Vege Creatures

Today in Discovery some of us made creatures out of vegetables.

Mrs Tobin bought some potatoes, carrots, leeks, brussel sprouts and some long stuff that looked like grass but smelled like onions.

We had a chopping board, some knives and some toothpicks.  Before we started we had to think what our Vege Creature would look like.  Then we had to cut the vegetables and stick the pieces together with the toothpicks.

Here are some of our Vege Creatures




This is Briarna's creature.
She calls it a
Poiseffilus-infullus.

(You will have to ask
Briarna how to pronounce
that)








This is Kian's Vege Creature.
He calls it a Dragith.  It has large
wings so that it can fly.







We hope that we can make Vege Creatures in Discovery again.

In Discovery today we took photos of each other and made these faces.  They look really funny.

We had to take a photo and print it out on the photocopier.  Then we had to cut it into strips so that we could weave it.

Weaving was quite hard because you had to make sure the pieces stayed in the right place.  Also you had to get the over, under bits right.

We're not too happy with our pictures.  Our eyes look weird. The one in the book looked much better.

Next time we have to make sure that the faces are exactly the same.

Ethan & Regan

Week 4 Review

We have been using our 'hats' to reflect on the week.

Red hat (feelings)
   We felt we had a pleasant week.  Regan and Briarna were put on the Power of One wall, we made ice-cream, and the weather was nice.
Abbey, Zay, Regan


Black hat (not so good things)
   We had some boys who tried to start a gang.  We know this is not right because it can lead to bullying and we don't like bullying at our school.
Ryan, Jeannie, Alex


White hat (information)
   When we were making ice-cream we learnt that if you add salt to the ice it helps with the freezing of the ice cream.  Some of us also learnt how to multiply numbers by 0.1.  (and we're really good at it)
Chilay, Andrew, Liam


Yellow hat (benefits)
   The children who were on level 3 1/2 - 4 were given breakfast in the library.  They had a 'fear factor' challenge where they had to see how quickly they could eat a dry weetbix.  It was cool fun.  We hope we are 4's so we can go again.   Our student teachers have been teaching us heaps of cool things.
Elle, Damian, Kian,Storm, Aaron


Green hat (creativity)
   We were very creative when we made our ice cream and also in some of our discovery activities.
Briarna, Vaughan, Katelyn, Jason


Next week we are going to try and import some cool hats for our page

  

Bullying Skits

This term is such a long term that we have two inquiry topics and the first is bullying.  There are four different types of bullying, physical, verbal, exclusion and cyber.  Some children wrote skits around these types of bullying.

The Power of One show that we saw last term taught us about the types of bullying and the people who  take part.

Our skits had to have a bully, a target, a Power of one person, and a bystander.  Most of us had a narrator as well.  The narrator helped to hold the story together.

Some of us wrote our own skits and some of us wrote with a buddy.  Our skits had to be short simple and punchy to hook the audience in and get the message across.  we had to decide on the scene - where our skit took place, and when we were writing it  we had to use dialogue instead for the narrator telling the story.

We had to choose our own characters from people in the class and everybody had something to do.

We had to practice lots before we performed to the class and then we had auditions to see whose skits would be performed in assembly.  Mrs Tobin chose one of each type of bullying.

To identify our characters we made head-bands with 'bully', 'target', etc on.  This helped the audience know who people were.

Here are our wonderful skits that we performed in assembly.

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Term 2 Values

At Bradford School our values are respect, integrity, honesty, and empathy and this term we are looking at empathy.

Empathy is caring for others, being nice to others, and looking after others.

We sent out some special spies who were to look for children being empathetic around our playground at lunchtimes.

This is what we found:





Storm has found some of the junior children and she is playing ball with them on the tennis court.

Elle is showing empathy by helping a little one get up on the bars.  Great lifting Elle.

Here Jason is holding the tyre swing while someone climbs through.  We often see Jason showing empathy around the school.  He is one of the seniors that the other children look up to.

And Mrs O'Donnell is showing empathy by spending time with one of the children.  The teachers show lots of empathy around the school.  The seniors do too because they all have a buddy in Room 3 and they have to look after them and make sure they are OK at lunchtimes.

by Room 6 

Highlanders Run

Friday was really exciting because some of us because we got to go to the 'Captain's Run', which is where the captain of the Highlanders, Jimmy Cowan, takes his team through some drills.



                                                          

                                                          
                                                           One of our many photographers


Only some very special Year 5 and 6 children got to go.  They had to be a 3.5 or a 4 on our levels.

We went to Carisbrook to watch the game and we were allowed to take something that the Highlanders could autograph.  Some people took paper, and some took t-shirts or capes.




We also got to see Jimmy Cowan and it was so cool.

As well as seeing the players, we got to watch the training and then we were allowed to get their autographs.

At the end we got a sword each.

It was really cool and I hope we can go to the Captain's Run next year.

By Jason-Mark and Storm

Many thanks to the lovely ladies at the BNZ who made it possible for these lucky children to attend this very special and exciting event.  -  Mrs Tobin

Super Swimming

For the last 2 weeks the whole school has been going swimming at Moana Pool. We did swimming lessons and dived off the diving boards while the other group went into the wave pool.
First room 3 and 4 went swimming and then room 5 and 6 went.

Mr MacLeod joined the groups for a play in the wave pool.
Everyone jumped off the diving boards but some wouldn't take the challenge at jumping off the 3 METRE!!!
 Michelle and Big Bad Mike were the tutors.
In the wave pool people had the opportunity to jump off the side, unfortunately some people missed out!
While the waves were on people weren't aloud to jump off the sides, so they all grabbed a board and surfed to the deep end!
The tutors would teach us in the main pool.and after a hard days swimming we get to play a game like penguin or we do roly polys. It is very noisy on the bus because half of the two classes are doing pan cakes out loud (they were having much fun as possible!!!)

CLAP CLAP!

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We hope you enjoyed it.


by Ryan Hill and Briarna Kareroa