Welcome back to school for 2014

The 2014 school year is about to begin! I encourage all the Outstanding Room O students to make the most of 2014, to work hard, remain focused, set learning goals and achieve as much progress and success as humanly possible!

A team and also a class newsletter will be sent out on the first day back outlining important information and details.

Kind regards,

Geoffrey Ward

Winter Warmer Booklets

Here are some of Room O's outstanding Winter Warmer activities. 

Term 3 Enviroday

What an action-packed Enviroday! First up, with the assistance of Mr Barratt, we learnt the right way to plant a tree which we planted along the field fence line. Next, all of Room O got stuck into our large garden, with varying levels of energy – some of the students are gardening machines! After morning tea, the students demonstrated their crafty side and made some magnificent pine cone birds. For lunch, the class made tasty filled rolls with ingredients coming from home and school. These looked delicious! After lunch we learnt about the NZ Fairy Tern, watching a mini documentary and doing an activity related to this. Did you know there are only 40 of them left in the world? Before the bell we visited the nursery where Room N students did a great job sharing the new bird aviary and details about its inhabitants. Thank you to Mrs Reay and Ms Carter for your Enviroday help!

Fabulous Character Costumes

As part of Book Week Room O (and the rest of MSS) had the opportunity to dress up and impersonate their favourite book character. In usual Room O fashion the students went all out and turned up with impressive costumes, props and in-character personalities. Well done!

Kitchener Park Wetland Field Trip

Here we are on a visit to Kitchener Park as part of our unit on wetlands. We did lots of interesting activities, learnt new information and had a fantastic time! The activities shown in the pictures are invertebrate catching and identification, water quality assessments, water temperature measurement, water clarity measuring, algae identification and talks to the students by Gavin Scott, the parks custodian. Thank you to the parents for all your help and to Gavin Scott for his part in our field trip.