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.

Competitive Schools Play for the Shield.

By Shakira, Angala, Janna, Nicole, Samantha, Fallon and Foni.

All the schools in Taradale came together at Bledisloe School on Friday the 31^st of August to compete in 4 different sports. The reason all the schools got together was to compete to win the spooner shield, individual sport trophy’s and fair play awards.

Spooner Shield involves 4 sports rugby, soccer, netball and hockey. Miss Mill’s spooner team had great success, “we came 3^rd out of all” she said happily.

Before prize giving all schools got a surprise visit by Westley Gough, the bronze medallist for track cycling from this year’s Olympics. He showed his bronze medal and told us about his experience at this year’s Olympics. We were all amazed by seeing the real bronze medal.

 

Horrible Fall Leads to Badly Sprained Ankle

By Kimberley, Ben, Ian, Caleb, Kassie, Maxine, Felix and Troy

Our teacher Mrs Colliss fell down the stairs in front of Room 13 and 14, 2 weeks ago on Monday 20^th August. She sprained her ankle very badly and it swelled up. She was getting some tests from the photocopier room. What an epic fail!

“This looks damn puffy” said the nurse of Hastings Hospital, “the chances are very likely you have badly sprained your ankle or maybe even broken your ankle.”

Mrs Colliss had to change the position of her foot so she could see the T.V. Mrs Colliss had to take Ocean’s crutches just to get out to Mrs Titter’s car. Mrs Titter drove to the doctors in Taradale. Mrs Colliss was told to go to the Hastings Hospital, so ambulance came and picked her up. Mrs Colliss had to wait for 2-3 hours for her ankle to be checked, lucky it wasn’t broken!

Olympic Learners!!!

By Te Manawa, Pasa, Caitlyn, Shirley, Tommy, Liam, Sam and Tyler.

In the last few weeks the seniors at Bledisloe School have been doing topic swaps. We rotated from room to room. The reason we did it was to learn about Olympic athletes, past and present.

Some of the New Zealand athlete’s that we looked at were Mahe Drysdale, Yvette Williams and Barbara Kendall. The different Athletes from other countries are Jesse Owens, Oscar Pistorious, Mahamad Ali and Nadia Comenci. Shirley from Room 13 told us “She really enjoyed using the laptops to search for information.”

We watched some YouTube videos, gymnastics bloopers in room 11 and Jesse Owens running in Room 12. We also watched some old footage of the Yvette Williams doing the long jump and she broke the world record!!! We watched Mahe Drysdale come third in rowing even when he had a tummy bug, now that is persistence!