

We really appreciated our time with Jenny Mosley, she has an amazing character. We were lucky to have her in our class.

Mrs Colliss was very proud of us because we shared our ideas, had great manners and were respectful. She was especially proud when Mrs Mosley and the other visiting teachers complimented the class and Mrs Mosley said that they were one of the best classes that she had been in. How awesome are we!

In fact Mrs Colliss was so proud of us that night she made us marshmallow coconut balls for lunch on Tuesday!

By Ian, Nicole, Humo, Caleb and Sam.

A cool financial literacy website

In maths at the moment most classes are doing financial literacy. This links in to what we are doing in PrEP - more about that later.

Yesterday in the Room 13 maths class, we played this really cool financial literacy online game. We had to choose a job, pay bills, complete challenges, all while trying to reach a savings goal.

It was great fun and included heaps of learning.

http://www.mysavingsquest.com/

A busy few days

Weslandia - Creating our own Civilisation.
By Ian 

On 18^th September, we were assigned to create our own civilisation with hints from the book Weslandia. First we had to think of a stable food crop or natural resource which your civilisation will be based on. Some resources include a Candy Island, wooshberry, tropical trees and lyra, a fruit from Teleperion. For ⅔ of the day we did this (while the interschool cross country squad was away running). Then we think of all the products and things we can make from the resources.

 

 

The Auction

On Tuesday the 18^th of September, Room 13 had an auction. The items up for auction were; bend and twist pencils, blow pens, tennis balls, All Black tattoos, Aquarium pass, the par 2 golf pass, gel pens and glow in the dark necklaces. Tommy won the bend and twist pencils for 150 bleds.

Te Manawa won the blow pens for 420 bleds.

Maxine and Kassie won the tennis balls for 335 bleds.

Michael won the All Black tattoos for 150 bleds.

Kimberley won the Aquarium pass for 120 bleds.

Shakira won the par 2 golf pass for 250 bleds.

Fallon won the gel pens for 350.

Angala won the glow in the dark necklaces for 240 bleds.

The grand total of bleds spent was 2,015 bleds!

WOW that’s a lot of bleds!

By Ocean and Tommy.

Interschool cross country

All schools gathered from the Napier area to compete in a challenging running race. At the regular school cross country the top 6 from year 3 up were chosen. All Bledisloe students tried their hardest to get an awesome placing from all the hard work they practised at school. The most challenging part of the race was running up the hill. After everything was finished all the schools and parents sat down for prize giving where the winners were announced. Bledisloe came 5^th overall and all the students were really proud.

By Maxine and Fallon

 

 

Dog Safety

During the past a few days, Bledisloe School have had a wonderful time meeting a dog control man called Sam. He brought along his dogs. While he was here he taught us about keeping safe around dogs. 

Some of his main messages were:

-If you are eating something and a threatening dog comes up to you, drop the food.

-If a dog is alone, leave it alone.

-To understand they sniff your hand; keep your hand in a fist because your fingers look like sausages.

-Ask the owner if you can pat the dog.

-Keep your face out of their face.

We found it useful because now everyone knows how to act around unknown dogs.

 

A long awaited update...

Dr Seuss PowerPoint’s

By Ocean and Angala

At the end of the Availll reading program we did an activity based on the 48 hours movie challenge. We picked a partner and then choose a favourite Dr Seuss book. To get started we read the book, secondly we had to pick a page and then draw it on an A3 piece of paper. Then we coloured it in. We made a PowerPoint, recorded our voices, so it was like a mini movie. When we watched the end product some of us knew we had to make some changes if we did it again. Now the pictures are displayed on the wall looking stunning!

Link to the Dr Seuss PowerPoint video

 

Update of learning letters

By Caitlyn

On the 10^th of September 2012 we started writing letters to our parents about our learning since we had our interviews. We get to tell our mum and dad how much we have improved since our interview and tell them 2 of the things we have done that we are really proud of.

Magazine

By Shakira and Troy

We are coming to the end of writing our magazines. There is a big difference between the amounts that has been done. We have a big list of things it must include and a deadline of the end of term. When we are finished they will be presented in the school library and hopefully on our blog.

Afterschool Soccer

By Pasa and Kassie

On Thursday’s after school the boys and girls soccer teams play at Park Island. On Thursday the 13^th September we played our last games. The girls played against Westshore Beach Girls and the boys played against Onekawa. Both teams won their games because of their awesome skills.
Go Bledisloe!

 ‘Olympic Foldie Things’

By Kathryn

The Olympic Foldie things are all about the Olympics, of course! You had to write about 2 athletes in the two larger segments. In the medium segments, you wrote about the ancient Olympics, London 2012, a country and a sport or event. In the eight little segments you wrote interesting Olympic facts. They were fun and look really cool!

 

Life Education

By Tyler and Humo

Are you man enough for the quest? On Friday the 14^th room 13 went to see Harold the Giraffe. We had a quest to save one of our dearest knights, Sir Possumalot, our imaginary friend from the ruler of Nearby (Mrs Colliss). We needed to find three gems, in order to find them we had to answer riddles and learn facts. The gems were hidden in three towers but guarding the towers were a wizard, a dragon and a skeleton. We used our knowledge to defeat them. We were all lords and ladies but Ben was our prince and Maxine was our Princess, you think it was imaginary but was it. We finish our quest next time we visit the Life Education Van.

Keeping Ourselves Safe.

By Ben and Ian

Throughout this week this week we have been learning about Keeping Ourselves Safe. It teaches us what abuse it and how we can be protected. Abuse can be Physical, Emotional, Cyber, Neglect, Sexual and Family Violence. It is an interesting topic to learn about but we hope these situations don’t happen to us!

Geometry Maths

By Shirley and Samantha

On Friday, we did something in maths that is similar to art. This work includes interesting lines, one set of parallel lines and shading in alternate regions. It was “Fun Friday” and we decided to do something with an arty twist to our regular maths. Our geometry arts are going on display and they are going to look awesome!

 

Afterschool Rugby

By Felix

Every Wednesday the rugby boys have been facing other school from around Napier. So far we’ve only lost one game, and won all the others. Our first game was very muddy and so slippery that most of the players fell over onto their backs. Lucky the weather has cleared up and we have enjoyed playing on nice, dry fields. Next week is our last game of the season.