Swim & Survive Lessons

Last week we had two sessions as part of the Swim & Survive programme. Tracey, our tutor from the Royal Life Saving Society taught us lots of new skills to help us be safe around water.

ILE Room

In the ILE Room we have displayed our career choice and our writing on our trip to the mountain.  If you get a chance come and read some of our fantastic work.

Sport with Grant

Every Wednesday afternoon, the two senior classes play sport with Grant.  This week we played softball and volleyball.  In softball we learnt how to bat as well as field.  The rules of batting were simple. All we had to do was keep our hands together, not drop the bat on the base, not throw the bat, not hit the ball into foul ball area and swing the bat fast.  Both classes had already learnt how to play volleyball so it was more of a friendzie game.  Both classes got to have a turn at each sport and really enjoyed it. 

By Libby

Maths

This week in Mrs Hutchins' maths class the children have been using their chrome books to create spreadsheets as a maths task. they had to sort different information into tables and learnt new skills from other students. The children also sat their PAT maths tests this week.

Magpies Fun day

10 St Mary's students were lucky enough to to get the opportunity to meet the Magpies through Nimons. We really enjoyed the experience of hanging out with them, getting autographs, having a free lunch and watching them train.

Praying The Rosary

 This week we have been leaning about the four mysteries, we put ourselves into four groups of five and chose which mystery we were going to do, after we had chosen we got to draw a picture and then paint our art with dye once we had finished we would go around it with black felt, just so that it stands out. 

The mysteries are... The Joyful Mysteries, The mysteries of light, The Sorrowful mysteries and The Glorious mysteries. 

By Paige 

HB cross country

HB cross country 

On Tuesday the 22nd of September a selected number of runners participated in the Hawks Bay regional cross country competition. The day was great and the St Mary's runners ran well with good with good results.

Magpie visit

On Monday two of the Hawkes bay magpies came into talk to us, they were Tom Stanley and Tolu Fahamokioa. They talked to us about what they do, what diets they have to be on, what teams they have been in and what positions they play. Then on Friday morning some people came to school early and watched the All Blacks vs Nambia, because our teacher was very nice, and put it on so we could watch it.

Hockey Lesson

Last Friday, we enjoyed a fun catch-up Hockey session with Matthew. Hover over the photos to see in detail.

Kite Making

As part of our Inquiry/ technology unit we designed, made and flew a kite each. We had to:

- bring our own materials

- write a procedure in steps

- design a kite that was realistic and would most likely fly

- fly our kite

Kite Flying

After completing an inquiry into the history and design of kites, we finally got to build and fly our kites. There wasn't as much wind as we would have liked, but lots of fun was had by all. Hopefully we'll get a chance next week to make repairs and modifications and try again. Putting our Kite making to the Test! Putting our Kite making to the Test! on PhotoPeach

Hockey week 6.

This week the intermediate students took part in TAC's hockey and we also got our first hockey lesson. In Hockey skills this week we learnt to dribble the three types of dribbling are the closed dribble, the open dribble, and the Indian dribble and we also played follow the leader with these different dribbles.

Mandarin lessons direct from Beijing

We began Mandarin lessons via a direct link with Beijing. Freddy, our teacher shared information about China a well as introducing us to the language.

Mary MacKillop

Today we celebrated Saint Mary MacKillop in a school mass.  

Every child came in muffti and brought a grocery item to give to St Vincents De Paul.

Room 11 had the highest percentage of items per children in the class. 

    

Life Education Trust

The Year 7/8 program was on relationships and the influence of peer pressure and being a responsible digital citizen. Above our photo is the ten digital commandments.

Beating the Wind

Beating the wind is a book about aerodynamics. We used Sam's bike to  do the different positions such as the Obree and Superman position that cyclist use. We learnt that a group of cyclists in a V formation is called a peloton. In a peloton they ride close behind another cyclist to use less energy and to get shelter from the aerodynamic drag. 

WEEK ONE ROOM 3

We have had a great start to Term 3: Church Strand and Mass for Religious Education, perimeter, area and capacity for Maths, science is integrated in reading, buddy reading, writing about a "snapshot" of students holidays (check out students individual blogs), SAQ (Speed,agility and quickness) for P.E, Japanese, Indian ink pictures with handprints, Bike Track and helping Room 12 Students with helmets and running around the track with them on their bikes.  Piper brought in Wilson who showed us his tricks and he is a lovely dog.

Soccer tournament.

Today as our last lesson to soccer we had tournaments. Altogether the champions were Spain. We have learnt many skills including dribbling and passing. 

Godspell

St.Mary's Years 7/8 went to the "Godspell" production.  Our students really enjoyed the experience

of a well presented production.  The dancing was to a high standard and all students were engaged.

"Flag it" Rich Maths Task

If your child is in Mrs Hutchins maths class check out their blogs with their rich task details.