Term 3 Week One

Welcome back everyone! We have all had a great break and are ready for the learning adventures ahead of us this term!

We are very sad this week to no longer have Bailey with us in our classroom as he and his family have moved on to Mataura - we wish Bailey all the best and will miss having him with us.

We are, however, very excited to have a new data projector - a short-throw projector - for our interactive whiteboard, thanks to the grant from the Mataura Licensing Trust for ICT in schools. The new projector is much brighter and the items on the board are clearer and easier to see - thanks MLT!!
This week has gone by quickly, aided by the public holiday of ANZAC Day on Wednesday. Many of us attended the Edendale ANZAC service at 8a.m. at which we joined the parade to represent the school, with the Student Council laying a wreath on our war memorial to honour those who served in war to protect us.

Our new novel is called 'Brave Bess' and is written by Kiwi author Susan Brocker, based on the true life story of a New Zealand horse that was sent to the Middle East to help during World War One. We are already amazed at the bravery and strength of character shown by these horses as they faced situations that were so unnatural to them - did you know the horses had to spend 7 weeks standing up when on the ships going over to Egypt?

Our release teacher for this term is Mrs Miller and we worked well with her on Thursday, looking at researching and presenting information on topics beginning with the letter R. There is a wide variety of subjects from red back spiders to the Roman colosseum. We used wikipedia and had to write our information in our words.

On Monday and Tuesday we painted flowers to practice our brushstroke techniques and our colour mixing and proportions. These look really awesome, with four being on display in the office.
Today we began the Always a Leader programme - a series of lessons that help us look at how we can be super-cool leaders and show great skills when working with other people. We learned that it is important first to like yourself, believe in yourself and to not compare ourselves to others as we are all so different and have different strengths and skills.

Remember you can check out a lot of our work on our YouTube channel (the latest additions are based on our Term One inquiry) and also on our individual blogs!!