Tuesday, May 21, 2013
Our Student Council Representatives
We'd like to introduce you to our Student Council Representatives for the year..........Kaleb, Joshua, Brie and Jenna. They join students from two other senior classes to form our Student Council for 2013.
Monday, May 20, 2013
Bluelight P.C.T. Competition Winners!!!!!
Our team of 4 students has taken out first place in the Bluelight P.C.T. competition run by the Police. Our team consisted of Jenna, Nikia, Sam and Alex.
They had to push a trailer past a set of cones, lift a heavy tyre out of the trailer and carry it to a mat, run around a 200m course, balance on a balance beam, jump over a mat that represented a ditch, crawl under two sets of hurdles, jump through a window, climb over a wall, drag a 74kg dummy several metres, climb over a high fence and then sprint to the end - finishing as a team!!!
They completed the challenge in 2 minutes, 52 seconds and 59 hundredths of a second!!!!!
They had to push a trailer past a set of cones, lift a heavy tyre out of the trailer and carry it to a mat, run around a 200m course, balance on a balance beam, jump over a mat that represented a ditch, crawl under two sets of hurdles, jump through a window, climb over a wall, drag a 74kg dummy several metres, climb over a high fence and then sprint to the end - finishing as a team!!!
They completed the challenge in 2 minutes, 52 seconds and 59 hundredths of a second!!!!!
Tuesday, May 14, 2013
Monday, May 13, 2013
Charcoal and Pastel Sea-life
During last term we completed another art piece based on sea-life. We chose a sea-creature and practised enlarging it before using charcoal to add shading and definition. For our background, we had to show movement in the water through wave designs - using pastel to add the colour.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
Swimming has begun.....
Our swimming time has begun and we have already had the first two of our sessions at the Levin Aquatic Centre. This group is in training for the Interschool Swimming Sports which take place early next term.
Measuring Volume, Capacity and Mass
Our maths focus for this term has been based around Volume, Capacity and Mass.
One of the activities we are exploring is to do with displacement - by measuring the amount of water that spills over the top of container, we can determine the volume and capacity of the object that has caused the water to spill.
Mrs Young then set the challenge of finding a large stone that was exactly 100g in weight. We had to measure how much water each stone displaced until we found the right one.
One final challenge was to create a milk container that could hold exactly 4 litres of milk and fit in a fridge door that was 50cm long, 10cm wide and 50cm high. Here is the most successful design.....
One of the activities we are exploring is to do with displacement - by measuring the amount of water that spills over the top of container, we can determine the volume and capacity of the object that has caused the water to spill.
Mrs Young then set the challenge of finding a large stone that was exactly 100g in weight. We had to measure how much water each stone displaced until we found the right one.
One final challenge was to create a milk container that could hold exactly 4 litres of milk and fit in a fridge door that was 50cm long, 10cm wide and 50cm high. Here is the most successful design.....
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