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

Making Ice Cream!

Wow - what a fun way to end the term and who would have guessed that science could be so fun!!


Making Ice Cream on PhotoPeach

Grandparent and Special Friends Day - 2013

Today saw another very successful Grandparent and Special Friends Day - tinged with a bit of sadness, being the last event to be held in our old school hall. 

The hall is being demolished over the school holidays and we hope to have a new one built by the end of April, next year - which is all very exciting.

Grandparents and Special Friends Day, 2013 was once again a fabulous event and the weather even remained fine for us, as the boys enjoyed the opportunity of being able to share Wellesley with the special people in their lives.

We began with some oustanding performances in the hall, highlighting the artistic, musical and academic abilities of our students, followed by the singing of the school song, for the very last time within the walls of the hall - a moving tribute. Next the boys embarked on a tour of the school with their guests, chats with the teachers and refreshments.

Such a wonderful Wellesley tradition and a lovely way for the boys to celebrate and share their achievements with their loved ones.

Please take a look at our Grandparent and Special Friends Day Photos in our Star Gallery.

 

Tournament of Minds - A 5S Perspective!

It all started one day after math when Mrs Stevens told four of us that we had been selected for Tournament of Minds or TOM as we soon started to call it.

Mr Girvan told us and some year six’s that we had been selected for TOM and that in the next 6 weeks we would go about completing our challenges and if we won we would be going to Canberra, Australia. That really got us thinking.

We had a choice to enter Social Sciences, Applied Technology, Maths Engineering and Language Literature. Two of us chose Language Literature, while the other 5S students took up the challenge of Maths Engineering.

For those of us doing the Language Literature, we had to pick two main characters from a list of books and portray their character through a ten minute script, we chose Rue Elsie from the Hunger Games and Pearl Barley from Pearl Barley and Charlie Parsley. Then we chose a topic from a selection of topics, we chose Harmony. Then we set about making the script. It was all about racial discrimination.

The whole script was based around a picture book, so we took a copy of the script and made some changes printed it out and turned it into a 12 paged physical picture book. Then we decided who would play each part and practiced, practiced, practiced and practiced. On the day we had to be dressed in black because that was the etiquette for the day.

This year the challenge in Tournament of Minds for the Maths Engineering division, was to build an adjustable timing device that could be used to time ten seconds and then a randomly chosen time between twenty and forty seconds. We made a pendulum powered device that was designed to bang against wood, to alert to when the set time was up. It was extremely tricky and required a huge amount of fine-tuning.

On Saturday 14^th September we all nervously arrived at Hutt Intermediate School. The day began with the spontaneous challenge; we didn’t know what the challenge was until about 5 seconds before our time started. We had 4 minutes to come up with an answer to the challenge then we had 1 minute to present your answer to the judges. Then we had a 45 minute break in which we squeezed in as many practices as we could. Finally we were summoned by the judges and we performed our ten minute skit.  

When it was all over, they had the prize giving and to our surprise it was announced……..“Language Literature, Honours goes to-Tawa!” and then “the winner of the Language literature is- Wellesley College!!!!!!”

By William, James, Matt and Tom.

WE LOVE CHOCOLATE!!!

Wow - congratulations 5S for winning Week 1 of the Gala Inter-Class Competition - by bringing in the most chocolate!!
A huge thank you to all of the parents who supported us, bu providing SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO much chocolate for the boys to bring to school!!

Art Week Report

Monday 2^nd September, was the start of the much anticipated art week for Wellesley College. This is where we pretty much throw out the programme for three and focus solely on art.

There were 21 options of art that we could choose to opt into, so there was definitely something for everyone and it was really interesting to see so many different types and styles or art being produced.

 There were lots of extra people who came into help and we even had our own ‘Artist in Residence’ – Ben Timmins involved, to share his ideas, expertise and creativity.

We got to do lots of fun things like smash up tiles, to create mosaics, carve out of Oamaru Stone, paint umbrellas, construct tree houses, make stained glass windows, kites, carry out weaving, photography, clay sculpture, banners and carve out of wood for printmaking.  

In masks we had to cover them in plaster of paris. In clay you had to draw a design. In banners you had the option to put 3d paint on them. In stone carving you had to paint and cover them in a type of seel.

The theme for art week was nature so we had to create and design something to do with nature. For each piece we had to make a title for it, what inspired it and add your name.

Art week was fun because you could go to different classrooms and work with other students and do art instead of school work.

