Healthy lunches

Today room 1 made sandwiches after lots of talk about teeth friendly snacks.  Some children found out that lettuce, marmite and cheese was delicious!

Bike Safety

We loved having a Police Constable at school today to help us practise our cycle skills.  we checked that our helmets were in good condition, and then practised some skills.  we checked our emergency stops, we completed a course with U turns, weaving and cycling in between the cones.  Finally we had a snail race.

Holly, Shakira and Tom-Erosion Challenge

Wipe-out House!

Room 2 were set to work designing and planning a house made out of Mega blocks. The aim was to build a structure that would withstand first a sprinkle of the hose, then a downpour with the watering can's spout, and then a whole watering can of water being tipped on each house! We put pieces of wood and wood chips into our sand hill surrounding our house. An unnecessary flag distinguished our house from four other groups houses.


This is what our house looked like before anything happened to it. We decided to add sticks inside the hill to give it extra support.

This is what our house looked like after a sprinkle from the hose, then water from the watering can's spout. The hose is being dragged through, adding a touch more destruction.

After the whole watering can's load unleashed its power, our whole house tumbled off the hill like a feather in high tide waters. Evidently, the sticks in the hill did not work. Our house stayed together, but failed to stay on the hill. We were disappointed that our house did not survive, but we had fun watching put house being destroyed in seconds.

Stevie, Seth and Claudia erostion challendge

                                         Standing still

This is what our house design looked like. We were challenging 4 other groups with heaps of good ideas to keep our houses standing on a sand hill. I decided to make a Tee Pee to help our house stay up. 

This is our house after the first sprinkle of water, it didn't change much it just stayed up.

                            
         Waiting for the big dump of water. Fingers crossed our house keeps standing - OOHHH.

Thanks to Stevie idea to have a stick tee pee around our house.

Overall we were the group that won the challenge as our house stayed in place and was not damaged. It was a tough challenge but we were pleased with how well our house did. If we did the challenge again we would maybe build our house on a giant rock to make our house more stable and instead of using sticks around the outside we would put sticks under our house to anchor it to the hill. We had lots of fun and enjoyed being outside in the sandpit.

By Stevie, Seth and Claudia

Erosion Challenge- Alex Jack Callum

Last Monday we had an erosion challenge where we had to build a block house to put on a sand hill. Then we had to defend the house from weathering, buckets of water, with bark, sticks and other materials. Here are some photos of our groups creation-

Our final creation had a rock buried in the hill and bark buried around the hill.

Our house after the first downpour.



Our house after a bucket of water.

After a second bucket of water, our house was demolished.

Overall, our group came second. Something we could improve on is making the house sit on the flat bit of the rock. Some things we did well were making supports under the house and putting bits of bark around our hill, making the water run straight off the hill, keeping the sand from eroding. In the end we were proud of our defences from the weather and the design of our house. By Callum and Rowan

Aaron,Wiremu,Nathan- erosion challenge

DESTROYED IN MINUTES!!!

We start building.

We add a moat.

We look proudly at our finished project.

We look at other groups ideas.

We got a sprinkle on our house, it didn't do much. 

A down pour hit our house and made a sink hole.

Overall we were pleased with some of our design ideas but if we did it again we would put some stilts under the house to hold it on the hill. We would also put a channel in the sand to stop the water from damaging the sand around our house. 

Ryan and Blue - Erosion Challenge

Destroyed in seconds!

For our erosion challenge we built a Lego block house that looked a bit like a castle, but it looked more like a big square of blocks. We put bark around the outside of our house and a bunch of sticks crossed over diagonally underneath our house so it would hold the house up. Unfortunately our house didn't stay in place.

Blue and Ryan working hard to design a sand hill.

The old "thumbs up for finally finishing building

This is our house after the sprinkle.

This is what our house looked like after the event...knocked off the top of the hill.

If we did this challenge again this is what we would do differently: 1) Make the sand hill wider so the house would stay on the top.
2) We would use more pinecones to surround the house or use a stick tee pee to hold the house in place.
3) We stuck sticks into the hill to make it strong but we would bigger sticks and have them on the bottom of the house.

We had lots of fun doing this challenge in the sandpit and we learnt alot about erosion.

By Ryan and Blue

AthletIcs Day 2013

What a great day in the sun at Memorial Park.  Well done everyone.  Here are a few pictures to enjoy.



Poppy does a big jump in long jump.



Alex prepares to throw in shot-put.

Room 2 wait in the grand stand before starting the events.

Nate and Seth made this banner for our school. It made Seth feel more confident.
"GO WAIHOLA"



Jack, Charlie and Max are proud of their results in the junior athletics.
Great to see you wearing your sunhats.