Miniball tournament

This week we were excited to travel to Gore to attend a miniball tournament hosted by Callum and Susie from Sport Southland Gore.

This was our chance to get into teams and use all the miniball skills Callum has taught us during the term!

We had a fantastic day and are very grateful to Miss van den Beld, Mrs Knapp, Mrs Ferguson and Ms Luxmoore for coaching a team each - we had three teams in the top eight section for the finals (and are pretty sure the fourth team was ninth!)

Thanks also must go to Mrs Casserly, Mrs Stuart, Mrs Hartley and Mr Miranda for providing cars (as well as the three mothers mentioned earlier).

Here are photos of the teams, and at the bottom you will find a link to a movie of photos and videos from the games:

 

 

 

Term Three Weeks 9 & 10

Just four more days until the holidays and we are all ready for those!

The past two weeks have been so busy, with our senior production happening last Wednesday - two full rehearsals followed by an afternoon performance for the whole school and then an evening performance for a very full audience of parents, siblings, grandparents and friends.

Everyone did an absolutely fantastic job in the show and Mrs C and Miss V are extremely proud of everyone - so proud that they are shouting some treats at a cast party this afternoon while we watch the video of our performance!

During the show Murphy and his friends travelled in the time machine to look for Jo - they visited the early American Indians, the Incas, the ancient Egyptians and the ancient Chinese - only to find that Jo was back at school, having been away eating a burger!  It was an awesome adventure though and every actor did a super job!

You can view photos on our school Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/EdendalePrimarySchool

Or see this slideshow of photos via our You Tube page:

This week we completed episode 4 of Take Two News about our trip to Waituna Lagoon:

Well done to Keryn, Breana and Jacob for their work on this episode!

Tuesday this week will see  us at the Sport Southland miniball tournament in Gore -we will be in four teams, using the skills we have learnt with Callum this term.

On Wed and Thursday we will have sessions in the Life Ed truck with Theresa and Harold, learning about how our brains work and how to look after our brains - very important to know as we will soon be heading off to college!!

Tom was last week's VIP

Jake was last week's Senior MVP for participation

Here's to a good week ahead - remember school finishes at 12pm on Friday.

And good luck to Freya who was selected in the Eastern Southland age-group soccer team for this weekend's South Island Championships! Have fun Freya!

Term 3 Week Eight

Hi-de-ho!  How is everyone? 

The Kokako pupils have had a fantastic week with Miss Van den Beld running the classroom programme, and Mrs C has been catching up with plans for the production and assessments and taking one group for reading.

There have been a few small changes just to keep us on our toes such as new reward systems, different attention signals and, a major change, of having coooperative tables as workspaces (with the option of working on the floor, sitting at a different table each day, or even standing up to work at the taller table). This is something Miss V and Mrs C wanted to trial after seeing it in action at Wanaka Primary School.

We are enjoying the variety and the flexibility to choose where we work, and mostly are using the workspaces to get our work done quickly and quietly.

Allynah was our VIP of the week.

For writing we wrote poems or thankyou letters in regards to our Waituna Lagoon visit and have now begun working on advertisements for our Senior Production.

In reading each group is working on learning about one of the ancient cultures that are visited as part of the Senior Production - the Incas, the American Indians, the Chinese and the Egyptians.  The Epsilon reading group have been reading about whitebaiting.

For maths Miss V's numeracy group is practising their skills with measurement of length and area, with a lot of practical tasks to complete.

Miss V has been introducing us to the various elements of dance and drama, a good build-up to our show, and has been taking the Year 5 & 6 group for singing practice and rehearsals of scene one for the show.  It is all getting very exciting as we get into preparing our costumes and props!

A new Take Two News item was released this week on our You Tube channel...based on the school learning value of PARTICIPATION...well done to Freya, Kobie and Renee for their work on this!

Term 3 Week Seven - Waituna Lagoon

Better late than never! Last week was busy busy and ended with a field trip for our science inquiry.

What an awesome trip we had, visiting the Waituna Lagoon and wetland area with Julie Clifton from Environment Southland.

We headed down there at 9.30 and spent the day looking for the wildlife, checking out the plant life, and then carrying out some tests of the water in the lagoon.

The weather was great and our parent helpers were awesome - thanks to Mr Lindsay, Mr Casserly, Mrs Knapp and Mrs Ferguson for giving us their time to help out!

There will be a Take Two News episode coming up soon and all the photos are here on the Edendale School Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/EdendalePrimarySchool?ref=hl#!/media/set/?set=a.377339852334871.85020.205176349551223&type=1

Keryn was our VIP!