We’d like to thank all the teachers and helpers for enabling us to have such a successful art week.

Please don’t forget to check out our photos in our 5S Star Gallery and of course come to our art evening on Wednesday 18^th September at 7.00pm.

By Judd & Caleb

Art Week

Wow - what a fabulous three days of amazing creativity. Check out 5S in "artistic action" in our Star Gallery.
A report on this is to follow and please don't forget to attend our Art Evening on Wednesday 18th September - at 7.00pm in the school hall.

5S - In Fine Form!

A gorgeous Wellington winter's day gave 5S a chance to have a bit of fun. We have also updated our class photo, to welcome our two new students - Atharva and Jasper.

Hugo's Photos

Hugo has been experimenting with photography on his tablet, with some very impressive results. Take a look for yourselves in our 'Star Gallery' (click on the link on the right-hand side)!

Postcards From China

Exciting news - we have had a bunch of wonderful replies to our postcards, that we sent earlier in the term. 

We have forged this initial link with Class 2, Grade 4 of the Yu Ying Experimental School in Wu Xi, which included the Year 5 boys at Wellesley, sending e-postcards.

We were unsure if we would hear anything back, as it appears that they have quite a prescribed curriculum, which includes exams. Following the conclusion of these, it was then the end of their school year, with the students now on holiday and not returning until September.

So we were very excited, when a bunch of 35 beautifully handwritten letters turned up. Some of them have been addressed to specific boys here at Wellesley, whilst others just provide a general insight into their lives. 

We will be looking forward to continuing to extend our contact, but in the meantime, please enjoy checking out the replies in our star gallery!

5S Citizenship - Term Two

Congratulations to Matt and Alex - who were acknowledged for their outstanding 'Citizenship' for Term Two.

Cross Country Star!!

A big congratulations to Ethan - who has won the Inter-Zone Cross Country Competition. This means that he is the number one runner for his year group in our region.

He is now off to Masterton in a couple of weeks, to compete in the next level of the competition. Good luck Ethan!! :-)

A Quick Reminder!

Dear Parents,
Last week's storm has created a few communication challenges and I do not have access to my email database - so with any luck - you will be able to few this notice on the blog!

I hope you all managed to keep safe and warm on Thursday night and Friday and I'm sure the boys were not complaining about having the extra day off.

As well as not being able to get into school, things were also a little chilly for me on the home front as we lost power our Thursday night and it was not restored until late Friday afternoon! 

My main concern is the boys' Speech Board exam - which is TOMORROW!! It had been my intention to give them all a final "pep talk" on Friday afternoon - but this obviously did not happen.

They need to come to school fully prepared - with any props/charts etc that they need for their talk.They should know their poem off by heart and they must remember to also bring their book, to read their extract from.

They have all worked so hard and I have been very impressed with the performances that were delivered last week.

I'm confident that they will all be fine and do a great job.

Cheers
Veronica

Trentham Army Camp Trip

On Friday 7^th June, Year 5 went to Trentham Army Camp for a visit as part of our current inquiry on Conflict and Peace.

We were told to be at the gate by 9.30am. The first thing we did when we arrived was to have an initial briefing. We met Colonel John Howard and his team of soldiers who were going to be working with us for the day. It was really interesting to see that some of them were wearing the brand new army uniforms that camouflage themselves in every type of terrain, unlike their old uniforms which only camouflage in one terrain.

The next thing that we did was to head over to the field with a couple of P.T. Instructors, who took us for some very rigorous “fitness training.” The first thing he told us to do was 3 knuckle press-ups on the icy grass because some of us talked too much. It was cooold! Then he told us how to play a game called ‘wack-a-bat’ which is like “stuck in the mud” except instead of being tagged, you have to get whacked by a bat.

For the second part of training we had a competition. First of all we were divided into 8 groups, and then we had to move around 8 different activities, spending 4 minutes at each one. Some of the tasks included having to carry a bunch of tyres and a big heavy log to one certain place then build a pretend cannon, rolling a log to a place, lifting things, having to crawl under nets, making structures and having to use speed. All of this on the freezing, icy, cold and muddy grass!

After all that exercise we were starving so thankfully it was now time for morning tea. There were slices of watermelon, rockmelon, mince pies, drinks, sandwiches, cakes and scrumptious types of cheese.

