Olympics: 400m Mixed Relay Medalists

Day Two of our Room 6 Olympics took place with the 400m Mixed Relay.  Teams had to decide who was going to be carried during each of the relay stages.  The first stage was a piggy-back race and the second stage was a queen seat.

Our winning teams were........

Gold Medal: France

Silver Medal: Ireland

Bronze Medal: Jamaica

Olympics: Best Paper Plane Challenge

Our second event was the Best Paper Plane Challenge hosted by Australia.

Each team had five minutes to make one of the paper plane designs on offer.  The plane that flew over the greatest distance won the challenge.

Gold Medal: Zimbabwe

Silver Medal: Ireland

Bronze Medal: France

Olympics: Crossbar Challenge Medalists!!!

The Crossbar Challenge was our first Olympic event hosted by Greece.  Each team had to try and kick a soccer ball up to the crossbar.

Gold Medal: Great Britain

Silver Medal: France

Bronze Medal: Jamaica

Distorted Kiwiana

Every year our teacher, Mrs Young, sets us a Kiwiana Art piece to complete.  This year we identified items, images or people that are truly 'Kiwi' and cut them into pieces.  After re-gluing them in a random way on backing paper, we traced the outlines and then painted both the images and the background.

Here are the first batch to share!  Can you recognise the original image???

Visual Mihi - Group 5

Our Writing and Editing

During the term we have been exploring how to write successful reports.  In pairs we wrote our first report which needed to include an introduction/classification and several paragraphs that explored our topic, before closing with a suitable conclusion.

Mrs Young then introduced us to a way of editing which should help to make the whole process a little easier than it has been in the past.

Step 4 of the process has us reading our report to our Talking Partner......all they have to do is listen and then comment on a few key points!

So here are some of us going through step 4......

National Young Leader's Day

On Tuesday 29 May we were lucky enough to attend the National Young Leader's Day which was held at the Regent Theatre in Palmerston North.  Our teacher asked us to identify the speaker/s that we connected with the most; how we felt being selected out of 25 Year 8 students; and the one thing we were going to make sure we did or changed, as a result of hearing the speakers.

Sam's impressions:
The best speakers were Dave Atkinson and Cam Calkoen.  Dave spoke about making sure the job you wanted to do was fun and not to give it up if it was!  Cam was inspirational.  Even though he had a disability, he proved people wrong and achieved heaps.

I felt very honoured and privileged to have been chosen.  Being selected to go to Young Leader's is not something to be taken for granted.

Like Cam, I want to prove people wrong about what I can achieve - especially with my cycling.

Jemma's impressions:
Cam had a disability but never let it stop him from being successful - in fact, he could do some things better than others.  He said that "if you dream it, and believe it, then you can achieve it!".

I feel really good about being selected.  It's neat to know that I was selected as a leader and it has given me more skills and inspiration to do other things.

I want to help people find their spark and abilities.

Connor's impressions:
My favourite speaker was Cam.  He said "to build a dream and the dream will build you".  He inspired me because of what he has achieved from primary school to now.

Cool! Awesome! Two words to describe what it was like to be picked out of a whole bunch of people.

I want to spend more time with the friends I have made out of school that used to be here.  They were good friends.

Leah's impressions:
Cal talked about being bullied and we can all relate to that at different times.  He was funny and enjoyable to listen to.  I liked what he said about dreaming it, believing it and then achieving it.

Being selected gives me confidence that people trust me.

I want to try and include more people in the things I do, I want to help them with what they want to be.

Kid's Lit Quiz

On Friday 25 May four of our class represented our school at the Kid's Lit Quiz, which was held in Feilding.  The quiz involves answering a number of questions linked to literature and means we have to have a wide knowledge of fairy tales, nursery rhymes, authors, picture books, novels and movies made from novels.

We came 4th out of the Rural Schools which was not bad at all!

Our final BP Challenge

Our final BP Challenge involved making a bridge that could support a 500g vehicle - the winning team needed to make the longest bridge that wouldn't sag once the vehicle was placed in the middle of it.  Extra points were given to the teams that created a replica bridge of any famous one throughout the world.

Pacifica Ribbons: Green Table

All of our art this term is based on being 'Influenced by Culture'.  These are our second art pieces titled "PACIFICA RIBBONS".  We spent time looking at designs and patterns from Islands in the Pacific before deciding which ones we wanted to replicate on our 'ribbons'.  We completed the art work by using blocks of colour in the background.

Counting Down! By Leah

Tick,Tick, Tick.
The noise drummed in my ears.
Tick,Tick,Tick.
It was almost as though I was transfixed. My eyes were glued to the numbers as they changed slowly.
My mind raced as there was only one minute left. Thirty seconds, inside my head my brain felt like it was about to burst.
My palms were dripping with sweat.
3, 2, 1.
I screamed out with terror. BEEP! BEEP! BEEP!
"Leah get up and turn that alarm off.''
"Yes Mum."
It was the start of a brand new day.

How is ORGANISATION helping us with our BP Challenges?

"It has been good because we have been organising what each person will do during the time we have."  Abilene

"Organisation for our team is important because if you need tape and your workspace is messy, you're wasting time trying to find it.  It can also affect your group working and can start or stop an argument.  It helps you to stay on task and not get distracted."
Matt

"It is important for us because then we know what we are doing ad when we need to do it."
Samuel

"If we weren't organised it would be a mess.  We keep track of time and keep a watch on how many resources we have left.  We decide who does what so each person has something to do which helps us to complete each task."
Leah

"It helps us to keep everyone on task and to get our challenges done.  We organise our time well."
Connor

"We organise all of our gear, we think of a plan, we get together and do the challenges as a team."
Morgan

"We can get everything finished in time.  If we weren't organised we wouldn't know what we were doing.  It makes doing the challenges easier."
Kennedy

"It helps us get it done faster and smoother and makes us work as a team better, even when some of our stuff didn't work."
Jenna

"We get things done on time and up to the right standard."
Rhys

"Organisation is important for our team because it helps us make sure we have done everything that is needed.  It helps us build our teamwork skills."
Alicia

So who received our Merit Award?

Yaaaaaaaay!!!!!  Congratulations goes to Leah who received our class award for her work ethic and way in which she communicates so positively with her peers.  Well done Leah!

Run.....Jump....Throw

We have begun training for athletics and for the next three weeks we are lucky enough to take part in the 'Run, Jump, Throw' programme.