Blast off!

Last term, the school's Integrated Learning topic was EXPLORATION.

In Room 5, we explored what happens when acids and bases are mixed, as well as the energy transformations that occur.

Using the common household acids and bases (ie. vinegar and baking soda), we had fun with some experiments. Some worked better than others but we didn't give up until we succeeded!

The bottle was half-filled with vinegar. A teaspoon of baking soda was placed into a tissue, then the tissue was carefully dropped inside the bottle. A cork was put over the top and, propped up by some pencils, the bottle was flipped over.

As the baking soda and vinegar mixed, a gas was released. This gas built up inside the bottle, increasing the pressure, and eventually BOOM! The bottle flew up into the air!

Here is a more successful attempt!

We invited our parents to school one afternoon in a Celebration of Learning. Our boards were all decorated with everything we learnt over the term. We also showed the parents our experiments and they were impressed with the results!

                      

If you want to find out in more detail the different things we did on the day, visit our individual blogs. We were asked to create and share a slideshow about what we did.

The vinegar/baking soda experiment is really easy - have a go yourself!!

Pink Shirt Day, 2019

On Friday, our school joined in with many other schools around the country, and had a Pink Shirt Mufti Day in support of the anti-bullying campaign. If we did not own a pink shirt, we were allowed to wear anything pink. We were also challenged to bring something pink for our lunchbox!

We had some very generous donations from parents and students, ranging from strawberry icing strawberry cake, to strawberry milk... to dessert skittles with pink packaging!

Luckily, we were able to use this sugar in our Cluster Winter Sports that afternoon (and not in the classroom).

Bullying is not ok!

Let's continue making a stand against bullying and respect everyone's differences, just as Jesus did.

Remember: We were all made perfectly by God! ♡

Baking Madness!

Last week, our school teachers went to a Paid Union Meeting on different days. We did this to stop having to close the school. Teachers who went to the meeting split their classes up among the remaining teachers.

When Miss Satherley went to her meeting, Rūma Rima was privileged to have half of Room 2 joining us after lunch.

Rūma Rima made gingerbread cookies in preparation for the little ones coming into our class.

Then we all decorated our own cookie, using lots (and lots!) of icing. We were also given some mini M&Ms and marshmallows, as well as some chocolate drops.

Here are our creations!

   

                 

Kia kaha, Christchurch!

In response to the horrific incident in Christchurch two weeks ago, Rūma Rima created a sign to put outside our school for cars and people passing by to see. The sign was made to show our support for the members of our community who were effected by the incident.

We discussed what it meant when Jesus told us to love one another. We also discussed what our school value of Compassion meant and applied this to specific examples in our lives.

With the only instruction being that the shape had to be a heart, each one of us chose to either write a word or draw a picture inside it to express love and compassion.

We collated all the images together into a slideshow.

If you were to draw something to represent love or compassion, what would it be?

What word do you associate with love and compassion?

May the peace of God be with you all!

With love,

Rūma Rima

Athletics Day 2019

Last Thursday, we had our annual Athletics Day.

All of our training and practice was put to the test: shot put, high jump, long distance running, sprints and relays. Many of us were nervous about the day, but we had a lot of fun overall.

We went in our year groups around four rotations but gathered as a school for sprints and relays.

We are all very proud of our achievements!

Here is a slideshow of what we enjoyed the most and what we were the most proud of!

Class Treaty 2019

Each year, the class learns about te Tiriti o te Waitangi.

We learn about the importance of a treaty in the classroom, too.

We used our school values of Compassion, Excellence, Responsibility and Respect to come up with some promises to keep in the classroom.

We wrote our names on a piece of paper to show we agree with the articles on our class treaty. If someone was to not follow the treaty, the whole class becomes responsible as we are all a collective group!

As part of our classroom treaty, we wrote when we belong at school and when we feel respected at school on the orange and blue feathers.

The feathers were cut out and the stencil used to create a background for the feathers to be layered on.

We have become more compassionate towards each other and respectful because of this treaty.

Do you have a class treaty?

Is there anything in your treaty that is similar to ours?

Introducing Rūma Rima, 2019!

Kia ora!

I would like to introduce the so-called 'best class' at St Bernadette's School:

Rūma Rima!

We are a group of Year 6 and 7s in Mrs Lee's class.

We are a hard-working, fun-loving class with a great sense of humour.. but if we get a bit too silly, our teacher eat lollies in front of us. That makes us get back to work!

We enjoy challenges: We are reading 'Fish in a Tree' as a class novel. A character had some wasabi peas - we ate some because we were curious about what they tasted like. Some laughed.. some cried... and some wanted more!

We want to know.. is there anything your teacher does to make you angry?

If there's anything else you want to know,

Leave a comment down below!

All About Me!

WALT use Google Drawings to create a drawing about me.

To start the year, we were asked to create a Google Drawing about ourselves.

We had to include:

- Our favourite food

- Our favourite animal

- A country/place we want to visit

- A picture of ourselves.

All images needed to be original and created by ourselves!

This is my Google Drawing introducing me. I was trying to create a beach scene, but found it difficult to create waves - they look more like seagulls! I could try to trace waves next time, to make this look more realistic. I am quite proud of my giraffe, though!

What are your favourite foods and animals? Have you been to where I would like to go? Please comment below!