Next they took us to a special place where they keep the L.A.V.’s – AKA Light Armoured Vehicles – even though they weighed 20 tonnes each!!! They could carry about 6-8 soldiers, 2 gunners and 1 driver. They had 2 cannons, two grenade launchers and 2 machine guns. Even though the L.A.V.’s were 5 metres long they were actually pretty cramped.

Next we went to the Ammunition/Bomb Museum. There were parachute mines, torpedos, land mines and sea mines that destroy submarines and bazookas.

We saw shells, grenades, cannonballs and a container made of see-through plastic, full of gunpowder.

We also went to a little concrete area where we could control a $250,000 bomb disposal robot that could do practically anything you wanted it to do. There was a man that was wearing a bomb proof suit. Another student told me to punch the suit as hard as I could, so I did - bad mistake! I hit it so hard I took skin off my knuckle!!

For lunch we shared food from Army Ration Packs and got to meet with some of the S.A.S. soldiers.

After lunch we were all given green makeup compact sets. Inside there was a small mirror and three colours, black, light green and dark green – used for applying camouflage makeup! Some of the students completely covered their whole faces, arms and legs, looking hilarious.

Next there was a machine gun relay race where we had to hold a $12,000 machine gun. The machine gun was actually far heavier than I thought it would be.

Then we had another competition trying to throw plastic dummy grenades at a target. The person that won got two bars of dairy milk chocolate.

  

Finally we met someone called Daniel, (D.J.). He is a navigator in the NZ Air force. It was great being able to listen to him talk about what he does and ask him some questions about his job. Some of his responsibilities include checking the fuel and making sure that the planes and helicopters are in good condition before they go up into the air.

Just before we left – we had a quick came of touch rugby with 5P challenging 5S and then our parents arrived to take us home.

All in all it was a fantastic trip, with many of the boys saying it was the best school trip ever!

We would like to thank Colonel John Howard and his team for all of the time and effort they put into planning such a wonderful day for us.

Don't forget to check out all the photos in the 5S Star Gallery!

Ben & Alex

World Vision 20/40 Famine

Last weekend was the 20 or for some the 40 hour famine to raise money for people in Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, because there are so many families in this area who really need our help.  Many of the villages are not able to grow crops and so all they have to eat is a type of sweet potato. They eat this for breakfast, lunch and dinner and therefore are quite malnourished.

Wellesley College has always got in behind the famine and the students are always keen to raise as much money as they can for such a worthy cause. We learnt that just by raising a small amount of money, we could provide enough food for 5 children for 6 months – which is fantastic.

We have set a goal this year to try and raise $10,000. So we went around the classrooms to find out how people went and what were some of the things people did to raise money for the 20/40 Hour Famine.

Apart from the traditional method of going without food for the time, others did some really weird things, such as a few people who decided to live in a card board box. The most money raised by one person was $500 he did this by not using technology not eating and not talking – which must have been especially hard! No wonder he raised so much money.

We can’t wait to see the total results when all of the funds come in and fingers crossed we reach our goal.

Check out the photo below of all of the students in 5S who participated.

By Judd and Rufus

James' Egg Experiment!

Recently James decided to undertake a science experiment to see if he could make a raw egg bounce! Can you research the science behind his idea and find out why it might work??

Last weekend I decided to do an experiment. My Sister had already done this experiment so I thought I’d give it a crack!

I put vinegar in a cup, and then I added a normal egg straight out of the fridge and put it in the same cup. I left the egg overnight and in the morning I hoped that the shell of the egg would become rubbery and turn bouncy.

The next morning I woke up to a big surprise the egg was bouncy and soft as I wished it do.  I took it to school to test it  Mrs Stevens said to drop the egg out of the class room window.

Now this is where I got really nervous. The class were waiting below and began the countdown:  “5 4 3 2 1”. 

I dropped the egg – splat went the egg! I think that the egg shell fell off because the vinegar dissolves all the shell. I was  really amazed that the egg looked like it had been boiled even though I didn’t  boil it so I think that my egg experiment was an average success and I’m going  to try it again but this time I’m going to leave it in the cup for a longer time - not just for one night.

By James M.

E-Postcards to China

In year 5 we have been writing E-postcards to a school in China. We had to take pictures, one of ourselves and also another photo of something that is special to us. We had to write about our school and what we like about it and then we had to write about ourselves, the things we enjoy and about our families.

The postcards were emailed to the school in China a few days ago. The students there are a similar age to us and there are 39 children in the class.

We are also hoping to have a SKYPE conversation with the shortly. It will be really interesting to find out about their school and their lives.

