Harold

On Monday Harold the Life Education bus came to Warepa School to teach us about our body. 

Some things that we learnt are that our brain has over 100 billon neurons and our brain weighs 1.5 kg. We also learnt about our organs, if you roll out your teachers lungs they will be as long as a tennis court! We also learnt that your stomach is as big as your fist, it can hold up to1.5 litres of food.

We were given some cards which had examples of stress on them, we came up with different ways such as breathing, trying to relax, eat, talk to someone. 

Finally we did some karaoke with Harold, the girls sang louder than the boys and there are only 5 girls in our class!

By Isla and Callum :):)

The Human Body - our major organs.

Neurons in our brain.

Harold singing us Karaoke!

The Stafix Comp

Last term Mrs Bissett entered a Stafix competition to try to win some money for a new school van that will benefit our school and the community.

There was prize money for first, second and third place.

The top prize money was five thousand dollars, the second prize was three thousand dollars and third was two thousand dollars.

We came third!!!! 

On the 6th of August some Stafix men came to present the cheque of $2,000. He asked us some question about different things like fencing gear and Highlanders. If you got the answer right you would won a free highlanders hat.

We will spend the money wisely on our new school van!

The Stafix men who presented our cheque - Thank you!!

The awesome Highlanders hats that some lucky children won!!

The whole school posing with the cheque!

Written by Leah & Blake

Clued up Kids

On Wednesday morning the year 6's went to the Recreation Centre for a health and safety course called Clued Up Kids.

We learnt a lot of new things that we will use in the future. There were 10 stations which included fire safety, dog safety, earthquake safety, beach safety, quad bike safety, firearm safety, bike and helmet safety and relax Kids.

We rotated around all the activities during the morning.

The food was yummy sandwiches and fruit to take home.

We came home with pamphlets and a pack for the teacher to teach the class about safety.

It was a great opportunity to learn a variety of ways to keep ourselves safe.
Thank you to the organisers.

Bike Safety

Beach Safety

Earthquake Safety

By Leah and Hugh.

Book Celebration Week

This week we have been celebrating books in a variety of ways. We have read fairy tales and written letters about the characters in the fairy tales to the editor. We have also studied various authors such as Joy Cowley, Margaret Mahy and we have to find out information about a New Zealand author. Today we had a dress up day as a character from a book we know and love. There were 3 'Cat in the Hat's' lots of animals, a few witches, a Harry Potter and a bunch of other imaginative characters!

Charles Upham from New Zealanders of action in World War Two

Gerinomo Stilton

Captain Underpants

'Althea' from Miss Peregrines Peculiar Children

Learning about an EGGcellent business

11.6.15

Today we had Mrs Pringle come and talk about her company 'Agreeable Nature'. The Pringles have a farm and on their farm they have cows, sheep and hens. They sell their eggs to local supermarkets and to some restaurants in Dunedin. Her egg selling business started small then grew and grew as more and more people wanted to eat her delicious eggs.
They now have 5 custom built hen houses that house 500 hens each, the hens roam freely in their paddocks and the sometimes head into the cow paddocks to scratch around in their dung.
She told us all about the main things for setting up a business and how marketing (or selling your business) is very important. We will take her advice into consideration as we continue to investigate our businesses, thinking about a catchy name, colours of writing and any pictures we use.
It was very interesting listening to her and learning about her journey. We also got to place one of her stickers on an egg carton and fill our carton with her smaller eggs from her new hens. 
Our class would like to plan a trip to visit and see her egg process in action.
Thanks heaps for coming to our school Mrs Pringle!

 "Today we had an EGGstravaganza of a time....."

"It was an EGGcellent opportunity to learn about her business..."

"We need to get cracking with our project now..."

Cybersaftey with John Parsons

Yesterday we went to Rosebank School to listen to John Parsons talk about Cyber Safety, we thought he was really interesting to listen to and we all learnt new things and refreshed our memories of past lessons on Cyber Safety.

John Parsons used to be homeless, and left school because he was bullied, an 8 year old girl and her family helped him by feeding him, and her brother helped him and played with him at school so nobody bullied him, they had a huge impact on his life and how he has turned out.

He shared lots about this experiences in his life, and thinks that everybody should do a good deed everyday, and be very empathetic about others and help others in need. 

He talked about valuing your identity, and never putting photos of yourself or personal details on the internet, he also talked about respecting others and always asking before you put photos of them on the internet. 

He showed and explained to us why we should have our privacy settings right on Facebook and only follow people who are your friends, he also said that you need a game avatar and a game nickname so nobody knows who you are. 

He showed us how easy it was to hack a computer by plugging in memory sticks, clicking on links you shouldn't etc, and how the viruses just sit, unseen in your computer for ages.

We watched a video at the end that explained the kindness trail/boomerang, it showed that if you help other people, they are more likely to help others as well.

Everybody had a good day, we learnt lots and he was funny to listen to.

By Holly and Callum

Hockey with our Activator

Today Rory came to teach us hockey skills and drills.

First we did weaving through cones in three groups and we had races.

We played a game called hockey king, At the start it was really hard because there were so many people and a small place to play it. It was hard but fun.

After  that we practiced a skill where you have to balance the ball on the end of your stick.

We will keep practicing for the hockey tournament later in the term.

Post by Morgan and Antonio.