At the moment room 1 is doing loads of fun things like we are going to kiapupu point. last term room 1 went to the millenuim art gallery at the moment we are drawing pyramids and the sounds . my favourite drawing was the pastel portraits. it is very sunny here in waikawa. all my freinds at primary school are Grace/Bianca/and Amy. I cant beleive that we are in term 2 allready. Term 2 is so fun. I like going to this school.


Monica

Wow it's already term 2 2012! This year we have been focusing on the enviroment.We are about to go to Kaipupu point. Kaipupu point is a reserve in Picton for New Zealand's native birds. Sadly quite a few native birds have passed out and not so many are left.We need to work on saving our native birds or one day there will be none left. What has been killing them is stoats, weasels, rats and ferrets. Around Kaipupu there is a whole lot of traps for the predators. Hopefully we can save them before it's to late. What expert's like Pink reading group and all other groups and classes in the school want is for there always to be native birds.
By Anna

Room 1 is doing self portraits at the moment. My last one looked like a wine glass ,we are going to kapopo point. At kapopo i hope i  see native a bird. Last term we did an art picture of the sands we also did a pyramid picer at the end of the yare y5's and y6's are going to Wellington to stay at the zoo i can't wait .
By Amelia

This year we have been thinking and will think more about Kaipupu Point and how to save New Zealand birds. In art  we have done Egyptian  Pyramids and our Self Portraits. We had to think about perspective and proportion. In writing we have been thinking about description. We had to try to "show not tell" and describe things well so people can agree with and understand what you are talking about. We also had to deliberately choose the best words to get people in the picture. In maths we were thinking about getting fast at our Basic Facts and knowing them all and knowing them well. In topic we have been learning about Maori art. We had been to Blenheim's Millennium Gallery where there were illustrations from Maori stories. In our topic books we had to draw a picture that was inspired by something at the gallery. On the day after and before A.N.Z.A.C Day we read a few poems and stories about it and then in our topic books we did a title page about A.N.Z.A.C and then glued in the poems. Fortunately the teacher said "don't draw pictures of bombs exploding and people dying." Netball practices have just started and our first game is this Saturday.
By Hannah

Wow! It's already Term 2 in 2012!. . .
In Room 1, we have being writing very interesting things about are holidays and weekends. We wrote a letter to Marlborough Express about Mothers Day and neat pictures. We started doing our portraits to be on the wall all this year and a little bit of next year. In Term 1, We learnt a lot about TEAM and I got very interested in art and the Millennium Gallery. In there, we learnt about three illustrators. We did some spelling tests too. Mrs. Easton gave us a Weekly Quiz once a week. Our Teacher, Mrs. Easton, Gave us Handwriting stuff To-Do. My handwriting got better everyday. I love writing. We are going on a Kaipupu Point trip, but it got cancelled three times. There, they take care of birds so the don't get extinct. In Reading, there are six groups. Pink is the best reading group for me,  Grace, Anna and Hannah are in Pink group.
By Grace

Suddenly it is Term 2 already in 2012. We have been waiting for a Website update, but as the present site is still there. Here are some updates about our school.
We now have 5 classrooms operating. Mrs Altoft is still in Room 3 with New Entrants, Mrs Cloudesley remains in Room 5 but this year has a Year 3 and 4 class. Mrs Easton continues in Room 1, with a Year 4 and 5 class. We have two new teachers Miss Whiting in Room 2 teaching Year 5 and 6, and Miss Merrall is teaching Year 1 and 2 in Room 4. Mr Pottinger is the Principal. We also have a new Secretary - Mrs Frisken, since Mrs Boyce retired partway through last year.
We make a happy team, and the year is humming along, with lots happening of course.

A Happy Memory

Early  in the year room 1 red The Terrible Taniwha of Timberditch. Then Mrs E said we could make a taniwha. I was  very excited .