Making Mangonels

Room 8’s Walk from Te Rewarewa Bridge to the Aquatic Centre

Room 8's enthusiastic and noisy children enjoy the bus ride to the Te Rewarewa Bridge, looking forward to a great day.

Before we started walking the teachers were telling us about the history of the Te Rewarewa Bridge and the New Plymouth Coastal walkway.

Look at the happy and excited children of Room 8 on the world famous wave shaped bridge.

Finally we set off for an adventure by the Waiwakaiho River.

A rare Spoonbill was resting by the shag.

There were 180 of us spread like Ants along the trail.

 

One of the boys had a sore knee so he got a little help from his mates.

Around the corner to Fitzroy beach and we got our first view of the port and the Sugar Loaf islands in the distance

On the horizon are Saddle Back and Mikotahi islands, and in the foreground hundreds of seagulls rest on the low tide rocks.

 

 

Fun on the Run

One of the fun things we did for our outdoor activity day was orienteering.

 First we learned how to use a proper orienteering compass. We set the dial to the number we were given on the first clue. This is called the bearing.



Once you have set the bearing you hold the compass against your tummy and turn your body until the needle lines up with north. The arrow at the tip compass is pointing in the correct direction. The clue tells you what you're looking for. When you decide what the destination is, you race off to it.

We find the next clue, reset our compasses and charge off to the next destination. We zigzagged all around the school, going to twenty clues.

 

Our last clue  told us 21 steps to the east, and dig for treasure.

 

 

Yay! At last we found the treasure, and quickly gobbled it up.

Written by Ruan

Cooking vegies

Cooking our vegies

 

 

Back in term one some people from our class went and planted a row of cauliflower and a and a row of broccoli. They grew faster than we expected, probably because we gave them lots of sheep pellets, compost and good soil. We thought we'd better pick them before they flowered, so we got a sharp knife and cut them and ripped off the leaves. 

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Look at all those big cabbages and cauliflower heads.

 
Then we went to the kitchen to wash the food and we chopped the stalks, and leaves off and took them to the kitchen.  we

We chopped them up into little pieces.

We blanched them in boiling water. We put them into trays and poured cheese sauce over them. Yummy!

 Then we cooked them 35 to 40 minutes in the oven 

 The waitresses delivering the hot delicious dishes to the waiting customers in Room 8.

 

 

 

Looks as though it's pretty nice. 

 

 
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When we took them up to Room 8 everyone was waiting hungrily. It was a excellent and healthy lunch. We all enjoyed it.
 [Well, most of us did] 



Coastal Athletics

Coastal Athletics

Our year 5 and 6 students went to Coastal Taranaki School for our annual athletics meet with Coastal and Omata schools.  There was lots of running, highjumping, longjumping, shotputting, discus throwing and javelin throwing. It was a fun day, with people stretching themselves to the limit.