Term 2 Weeks 6 & 7

Kia ora tatou!

Another busy couple of weeks has passed, with only three more until the holidays!

This week we welcomed two new pupils to Room Kokako: Tyla has joined us from Riversdale School and Nic has joined us from Hillside School. We are thrilled to have both of you with us and hope you enjoy your time here at Edendale Primary School!

Sadly today we farewell our good friend and classmate Sam Bastion as he and his family head off to Central Otago. We will miss Sam's entertainment and wish him all the very best for the future!

Last week we held the Lower Mataura Valley schools' cross-country over at the Edendale Recreation Grounds. Congratulations to all the Room Kokako pupils who gave this race their very best of effort and persistence and well done to those who were placed in the top six of their race. It was really good to be able to put all our hours of practice into the actual race, and we are all very pleased with our achievements of finishing the race to the best of our ability.

We are especially proud of Marina and Thomas who each won their respective boys or girls race, with Marina being the fastest girl and Thomas being the fastest boy!

Heading off to the Southland crosscountry next week will be Thomas, Marina, William, Jake, Brittany, and Freya. Good luck crew!

Miss Van den Beld has finished week two of her three week posting; she has got us started on writing our speeches (which are arguments on a topic), creating robot-themed cardboard prints, learning about time and number patterns for maths, as well as setting up some experiments to grow mould and see what conditions mould grows best in.



Gabby, Brittany and Maddy get their prints made.

Last week we had eight students head to Invercargill for the SouthSpell competition (involving spelling, antonyms, synonyms, homophones, Maori words etc). Shaz, Gabby, Kieran and Sarah's team were placed 9th= out of the 35 teams, while William, Maria, Caitlin and Renee's team was placed 19th in the field. Great effort to both teams - a wonderful chance to try out your spelling skills!


Team 2 in action!

Our bird feeders have been created and are ready to be tested - we will check them out on Monday to see what the birds think!


Sam and his bird feeder!

 


Josh R was this week's VIP.

Have a great weekend everyone!