Room 3's assembly

Room 3 worked very hard learning about simple machines and how they make work easier.

We had fun doing it and love to share our learning with others.

The TREEmendous Makeover

Early Saturday morning, 24th of April, in amidst all the excitement, stood 6 girls - Ashleigh, Naomi, Katherine, Sarah, Shan and Jessica. They were waiting for the makeover to start... but it seemed like the wait took eternity. Finally, after a lot of impatience, a woman wearing a lime green shirt announcing, ' Treemendous Makeover' asked for silence. 'Welcome!' she exclaimed to everyone. She talked about her business and how the makeover would start. A man, Koro Percy, stepped out and started singing a Maori song, followed by a prayer. Mrs Riach, a teacher, stepped out to thank everyone for coming and introduced the girls. They received red caps saying 'PROJECT DESIGNERS'.

After some photos and an interview, they were asked to go to the vegetable gardens to help shovel the compost down. The gardens needed heaps of compost because the boxes were HUGE. Four designers went to stomp out the soil whilst Ashleigh and Naomi went off to pile up some mulch. After a while, Jessica joined them with a spade. Meanwhile, the other three rolled some tyres for the potatoes to grow in to the vege gardens. Naomi and Ashleigh joined in. The tyres were really dirty because of the recent rain. Later, Jessica, Naomi and Ashleigh was asked to build a compost bin as it was donated to the school.

Shan, Sarah and Katherine decided to show some kids the worm farm-a wooden box full of 12 thousand worms, half tiger, the other blue worms. No, the tiger worms did certainly not look like tigers! The other three went back to the vege gardens to help out. Wow! The boxes were almost full! Mrs Riach asked all of the girls to make another compost bin in front of some little kids. Most kids wandered off, but in the end the bin was finished. A crowd of kids followed Rob, well, most people called him 'The Bug Man'. He showed them how to make little bamboo hotels for the nocturnal critters. Everyone else decided to join in as well. In the end, we made about 10-15 bamboo hotels. They looked so cute among the forest of trees.

Then it was time to go back to the vege gardens and we were just in time for planting the seedlings. They planted broccoli, lettuce, broad beans, Shang hai cabbages, bok choi and peas. Straight afterwards, everyone got called for a photo the 6 girls right up the front with the other children, Mrs Riach in between the girls and every other adult was right at the back, behind them. After the photo, Jessica, sadly left. Then the other 5 girls went back to continue digging holes for the seedlings. 3 girls were asked if they could have a interview with a young lady called Rose. They politely agreed. The interviewer asked questions like how did this all start off and how many people were in the entire making of the project.

When a woman named Sarah-Jane announced it was time for lunch, everyone came rushing like this was their first meal in ages! For lunch, they all had a delicious sausage sizzle and some workers and adults even had seconds! After lunch, everyone went back to work on the project some shovelling mulch, others laying down grass and the leftover people went to plant more beans and peas. At around 1 o clock, the vege gardens were finished. The adults that were planting seedlings went to help clean the deck or spread the mulch around.

It was a fantastic day and everyone worked hard. The gardens look beautiful and we hope it'll stay with the school for a long time.

THE END!

By Jessica and Shan

PS: Here's a picture of us!

The Enviro-groups Worm Farm

On the 20th of April 2010 8 members of the Bucklands Beach Primary School Enviro group built a worm farm. They had help from Mr Magpike.
The builders were Daniel, Jack, Ben, Libby, Brooke, Teal, Maya and Harry.

The Spectacular Sausage Sizzle!

Bucklands Beach Primary School had a awesome and a REAL YUMMY lunch on Tuesday the 30th March, as the PTA needed some money to help protect Project Crimson's veggie garden fences. Lots of students contributed their precious $1.50 to help the Enviro Group.

It was a success, because the adults that participated were making friends, and everyone loved the softness of the bread, the crispy sausage and a generous amount of tomato sauce. Wow, we all made loads of money for the fence, had a full belly and had tons of fun! Mrs. Manak was brilliant and we might have another sausage sizzle!
It might not be a optional diet, but it's for a good cause!









YUM!!!

By Jessica Kwong

Year 6 Camp sarah and madeleine

Year 6 camp went on from the 9Th of March till 12Th of March.

Everyone had lots of fun and we did lots of awesome activities. Our activities were: Archery, Orienteering, Beach study, Mobile making, rock climbing, Mountain boarding and bush cooking!!

The food was soooooooo yum!! On the last day we had a concert! Everyone was singing and dancing it was soo funny! We got the biggest girl cabin, We were in cabin 8 there was 11 girls in our cabin. We all got bunk beds it was really cool.

Now here are some pictures.

