Goat Island 2012

Tuesday 6th March was a very exciting day for all the Year 5's at BBPS. Everyone gathered at school at 6.40am when it was still dark and boarded two buses heading for Goat Island Marine Reserve up north near Leigh. We have been studying all about marine reserves in class and their significance to marine life and the environment.
We all took part in a fun day full of activities, including a visit to Seafriends to watch movies and hear Floor Antoni talk to us about his 20 years work there and view his aquariums. The rocky shore study was very exciting being able to look for crabs, anemonies and the like and a few of us even got to hold a kina!
The highlight of the day would have to have been the snorkelling! We all looked like blue seals as we all took to the water to explore the underwater world.
Such a fun day and we all want to go back again!

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Room 5 -Book Character Day

On Friday 17th June, all of the students at BBPS came to school dressed as one of their favourite book characters. The children in Room 5 were very excited as they entered the room dressed as witches, princesses, pirates and many other fabulous characters. It was fun to share our costumes with the school at the character parade in the morning and some children even brought along the book their character was from.

Interschool Swimming Certificates awarded

Today the students received their certificates in assembly. We were all agog with the amount of placegetters there were. Obviously those 8am practices in the pool paid off!!
The slideshow showing skill and competitive fun was enjoyed by the whole school, and it is nice to be able to use it as incentive for the little ones during lessons! "Maybe that will be you one day..."

Mathletics

I was running my class's assembly certificate down to the office for Mrs Bodley to sign, when i passed this studious bunch of Room 3 students.

I asked what they were doing and they quickly answered,
'mathletics'
but not one of them looked up!!
They had maths points to earn and problems to solve!!
Good job, Room 3.
From Mrs Johnson.

Room 3

Room 3 has started the year well. We are all enjoying being part of the Senior school. We are doing Kia Kaha and learning how to be confident kids and not tolerate bullying. Everyone is really looking forward to our trip to Goat Island in week 7.

Year 5 trip to Goat Island

We enjoyed a fantastic day at Goat Island. All year 5's took the plunge and went snorkeling. We found many interesting creatures on the rocky shore.

Enviro

Vege Garden

In the weeks of the holidays there have been some exciting things going on in the garden. We have harvested lots of vegetables and will be selling them. We are really enjoying it and we have had more people coming to help. The school has signed up for a Mcain competition. When people have bought our lovely veges we our getting money for our fence that we desperately need before people vandalise our beautiful gardens.

THE NETBALL FIELD DAY

Our trip to motat

On Friday the 2nd of June the Year 5's and 6's went to Motat. It was a long and annoying journey because many people were singing songs. When we arrived we were told the rules. The part was to finally open our lunch box and eat our morning tea. After that we headed down to the classroom. At the classroom we were looking at levers, pulley, wheels and gears.
When we finished that we picked up some objects and we were told to find out what simple machine they were. We then needed to make model pulleys with some K-nex and some string and a ping pong ball. The people in my group were Micheal, Steven, Daniel and Callum. We made a truck with a crane. In the end groups model was the best.

The next thing we did was go see a man named Mike. He was in charge of the pump house. While we were in the pump house we had to do a challenge. There were many machines in the pump house there was also a boiler to. After that we went to next door. Next door was created to pump fresh clean drinking water from Western Springs. The water that was being pumped at the pump house was sent to Auckland city.

Painting Drains Report

Hi, I'm Jessica and I'm doing a report on BBPS's painted drains. It all started on the Friday 11th June and (my buddy reader) Milla from Room 5 wanted to make the drains attractive and colourful. So Mrs. Horn, a couple of Year 2s from Room 5; Hannah, Mahin, Nicholas and of course, Milla; and Zoe and I from Room 1 started to talk about what we wanted to draw and with what colours. I went to the Room 4's drain with Hannah and Milla with some chalk to draw with while Zoe stayed at the Room 5's drain with the boys.

Soon, ideas started to bubble up and explode everywhere as there were lots of drawings. After a while, we had two lovely, colourful drains. We did 3 more drains on Friday 18th June. Teal and I painted a 3D hole around the old, metal circle at Room 4. Madeline, Brianna and Emma painted Room 2's drain with sea creatures and a group of Room 2 students did the drain beside the hall with a scene of Rangitoto Island. Our school will look more wonderful when we finish all the drains!

Watch this space for more reports and beautification!

