Halloween Outfits

Our technology challenge was to design and create an outfit using only newspaper and sellotape. Here are our final products.

Sophie adding to Neo's outfit

Issy the witch

Nate creating Jamie's outfit

Molly looking really impressed with her outfit

Sam modelling his group's effort

Jayden a seasoned pro modeller

Ella looking fearsome and stylish

Neo working his zombie look

But who is this?

Speech competition

We have completed our class speech competition and they children made it extremely difficult for me to judge the finalists. Our senior school finals are Thursday 10.30am in the hall.

The Year 5 finalists are:

1st - Sam
2nd - Issy
3rd - Piper B

They were judged on the content of their speech, how the speech was written (opening sentence, key points with examples, conclusion), how they presented their speech, were they confident and audience interest.

Our Year 6 finalists are:

1st - Safiya
2nd - Ella
3rd = George and Logan

We had the finals on Thursday and all the finalists were amazing. Well done to everyone. We had 2 placings with Ella coming 2nd in the Yr 6 category and Issy getting 3rd out of the Yr 5's. 

Well done to Julius and Heathcliff who gained 1st places in their categories.

Athletics Day

Athletics Day was held last week and it turned out to be a great day. Room 26 had many outstanding results with lots heading off to Zones next week. Good luck to you all. To see the final results click here: ATHLETICS RESULTS

Check out our slideshow of photos from the day.

Speeches

We have 1 week left to keep learning our speeches. Just a reminder that our class competition is on Monday 4 November (next week). Our senior team finals are to be held next Thursday.

Halloween...oh spooky!

Yes we are very excited in Room 26 as Halloween approaches. Yes we also realise this isn't really a New Zealand 'thing' to celebrate but we just like dressing up!

Here are some of our Halloween silhouette artwork we have just completed.

Sumdog National Contest

Keep practising your maths skills! We are currently sitting 12th in NZ overall, the 2nd school from Christchurch. Well done all those who have been playing. Here are our top students.

Sailor Extraordinaire

We may have just found the next future Dean Baker!

Logan entered the Canterbury age group sailing regatta over the weekend.  He won the 10-11yr olds division and came 3rd overall in the optimist class.  This is his first time he has entered and only the 2nd time he's raced sinced learning to sail last summer. Well done Logan!

Sumdog holiday champions!

Congratulations to Holly and Kayla for getting on Sumdog and practising their maths knowledge over the holidays! Well done! Who will be next weeks holiday champion?

Strike Percussion

We were so lucky to have the group "Strike Percussion" come to school to share parts of their show. They had just finished performing at the Christchurch Arts Festival. It was loud and amazing! They even used flame to make a beat and rhythm!

Here is a taste of what we were treated to.

Thanks Buddies!

To say thanks for helping the new entrant children with their first visits and their first weeks at school Room 4 put on a morning tea for us at the end of the term. We really love coming and looking after our buddies but we also love morning tea! Thanks Room 4!

Thanking us for all our help

Room 4 singing us a song

Enjoying the food

Mad Scientists

Ella and Stan Walker

Ella went to see Stan Walker on Thursday night and had a photo with him. Here it is.

Thomas in France

This is a picture of Thomas and his family at the top of the London Shard.

Crazy weather last night

WINDY! Hope everyone managed to get some sleep last night. My husbands BBQ ended up crashing into his work truck which made him a little grumpy. Here's a photo from Triny's place.

Book Week

Week 5 was Book week. On the Monday of Book Week we had a whole school dress up day - come as your favourite book character. Piper B and Sam won a prize for best dressed Yr 5! Well done to everyone who put in the effort to dress up.

Mr McKenzie as a spider?

Thing 1 & Thing 2

Safiya

Henry, Thomas and Jacob

Tweedle Dum and The Ice Princess

Bilbo Baggins , Cat in the Hat and Effie Trinket

Book week characters

Football Festival

Last week was our last football session. The girls were split from the boys and a few White Ferns helped run some games. The boys also were split into teams and they played a mini tournament. Here are some photos from the afternoon.

The girls were also given a certificate, postcards and signatures!

Miss Archbold having a bit of fun!

CBD trip

Today the senior school went on a trip into the Christchurch CBD. First we hopped in the bus and went to the museum to meet up in our groups. Then we got the maps and scavenger hunt and went exploring the CBD. We went to the city council building where Zach's dad works. There were stepping stones going up to the building and most people climbed them for fun. We also went to the Square and found out about the first four ships that sailed  into Lyttelton. We also saw the broken cathedral and read about the new things that are coming to the Christchurch Square. We also went into the new cathedral made out of cardboard (one of the coolest parts of the day). We were all tired and hungry when we came back to school.  Thanks for the parents who came!

By Neo

The stepping stones outside the city council building

A cairn in the square - this was used to mark a safe passage across rivers

Posing for the camera in the Square

Outside the new cardboard cathedral

Oversized lounge suite

Inside the new cathedral

Inside the cathedral looking up at the ceiling