Ski 2016

Every Friday students from Opuke and some Year 4 students travel to Mount Hutt for Ski option. We leave at 11 to be in time for a lesson at 12.30. Each student is required to take a lesson from an instructor for one and a half hours. During these lessons they learn ski technique which they can then practise during free ski time with their group and adult. We have children who range from a level one ability right up to level 6. Three teachers accompany the students each week as well as a number of parents.

Speech Competition

Term three is speech time. All term the children have been busy writing and practising their speech hes. The children were required to write a persuasive speech and everybody delivered their speech to a group of their peers. While some kids loved delivering their speech, others were very nervous but everybody was an MPS STAR .

On Wednesday this week we held our year 5 and 6 speech finals competition. We had 11 students presenting. Congratulations to  our winners:

3rd equal - Emily Watson and Hugh Redfern
2nd place - Lucy Reeve
1st place - Toby Robinson

Toby will be going on to represent us at the Rotary speech competition in Ashburton. Toby will be up against winners from other schools in out district.

Clockwise from left  Andy- why dinosaurs shouldn't be brought back to life   Hugh - why I need a holiday from my sister

Toby - why teachers should wear a uniform   Emily - why the price of lollies should be increased

Caleb - why we shouldn't wear school uniform   Jonty - why the Olympics should not be held in Rio

Genna - why we should all live on the moon    Zanthe - why we shouldn't wear school uniform

Top: Lucy- why you shouldn't trust a pigeon   Middle:  Abi- why homework should be banned  Bottom: Ben - why dairy farming is the best

Commenting on the blog

Commenting on the blog is a great way to give feedback to other children about their work. Below are some guidelines for blog comments (sourced from Rakaia - mahitahi blog) You can check out their blog from the link on the right or follow the link here

What makes a good Comment?

All Comments need to provide Constructive Feedback.  Comments must follow these guidelines:

1.  Appropriate language must be used, i.e. no put downs.  Your comment must be posted as a personal response (“I” statement) and the comment should be justified.  For example, “I think you have presented your point of view well because …” rather than, “Awesome work”.

2. Comments must be positive & helpful and be structured in the following way e.g what you liked:
“I like the way you … because …”  
"I liked the way you used adjectives to describe the animals."
"I liked how you used a video to present your book review."

3. Write about your feelings, opinions, ideas - Your comment should make the poster think!  For example: 
"It would be interesting to …”
"What would happen if …”
"I agree/disagree because …”
“I think next time perhaps … because ...”
“Next time would you consider …"

4. Or you could ask a question to clarify something in the post, for example:
"What programme did  you use to make the video?"
"What problems did you have making it?"
"What are you proud of?"
"What might you do differently next time?"

Golden Gladiators SWAY

This group have been doing a concept-based inquiry on form and function. This is the SWAY that we all contributed to. We have written some information reports on an animal we created from scratch. We have described it's FORM and the FUNCTION of its adaptations.

Maths has been looking at perimeter and area of shapes. This exercise required us to estimate how many people we could fit in 1 squared meter.

We checked and then estimated how many we could fit in 4 squared meters. It worked out that we squeezed 4x the number of people in 4 squared meters, about 52. How many people did we fit in 1 squared meter?

Mr Campbell was showing his domestic chores in Barhill with our science experiment. We were trialling how to write a secret messages using lemon and vinegar.

IMAP- Wearable Arts

This term students could choose their IMAP class, the following pictures are from the Wearable Arts class.

Students have designed a garment to make using recyclable materials. There are dresses, skirts, briefcases. masks, jewellery and more. Scroll down to check out just a few of them.

IMAP - Mia and Milly planning their Wearable Arts Creation

                                 Stefan is creating a mask using a balloon and paper mache .

Steffi, Lucy and Gemma are designing a magicians briefcase using paper mache.

 

                                 Rachel putting her sewing skills to test as she create her skirt.

Hannah is designing her headbands.

                                      Jessie had her grandma stop in to help with her flax skirt

Charlotte and Abby work together to make her Hatmet (hat + helmet = hatmet)

                                   Maggie and Victoria start adding details to their sac dress

Dress design by Lilli and Rebecca

Gardening on a rainy day

Today is it absolutely bucketing down outside and is FREEZING COLD. A nice day if you are a dairy cow but not if you are a group of kids!  We put the rest of the group to work on some self-regulated learning (the weather is  also not good for building skate ramps and such).

What to do....what to do.  we got the girls onto the drill, drilling holes in gumboots for our succulent area. Caitlyn, Emily, Aisling, Juliet and Gabby were in their element.

Here the girls are potting the gumboots with the cacti and succulent mix. Thanks to Toby and George who also helped but were a little camera shy.

Gardening Group

We worked hard spreading  pea straw around the gardens.

 

We put down some of the year three's mosaics

and sorted them around five tyres for succulents by room 5.

 

We mixed (very stinky) bokashi, leaves,

 wood chips and pea straw to make compost.

