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Week 5 - Athletics Day

Our school athletics day was last Tuesday, it was a very windy day. But everyone had so much fun! 

Check out Vonairay and Tai's writing.      

  

                                         Athletics Day

Clapping and cheering with excitement. Getting ready to pull we spread out, as I hear Mr Lintott say “Ready Set Go”! We start pulling as hard as we could to win . Cheering from the team's Yellow, orange, purple and blue. My feet are sliding through the grass from the other team green pulling it, the long slippery rope is sliding through my hands and giving me sore hands.

My hands are tired from pulling the rope, the bright yellow sun is shinning on my eyes so I can’t really see much but I am trying my best to pull hard. It is annoying because when we pull the rope near our cone the green team pulls it near their cone, so that’s why the game kept on going on and my hands are sore.

The time has come to see who is going to win. The green team is pulling as hard as they can so as we are too. As so the green team won, my hands are red and painful. Green team had done a really good job of pulling as well.

Week 9 - Staff vs. Students!

In the last week of school we held a staff vs students netball game. The competition was fierce, the players were pumped. It was a fantastic game!

There is a bit of a dispute about the final score with the students adamant they won, but the staff are just as sure it was them!

Who will take out the game next year? 

The teachers secret weapon!

The best goal shoot ever! 

Week 8 - Planting

Scott Class and Setoga Class are currently competing to see who can grow the biggest and best plants.

On Thursday we planted our seeds. First we had to put our soil tablets on a saucer and then added 50mls of water. The soil swelled up and provided us with enough to plant the seeds. The seeds are planted in biodegradable pots so we can plant them in the group when the seedlings are big enough!

Make sure you check back for updates!

 

Week 8 - Netball Prize Giving

This year Hay Park had two teams entered in the Three Kings Netball Association competition. Both teams played really well throughout the season.

On Saturday we had the prize giving at Mt Roskill Intermediate. Hay Park B team did really well. They were runners up in both the first and second championships!

Well done B team!

There were lots of very proud families.

Our Awesome B Team!

Runners up int the second championship

Fair play awards - Alaskah & Vonairay 

Week 1 Extreme Makeover - Scott Class Edition

On the first day this term I issued Scott Class with a challenge - design our classroom in the best way for us to learn.

In pairs we created a plan for how we wanted to arrange our class. We then presented our ideas to the class and identified the best parts from each plan. The best parts were then combined to make a plan for our class.

We then rearranged just about all of the furniture in our class! We love our new layout!

Creating our plans

Working together to plan our classroom

"Hmm, what should we put here?"

Osana and Saunoa measuring up

Our combined plan on the whiteboard

The finished product! 

SPCA Board Games

Towards the end of last term Scott Class did some learning about the SPCA, animal welfare and how to care for animals. As a way to share our learning we created board games. We featured in an article in the Central Leader (which you can see online here).

This week we have been finishing off our games and trailing them. We gave each other feedback on the games. Some of them were really fun to play!

We hope to take our games to some other classes to play around our school.

Adding the finishing touches to our games

Enjoying the games

So much fun!

Week 7 - Blogging with our families

Tomorrow, we are holding some workshops for our families to learn how to comment on our blogs. We have made a screencast of how to write a blog comment in case our families forget.

Check out how you can comment on a blog if you don't have a Google account. 

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 5 - Mau rākau

This term the boys in Scott Class, and some of the year 5 boys from Killeen Class are taking part in mau rākau each Wednesday.  Mau  rākau is a programme of Māori weaponry that involves children from different cultures. They are learning traditional methods and protocols, and also te reo Māori.

Fonterra Milk in Schools update

Earlier in the year we entered the Fonterra Milk in Schools competition (see the blog post about it here). Well we didn't win the big prize, but we did get sent a pack of stationary for each of the kids in our class. They were pretty cool, each pack had a wooden pencil, ruler and pencil sharpener in it.

Thanks Nikheel for helping organise our prize!

Week 5 - Saturday Netball

This year Hay Park has two teams competing in the Saturday netball competition. For some of us is means we have to get up really early on a Saturday morning, but it's so much fun we don't mind!

Each Saturday we have two twenty minute games, with a twenty minute break in between. Sometimes the teams stay to watch each other play. Both teams are improving each week, which is a great start to the season.

The A team in action

Keep up the fantastic work teams!

Week 4 - Maths Night

Last week we held our annual Maths Night at Hay Park. All of our families are invited along to come and learning about what we are learning in maths at school. We also teach our families a game we can take home and play.

Families, if you missed the evening this is the presentation Mrs Rai put together. It might be helpful for you and your children.



This year we had an awesome turnout despite the horrible weather!

Sariah shared with us how she solves maths problems. 

Lot's of families ready to hear about their child's learning

Everyone engaged in the Kahoot Quiz! 

Scott Class children who came with their families

Week 4 - New arrival at Hay Park

Over the weekend we have had a new arrival at Hay Park... do you know what this is?

It's a 3D printer!

The students in Setoga Class were really keen to see what was happening

Here it is done, and its first creation was... a message saying hi!  

I can't wait to see what awesome things we can design and print. Have you ever used a 3D printer?

Week 3 - Swingball

We have recently got some new balls for our swing ball sets. As the sports monitors and peer mediators we went outside to learn how to play, so we can help teach the other students.

We are loving having swing ball up and going again. It's such a great game!

Jayzel & Ayush have a go, while others wait in line.

Tai & Hulita practising taking turns.

Week 2 - Word Wheel

In Scott Class we are working hard to expand our vocabulary. Today we talked about some of the new words we have been finding in books we are reading. Then we chose 3 words to go on our word wheel (eerie, gulped and mutate) and worked either by ourselves or in pairs to come up with a sentence (or paragraph) using those words. Here are a couple that we came up with.

I gulped down the special serum in the eerie room called
"The room of darkness". It will give me a mutation that will give me the ability to see in the dark to help me finish the puzzle.  - Nikolai

My Group: Hulita, Lorna and Osana
My group writing: I gulped as I walked into the eerie room and just  as I thought nothing could get worse I saw a tiny mouse mutate into a hairy fat ugly beast.

Week 1 - Healthy Habits

This week we have been learning about different ways we can help to keep ourselves healthy. On Friday we had Grace our Public Health Nurse visit and remind us of how to wash our hands properly and how to blow our noses. Did you know you should blow your nose at least 5 times a day!
Grace had special germ lotion that we put on our hands and then looked at under a black-light to see where the germs like to hide. Then we practised washing our hands and had another look to check that we had got rid of all the germs.

Grace helped us look for the germs on our hands using a special light 

Can you see the germs glowing?

We also did some research of our own into healthy habits and then shared these. Here are some photos of us sharing our learning.

Nikheel and George teaching us about the
importance of wearing clean clothes. 

Vaidika, Manahal and Petulisa teaching us about
what happens if we don't brush our teeth!

Week 1 - Gymnastics

What do tuck shape, front support, landing position and straddle have in common? They are all gymnastics terms.

Today Scott Class had their first gymnastics lesson. We were learning static movement patterns today. Check out these photos of us practicing.

Emah - L shape

Saunoa - Straddle

Vaidika - Front support

Nikheel - Rear support

Pee'ana - Tuck shape