Safe Cycling

The seniors have started doing Safe Cycling.

Yesterday we had to bring our bike and helmet to school.

Our first activity yesterday was checking our bikes and making sure that they are safe. Some of the things we checked were:

The tyres, making sure they weren’t flat.
Our helmet, making sure it fitting on our head correctly.
Brakes, make sure they work.
Handle bars, making sure they are straight.

We then did some laps of the court and we had to make sure that we stayed on the white line. This was really hard for some of us!

Today we are about to go out to the field and practicing turning and stopping safely.

By Micayela, Bryce and Shohei

Art - Taking a dot for a walk.

On Friday we did some art.

It was called taking a dot for a walk.

We were given a big piece of paper and a black pastel.

We closed our eyes and put one finger on our nose. Our other hand had the pastel on the paper ready to draw.

Mrs Colliss read out the instructions as we went along. We traced our finger around our face, so we knew what to draw. As we touched a part of our face we drew it onto the page. Keeping our eyes closed.

Once we had finished we opened our eyes to see our Picasso!

They were very creative!

Some were hard to tell they were even faces.

Then we used a range of bright coloured pastels to colour the pictures. They look pretty cool but weird.  

By Sam, Jonathan, Tahlia, Nick
 

Calendar Art

Calendar Art is when we produce a piece of art that is made into calendars, diaries and card that our parents and families can then buy.

We decided to do pictures of either a parrot or an owl, most people picked owls.

Our first step was to paint the background either grey or blue. Grey for the owl pictures and blue for the parrots.

The second step was to add the clouds to our background. The technique that we used was one we learnt at camp when visiting the art gallery. You use a stencil that has cloud shapes on it, paint and a brush to carefully paint clouds.

Step three was to draw the bird on a separate piece of paper. We had lined bird drawings from the internet to help us out.

The next step was the colouring of the birds, bright colours for the parrots and darker colours for the owls.

Step five was to carefully cut the birds out. Mrs Colliss did this step for lots of people.

Depending on what your bird was doing, some people had to add a branch into their picture.

The final part was to glue it all together.

 By Te Ahu, Michael and Caleb

 

 

Optimist yachting!

The year 6's went optimist yachting last week. We were in groups of 3.

Day one was a good first day for sailing. The wind was in a constant direction which made learning to sail easy. Today we worked with a partner and sailed from one side to the other having turns with the third person on the bank. At the end of that day we felt confident to try again tomorrow

. Day two, the conditions were slightly different. The wind was going north today, which made sailing similar to yesterday. Today started with the same activity as yesterday for a warm up. After that we did a block challenge which involved Mr Papuni using the motor boat to spread out wooden blocks that were lettered in the water. Groups then had to collect as many blocks as they can. Mrs Colliss choose a secret letter which would give that group a bonus point (it was unsurprisingly C). The winning team was, Liam, Pasa and Wayne. With a total of 6 blocks! 

Day three, conditions were dodgy! We weren’t sure whether we would be able to go or not. Then weather down at the pond was ok so off we went. We started with the same warm up and then the block challenge. The wind started to change and pick up. So we headed back in to shore. Humo and Ethan capsized but were resilient and got it sorted and kept sailing. The winner was Isabel, because she collected the ones that had come into shore! Mr P and Mrs C decided that the conditions weren’t so good so we called it a day. We Tidied up and came back to school.

 

The first two days were outstanding and the third day was ok. It was a great experience and we can’t wait to do it at intermediate.

 

Written by Liam and Tommy

Kapa Haka Festival

  

 

As we walked into the hall the audience were talking. We sat down on the tiered seating, waiting for the other schools.

After months of practice we were finally at the Taradale schools Kapa Haka festival. We looked awesome, girls in their red dresses and boys in their black shorts.

Other schools performed on stage as we sat quietly aware that everyone could see us. Most of us were really nervous but excited at the same time. For some of us it was our first time performing at the yearly festival.

