New student in room 9.

We have a new student in class which is Daniel and we welcome him to room 9.  Daniel has come to us from Sydney, Australia.

Last week was cross country and it was great! We had really good results and everyone ran hard out.
We are very proud of the following students who made it into interschools from our class.
Maddy, Petra, Imogen, Pippa, Phoebe, Emelia, Francesca (who unfortunately can't run due to injury) Seb, Jethro, Angus, William, Tom, Charlie, Annabelle and Ribh who all qualified from room 9.

WOW 15 students from our room!  What great focus and training they put it. Parents please support them to train at home also over the coming month so they are ready for the interschool race which, this year, will be held in Masterton at Rathkeale College and will be against all Wairarapa schools not just those in the South Wairarapa.

At school we have been busy doing our inquiries. We have been learning lots about the brain and adding new information to our old inquiries.  We have also started another inquiry this term and that's about Anzac as you will know if you have read the previous blog, then you would know that Mr Plimmer came in and had a chat to the syndicate about ANZAC.

SHARP   RAP! We have all been working on these raps in groups of 4. This is trying to remind us what to do in class time, playtime and in the community to show SHARP behaviours. We will share these sharp raps with the class and choose which one is the best and perform it in assembly. We will also share them on seesaw with you when we have finished.

This term at school rm 9 has been learning about debates. We have been choosing teams and a topic to debate. There are two sides in a debate. The affirmative which means you agree and the negative which means you don't agree. The whole purpose of a debate is to try to have better arguments than the other team and be able to argue against their argument.  This is called rebuttal. Mrs Jones used a rope and stick it notes to show how each person's argument can sway the opinion and move the rope further in one direction or the other just like in a tug of war.

We might have some interesting conversations or debates with you at home over the next couple of weeks.

Thanks for joining us.
Petra and Abigail.

 Welcome to term 2 

 A fresh start and hopefully you didn't leave your sharp manners somewhere in the holidays. 

The class has come back very enthusiastic and positive and we have a great vibe in the classroom.  Long may it last! As you are aware in the last week of term, we all went to Te Pāpā and Pāpāwai  Marae as a culmination for our Inquiry studies and to kick off to our new inquiry surrounding ANZAC. We all had a great time there and learnt heaps of information. We saw the Gallipoli war scene, it looked very realistic. We were amazed by the huge lifelike models of soldiers and a nurse that we saw.  There was loads of information to find out and some of us didn't want to leave the exhibition.

 We also went into the maori exhibition where we had to fill in some worksheets. (We are continuing with these in class now.) There was also the giant squid who Ella Fenwick's (last year's head girl) father worked on.  Some of us also visited the earthquake house. We had loads of fun and no one in rm 9 was sick on the bus!

The same week we also got to go to Papawai Marae.  We did several activities while we were there.  we learnt about some of the history but our highlight was seeing the eels. 

By Isabel and Annabelle

ANZAC

Yesterday Mr Plimmer came in to speak with totara syndicate about the ANZAC soldiers and told us some of the history of Gallipoli and the battle fought at Passchendaele. It was very interesting and we learnt a lot. Some of the things we learnt were that the mud in Passchendaele was really deep, it was about knee deep. Before Passchendaele was attacked it was a  town, but after the war in Passendaele the town was gone. It had been destroyed by all the fighting and bombing. The war started in 1914. Soldiers on each side dug a system of trenches. Hitlers invasion of Poland in September in 1936 led to the out break of the second world war. We are doing inquiries in class.

by Phoebe and Emelia

Winner of the Writing Competition

Hi again and welcome back.

About 4 weeks ago Hiwi the Kiwi came to Greytown school and taught us a few things about fishing. We all wrote stories about fishing safety and entered a writing contest and if you win you get a fishing rod. One of the things we learned is that you need a ruler to measure the fish and if they are too big or too little you have to throw them back. We also learnt about the importance of wearing a life jacket.

We have just heard that Imogen Wilton from our room who placed second in the writing contest. Congratulations to her and to James Wall from the senior school, who placed first and will have his work published in a fishing magazine as well as receiving a fishing rod.

We were very excited to learn that one of our class mates had placed in the competition. It was a great narrative and had lots of descriptive words in it. Miss O Connor read out some of her story during assembly.

You can see Hiwi the Kiwi entertaining us at assembly, as well as giving us safety messages for in the water he also told us stories and had us sing songs which helped us to learn about caring for our environment.

From Annabelle