Hopefully we will hear back from them very soon. 

Can you find the school on Google Earth? Here is the address:

Wang Xinzhe, Wuxi Yuying Experimental Primary School,  No.80 Qingshan Dong Road, Wuxi,Jiangsu, China.

By Daniel and Judd

Year 5 - Trentham Army Camp Trip

Wow - this trip will definitely have to go down as being one of the best in my teaching career and I heard many of the boys saying that this was "the best school trip ever!".

A very big thank you to Colonel John Howard and his staff for all the work that went into planning such a fantastic programme for us.

Watch this space soon - for a detailed report and photos showing what a great day we all had.

Cheers
Private Stevens!!

Term One Highlights

Wow - What A Term!! Eleven "action packed" weeks, with 5S proving to be an amazing bunch of students, who have already reached great heights in so many areas.

 All of the boys can feel exceptionally proud of their achievements in so many areas and they all deserved a well-earned rest over the holidays - as Term Two doesn't look like the pace will be slowing down!!

 Here are some highlights from Term One:

 • I really enjoyed the stream study – everyday on the stream study I learnt something new and I was impressed with my results – Mickey.

 • I really enjoyed the cross-country because I like running and I bet my old score – Arthur.

 • My highlight was the stream presentation, as Caleb and I were able to add in humour and make it interesting with lots of facts as well – Ben.

 • Camp was really exciting – as it was my first time on a school camp and I got to know lots of people – Alex.

 • I really enjoyed camp, as I managed to actually catch a fish on the fishing activity – Ethan.

 • My highlight was swimming sports – as I came first and made it into the zone swimming competition – where I came second – Daniel.

 • My highlight was that I managed to get my stream topic book work completed on time – as I was concerned that I would be finishing it over the holidays – Johnny.

 • My term highlight was after cross-country – the bus was so quiet on the way home – as there were hardly any students on it – as most had gone home with their parents – Max.

 • My highlight was paddle-boarding on camp – as it was a new camp activity and it was very fun and great to try something different – Judd.

 • My highlight was the Stadium Day, as we got to have a whole day off school and were able to spend the day working on our fitness and doing physical activities – Peter.

 • I really enjoyed writing my narrative as I got to improve my creativity and expand my writing skills – Luke.

• My highlight this term was rock-climbing because I knew the instructor and that was fun - Rufus.

 • My highlight was doing the water clarity testing in the stream study because it was a fun activity pouring the water into the tube and it was also very interesting - Matt.

Lest We Forget - ANZAC Day Service

On Friday 19th April, all the students and staff of Wellesley College, gathered at the front of the school, around the flagpole, for a very moving ANZAC Day Service.

Mr Owen shared some special thoughts about the day and its significance. Next a small group of boys sang "Sons of Gallipoli", which was then followed by a prayer.

Sons of Gallipoli

Written and sung by Chris Skinner

We sang ‘God of Nations at thy feet’

As we stood on that sacred shore

With a heartfelt pride

Somewhere deep inside

For the sons of Gallipoli

We sang ‘E I owa Atua’

From the place they call  Anzac Cove

We gazed out to sea

Where our home would be

For the sons of Gallipoli

How still you lie

And how still you die on other hillsides

We sang ‘hear our voices we entreat’

As the wind blew from off the sea

With a tearful sigh and the question why

For the sons of Gallipoli

We sang ‘God defend our free land’

And for all whose lives are torn

With one voice implore

No more talk of war

For the sons of Gallipoli

We sang ‘God of Nations at thy feet’

As we stood on that sacred shore

With a heartfelt pride

Somewhere deep inside

For the sons of Gallipoli 

Introducing .................... “Roderigo”

They say "good things take time" and this has certainly been the case with the naming of our new 5S class bear.
So without further ado - we'd like to introduce you to: “Roderigo”

Roderigo is currently overseas with James J at the moment - but we'll be looking forward to hearing all about his trip, when he returns at the start of Term Two.

10 Special Guests

This week, we were very privileged to have 10 special guests joining us in the class for two days. James J was allowed to bring his 10 pet frogs to school and they proved to be a very exciting and fascinating addition to the class - particularly when they were chasing and catching flies.

The frogs are Green and Gold Bell Frogs and James has had them since they were tadpoles. They are only 3 months old and can expect to live for around 15 years.

