Weeks 6 and 7 in Room 12

 Thank you to Zac and Owen for their captions this week.

Isaac is getting ready to catch the ball.

Ocsar and Grace are pitching the ball.

                                          Savannah is getting ready to throw the ball.

                                           Everyone is listening to Garfeild. Hopefully!

                                       

                                           Kids from Room 12 who played mini-ball this year.

                                       

Hampstead Rockets with their coaches  Ngere and Gemma.

                                          A cat came into Room 12. It was amazing!!!

                                          Kapa Haka doing a pukana before going to the Hakatere Festival at the College Auditorium.

Room 13 students ready for the Hakatere Festival.

                                          Room 12 buddy reading to Room 1 in the Library.

                                           Grace is reading a book to her buddy.

                                              Chloe with her buddy. Lovely smile Chloe!

                                             Isaac  with his buddy. Great buddy work Isaac!

                                             Zac reading a book to Hannah B.

                                          Harry is reading a book with his buddies.

                                          Otis is reading a book to his buddy.

                                          April is reading "Daniel's Matariki Feast" to her buddy.

                                          Joel is reading a book to his buddy.

                                            Owen and Brodyn are reading a book to their buddies.

                                          Room 12 people who made it into the Counties this year.

Congratulations Chloe for coming third in the 80m sprints at the Counties. Awesome!

                                           Well done Joseline for getting a certificate in Assembly this week.

Wonderful Week 5

Garfield is giving us instructions about what he wants us to do for Cricket today. Mrs O'Neill is listening carefully too!

Chloe getting ready to hit the ball. Good work holding the bat!

Mrs O'Neill helping us play speed cricket.

Isaac getting ready to run.

Looks like Merika missed this one!

Oscar getting ready to hit the ball!

Oops! Might have missed this one!

Grace making some runs.

Missed!

Sheryl Stivens talked to us about the importance of composting. Micro organisms help break down our rubbish waste so we can use it as compost on our gardens. 

Getting the plaster bandage ready to make our cup sculptures.

Making our sculptures.

We wet plaster bandage strips in water and then wrapped them around a plastic cup rubbed over with vaseline.

Cup sculptures.

Concentrating on our sculptures.

John is rolling out the wet bandage strip to smooth out any small holes.

 When they are dry we will slip the cup out of the plaster bandages and hopefully paint them. Check out our BLOG next week to see the finished products!

What has Room 12 been up to in Week 4?

The next few photos show us continuing our cricket skills with Garfield. First we practised catching a ball with our hands ready. Then we had to keep stepping back to make the gap wider. It got harder and harder to catch the ball!

These photos show Zac and Grace throwing the ball correctly. Much harder than it looks!

We had a day experimenting with clay. We made pinch pots, coil pots, animals and finally a model of our own choice. A big thank you to Rose for providing us with her shed to store the equipment.

Experimenting with the clay. We learnt how to use slurry (a watery mixture of clay and water) to join our models together.

Harry is rolling out the clay.

Merika has made a pinch pot.

Some models that Miss Peterson showed us to give us ideas about what to make.

Oscar with his vase.

Isaac with his nest of eggs.

The Duathlon was held at school on Thursday. Zac, Owen, Harry Trott , Ethan and Chloe took part. Here they are lining up waiting to start.

Waiting!

Ready to start.

Room 12 came out to watch their class mates.

Owen, Harry and Ethan after they had finished. Awesome job guys!

Room 4 presented Assembly this week.

Harry Tabener received the Student of the Week award from Mr Melrose in Assembly.

Congratulations Harry!

Sam King from Room 6 visited us on Friday.

Congratulations April for receiving your certificate in Assembly on Friday.