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!

Ice Skating

Our class had a blast on the ice today!  

It was great fun having a go (even if some of us were a little bit nervous to start with)!  I loved watching your faces as you learned new skills and gained confidence in yourselves.  You were amazing! 

I was really proud of the great attitude of our team and the fact that no one gave up, even if they fell more than once.

I was especially delighted with the way so many people helped those who were finding it tricky, or just needed a helping hand along the way.  You were really demonstrating all of those CARE values out there today.  

I loved the way some people sang the song from 'Frozen' for us - You shone out there with your beautiful singing voices!    

What a great way to end our school week...  I'm still smiling!

Thanks to Grace for the awesome photography.  :)

Keeping ourselves safe.

KEEPING OURSELVES SAFE.

We began this programme at school this week.  We have learned that many children still can't recall their home phone number/parent's cell phone number, or their home address.

Please work with your children to help them memorise these.  This may save their life one day!

Cross Country Run

Well done to everyone for their awesome effort on Thursday 2nd June at the Cross Country race at Long Bay park.

It was fantastic to see you all giving it your best. Your families will be as proud of you as I am!

Special congratulations to these people who placed in the Top 10 for their age groups:
Riley - 7th
Myka - 5th
Sacha - 7th
Skye - 8th.