Some of the boys were lucky enough to be able to have a turn at holding the frogs and they needed to ensure that their hands were wet, when they did this. There were a couple of hairy moments, when they managed to jump out of someone's hands and onto the floor - but thankfully all 10 went home accounted for.

What a wonderful way to enhance our stream inquiry, by actually having live subjects in the class to observe. Thank you to James and his family for sharing the frogs with us.

Stream Inquiries DUE!!

Just a reminder, that your Stream Inquiries are due on Monday 8th April - be ready to present your work!

Wellesley College Easter Service

Stream Fieldwork

Year five have doing stream fieldwork, which involved us looking at a range of different aspects about our local school stream. During this time we took a look at how many plants, creatures, and rocks were found in our stream, during the quadrant count. This was done by marking out a square metre with string and counting what we saw within the quadrant. We also measured water clarity by pouring water into a special water clarity measuring tube. We then very slowly moved a small disk away from the person who was looking at the disk. When the person could not see the disk they called out “STOP” and we looked at how far the disk was and recorded it. This gave us an indication as to how clear our stream water is and how healthy our stream is. We also measured temperature in certain places of the stream, we did this by putting a thermometer in the deep water and the shallow water and recorded temperature. Each recording was taken several times, to enable us to find the average reading. Finally, we measured the water velocity by dropping a Ping-Pong ball into the stream and timed it to see how long it took the ball to float five meters when it had finished we recorded the time. by Archie & Flynn

5S Citizenship - Term One

A big congratulations to Judd and Flynn, who were voted for citizenship in 5S for Term One. The boys spent considerable time discussing the attributes of a good citizen and carefully considered this information before casting their votes. It was great to see so many of the boys being recognised in this manner and it was a very close election, to select our top two.

Success Outside of the Classroom

Last weekend, Hugo experienced success outside of the classroom, when he entered into the children's section of the local "Wild Food Challenge" and came 1st!!! Here he is with his creation and an explanation of what he made: WILD GORSE FLOWER TRIO Cordial, Cupcakes and Ice Cubes I wanted to think of a very new dish to enter in the wild food challenge. I thought about all the plants and animals near our house. In the end, I choose gorse because people think of it as a weed, and it would be interesting to see how it tastes. I went and got the gorse flowers from around the Pencarrow coast. I used wire clippers to get the big pieces of gorse and picked all the flowers by hand. It took me two days to pick all the flowers as I did trials for the cordial and the muffins. I didn't get pricked much as I went for the bottom of the plants – a strategy that worked out well. When I got home I had to soak the flowers overnight to make them edible. All the eggs that we used were free range and organic. I was surprised that the gorse flowers smell and taste like coconut. I really like the taste of the cordial and muffins and will carry on making them for my family.

Stadium Day

On Tuesday the 12^th of March 30 boys from Year 5 were lucky enough to go to the Westpac Stadium in Wellington.

When we got there we had to line up on the stadium seats and each school got called out to go to different activities. Our first event was tennis and it was exciting because we played “bonus bal”l and “last man standing”.

Next we had Kiwi Kick or AFL as the Aussies call it, we played crazy catch were we had to make up different catches and the amount of points it was worth. 

Following this, we had netball it was alright, although not really our kind of game. Finally it was lunchtime – as we were sooooooo hungry.

After lunch we played soccer it was fun, as we played a game called British Bulldog.  It was an exciting game, a bit like bullrush, except instead of running you had to get a ball past some defenders and you did a little dance before you started.

Next we played some mini games with six teams and three pitches and then lastly we did Karate it was fun because we learnt some punches and kicks.

We would like to thank Mr Parker and the parents for taking us and Mr Houston for getting it organised. It was a great day!

Don't forget to have a look at all the photos in our star gallery.

By Judd.A and Daniel.F

Year 4-5 Swimming Sports

The 2013 year 4-5 swimming sports were helod on Friday 8th March and were a total success. So thank you to the teachers and year 7’s who made it possible. I think that everybody did very well with no upsets or mishaps.  Here are some of the outstanding winners. The year 4 champion is Cameron Pattison and second equal were Sam Plimmer and Harry Zangouropoulos.

The year 5 champion is Archie Chandler and second equal James Johnston and Archie Treadwell.

The houses came in this order 1st Wellington with 275 points, second Croydon with 224 points, third Selwyn with 205 points and fourth Marlborough with 154 points.

Another thing that was fun was the parent verses student relay which was narrowly won by the parents.  

Check out the rest of the photos in our star gallery!

By Matt B.