Art/Writing Exhibition, Open day and Jubilee Assembly.

Wow!  What an amazing display of our student's art work and writing there is to view in the hall!
I am so proud of all of the work our class has created over the past few weeks.  It's great to see all of the other class's work too.  Such a variety of art and writing all presented in so many different ways.

I was also really impressed with the cultural groups who shared items with us today at the Jubilee Assembly.  We had students from our class in the Kapa Haka group, Pacifika group and in the Chinese fan dance.  All of them had worked hard to make sure they produced a great performance for our huge audience today!

Thanks also to the parents and family members who visited our classroom during today's open day.  I hope you enjoyed sharing some of the things we do every day.

Speeches.

This term our class prepared speeches at home and shared them with our class.  I was really impressed with the preparation and effort put in to most of these.  It was wonderful to watch everyone confidently get up in front of our class and speak so well.  It was also great to observe the audience being so thoughtful and supportive.  At the end each speech everyone was welcome to contribute their compliments and suggestions.  I was proud of the way you all showed your CARE values and encouraged each other.

Our class voted for the best speeches to go forward as finalists to share our Top 2 speeches with Room 23.  They did the same.  Congratulations to Ethan and William for their well prepared speeches, delivered clearly and confidently.  They both included great information and humour to keep us entertained and informed.  Well done boys!

Preparing for our Torbay School Art and Writing Exhibition in Week 8.

Our class has had a very busy time creating magnificent artworks and writing to share with the school, families and our community during our School's Writing/Art exhibition in Week 8.  This coincides with our school's 60th Jubilee celebrations.   We hope everyone can come along with their families to share and celebrate!

Here are some photos of us preparing work for the exhibition...

Museum Trip

Today we visited the Auckland Museum with Room 23.  We had an awesome time exploring through the galleries and observing the incredible artifacts, artworks and objects, especially in the Maori section.  We made sketches of things that interested us, which we will use to help inspire when we create our own art works.  We enjoyed our time with the educators teaching us about Maori legends and the different parts of the Maori meeting house and the art works within it.

We all enjoyed the Maori culture show, which included beautiful singing, poi and te rakau demonstrations and a spine-tingling haka!

Thanks to all the wonderful parents who helped us on this trip.  We are so grateful that you could come along!

Olympics Fun Day!

Our whole school enjoyed an Olympics Fun Day. We came dressed up in our favourite sports gear and got in to teams from different countries. Mr Wheaton and Mrs Heasley set up lots of fun activities for us to try in the hall.  I wonder who we will see at the Olympic Games in the future from Torbay School?

Gymnastics

We have been having a great time doing gymnastics with Room 23. Check out our skills!

Improving our environment.

Science Inquiry: Is environment important?

This term we studied our indoor and outdoor environments with a view to improving both of these very bare/new parts of the school, while also learning about the science of living things.

Here are some photos to show the Before/After views of our environment...

We were grateful to have had parent/grandparent help on the last week of term to allow Room 22 and 23 children to get outside and work on weeding, planting and creating a bottle garden. During this rotation, everyone also worked with Mrs Bellehewe to learn about the parts of a plant.

We are really delighted with the outcome and look forward to more work being done on these spaces throughout the rest of this year!