Brains, Cross Country and Portraits.

Room 9 Blog

By Imogen and Francesca

BRAIN INQUIRIES💡

This term we had a lot going on. We have been updating our brain inquiries that we started last term with new information and are now nearly finished presenting them. All the students in room 9 made a paper version of the brain to wear on their heads like a hat. It was a lot of fun making the brain and labeling the parts of it. We were all wondering what to do with them after we took a photo. Mrs Jones let us decide how we would display them and we decided to put them on the top of balloons and made molds of our faces with tinfoil to put over the balloons so it looked a bit like people.  We have started to hang them up and they are looking very cool and quirky.

VISUAL ART 🎨

We have also finished our portraits. There is a big difference between our first portraits we did alone and our final picture, we drew after a skills lesson form Mrs Jones. You can really see the improvement. We have learnt about the placement and proportions of features on the face and how to add detail and the shapes and sizes of our face. We have ended up with three pictures. We traced the second one on the window to end up with a portrait that didn't have the placement lines. Judging from peoples self assessment scores everyone is proud of their fantastic portraits, we are proud of ours! 

INTERSCHOOL CROSSCOUNTRY 🏃

We were so happy when we found out how Greytown School did at interschool crosscountry. We would like to congratulate everyone that went and ran at Rathkeel this year because the number of competitors running was a lot bigger than last years course at Kahutara School. We were very surprised when we found out that almost half of the qualifiers for Regionals from Greytown School came from room nine! 13 people qualified and 6 came from room nine! The qualifiers were those that placed in the top 20 from all the Wairarapa primary schools. Those in our room were: 

Maddy 2
Emelia 3
Charlie 3
Seb 13
Jethro 17
Annabelle 18

We wish them all the best for their continued training and we will let you know how they do at the inter regional race held this year in the Wairarapa at Solway Showgrounds.  It is a flat course so it will be fast and students training for it will need to do some sprint work.

Thanks for reading our blog 

Imogen and Francesca