Lunch with the Highlanders

This year we were lucky enough to have a barbecue lunch with the Highlanders at Forsyth Barr Stadium.  Alex one of our classmates entered a competition at the Meridian and won.  The prize included lunch, heaps of tickets for the game and Highlander memorabilia.  It was an awesome day!  Thanks Alex.
 

Planting Day

During our topic 'Our Backyard' we planted a number of plants along our creek banks to beautify our environment.  Mrs King organised over 500 plants for the day.  Senior students along with a Junior buddy planted the plants for future generations of students to watch grow.

Healthy Homework In Term 1 we participated in the 'Healthy Homework Programme', which had us doing a range of activities. The activities were all designed to get us thinking about healthy food and make us more active. One of the tasks was growing a herb called chives. We paper mached some plastic pots and then painted them. We were pleased to see our herbs sprout.

Welcome to Room 1s 2012 blog. We have had a busy time so far this year with lots of wonderful activities and events. We hope you will follow us and find out what we get up to in the second half of the year.

Book Week

Last week we celebrated Book Week in style. We were involved in a variety of activities to get us hooked into reading. During the week we had a guest reader every day, we had authors David Elliot and Kyle Mewburn visit and we had great fun at our Book character day on Friday where we all dressed up.

Jup Brown

Jup Brown is currently running the length of New Zealand to fund raise money for people who have suffered from a stroke. He visited us on his Milton to Dunedin leg on Monday and the whole school showed their support by running two laps around the field with him. Their was great excitment when TV1s Close Up team arrived and filmed us. This will air some time this week. We wish Jup all the best for the rest of his journey.

Stars on Stage

On Tuesday 22 August over 100 students became stars for a night when they performed at the Regent Theatre in the biennial Stars on Stage. Based on Scooby Doo their was ghosts, witches and mummies and of course the Scooby Doo team dancing around on stage. The children had a wonderful time and they looked fantastic on stage. Congratulations to everyone for their hardwork and dedication.