Louisa Brand

We were lucky enough to have Mrs Brand come and talk to us about fossils, rocks and other treasure she has found over the years. This was great as part of our science unit. 

Junior Science

The Room One, Room Four and Room Five children have been in mixed junior science groups. In Room Five they learnt about air and wind. Here are some children enjoying themselves during these rotations. 

Wind Poems

Room Five have made some amazing wind poems after a windy few days at school. The poems had to rhyme at the end of each line. What wonderful and creative students we have in Room Five!

What is white?
What is high in the sky?
What blows and makes the rain clouds go?
What is big and blows?
What could blow the trees away?
What isn’t big and fluffy?
The Wind.
By Maisie
 
It blows leaves,
It makes you sneeze.
What is soft as snow?
What doesn’t show?
What makes dogs bark?
What doesn’t make a spark?
The Wind.
By Nic
 
What can blow?
Who knows?
Like a dancing crow,
What is like a toe?
What goes bang?
It is like who I am.
The Wind.
By Gianna
 
What blows as hard as a snow storm?
What is like us blowing a thorn?
What blows?
Why doesn’t it show?
What makes trees sway?
Why won’t it go away?
The Wind.
By Victoria
 
What blows as fast as the snow?
What can blow your toe?
It doesn’t show,
But it blows.
The Wind.
By Digby
 
What blows? What shows?
What can you see when the wind blows?
What makes branches fall to the ground?
The planes might crash in the town.
What blows the thunder storm down?
It is a noisy wind that moves the ground.
The Wind.
By Charlotte
 
 
 
The wind sometimes blows trees down.
The clown just got blown down.
Sometimes the wind makes houses fall over,
Trees can be blown into the clover.
The Wind.
By Jade
 
It blows me,
It makes me sneeze.
What is it? What is it?
It has a pain in it.
It has a team,
It is keen.
It blows,
It doesn’t show.
The Wind.
By Milo
 
What blows hard?
What blows the dust at the yard?
What blows the trees down?
What blows to make dogs bark at the pound?
What blows the signs?
What blows the line?
The Wind.
By Cayden
 
Kites fly,
Wind is in the sky.
It blows the grass,
It goes past so fast.
The Wind.
By Jed
 
What makes the trees sway?
And just doesn’t go away.
What can make me fall over?
And can blow a clover.
What rumbles and tumbles?
On the nights I have crumble.
The Wind.
By Tia
 
What is lame?
What can crash a plane?
What can blow a car?
It can go “rarrr”.
What can make a tornado?
What is not a potato?
The Wind.
By Harrison
 
 
 
What blows as strong as a stallion?
What tastes like a lamington?
Blow away leaves, blow away leaves,
Quickly go back to your nest bees.
What makes me brave?
What can’t be saved?
What doesn’t show?
Please don’t leave me, no!
Watch it blow over a pin,
You know what I’m talking about – the Wind!
By Jodi
 
What makes me fall?
Why doesn’t it pull?
It snows,
It blows.
What makes me go down?
What makes the flowers brown?
Why does it blow?
Why doesn’t it show?
What blows pies?
What blows kites?
What blows gin?
Shout it out loud – Wind!
By Tilly
 
 
What does go?
What goes low?
How does it move?
What could it do?
How may it scare you?
How may it follow too?
Can it make you cool?
Can it make that tree tall?
The Wind.
By Ava
 
What can blow?
What can snow?
What can make plates fall and not show?
What if we were clover being blown?
You could ask the pin,
The pin would say the wind.
By Zoe

What blows the trees down?
What blows down town?
What doesn’t show?
What blows?
What blows the pages away?
What makes me say “yay”?
The Wind.
By Charlie

Duffy Assembly

Kevin and Gill Adshead were the guests at our Duffy Assembly held last week. They look after the Mataia Kiwi Project in Northland and shared some photo with us. 

Tanya Batt story teller

Room 5 were lucky enough to join the rest of the junior school last week to listen to Tanya Batt the story teller. The children loved listening and taking part in these wonderful stories. Cayden was lucky enough to be chosen as an alligator man in a story. 

Swim, Stride, Slide

On Monday 21st March the children were lucky enough to compete in a fun triathlon. They swam in the pool, ran up the street and around the field and finished by sliding on a fun water slide. Thank you to the Lions, Lumsden Fire Brigade, and Paulette Leach for organising this day and letting it run smoothly. Everyone had a great time!

Here are Milo and Jed's amazing Sir Edmund Hillary character descriptions.

Sir Edmund Hillary

When Sir Edmund Hillary was older he climbed mountains. Sir Edmund Hillary climbed the biggest mountain in the world. He found a new friend called Tenzing Norgay. They climbed Mount Everest together on 29 May 1953. He was determined and he didn’t get bored because he climbed mountains every day. We will not forget about him.

By Milo

Sir Edmund Hillary

He was first to the top. He climbed heaps and heaps of mountains. He found friends with climbing skills. He was shy. He was proud. When he got to the top he was proud. He was strong. Sir Edmund Hillary fell through a crack in the ice. Sir Edmund Hillary will never be forgotten.

By Jed