Year 5 Market Day

This week saw the culmination of our Marketing Unit on Thursday afternoon, with what has been the best Year 5 Market ever – wow – what a wonderful success. Having been through the experience of the Junior Enterprise Market, earlier in the term, gave the boys an opportunity to take things to a higher level, and they did so with abundance!

The Year 5 classrooms were a bustling hive of activity, with products and services of an extremely high quality, being offered to very satisfied Year 4 customers.

Here is some feed back from some of the Year 4 Customers:

“Wow, this is the best market I’ve ever been to”.  Ethan

“Thank you for the awesome raffle”.  Austin

“I loved the hacky sacks”.  Zak

“Your market was very good with lots of good products”  Joey

“Great speed of service, not many queues”  Jake

“Products were good value”  Harry

“Good prices”  William

Well done Year 5 - we are really proud of your efforts - you have risen to the challenge and exceeded yourselves!!

Year 5 Market - 2013 on PhotoPeach

Year 5 Speech Competition

On the 21^st November 2013, the highly respected and anticipated annual Year 5 speech final took place. There were 8 finalists, 4 from each of the Year 5 classes, presenting their speeches to our guest judge, Reverend Ellie. 

A couple of weeks before every boy in Year 5 presented their prepared speech on a topic of their choice. The boys voted on four of their favourite speeches to go through to the semi-finals. Our 8 semi-finalists then presented their speeches to the class again and were filmed by our professional videographer, Judd Adamson.

A further 4 boys were voted by the boys of 5S to represent 5S in the Year 5 speech final. These boys were: Caleb Wong, James McDonnell, William Chandler and Ben Penno. They then joined with the 4 finalists from 5P, to present their speeches again in front of all of the Year 5 and Year 4 students, parents, teachers and Reverend Ellie.

Reverend Ellie had a very hard decision to make, as all the speeches were top notch, but she eventually awarded James Hoskins (talking on Valerie Adams) and Thomas Bloomfield (Aztecs) 3^rd Equal, Caleb Wong was 2^nd place with an interesting speech on McDonalds and William Chandler came 1^st, combining humour and detail to present us with some facts on Advertising!
By William and Judd

Peter's Bus Stop - An Update!

Not so long ago, we reported on the success Peter had, with persuading the council to put up a shelter at his local bus stop.
Clearly, great news travels and although it was reported here first, on the 5S Blog - The Dominion Post has finally caught up on the action - click on the link below to read all about it!!

Thanks Peter for the Bus Shelter!

5S Speech Semi-Finalists

Here are our very talented 5S Speech Semi-Finalists:

Year 5 Junior Market Enterprise Challenge

On Wednesday 23^rd October, Sharron and Paul from Young Enterprise Trust arrived at Wellesley College to turn Year 5 into entrepreneurs. 

We were organised into 9 groups, each with a dependable CEO.

We made our personal cash books that we kept our moolah that we earned in, moolah was the currency that we would be using.

We were asked to brainstorm different products and a service, but we could only make our products from the materials on sale at "The-Warehouse". 

We were on a budget of 150 Moolah that we kept in our business cash wallet. This was the money that we could use to buy the materials. 

Our next task was to agree within our groups which 2 or 3 products and service we would offer to our customers. 

During that time, Sharron and Paul told us to make a record of our finances and what we spent and what we earned. We played a financial game about saving and spending. 

The next day we had the market after lunch but before that we were given $20 Moolah to buy streamers and balloons and decorate our stalls. 

Then we had the market, which overall was great fun and an awesome learning experience. 

By William and James

Junior Market Enterprise - Day 1 on PhotoPeach   

What A Wreck - The Hall is Demolished!

Last term, the Wellesley boys went home on holiday thinking there would be a nice new hall waiting for them, but instead, when they got back there was no hall at all! On the bright side, now the 5S boys have been enjoying a picture perfect view of the Days Bay wharf.

They have been putting the string up that marks the border of the new hall. A few 5S boys have been betting whether it would be carpeted or not. Some of the concrete has been poured, and it is just being dried. They have a special machine that dries it quickly. I wonder how long it will take.

Because of the new hall, the track up to school has been changed to a wooden bridge over the garden. Bus lines are now in the inner quad and we have to have chapel and assembly in the music and dance rooms.

We even had to have a PE lesson in the classroom one day, as it was too wet to go outside. It’s sure made things quite topsy turvy here at school!

We certainly have “front row” seats from our classroom, so watch this space, so we can keep you up to date with all of the action!

By Archie & Judd

                           

Peter's Bus Shelter

Recently, Peter demonstrated that it is possible to take on the "big guys" and win - when he found the need for a bus shelter at his local stop.

Here is his story:

It was winter and it was cold at the bus stop in Plymouth Street  in Karori. We had no bus shelter but I noticed that there was a bus shelter across the road.

 I decided that we needed one too and made 'How to get a bus shelter' the topic of my speech. I rang the Wellington City Council and told them the problem. They said that they would do their best.

One month later I had discovered that the grass was gone from the bus stop.  One day after that they had poured the concrete where the grass had been. Then in the school holidays they built the rest of the shelter. 

Now we can stay warm and dry.

By Peter