HRSA Netball
Last Tuesday the Year 7 & 8 Netball teams went to the Hutt Valley Netball Tournament. Both teams played 6 games in a row and by the end we needed a rest. The Year 8 team won one of their games and drew another and lost four. The Year 7 team won two games drew one and lost three. Overall it was a very fun experience and all the girls had a ton of fun! We hope we get to do it again next year.
By Ella and Neve McKay
Hutt City Council Reusable Bag Competition
In our last post I shared some photos of bags that some of our students made for this competition. Great news! Sally Bird and Orla Longdon both received awards and prizes for their fantastic creations. They will hopefully get presented with their prizes by the mayor next month. Top job girls!
Flip the Classroom
Some students in Room 22 Maths Class decided to have a go at teaching last week.
What an excellent way to reinforce concepts by having to explain your working.
NIWA Science Fair
Our Science Extension Team were on show this week at the annual NIWA Science Fair at Victoria University. The day started with the group taking a relaxing trip on the ferry across the harbour then up the cable car to the university. The pressure then went on as our students were grilled by the judges for most of the day. We received exciting news on Friday afternoon what several of our students were awarded top prizes:
- Emeline Gray won the NZ Institute of Food Science and Technology Award for her investigation on 'Do lightproof milk bottles have any effect on the taste of milk?'
- Lily Griffiths won the Geoscience Society of NZ Award for her investigation on 'Does the temperature of the air effect the temperature of the sea?'
- Mia Treadwell-Burke, Hannah Moffat, Emeline Gray, Helena Cvitanovich and Lily Griffiths won the Special 50th celebration Phillip Alve Futures Prize for there joint investigation.
- Alexander Cox-Turk, Alice McFarlane, Emily Daymond-King and Emeline Gray recieved a Highly Commended for their efforts.
Top job everyone!
Careers Education
Last Thursday we held our final Careers afternoon for the term. We had another 3 parents come to share their experiences of their profession with us; Jayne Barlow a fingerprint analyst for the police, Matt Comesky a publisher of educational text like our School Journals and Alistair Roger an All Black analyst. A bit of a star-studded line up! Once again it was fantastic to listen to what they do in an average day and think about the common skills all three of them needed for their jobs. Communication and paying close attention to detail are essential for all of them.
Thanks again to all the parents who have come along to share their experiences with us. We really value your time and contributions to our learning.
Sporting Achievements
Some of our students have achieved great success outside school over the past month or so. We have heard through the grapevine that 4 Year 7 boys; Tom Flynn, Callan Hughes, Lincoln Moffat and Tobias Knight have been selected to play for the Hutt Valley Rep Under 13 squad. The boys will travel to Dunedin to compete in the national competition in October.
Lincoln also played lock for the second consecutive year for the Hutt Valley rep rugby team (Under 12 -2014 and under 11 -2013) which was unbeaten in the inter and intra-provisional competitions in both years. He is the only Eastbourne boy to be selected.
Callan is also a HV representative tennis player.
Awesome effort boys! If anyone has other student successes they would like to pass onto we would love to hear so we can congratulate and celebrate at school.
The Importance of Bees
You may have seen this great clip already on the Muritai TV blog but its worth sharing again. Our Muritai TV and Enviro teams have joined forces for this latest project to highlight the importance of bees in our environment.
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