The room 13 who performed at the festival were;

·       Isabelle

·       Justis

·       Liam

·       Te Ahu

·       Seth

·       Tahlia

·       Micayela

·       Kairon

We performed some songs with all the schools as well as the boys doing a haka.

Our performance was outstanding, especially on the second night. Mrs Colliss said she wished she had gone the second night not the first.

We still have one more event to look forward to this year, this is a festival at the Hastings Sports Ground.

We look forward to photos from this event.

Term 4 Already!

Digi Awards

Earlier in the year a group of Bledisloe Students submitted photos to be entered in the Digi awards. I, Humo was lucky enough to have my photo make it through to the finals. It was Highly Commended.

Mrs Colliss, Mrs Geddis and Mrs Bevis picked me up from my house and we went over to the Hastings Opera House. When we went inside I was assigned to my special seat and we saw a slide show of the photos which made it into the finals.

When the announcing started it was for graphic design. We saw heaps of cool examples of students work from a selection of Taradale schools.

 Finally it was time for the year 5 & 6 photo section. I was called to the stage. As I walked across the red carpet my photo was projected on the stage. I was awarded a certificate and had my official photo taken.

We then saw the winners of animation and short films.

Lastly there was a supreme winner, the prize was an iPad, this was won by a girl from Taradale Intermediate.

It was a very competitive competition and I look forward to entering again next year.

Humo's amazing photo.

Recieving the Highly Commended award.

PrEp

PrEP is coming up. For those that don’t know, PrEP stands for Primary Enterprise Programme. Throughout the year we have been earning bleds which are used during PrEP as the currency to buy supplies for our companies. We have to make either a good or provide a service, then we have a market day at the end for the rest of the school to come shopping. So far we have talked about needs and wants, and most maths classes are doing financial literacy.
We will update when we start production.

This is a highlight of the year for lots of people.

Government

An extra part of PrEP this year is the government.

There are different roles, these are Prime Minister, Deputy Prime Minister, Market Planners, Treasurers, Chief Justices, and M.P.’s.

Students had to be nominated for the roles. Those who were standing for Prime Minister had to give a speech that told people why they would be good in that role. We then held the election. The election officers counted the votes.

The winning people were

Prime Minister: Tipene Deputy: Hermione

Market Planners: Lucca and Reone

Chief Justices: Wayne and Kayla

The Treasure’s are: Humo, Bryce and Kingsley.

The M.P.’s are Ethan, Alannah and Alecia.

The government then meet at the think tank with Mrs Devine where we began to talk about the roles and learnt more about the NZ government.

Then the M.P’s had to write a letter to our teaching asking for a meeting time for people to talk if they have any problems.

We meet again next week.

By Ethan.

Chess  

Five past eight was the time to be at room 8. We were all excited about the upcoming tournament. It was the interschool chess competition. We have been training for many terms and after 2 dates the day was finally here.

We split up into groups and were driven to the Hastings Sports Centre on Railway Road. We entered the centre, registered and given a number which was written on our hand. The first number was your year number, the second was the registration number, the last number was where your name was on the board.

We climbed a flight of stairs and were faced with 2 basketball courts filled with tables which each had 3 chest sets on them.

We had to wait ages until all the competitors arrived. There were well over three hundred kids from schools throughout Hawkes Bay.

We played five games throughout the day. Each game was restricted to 20 minutes. After each game we had a 20 minute break.

There were some sore hands and eyes at the end of the competition. Even some sore bottoms from sitting for so long!

Room 13 had four people competition.

Humo won 3 games and had a draw, this secured him fourth equal place.

Caleb won 3 games.

Ethan won 2 of his games.

Jonathan won 1 game.

It was Caleb, Ethan and Jonathan’s first year competing at the competition. It was Humo’s fourth time.

It was a great day.

Room 13 Chess players

 

The Indian Paper Decoration Demonstration.

