Stacker Cups

Room 5 are practicing their stacker cup skills for the class competition. By the end of the year we hope to have a class champion. Stacker cups are great for improving coordination. Practising the routines improves the speed dramatically. We already have some budding champions.

Butterfly garden

We have been working on the murals and signs for our butterfly garden. Mrs Lomas has used the designs and messages we did last term in the signs and now we are painting them ready to erect in the garden.

Senior Camp at Marsden Bay

Camp at Marsden Bay on PhotoPeach

Litterless Lunches

Today was the first of our Litterless Lunch Wednesdays. We did pretty well. We had over half the class bringing lunches that were litter free and most of the other students had only 1 item of packaged food in their boxes. We are aiming for 100% success on Wednesdays by the end of the year.

Our Butterfly Garden

Every class at school has a special area they are developing this year as a "Pride Project". We have an area just outside the classroom that is to become a butterfly garden. Unfortunately, we had to pull our huge swan plants out as they were dying and were badly infested with aphids. So we will need to grow some more for the monarch butterflies. Mr Mason kindly delivered us some mulch from his calf pens in the holidays and Mrs Murphy has brought some plants she had grown that attract butterflies so we are beginning to establish our garden. If anyone has plants at home they would like to donate we would be happy to receive them.

What to do when someone is unconscious!

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Cross Country 2012

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Cross Country 2012

Learning the DRS ABC

Today we learnt some very important basic First Aid skills that may one day help us to save a person's life. We learned the doctors ABC. Max was "unconscious" so Olivia talked us through the steps we need to take to help him. We learnt to check for a response and check for breathing. We practised putting people into the recovery position by rolling them towards us. We learnt what to do if a person was not breathing- 30 pushes and 2 breaths until the ambulance arrives or the person we are helping tells us to stop.

Calendar Art

This year we chose a favourite animal to feature on our calendars. We used pastel for the colour work and included a pattern in the background. We used match sticks and toothpicks to give texture. We covered the pastel with dark purple dye to give depth. Then we cut our picture into rectangular pieces, chose a suitable colour for the background and pasted the pieces onto the coloured paper to give a mosaic effect. Our calendar animal art on PhotoPeach

Cricket coaching