Colourful Pastel Art!

Over the past couple of weeks we have been working on a piece of art. We have been learning about blending, primary colours, contrasting colours, and warm and cool colours. First we had to plan out what patterns we were going to use and what colours would be in each section. We then drew our pattern onto a big piece and began our pastel work where we had to be very careful not to let the colours smudge. We cut them and glued them onto black paper to make the bright colours pop! Don't our finished products look amazing? We are really proud of them!

Fun Swimming Sports!

Yesterday afternoon, we finished off our summer swimming unit with the fun swimming sports and fun it was! What a great afternoon, full of great swimming, funny races, teamwork, chanting and cheering. All the houses competed well and totally enjoyed themselves. Thanks Miss Simpson for organising this awesome event!

Senior Swimming Sports

Yesterday the clouds moved over and the sun shone in allowing our senior swimming sports to go ahead! We had a wonderful afternoon down at the Makino Pool and all the kids did their very best! They all swam in a number of races and enjoyed the afternoon. The teachers and parents were very proud of all that the kids achieved! Thanks parents for coming to support and help out, Miss Simpson for organising, and a special thanks to Mr Blanchard for the excellent photos!

Great afternoon, great swimming, great photos!

People Savers First Aid

Today in Room 5 we have been doing the people savers first aid course with Stacey from Red Cross. We have learnt many new skills today about administering first aid and what do do when some one is hurt. We also did some role play to practice some of the skills Stacey was teaching us. It was a lot of fun and we learnt so much! Thanks for coming Stacey!

Let's be friends!

Yesterday we spent time with out buddy class. They have been learning all about friendships -how to be a good friend, what a good friend does etc, so we helped them and taught them to make friendship bracelets. Our little buddies loved making them and their finished bracelets were very cool!

Level 4 swimming afternoon!

Yesterday all of our year 7 and 8s went to the Makino Pools to complete the level 4 swimming assessment. They all did very well and swam their absolute best. Well done guys. While we were there, we had time to have a little bit of fun jumping off the diving boards. 

Check out the brilliant photos! 

Key Competencies

On Friday afternoon, we watched some short video clips (see videos in our key comp videos page) that highlighted many key messages about relating to others, managing ourselves and participating and contributing . After watching these videos, we worked in buddies to identify all the messages we gained from the clips and things that we learnt. We then shared our ideas back as a class. It was very interesting and wonderful to see all the great learning and messages the children of Room 5 came up with!

Fun Friday!

On Friday we had a great fun class swim. We worked in teams to create human catapults where we had to discuss and trial different techniques. The aim was to get our person as far and as high as possible. We were judged on our technique, our team work and for one, our ability to make a massive splash! It was so much fun and there was an awful lot of giggling!

We finished off our swim with friendly game of flippa ball. It was great to see everyone get involved and have a turn!

Anti Bullying Drama!

This week in Room 5, we learnt and discussed bullying. We looked at what it is, what it looks like, and what we can do about it if we see it happening or are a victim of bullying.

We then went away in small groups and created drama performances to show a bullying situation and a solution to that problem. We were very creative and very dramatic.

Well done Room 5. We are against bullying!

Inter-house Flippa Ball!

This week at lunch times, some of us have been getting involved in an inter-house flippa ball competition. It is loads of fun and a great way to cool off in this wonderful summer heat. Thanks Miss Simpson for organising it for us!

Check out our awesome pictures -we are a competitive bunch but we play fair and smile while we do it!

Life Ed with Tim and Harold!

Last week we had 2 great sessions with Tim and Harold in the life ed caravan learning all about what makes our bodies work, some of the parts of our bodies, body systems, nutrition and energy. Tim was a great educator -he danced around, he was energetic, knowledgeable, a great actor and exciting to learn from.
Thanks Tim, for coming and being involved in our learning and experiences around 'what makes our bodies work' and for getting involved and learning about us in the playground. We really enjoyed your visit, learnt lots and hope we get to cross paths with  you again, soon!

'Getting to know you' camp!

Earlier this week we spent 2 nights at school on a 'getting to know you' camp. The learning intentions for our camp were: 

· To establish and develop a positive class culture

· To develop relationships

· To encourage and develop confidence and a positive attitude towards a variety of activities

· To encourage children to step outside their comfort zone, accept challenges and take risks

· To develop self management skills in all children

· To take part in a range of EOTC activities

· To experience ‘camping out’

· To develop cooperative skills through living and working closely together

We had a wonderful time on camp and did many activities to encourage and teach us to work and be part of a team, we worked on growing our independence and confidence, and worked hard to manage ourselves and our belongings. We also did loads of swimming, performed in camp skits and did some all important goal setting. 

It was super exciting sleeping in the tents and experiencing camping out and staying away from home. Miss Fleet fed us well and made sure we all had loads of fun! 

We thoroughly enjoyed our camp and are very much looking forward to our next camp experience. 

Check out the awesome shots Miss Fleet got!

BURGER NIGHT!

EVENING GAMES!

SWIMMING FUN!

RAFT BUILDING CHALLENGE!

In Room 5, we are CYBER SAFE!

In Room 5 today we explored cyber safety -what it is, what is means and how we do it. We watched an informative video, discussed the key ideas about being cyber smart, then worked together to learn about and use Comic life to display our learning. We will display these in our classroom.