Gold Mathlete

Congratulations to John for gaining a Gold Mathletics certificate. Ka pai, keep up the great work.

Athletic Reps

Congratulations to EJ, John, Nina, Savanna, Maia P and Nia who represented OLV at the Zone Athletics last Thursday.

EJ and Mia have been selected to compete at the Central Athletics in Ashburton next month.

Happy Birthday

Today John turned 11. We sang 'Happy Birthday' and wished him all the best as an 11 year old.

Room 6 News

Congratulations to Emily M who has earned a Gold Athletics Certificate. 

This is an amazing achievement! Ka pai, Emily.

The School Choir is performing in the Christchurch Schools' Music Festival at Horncastle Arena.

All the best to John, Nina, Emily S, Hannah, Emily M, Savanna, Madde, Taylor, Christine and Portia.

  Congratulations to John, Portia and Savanna who placed third, first and second respectively in the Year 6 speech finals.

Congratulations to Emily S who has been named in the Canterbury Touch Rep Team and will play in nelson at Show Weekend.

Term 3 Speech Finalists

Over the last few weeks we have been working on our speeches. Everyone did a fantastic job of writing their speech and organising props as support. When it came to presenting their speeches everyone put their best foot forward and presented their speech confidently. Lots of interesting information was shared and we learnt many new things on a range of topics. 

Ka pai to all Room 6 students for the effort you put into writing and presenting your speeches - you deserve a big pat on the back.

Congratulations to Portia, Jameson, Rad, Pavlos and James who have made the
Year 6 Speech Finals, which will be held at the beginning of Term 4.

Cultural Performance

Today all our hard work at kappa haka came together as we performed in the Cultural Festival at the Horncastle Arena. Everyone looked awesome on stage and had a great time.

Ready to go!

Juriella and Rhian

Materoa, Hannah, Emily M, Emily S and Maia F

Rad, EJ, Pavlos, Leon, John, James, Jameson and Matthew

A House with a Mouse

The Tui Reading Group presented a play 'A House with a Mouse' to Room 1 and Room 6.

Their performance was well done, they all got into character, spoke clearly and confidently, and used the stage area well.

Ka pai to: Alexis, Maia F, John, James, Rhian, (front) Juriella and Matthew.

Term 2 Last Day

This afternoon Room 6 lead the school assembly. What an amazing job they did! the role plays were entertaining and gave us ideas of how we can show excellence and help our families during the holidays. Thank you to those who were able to join us for this.

Congratulations to William and John who received certificates.

We are sad to farewell William and Theresse who are moving. Thank you for being great classmates. We wish you all the best as you settle into your new schools in Term 3.

Thank you for your support this term. Have a restful and relaxing holiday.

First Aid Recounts

Here's some recounts about our First Aid day with Stacey and Fi.

Stacey asked us what we knew about first aid. Then she asked us if we knew where Red Cross comes from. After that Fi showed us a movie about Red Cross and we learnt a lot from that video.
Next up we learnt about DRSABC. We even tried first aid with our buddy. It was really fun testing it out with our buddy. Alexis

On Tuesday we learnt about first aid. Fi and Stacey introduced themselves to us. Fi taught us about the Red Cross. We watched a video about Henry Durant who started the Red Cross..
Then Stacey taught us about first aid. First she talked about DRSABC and we learnt what that stands for. Next she talked about what can poison us. We also learnt about broken bones, choking, fainting and many more things that we might need to use first aid for. Stacey gave us a card and we got into a group. One person read the card and we acted it out in front of the class. John

On Tuesday we had a visit from Stacey and Fi from the Red Cross New Zealand. They showed us a video about Henry Durant who created the Red Cross because he wanted to take care of his people. The red cross represents the Swiss flag. EJ

Tapa Cloth

As part of our Caritas focus on the Pacific we learnt a little bit about Tapa Cloth, which is a special bark cloth made in Tonga and Fiji among other Pacific countries. Tapa cloth is made from the bark of mulberry trees and takes a long time to make. Plants are used to make dyes to paint the tapa cloth.
We made out own tapa cloth using paper and crayon and a template to create a pattern.

Gluing and creating the template:

Creating the pattern on the paper by rubbing crayon over the paper and template:

The finished tapa cloth: