Technology - Design a Learning Game About Safety

We have been creating fun learning games to teach others about being responsible and safe. Everyone played their game and evaluated it to think about positive aspects and things we could change.

Darcy's New Baby Sister

Darcy is very proud of his new baby sister Shakiyah.

Laying Our Pavers

Tia dug holes for our mosaic pavers near Room 7's harakeke plant.

We had turns jumping on them to settle the pavers into position.

Everyone enjoyed leaping from paver to paver through the plants.

First Aide Training

Kathryn, from St Johns, taught us about first aide before camp. She talked about bleeding, burns, blisters and bee stings. We also did a team problem solving exercise. We also learnt how to bandage a bleeding wound.

Earthquake Coin Trail

Bella and Alaya helped Mrs Gulbransen with the coin trail for earthquake affected schools. The money will help provide a sausage sizzle lunch for the children and a special morning tea for staff.

Chef Matilda

Chef Matilda explained how she followed instructions to make these delicious Chocolate Sandwich Cookies.

Level 2 Girls Gymnastics

Congratulations to Alizae, who represented our school at the recent Nayland Primary Gymnastics competition.

Wet Day Creativity

Moana Syndicate Speech Finals

Congratulations Joanna for winning the Moana Syndicate Speech finals.

Congratulations to Matilda for coming third.

Suter Gallery Visit Stories

The Suter Art Gallery by Joanna Johnston

As we walked into the Suter the first art works we saw were the portraits of Andrew Suter and his wife.  The portraits were made of dots.  Ester showed us around the Suter and gave us some activities to do.  We got to sketch lots of things around the art gallery.  The original gallery is 117 years old!  And the floor has lots of bumps because people have walked on it for years.  The first activity we did was comparing the old to the new, by drawing little sketches in tiny circles.  Then we had to sketch some very detailed paintings.  One of the paintings was a portrait of Huria Matenga, it looked alot like Alizae.  Did you know the original gallery is actually inside the new gallery?  I had a great time drawing and sketching at the Suter.  On the way back all the people in Matilda’s car seriously considered going to the beach after going to the Suter, but instead we came back to school, which is just as good!

Suter Art Gallery New Addition by Cory Healey

Yesterday Room 7 got to go visit the new Suter Art Gallery!  I liked the Suter because some of the paintings have a meaning and they tell stories which is very cool.  The thing that I didn’t like that happened was that I threw up and couldn’t stop coughing.  We did two fun activities - one where you had to find old new things and the other where you had to find something that reminds you of stuff or someone and something.  One of the paintings told a cool story.  The painting had a Maori lady called Huria Matenga and a broken ship behind her.  My Dad Andrew Healey Signs and my Mum Wendy put sticker patterns on the glass walls of the Suter.  My favourite thing there was the boy who was in pajamas that had a broken arm and had his hand down his pants, it looked so real!  The entrance is incredible because it has the lady who made the Suter Art Gallery for her husband Andrew Suter.  It wasn’t really her, she was made out of dots and it had Andrew Suter next to her.  That’s why I like the new Suter Art Gallery.

The Suter Art Gallery by Shuun Yokoyama

On Wednesday it was raining cats and dogs in the morning.  Our class Room 7 was supposed to go to Queens Gardens then to the Suter Art Gallery.  It was raining so we couldn’t go to the Queens Gardens.  We went straight to the gallery.  When we got there we had to wait for everybody else.  While we were waiting we played a game of charades except it hd no cards in that game.  During the game Pam said we had to sit down and wait for Esther.  “Finally she came”.  We went inside the gallery.  As soon as we went in our whole class had to cross their legs and fold their arms because she was telling us an important story about the Suter.  Then we walked into this room that had holes like the grey moon.  That room was the real Suter which was built and bought by a woman called Amelia Suter.  She wanted to build an art gallery for her husband Andrew Suter who passed away.  She thought that she’d make something that her husband would like if he was alive.  She chose an art gallery because Andrew loved art and painting.

Pasa Doble Photos

Gymnastics Competition

 Congratulations to Jordyn, Ruth, Bao Tram and Reuben for all your training and competing in the Nelson Interschool Gymnatics competition on Friday.  Good luck to Alizae who competes next week.

Fire Service Visit

Four fire fighters from the Stoke Fire Station visited us today with a fire engine.  They talked about the equipment, what they do, and what we can do when there is a fire.

Family Fun Night

Some crazy creatures and characters came to our Family Fun Night to join in activities.

Broadgreen Intermediate Kapahaka

Broadgreen Intermediate Kapahaka group gave a very polished performance on Friday.  It was great seeing some ex Nayland Primary students in the group.

Being Responsible in the Sun Instructions

How to be safe in the Sun

Things you Need:

• sunblock
• sunglasses
• t-shirt
• hat

Instructions:
1. Put on a wide brim hat so it protects your face and neck.
2.  Squirt on some 30 SPF and water proof sunblock allover your body and reapply in the next four hours.
3. Put on a pair of sunnies that wrap around your face and protect your eyes in the sun.
4. Slip on a shirt that has short sleeves to protect your shoulders from the sun.

by Sylvie

How to be Sun Smart

Things you need:

• sunblock/sunscreen
• sunglasses
• shirt
• brimmed hat

Instructions:

1. Put sunblock on your skin that is showing, if you are outside. If you are going swimming at the beach, when you come out from a swim you will need to put more sunblock on your skin.
2. Put wrap around glasses on.  Wrap glasses are glasses thast cover around the eyes so the sunlight doesn’t come in through the gaps.
3. Put a hat on but not just any kind of hat.  It needs to be a brimmed hat so it can protect your ears, neck and nose.
4. Put on a shirt but make sure that it isn’t a singlet. A shirt will protect your shoulders.

by Brodie

Getting Ready to go Out in the Sun

Things you need:

• sunblock
• sunglasses
• shirt

Instructions

1. Squirt some sunblock on you hand and rub it on your face, legs, arms and ears (but not on your clothes).
2. Wear sunglasses that wrap around your eyes because if you don’t wear sunglasses that wrap around, the sun might singe in your eyes.
3. Wear at-shirt rather than a singlet because a t-shirt covers your shoulders and protects them.

by Darcy

The New Suter Gallery

The New Suter Gallery on PhotoPeach

The Variety Concert

The Spectacular Variety Concert by Lucas

Tremendous lights, jumbo audience, flashing phones.  It was my turn to perform the Pasa Doble from Spain.

Marching up to my space went my feet. The music began. Crisp stomps banged on the bright brown timber. The back line banged on the dented black timber. I dropped down to my knees and said, “O lé.”

Finally it was the last bit.  We walked to the front and yelled out, “O lé!” The curtains closed, my bit was over.

Variety Show by Jackson

Last night at the Variety Show concert, walking through the door onto the stage my heart dropped like a rock.  I was so embarrassed on the stage.  As I ran onto the stage I got even more self conscious.  When someone said, “The competitors wore a full suit of armour.”  I got ready to run.  I bolted across the stage like a cheetah.  After that we went up the stairs to Room 14 while we were waiting for our parents.

Getting Stage Fright at Nayland College by Fiona

We walk up the stairs of one side of the stage, the current of children dragging me closer and closer to the wooden stage where the curtains are closed and all the parents and guardians of the Moana syndicate students are sitting, zealous to see what’s next.  I walk up to where I normally sit next to Hayley P.  The curtains open, the music starts. We’re on! There are cameras from every direction blinking in my face, so it is hard to see what I am doing.

Nervous Monday by Shuun

My body was shaking, I had goose bumps all over my body.  My heart was pumping up and down like a person jumping up and down like a person jumping on a trampoline.  It’s our cue to go on stage to do our Pasa Doble. As soon as I got on stage, “flash” came bright lights high from the roof of the echoing hall.  Music started, we had to do our dance.  I thought it was worth practising every day in the hall.  We finally finished, the audience was cheering and clapping.  It was awesome getting clapped by over two hundred people, literally two hundred people.

The Performance by Joanna

My footsteps echoed as I walked towards my position holding my shining instrument.  The people that were pretending to be statues around Zeus walked forward, and then froze like they were stone.  The words started and we acted as though we were actually in Greece.

We felt all nervous and jittery as we waited for the introducers to announce the ancient Greece item. The floor, which was black and made of wood, felt chilly through our costumes.  As we performed, the cameras winked at the stage.  But afterwards I felt great and glad that I had performed.

Embarrassing Show by Zahrlis

One cold night I went to Nayland College for a Variety Concert.  Going on stage was a nightmare. I was shaking in my part, but I got over it. People were cheering for us and laughing.  Doing my parts were embarrassing but I kept trying,  I was OK when Cory ran past with a censored sign, that was the best part of the show.  Then we went off stage.

The Variety Show by Ruth

The bright lights were shining at me and my class as the tourists acted out their part in the show.  Just as they said the part about the Pasa Doble in Spain, my heart started to beat faster than a galloping horse.  This was our cue.  I followed my partner to our place on the stage.  As we did the dance, my mind rushed through the steps. When we went back to sit down, I thought about what it would be like on Thursday!