Year 6 Camp by Mira and Emma

Year 6 camp started off by saying goodbye to our mums and dads. It was pretty hard leaving them at home. The bus ride was cool and we even saw the Blues in their touring bus. We were all so jumpy on the way there, we were playing hand games and singing it was SO fun. I wondered what we were going to be like on the way back? Then, we got to Shakespeare Regional Park. We where all very glad to be there at last and we all ate our morning tea. After that, we got shown around the camp area and then we got to pick our beds in our cabins. After we had a rest, we got into our cabin groups and went for a hike. It was very long and really tiring href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiO0DmKfZe3zAzvUZRPyqIhSCDLZ7nkvOpyGvcmH57UU5RJKQHt-zHTg7JNlTBGMqOoegM3bDcfkjrKAMUOLhvegb5X504lJ4aNoz4o2KdwtCe8VuvBoX8fgK1GvJhQB8LnmQ3ExqwZEkC2/s1600/IMG_0709.JPG"> and when we got back to the camp and blobbed for another hour. Then we went to the beach for our first beach o'clock, after that we washed our hands and had dinner, we had yummy shepherds pie and for dessert we had fruit salad, jelly and plain vanilla ice-cream. When we had finished dessert we had night activities after we finished night activities we had showers and went straight to bed to wake at 6:00am in the MORNING!! to do JUMP JAM!

Room 3's Sand Art

Room 3 watched a wonderful clip about sand art. It is a medium we had not tried before and were very enthusiastic to see what it would be like to create some sea week art through the sand medium in the classroom.

Here is the clip we watched to inspire us, then have a look at some of the art we created.
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Chess Competition:

A group of students went to Bucklands Beach Intermediate School for the Chess Championships. The children were chosen by teachers because they were good players and were very keen.
At BBI we had seven matches. Our school won four medals and came third in the tie-breaker so we felt very proud.
All of us tried our best, we didn’t want to give up and we love chess.
We all had fun and we all got a certificate. The team was Ryan, Kevin, Christopher, Piper, Connor, Hayden, Vincent, Jake, Cory, Cole, Hinetea, Billie, Nthyan and Kane. Connor, Hinatea, Kane and Jake won medals.
By Ryan, Year 5.

Welcome back after a lovely summer break.

All entries above this point have been made in 2010.
Watch this space for updates once the school year is underway...

Summer Festival 2009

The Choir, some musicians, the Jump Jam group and some Wearable art representatives
were proud to be able to go over to the Westfield Plaza in Pakuranga to present their items to parents and other shoppers there. They did an amazing job.

Wearable Arts

The Senior school paraded their wearable arts to the junior and middle school and parents this week. We had so much fun artistically creating works of art for our body, using recycled materials.
Don't we look amazing.
This is Room 16's effort.

Gymnastics.

We had teams from Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 competing at the local Eastern Zone competition. The Year 6 boys and the Year 6 Girls teams qualified to compete at the Auckland Champion of Champions competition. Also one boy in Year 4 and one boy in Year 5 qualified for the individual champions competition. The Year 6 boys team came 4th and we had some individual placings in Year 6 individual boys, Year 5 individual boys and Year 4 individual boys. We were really proud of our effort.

Senior School Wearable Arts

This week all of the senior students will display their amazing artworks on stage. Each student has created trash to fashion using a variety of recycled materials. They will be walking in time to music and posing as the audience will be thrilled with the detail and techniques. This was part of our art and technology units in Term 3.

Matariki Whanau Day

Jump Jam was in the hall.  We were able to watch the Jump Jam DVD and learn new Jump Jam routines as we followed the movements on the screen.

Our pavement art depicted the story of Matariki or some of the legends that we had been listening to.  Here the moon and the Seven Stars are being drawn.

A range of tabloid activities were included.  The students rotated around the activities.  Whanau leaders guided students in the activities.

Here the students are listening to Maori legends

We ended the second term with a Matariki Whanau Day.  Matariki is the Maori New Year.  We had been talking about Matariki and its significance to Maori in the past.  We have listened to stories and researched our information.  

June and July are the months of Matariki.  It begins when the Stars of the Seven Sisters rise into sight.  A number of Maori legends give different accounts of how it came into being.  If the stars were bright then it would be a good year for crops.  If they were dull then crops were left a little longer before they were planted.

Matariki traditionally was a time to remember those that were no longer with them.  It was a time of learning of culture.  It was a time to feast with family and friends.  The crops were harvested and the foods from hunting had been preserved.  It was a time to fly kites so that they would reach close to the skies.

We celebrated our Whanau afternoon by listening to Maori legends, producing pavement art about the stars and the legends that we listened to, taking part in tabloid sports and by doing Jump Jam.