BOOK CHARACTER PARADE

On Friday 18 of June the students of Bucklands Beach Primary School had a book parade. The event was at 9:00am. There were many people characters from books. The person I was was Fred from the clever Gribbles. This book was written by Joy Cowley. I particularly enjoyed this book because it was very funny.

I looked like a boy with a shirt and a shorts. I like skateboarding. I have a cook named Mrs Munch. I have to sisters too. Me and my sisters are inventors.

This is the final book in the series. I would recommend you reading them from first to last. This is a good book for all ages.

My favourite part is when his sisters give him an upgraded version of his skateboard and smashes into a bus stand and a police car!

I hope you enjoy reading this book if you are going to read this book.

Mira as Nancy Drew

For the book character parade I dressed up as Nancy Drew from the book Nancy Drew the Secret of the lost pavilion by Carolyn Keen. I would recommend this book to 9-12 year olds because it is quite a challenging book to read over all I rated the book a 8/10.

The Great BBPS Book Character Parade

On Friday 18th of June the whole school piled into the school hall dressed in costumes of their favorite book character. Fleur was dressed as Fly Guy and Jessica was dressed as Sara the maid. Room 1 was the most stylish and creative class by far. There were lots of strange book characters like 3 talking toilets, a giant cyber turkey and a boy dressed as a princess with a large pea.


The Rangitoto girl whanau leaders did a great job by telling the junior classes when to stand and sit.

Every teacher had to choose a boy and a girl to stand forward and say who they were and which book they came from. The teachers also dressed up as well!


This year's book character parade was FANTASTIC! But it was the last year for the Year 6's to do this so they had to put in all their effort.

By Fleur and Jessica

The Book Parade

The Book Parade
The book parade was a very successful with a wide range of charters including a cyber Turkey and some talking toilets. Many people thought it was very amusing and a creative festival Michael was called the artful dodgier . Harry was the boy called Greg from the book called the diary of a wimpy kid. Next time we have a book parade I think it flow a bit faster.

The brilliant book character parade by Grace and Teal

On June the 18 BBPS had a book character parade in celebration of book week for this occasion BBPS students were allowed to dress as there favourite book character. There were all sorts of costumes from mice to toilets super heros and cats, they all looked wonderful and so colorful and the show took a while but i don't think anybody cared because it was a spectacular sight some boys even dressed like girls! Over all I think that the book character was very successful and AWESOME. In fact I'm still wearing my Minnie Mouse costume.


By Minnie Mouse and Snowfur

Book Parade 2010 By Madeleine,Sarah and Abby.

On Friday 18th June 2010 Bucklands Beach Primary School held a book parade celebrating books! Everybody's costumes were AMAZING! It went in order from Middle school, Junior school and then last the Senior school.

People wore fabulous costumes! There were cats, witches, vampires, pirates and all the things you can think of! Teachers asked a couple of people what they dressed up as. Some people took longer then others to make there costumes because of how much detail was put into the costumes. This terrific event was held in the school hall. Everyone thought really hard about there costumes, and one boy from Room 1 even dressed up as a girl!! Today was a fantastic day for everyone who participated in this event.

I dressed up as a Vampire, Abby was a Vampire too and Sarah was a Cat. We all looked fantastic and had a great time!











By Madeleine and Abby.

Emma as Pinky Pick

For the book character parade I was Pinky Pick from the book My Name Is Stilton, Geronimo Stilton. Written by Geronimo Stilton. I would recommend this book to children under 12 because it is really easy to read and it has lots of pictures. I would give the book 4 out of 5 stars.

Our Book Character Parade

On Friday 18th of June, the whole school gathered into our school hall to start our fabulous and fun Book Character Parade. It all started when we had our Scholastic Book Fair, then Sharlene Bodle came to our school and read her books to us. Everyone had LOTS of fun! It was AMAZING!

Children dressed up as Tinkerbell, Indiana Jones, Batman, Minnie Mouse and cats. Stephen, from Room 1, even dressed up as The Princess and The Pea! The Rangitoto whanau leaders instructed the students of when to stand up and sit down. First, the mesmerizing middle school came up on stage, then the juvenile juniors, lastly, came the stylish seniors.

Sarah Millar, from Room 1 dressed up as Slinky Malinki from the book Slinky Malinki, written by Lynley Dodd. Shan Lan, also from Room 1, dressed up as Lucy Jessica Hartley from the book Planet Fashion, written by Kelly McKain.

By Sarah and Shan