Busy Friday

 It was really lovely to see some sunshine on Friday and lunch time saw a group of Room 6 boys out with their hockey sticks.

 There was some good dribbling and tackling skills on show.

Not all the Room 6'ers were outside though.  A craze has taken the room by storm...

The wasgij (a guess what is in the picture jigsaw with only a few clues and no picture to work from) is really coming along. Quite addictive...I even saw Mr Marshall a little side tracked with it

Sam spent her lunch time in the Allen Centre playing 'Googly Eyes' one of the terrific games Mrs Bremner has on the go in there.

Rylan and Fletcher were busy  in Room 8 with their Robotics tutors (Seniors Josh and Toby)

whilst Andrew is here working with his buddy William and their senior Robotics tutor, Joe.

"They are a terrific team..." says Joe,
"Andrew is an amazing constructor and William is brilliant at programming."

Friday afternoon was busy for many of the Room 6 students with Kapa Haka practice in the hall with Mrs Ward and Mrs Jackson.

There was also Senior Team Singing in Room 5, so quite a musical afternoon. It has been a very busy week and I think we are all ready for the weekend.

Senior Trip to see The Organ Pipes

Here we are getting off the bus ready to start our tramp.

The track climbed steeply in places.

There was a lot of interesting plant life along the way.

The Organ Pipes were pretty impressive.

Signal Hill.

Amazing views along the way.

The trees and bush changed as we dropped lower into the valley.

Plenty of time to play at the end before we catch the bus back to school.

Room 6 Play Scrabble for Fun Tournament

Room 6'ers Rylan, Evie, Bridget and Meg played in the Scrabble For Fun Tournament at Dunedin Library on Friday. There were several teams from schools around Dunedin all playing.

We won some and we lost some but it was definitely fun. The Channel 9 news team even came to do some filming. Check out Friday 6th May news (about 19 minutes in) click here to view

Bike Week

We have been practicing our close control bike skills last week and this week. Friday and Monday saw us out on the courts working on riding our bikes, skillfully and slowly. During the slow bike races it really was a case of slow and steady wins the race!

Today the weather stayed fine and lunch time saw most of the school out on the field cycling around Mr Marshall's obstacle course. Regan was Mr Marshall's right hand man helping some of the juniors around the course.

Great job, Regan!

Here is Room 6 all lined up ready to get some safety tips from Constable Ross, who was visiting Outram School today. The first thing we talked about was how to put on our helmets correctly. We need to make sure that they fit snug: the adjustable side buttons need to be just underneath our ears, we need to be able to fit just one finger between our chins and our straps and we need to be able to fit two fingers between the top of our helmets and our eyebrows.

We worked on some more close control skills with Constable Ross.

Thank goodness the weather stayed fine for us.

Trip to Early Settlers Cottage

What a beautiful day we had for our trip today to Demi's grandad's Early Settlers Cottage. We walked from Demi's grandad's house over to the cottage which was a couple of kilometres.

Demi introduces her grandad to us and he tells us a little bit about the history of the house. It was originally built in 1863 and has in its time been home to goats and sheep!

This is what the house looked like before it was restored to its present condition.

Helen puts the kettle on inside the old cottage.

 Yummy, Wendy baked scones.

Delicious!

Mrs Tansley serves up morning tea, what a treat!

After morning tea we take our shoes off at the cottage door and step back in time....

 The old coal range...

The walls are very thick to keep out the cold. The stones for the rebuild were all found around the cottage and the timber is from an old macrocarpa tree that was felled nearby.

Jacob goes to see what is upstairs... 

Wow! Enough beds for a whole family, in the 1860's the whole family would have slept in one room. We think this would have been very good living for early settlers.

We all enjoy this lovely peek into the past.

There is time for discovering the surrounding fields: Demi finds a rabbit's pelvis.

An old water pump. Just up the hill there used to be a spring that had sparkly water in it. A local drinks company, Thompson's, used to get its water from here in days gone by.

Time to go, what a wonderful way to round up our inquiry unit.