Young leaders day

On the 30th of May the Student Council went to Dunedin with Mrs Coyle and Mrs Heads for Young Leaders Day.

All of The student Council outside the Dunedin town hall at lunch .

It was held in the Dunedin Town Hall and the theme was 'Train to Play' which means that everything we do should be in preparation for our future. We are building our skills and making choices that will help us reach our long-term goals. The day was all about leadership and how to be a good leader, how to make the right choices and that we need to choose friends who care about us.

Anton asking Pat Buckley from Amped 4 life a question .

Adam Hall telling us about skiing .

The speakers were Alison Shanks (Commonwealth gold medallist and former cycling world champion), Adam Hall (paralympian gold medallist for skiing), Dave Akinson (motivational speaker), Pat Buckley from Amped 4 Life and Allison Mooney (motivational speaker). They all gave us advice about being leaders or reaching our goals.

We also played games and had the chance to ask the speakers questions.  It was an interesting day and I enjoyed it !!!
By Rhiannon


The hosts Alice Gallagher and Charlie Panapa from What Now .  



Alison Shanks showing us her gold medal from wining her cycling race .

Term 2 Week 3

This week the Year Fives are on camp at Edenview for a night. They are doing: drama, dance and art as well as indoor bowls and a bush walk.



Painting by Rhiannon



Back at school we Year Sixes are doing lots of school work. We have made blow-painted autumn tree paintings and written awesome poems to go with them (check them out on our pupil pages through the link below to our wikispace). We have practised our time-telling skills on the Studyladder website.



Laura helps Taya practice her German words



We had another german lesson with Laura - it is really FUN!!! We learnt how to say my brother is... and  my sister  is... and other family words.  We played a board game made by Mrs Coyle, using a ten-sided dice so we could count up to ten in German, and using the days of the week to land on.

We have practised the cross-country course over at the rugby grounds and are all set for Tuesday's race!

By Taya and Mrs Coyle

Term 2

Since the start of Term 2 we have had a new student teacher Miss Owen in the class. She has been taking groups for maths and for miniball as well as helping with our other lessons.

Room 6 had a fish and chip lunch because we got all our class points filled in - we are now working towards going to the Velodrome and having a basket ball session.

For writing some people are writing peoms about endangered New Zealand birds like the Kakapo, Kokako and the Kiwi. Others have been writing about what they would do if they were castaways on a deserted island and the three items they would most wish to have with them.

We did some pastel portraits with Miss P last term - this is Liam's - we have written stories imagining what we think our portraits would say if they could talk.  You can check them out on our personal blogs (which are now working) through the pupil page of our Room Six wikispace website!

Some people have been doing Rippa rugby coaching with Menzies College pupils to get ready for the Rippa Tournament being held in Riversdale on May. If we win we will have the chance to go to the national final in Auckland.

Our inquiry is about technology and we are looking at how technology changes.  We have decided technology is man-made solutions to meet a need (not just things that need electricity).

By Rhiannon