'We are going to the hall to get creative' we were told.
When we got to the hall we were greeted by an Indian man named Kumar.  All he had with him was some coloured tissue paper and a pair of scissors. He wowed us straight away with his paper creations. He used no glue just the coloured tissue to create awesome flowers and decorations.
He showed us about 4 designs and then told us about a book he would have on sale tomorrow that will give step by step instructions for 15 of his designs. This will be $4.

Humo thanked him for visiting and inspiring us. We returned to class and after a quick google search found a video of Kumar making his flowers on YouTube. We then attempted to recreate some of his creation. We had mixed results and made a massive mess!
A random yet interestin afternoon.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mRZ12GYPRaY

What we've been up to since camp...

School Cross Country

Last week we had our school cross-country. Room 13 were awesome and we can proudly report that members of Room 13 won each of the four senior races.

Here are the results of the top 8 in each group.

Year 5 girls

1^st Kayla     4^th Micayela

Year 5 boys

1^st Jack      2^nd Kairon      6^th Bryce     8^th Nick

Year 6 girls

1^st Kimberley      2^nd Shirley

Year 6 boys

1^st Tommy     5^th Liam

The top 6 in each race will compete at the interschool competition. 

Inter-School Cross Country

We all thought the race would be cancelled because it was starting to rain and was really cold, but no it was on.

We all sat on the deck getting our final instructions, no one needed to be reminded to go and get their jersey because it was so cold!

We piled into cars and were driven to Park Island. When we arrived we set up our camp area, which would be our base. As we were waiting for our race we sat together and cheered on those already running. As we were watching we felt a mixture of excitement and nervousness.

Our race was called up; we took off our jerseys and prepared ourselves for the race. Over to the start line we went, trying not to fall over already.

Ready.  Set.  BANG!

The pushes, I mean race begun.

The hardest part was trying not to slip over or be pushed over. There were just so many people it was crazy! One bonus of the coldness was that our feet were so numb we couldn’t feel the sticks and stones under or feet.

As we crossed the finish line we felt a mixture of pride and pure exhaustion. What a cool day, in more ways than won!

Written by Kayla, Te Ahu and Kairon.

 Life Education

 As we approached the Life Education trailer the excitement rose. Anne came out to meet us and invited us inside.

In the session we learnt about the qualities of a good friend. We talked about the difference of being friendly and a friend. We should be friendly to everyone so they are friendly back to us and it is the right thing to do. We watched a short movie about a group of girls that were having friendship issues; we didn’t see how they solved the problem

When we go back later in the week we are going to find out how they resolved the problem and also more about friendships.

 

UPDATE: We just got back from the life education van. Today we learnt about bulling, we learnt about what it means. This is a catchy message to help us remember.

S-several

T - times

0 - on

P- purpose

and also if you see bulling happening,

S - start

T - telling

O - other

P -people

 

By Sam, Bryce and Michael.

Choir Festival

Tonight is the opening of the choir festival. Students from the Taradale schools will meet together in the Taradale Intermediate hall. All school choirs sing the same songs, that hundreds of people!

After months of practicing our singing and dancing we will perform to our parents and teachers in two shows, one tonight and one tomorrow night.

Some of the favourite songs that we have learnt are, Believe it or not by Joey Scarbury and Surfin Safari by the Beach Boys. Two Bledisloe students sing a solo for Believe it or not, and one of those people is from room 13! Go Isabelle!

A group of dancers, do a dance while the choir sings Footloose.  

We are really looking forward to tonight after so many months of hard work.

Written by Shirley and Nikita.

Camp Wellington 2013

We've just come back from an amazing week of adventure and learning in Wellington. Here are a few photos of our highlights.

Spooner Shield

Everyone was excited. The rain held off. The Spooner Shield was on!

Yesterday Bledisloe School hosted the Spooner Shield for the 57^th year! (Wow!)

