Congratulations to Patrick who was the only finalist from our school for the MADE awards – and who won the whole category!! The prize? A Lumix underwater camera worth $330!
He entered a static image ‘Eyes’ which included another member of Room 5, Alex. The photo was taken at the Quarry during Term 3′s photography unit!

Well done!!

Check out the other winners - www.madeawards.com

Welcome back to a short term filled with learning!
We started the term by learning about the Rena disaster and illustrated our feelings with pastels.
Check out our slideshow full of awesome art!

Congratulations to Eden for winning the Western Bay of Plenty Speech Competition!

Eden was runner up at the North Cluster speeches, and due to the first place speaker being unable to go to WBOP, Eden stepped up to the challenge.

The competition was tough, but she took out the competition for the Year 5 section!

Well done Eden, you are AWESOME!!

Today, 30th September, we got the opportunity to experience golf through Sports BOP.

Tim taught us all to swing properly and we hit a variety of different balls. Some were better than others at accuracy and distance!

A lot of skilled children amongst us… perhaps the next Tiger Woods???

The Rugby World Cup has hit New Zealand and we as a school and class are celebrating!

We dressed in black to support our team – the mighty All Blacks!

Room 5 is becoming more and more connected with the world!

Mrs T signed us all up to www.epals.com, a site where we can connect with others around the world.

We are all very excited to be emailing an international school in Indiana, USA!

Through this we will be able to share our culture, share New Zealand to the world and help us to become connected, collaborative learners!

Watch this space!

This term we are learning about Argentina.

Part of our learning was about food. From this Mrs T gave out the challenge to create original Empanada fillings. In teams of 4 or 5, the children chose a range of meat, fruit, vegetables, herbs and spices to try out.

Each group made 30 mini-empanadas which were judged by the,  Mrs Thompson, Mr Joe, Mrs Webster and Mr Broadhurst.

There were a range of sweet and savoury and they were all DELICIOUS!!

The winning team were Stella, Samuel, Javan, Keely and Daniel with their combination of apple, berries, cinnamon, chocolate and pears! Yummy!!

The Year 5/6′s have been learning about Food and Nutrition – looking at labels, sugar and fat content of different foods and drinks.

As part of this unit, we visited Brookfield New World and looked at a range of foods and labels. We were surprised by the amount of sugar in some foods and cereals!

Thanks to Naomi from Foodstuffs for talking to us and organising our trip – as well as giving us a $50 voucher to buy our own food!

Watch out Mum and Dad’s cupboards!!! The food police are about to visit!…

Check out the amazing creatures that emerged out of Room 5 on Freaky Friday!

Ghosts, ghouls, vampires and generally creepy looking critters filled the classroom!

Well done Room 5!

The Year 5/6′s had their camp in Rotorua on the 22-25th March. It was so awesome in fact, that we made a video (well, Mrs T did…) about some of the things we did.
Check out the main page for photos and a blurb about what we did.