Senior Parents Digital Information Afternoon

Today we had a parent afternoon about digital learning.

We are looking at technology to show our parents what we are learning at school. We will show them Google docs and what we do and make on docs. This term we are using docs in most subjects. Our teacher can see what we are doing on her computer anywhere, anytime.

Mrs Hyslop showed all the parents how to get on the blog leave comments

We also introduced the parents the class site that Mrs Hyslop created in the holidays. It is where we can find some of our learning activities, newsletters, calendar of events and other important links.




The site is another place where our learning is stored but it has more on it such as the calendar, resources for learners and parents, important links and newsletters.

Why use Google Sites in The Classroom ?

• Google site is free
• It is very easy to use and has a simple and student friendly interface
• It can improve students digital literacy skills
• It can open up your classroom and make it a collaborative learning environment

Tailing at Carterhope

This weekend some parents and children went tailing at Caterhope to raise money for the school to buy new things.

We also went there to have heaps of fun like playing with the lambs and riding sheep around the pen.

Along with having fun we also had to work doing jobs to help. Vaughan and Scott helped to set up the pens and draft the lambs and Morgan and Latyun helped to tail them and to stop them from smothering. On the first day of tailing (Saturday) we tailed 14 paddocks of lambs and on the second day (Sunday) we tailed eight paddocks. When we finished we went up to the wool shed, the adults had cold beverage and the kids had fizzy. We also played in the wool shed, sliding down the chutes and trying to catch pigeons that were flying around. It was a fun weekend spent with the other children, parents and teachers.

The only photos we got were of Mr Bissett getting his truck stuck in a boggy paddock. Who would like to see the photo?

Written by Morgan and Vaughan

Sorry Mr Bissett, but who are we to stand in the way of good photography.

Warepa Wheels Day

This term every day is wheels day. I like the idea because you don't have to worry about whose wheels day it is so say if you forgot your wheels you could bring it the next day instead of waiting the whole week.

Here is Aidan, Danyon and Jack playing on some bikes.

Shaun and Daniel showing off to the girls.

This is what some of the kids say about Wheels Day:

"Happy and awesome," said Shaun.

"Good because you can play with other classes and you can leave your bike at school the whole week instead of one day," said Danyon. 

This post was made by Lachlan Bennett 

Action Beautification at Warepa

The parents, teachers and students have been busy in the holidays by erecting beautiful Oamaru stone carvings and new gardens. We made these carvings last year during 'Clubs' it has taken a little while to get them erected but we think it was worth the wait.

This is a photo of some of the very helpful students that used their own time before school when they could have been playing to cart and lay stones into the new garden. These stone have been kindly donated by Blackhead Quarries. It is going to take a few more trailer loads to fill up our new garden area but we are eager to get the work completed so much so that we are waiting for the trailer to turn up everyday.

Our Learning Environment

Today is Thursday and the year 7 & 8's are at Technology. The year 6's are also having a tech day at school with being able to bring ear phones and ear plugs to listen to music as we learn or to listen to our stories while doing reading. As you can see from the photos (below) some of the kids are using technology while listening to music at the same time.

We have also planned our own day to learn how to be manage our time more effectively with ourselves and our friends. We have had reading and maths learning centres with Mrs Hyslop, and we have tasks that we must complete and tasks that we can choose from. We choose when we want to do each learning area throughout the day.

The whole class has been doing a lot of work on computers using Google Docs as well as paper which is really good.

Cricket Visit

Bat, bowl and catch!

Tim and Tama from New Zealand cricket came to school to teach us new skills today.

This is what we learnt:
To be good at catching you need to cross your pinky fingers and point your other fingers at the ground, your fingers need to be spread apart. When the ball lands in your hands you close your fingers around the ball and bring your hands close to your chest.

Playing a fun warm-up game which made us focus on catching.

To be good at bowling you need to remember to have straight arms. The aiming arm needs to point in the direction you want the ball to go. The bowling arm moves clockwise past your body and brushes past your ear. The ball is held by your first two fingers along the two stitch line on the ball and your thumb goes in between the two stitch lines.

We finished with a game of three bat cricket. It was heaps of fun and we hope we go out tomorrow for another round.

By Blake and Callum

Tim showing us how to bowl with a straight arm.

Our turn for bowling!

No Bake Master Chef

On the last day of the term the whole class competed in a 'no bake' master chef competition. No bake means that we were not allowed to use the oven to bake our goodies, but we were allowed to use the microwave or stove top to melt or heat ingredients.

We began preparation on Tuesday and had to work in teams to decide on a recipe, arrange ingredients and then we got to cook.

Teams worked hard all morning preparing their ingredients and mixing so their creations were ready for judging.

Some of the things being made were lolly cake, weetbix truffles, rice bubble cake, Russian fudge, hedgehog slice, rocky road and fudge cake.

We were being judged at 12pm, so our baking needed to be plated up and ready for the judges by then. Each team member will score the other team members. Can't wait to see who is the winner!

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We were judged on taste, and presentation by the judges and we also scored our team mates on working as part of a team to organise, prepare and clean up.

Judging took place at 12 pm the winner was ......... Team 3

The winning team! Russian Fudge & Rocky Road
Judges comments; "Stunning plate and presentation & Really smooth, melts in your mouth."

Rice Bubble Crunch with a twist
Judges comments; "Lovely lumps of chocolate and delicate sprinkles & Not too sweet, nice and crunchy"

Fudge Slice

Judges comments: "Liked the plate. It was presented on and how they were evenly cut."

   

Lolly Cake & Weetbix Truffles

Judges comments: "Looks nicely presented - a mountain"