Week 7 - Hockey

Hockey is gearing up at the moment. We have our mixed team competing at the zone competition next week and the girls the following week.

Today we were learning how to do a sweep pass. A sweep pass is a powerful pass where you sweep your stick along the ground before it connects with the ball. Check us out in action.

Simione practising his sweep pass

Mr Bryan coaching Sami

Nikolai and Osana practising

We finished our session with a game

Week 6 - Samoan Language Week

Last week was Samoan Language Week. In Scott Class we are very luck to have some expert Samoan Language speakers. They helped us learn how to have a basic conversation in Samoan.

We then recorded them and had a go at using a green screen to make it look like they were in Samoa!

We are all very excited about using our green screen to take us all over the world! Keep an eye out to see where we go next.

Week 10 - Softball Tournament

On Tuesday last week we went to the Softball Tournament at Mt Roskill Primary School.

Here is some writing by Osana and Sami.

On Tuesday 5th of March the softball team went to a softball tournament at Mt Roskill primary school. We were warming up to get ready for our first competition. The first school we played was Mt Roskill Primary School.  When we were getting ready the captains had to play rock paper scissors to see who is batting or fielding. The captain for Mt Roskill Primary School got the chance to choose if his team wanted to bat or field first, he chose for his team to field and our team had to bat. We won our first game of softball, we were so happy that we won! it was amazing! But we were sad that we didn’t make it into the final but at least we won one game.

Check us out in action!

Alaskah running into third base

Tyrone pitching

Shreya batting

Hay Park Softball Team Saunoa, Peeana, Emah, Sami, Nathaniel, Vonairay, Shreya, Roman
Alaskah, Osana, Tyrone

Are you a leapling?

Today is the 29th of February, did you know we only have the 29th of February every four years!

For the children in Scott class this is only the third time they have experienced had the 29th of Feb.

Today we did watched a youtube clip which explains why leap years occur, then we wrote our own explanations.

 Here is one that was a collaborative effort from Tai, Osana, Manahal, Alaskah and Sami.

 What is a leap year? We discovered that a leap year is a year that has 366 days. A normal year has 365.25 days, but we can’t have a day that is only six hours (or .25 of a day) long! So we have a thing called a Leap Year. Leap years occur every four years. They occur because we have to catch up the extra six hours per year. Because it takes 365 days to orbits the sun.Six hours each year for four years adds up to 24 hours which is the same as one day. So in a leap year we have an extra day. It is the 29th of February. A Leapling is someone who was born on the 29th of February. They only have their birthday every four years.