 

These tyres mark where we're going to

 put fruit trees around the scooter track.

Here we are digging out some swan plants to plant in the butterfly garden.

 

Cross country

The rain stayed away on Tuesday May 17th for the annual Cross Country event hosted by Lauriston School. We all piled in cars or the bus (the less said about the popped wheel the better) and headed on down to the course with butterflies partying hard in many stomachs. We planted ourselves under our flag. Look how many of us there are!

  Here are a few pictures of us BEFORE our event. Look how happy and excited we are. Most of us are even sitting up! Amazing.

 Go Maggie!

Here comes the winner  of the Year 6 girls' race...HANNAH HAYES! Well done Hannah.

AFTER the race. Note the horizontal position of some!

Cross Country Results

Year 6 Results (Boys)

Name                                                                                   School

Name	School
1st Oskar Trafford	Lauriston
2nd Jonty King	Methven
3rd Patrick Duff	Methven
4th Alex Mackle	Lauriston
5th Jack Brown	Methven
6th Patrick Currie	Methven
7th Hunter Lill	Methven
8th Leo G	Methven
9th Lochlain Hall	Methven
10th Jack Irwin	Lauriston

Year 6 Results (Girls)

Name                                                                                  School

Name	School
1st Hannah Hayes	Methven
2nd Maggie Hood	Methven
3rd Naomi Taylor	Methven
4th Samantha Roberts	Methven
5th Milly Farrell	Methven
6th Hannah Wareing	Methven
7th Makayla Hulme	Lauriston
8th Brooke Clark	OLs
9th Victoria Talbot	Methven
10th Paige Humm	Methven

Cross Country Results

Year 5 Results (Boys)

Name                                                                                   School

Name	School
1st Ben Walker	Methven
2nd George Fulton	Methven
3rd Henry King	Lauriston
4th Will Lemon	Lauriston
5th Cooper Perham	Methven
6th Tom McKenzie	Lauriston
7th Keith Batt	Lauriston
8th Zane Harmer	Methven
9th Jack Foster	Methven
10th Toby King	Methven

Year 5 Results (Girls)

Name                                                                                  School

Name	School
1st Nikita Burton	Lauriston
2nd Bella Casey-Solly	Lauriston
3rd Shellie Ermio	Lauriston
4th Alice Miers	Lauriston
5th Rose Dargue	Lauriston
6th Lucy Reeve	Methven
7th Sienna McGinity	Methven
8th Charli Hellyer	Lauriston
9th Rachel Keith	Methven
10th Steffi Furndorfler	Methven

Name

School

1^st Oskar Trafford

Lauriston

2^nd Jonty King

Methven

3^rd Patrick Duff

Methven

4^th Alex Mackle

Lauriston

5^th Jack Brown

Methven

6^th Patrick Currie

Methven

7^th Hunter Lill

Methven

8^th Leo G

Methven

9^th Lochlain Hall

Methven

10^th Jack Irwin

Lauriston

Name

School

1^st Hannah Hayes

Methven

2^nd Maggie Hood

Methven

3^rd Naomi Taylor

Methven

4^th Samantha Roberts

Methven

5^th Milly Farrell

Methven

6^th Hannah Wareing

Methven

7^th Makayla Hulme

Lauriston

8^th Brooke Clark

OLs

9^th Victoria Talbot

Methven

10^th Paige Humm

Methven

Name

School

1^st Ben Walker

Methven

2^nd George Fulton

Methven

3^rd Henry King

Lauriston

4^th Will Lemon

Lauriston

5^th Cooper Perham

Methven

6^th Tom McKenzie

Lauriston

7^th Keith Batt

Lauriston

8^th Zane Harmer

Methven

9^th Jack Foster

Methven

10^th Toby King

Methven

Name

School

1^st Nikita Burton

Lauriston

2^nd Bella Casey-Solly

Lauriston

3^rd Shellie Ermio

Lauriston

4^th Alice Miers

Lauriston

5^th Rose Dargue

Lauriston

6^th Lucy Reeve

Methven

7^th Sienna McGinity

Methven

8^th Charli Hellyer

Lauriston

9^th Rachel Keith

Methven

10^th Steffi Furndorfler

Methven

Hannah

Maggie

Cross

Friday Sport

On Fridays we have our sport option. Mr Straight and Mrs Robinson take a rugby group and Miss Leonard and Mrs Warburton take the netball group. In each group there are "experts" and those that have never played the sport before - this means that our experts get to share their skills and knowledge with the rest of the group.

We can't tell who these people are but it looks like fun!

Fergus, Cooper, Charlie and A.J practise their chest passes. Silver Fern call up any day now chaps!

Floyd, Caitlyn and Hunter showing off some skills

Last Friday the rugby group had a visiting expert Brenton Connell who came to share his coaching expertise with the kids. Thanks for giving up your time Brenton to help us out.

Nice pass to the face Victoria! Our visiting expert Brenton.

Sienna and Paige try out for the Black Ferns

Sam and Steffi in the thick of it.