Last week we had our Sevens Tournament at Katikati College. We had team entered in Netball, Rugby, Basketball and Soccer. It was a fun day and each team had some wins and losses. Congratulations to Year 5 basketball who go forward to the next round.

Thursday night The Bay Maths competition was held at Otumoetai Intermediate School. There were 32 teams from 22 schools and we entered two teams, 6a was Ewan, Grace and Ben while 6B had Caitlyn, Joost and Nathan. It was thrilling for them to come 9th and 11th, well done everyone. The best news was Ewan won the Individual Award, a top effort and carrying on from last years success.

This week we welcomed Miss Luithardt to our class for the next twelve weeks. She is from Stuttgard in Germany and is here to learn about our New Zealand schools. She is hoping to teach us some German,be involved in sports and teach us German songs and lots more. This week she helped us with fitness and wore black on our All Black day./>

The new term has already been very busy. We have had a visit from ‘Educate Me’ where we learnt about Rainforests and what is happening to them. Along with Mr Joe’s lesson we discovered how important rainforests are to our planet.
The choir performed at Bay Court with many other schools. Well done to you all.
While the choir was busy the rest of us did some Technology. We built a tower using spaghetti and marshmallows. Look at the results

Russian Cooking on PhotoPeach

To end our Russian study we all helped prepare food which the Russian people often eat. Yulia Wagner who is Russian, shared with us what it was like to grow up in Russian and then helped us cook pan cakes, ravioli, salad and zebra cake. It was lovely tasting all the food. Thanks to the parents who helped us.

What a night we had.

It was amazing to see what a whole school could do together. Each class performed a great item about  a country which is involved in the Rugby World Cup. We learnt about Russia,finding out about their geography, history, schools, language, culture and cooking. For our item the boys performed a Cossock Dance and the girls the Trokia. Katie performed a solo ballet of Russian ballet.

Last term we had two Year 5 and 6 teams enter the Small Schools Young Einstein Competition. Our teams came 1st and 2nd and went on to the WBOP final. Congratulations to Grace,Lucas, Jack Smith, Russell and Ben B who were place 6th and 14 out of 18.

It was great to see the class all running at the first cross country up at Whakamarama. From that some children went next to North Cluster, this time the race was on a warmer day.

Russell, Tabitha  and Mckenzee went on to race at the Western Bay of Plenty races  where Russell came 6th,Tabitha 7 and Mackenzee 8. Congratulations to you all. Russell and Tabitha went to Bay of Plenty with Russell coming 6th, well done.

Recently we had a visit from Naomi who works for Foodstuffs. She visited each class in our syndicate  and talked to us about the food groups and ways of helping us to stay healthy by eating properly.

The next day we went to Brookfield New World where we spent time examining labels of different foods to see what they had in each category per 100g. It was a neat way to learn and hopefully we didn’t annoy the shoppers. Back in the classroom we looked at our findings and came up with a list of foods we should eat.

We will now help our parents buy the correct food!

To begin the term we were working with statistics which was lots of fun. We learnt how to investigate information,apply questions to information and to use excel for graphing and heaps of other things.

Here we are working on the lap tops with the data projector showing us what to do.