 For those who don’t know Spooner Shield is an all-day tournament for Taradale area schools to compete for the Spooner Shield. The competing schools were

·      Bledisloe

·      Taradale

·      Reignier

·      Puketapu

·      Tamatea

·      Arthur Millar

·      Porritt

·      Greenmeadows

 

The events were

·      Rugby

·      Hockey

·      Girls soccer

·      Boys soccer

·      Year 5 netball

·      Year 6 netball

Everyone in the senior school was involved, either playing or helping.

Rugby

We were undefeated! We got 28 out of 28 points for the day, which meant we won the trophy; this is the first time in 17 years Bledisloe has won it.

It was a day full of highlights, Ethan got his first ever try for Bledisloe, Liam got an amazing runaway and Tommy scored a try right on the whistle against Greenmeadows, which secured the win.

When we won the last game and released we had won every game we erupted in cheering and chanted BLEDISLOE!

Hockey

The hockey team had an amazing day! We won 6 of our 7 games, drawing the 7^th. We did not let our opposing team score any goals!  Every win gave us 4 points and the draw gave us 2, this gave us a total of 26 points out of a possible 28! This meant we won the hockey trophy, which the school has never won before.

It was exciting to find out that we had won. We were all really proud of ourselves even though we were exhausted when we got home. What a day!

 

 Girls Soccer

We started off the day full of energy with a positive attitude. Throughout the day we worked together better and better. Unfortunately we didn’t have a win but had plenty of draws and just a couple of loses. Amazingly some of our team then played afterschool soccer as well! It was a great day and we are looking forward to Spooner next year already.

Boys Soccer

To soccer boys had a similar day to the girls but managed to pull one win against Tamatea. A highlight for all was when Tiaki scored our only goal for the day. The whole team worked well together and we had a really good day. Hopefully next year’s team have a few more wins.

 Netball

The netballers had a challenging day filled with winning, losing and draws. They all played really well together. Nikita and Samantha both supported these teams by helping take the scores.

Helpers

The helpers were a really important part of yesterday. Some of their jobs were.

·      Taking score cards to the refs and then returning them to the office.

·      Being the official time keeper

·      Taking photos throughout the day

·      Helping with the food stall

All our helpers enjoyed their day, and were still thankful to be involved in the day.

It was an awesome day for all!

Art Days

On Thursday and Friday of last week we had an art adventure.

We started off the day finishing our sunflower painting. These were done using Indian ink and water colour paint. They were observational drawing based on the sunflowers we have grown in our class.

We read the book The Nickle Nackle Tree by Lynley Dodd, the same author as Hairy Maclary. We drew some of the birds from the book, painted them bright, bold colours, outlined them with vivid and carefully cut them out. We carefully glued them onto our giant tree that we made. We added the final details with vivid.

In the afternoon, a visiting art teacher came and took us on an art adventure, we couldn’t make a mistake. We had to divide the page into 9 squares. In the top left we did a scribble without taking the crayon off the page. The middle top we took or crayon for a walk, all the lines had to be straight. The top right was fill of spirals, we couldn’t lift the pencil off the page. The middle square had 4 lines which made a mountain and a river. On either side we extended the lines. On the bottom left and right we drew some sunflower leaves, and again we couldn’t take the crayon off the page. In the final square we had drew 2 koru.

In the top 3 squares we could only use blue and white paint. We had to mix them to make shades so you could see the pattern. It was really tricky but everyone did a great job.

For the middle 3 square we carried on doing the sky with the blue and white. For the hills we added in yellow paint, and had to mix our own greens, so we got a range of colours and showed textures with the colours.

The final 3 squares we did the background green and then coloured the objects with red and yellow paint.

We are really proud of what we came up with. It was cool how they looked really random to start with then they came together and looked awesome.

On Friday afternoon 6 room 13 people got to go and do an extra art session with Rei. These people were Kayla, Kimberley, Samantha, Jonathan, Te Ahu and Kairon. During this session they used sign maker vinyl to make Taradale inspired tiles. An interesting fact for the vinyl was, every square metre of it is worth $1000. They will be finishing these off next term.

It was a great art day and a bit J