Term 3 Week Six

Kia ora all! What a great spell of weather we have been having - so many sunny days help make our mood a lot brighter and our enthusiasm continues!

Exciting times this week as we held auditions for the main roles in our upcoming Senior Production of Murphy's Marvellous Time Machine.  There were many well-rehearsed young actors and narrators putting themselves forward for the roles available and Mrs Coyle had to hold a few call-backs to help with making the right decisions.

The cast list will be announced this afternoon and that will then mean a busy week ahead as the main actors begin to learn their lines!  We already have singing practice underway and are looking forward to putting everything on show for you on Wednesday 19th September - keep that date free in your diaries!

Jake was our VIP for the week.

This week we began writing explanations about the water cycle - our pieces are coming along nicely, with a lot of use of rhetorical questions as the introductions to get the readers interested in our information!

We are getting ready for our bus trip (next Friday) to the Waituna Lagoon and Wetlands by reading about the area as part of our reading activities - we will be interested to see how this environmental area has an impact on the land and water cycle, and how we impact upon it.

This week we will comment on what we are looking forward to with the Senior Production (or our thoughts about it so far).

Have a good weekend, Room Kokako

Term 3 Week 5

Hi again!

Another week has flown by and we are all ready for the weekend.

This week we have released another episode of Take Two News - this time about our school value of honesty.  It is really good and includes interviews of pupils from other classrooms:

For writing we wrote recounts sharing our experience of a time when we felt success - we have stories about skiing, camp challenges, sports and other activities for you to read on our personal blogs.

We enjoyed miniball again with Callum on Tuesday and also met up with the Year 13s from Menzies College for an afternoon of cooperative games.

We have started putting our names down for the roles we would like to audition for in our Senior Production - singing rehearsals will begin next week!

Well done to the Rippa Rugby team on Sunday for representing our school and showing great enthusiasm and teamwork.  We didn't get a win but did have a lot of fun! Thanks to Caleb Young and Nathan Bee from Menzies College for coaching us.

With Mrs Miller yesterday we used salt dough to make some creations that we will paint when she is here next time. Some of us made our initials, while others made little creatures or objects.  It will be cool to see how they look when they are finished!

Have a good weekend everyone!

Nich was our VIP this week!

Term 3 Week 4 the alternative version (the one where the kids have dictated what to write!)

If we get 2000 hits on our blog we are going to have a hotdog partayyyy people!!!!

Tyla was this week's VIP

Kieran and Josh L have been so naughty this week that they are going to have to come to school on Saturdays for the next three weeks. Considering Sundays as well.

JACOB IS SO CUTE! Mrs C misses him in the weekends.

Brittany wishes to point out that she is awesome - we want to point out we are ALL awesome! But Rhianna is the most awesomemest (apparently) (according to herself) (but we would agree, mostly, sometimes, if she's nice to us) (?)

Our netballers are fantastic - the LMVteam got fifth!!
The soccer players have great footwork skills.
The rugby players are just rough and tough and do enough for a mallowpuff.
Everyone else is just good looking in general - supermodel material you know!

Maria is not sitting still, as usual.

Apparently Devil Burger make the best chocolate smoothies - thick thick thick as! Mrs C has decided she will have to check that out.

Danny C! Nonu nonu nonu!!

Jacob agrees that he is cute.

Shaz keeps talking to herself...should we be worried?

Sarah does not know how to spell habitat - turns out Maddy does not know either!

Kieran is just loud.

Maddy and Renee still look the same - what's with that?

Someone dropped a big one this week, stunk the room out - Hayden claims he knows nothing. It's the quiet ones you have to watch out for you know!

Josh believes he can double back flip (but...well..that's Josh!).

Does anyone else know that Renee thinks Mrs C is the best singer in the world (is true too!)

And Marina just fell off her chair, really, fell off! What's with that?

 Tom is just getting on with the job. Good on ya mate! (He thinks we are seriously mad). (He is a  great ballerina too by the way!)

As for Keryn Casserly she is trying to escape the room, not having any luck so far.

Now everyone is staring at the board - zombies!

There is too much talk about pee in this room. Get back to work everyone!

Caitlin watches too much tv! Needs to go to bed earlier!!

Has anyone seen Jordan today?

Have a good weekend!

Yep, found Jordan!

PS William and Josh are the bestest rugby players in the world. By the way, did you know Richie McCaw was over at the factory on Wednesday and didn't come to see Mrs C and ask her to marry him? ;-(