Book Character Dress Up Day

On Friday we celebrated book week with a book character dress up day. The whole school gathered and each class went up and the children introduced themselves and shared the character from the book they had dressed as. The teachers dressed up as well. Room 1 was especially lucky as Willy Wonka brought in chocolate from his chocolate factory to share! Yum

Dot the Bay

We were really lucky to have Kerry and Pamela, visiting artists, come to teach each class in our school. We went outside and and looked for colours that represented how we felt about "The Bay". In our sketch books we drew patterns that inspired. We were given three colours - white, blue and yellow, as well as a colour of our choice to paint the background on our a spot. The next week we transferred our favourite pattern onto our spot using the techniques of impasto and scraffito.
We looked at the works of Yayoi Kusama who uses colour and pattern in her works.
We took our spots outside and made an art installation. Can you spot where we dotted our spots!!

School Mural Project

 On Friday 17th February our school joined together to  Thank the artists, Simon Kaan and Martin Poppelwell who have worked all week to create our lovely new mural. We enjoyed going out to watch the progress. Simon and Martin were presented with a Rata tree each.

Kelly Sports

 We really enjoyed the Kelly Sports people coming to show us some of the skills and games they teach in their after school programme.
We had lots of fun!!

Signing Our Class Treaty

On the 10th February 2012 Room 1 children and teachers signed the class treaty. By signing we agreed to obey our class rules. We signed it on our school flag.

Treaty of Waitangi

 

Monday 6th February is a holiday to celebrate the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.  We had a scavenger hunt to find out information about this historic event. The Treaty of Waitangi is a document for the agreement of partnership between the Maori and Pakeha people. James Busby and William Hobson, wrote the treaty. It was translated into Maori by Henry Williams, a missionary. A lot of debate went on about what was in the treaty. The treaty was signed initially at Waitangi in the Bay of Islands on the 6th February 1840. Hone Heke was the first to sign. It was also signed at Otakou on June 13th and many other places around New Zealand. After the treaty was signed their was a lot of conflict around the translation of the treaty from English to Maori.

Year 6 Class Photo

Hi we are the Year 6 class for 2012. We have 22 children and two teachers. Mrs Hawker teaches on Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday. Mrs Ward teaches on Wednesday. We also have a 3rd year teacher trainee, Ms Crompton.
We are excited about the year ahead and looking forward to being the role models of our school.
Keep reading our blog and find out more about what we are doing in Room 1.