TACS Netball Competition

Well done to all the girls who competed in the TACS Netball Competition last Thursday.  You all played with great passion and sportsmanship!  Some great wins and nail biting losses!  Well done to the Year 7 team for coming 2nd in their pool.  Awesome work girls!

Emily's Netball

Emily has been busy winning up a storm with her rep netball team!  Last weekend she was lucky enough to meet Irene Van Dyke!  Good luck for the next tournament Emily!

Placing Our Own Tunnels

Here are instructions for making your own traps for home. If you lay one please take some photos to share with us!

Setting our trap by the creek

Backyard Exploring

We went exploring in our school gardens/environment today to see what plants and animals we have.  

To help us identify the things we find we can use http://naturewatch.org.nz/ 

See some of the things we found...

Speech Finals

A huge well done to all the senior finalists who presented their speeches on Friday afternoon.  You did a fantastic job to present over all our building noise.  It was fantastic to see such a variety of topics and ways to present all under the same subject of 'pests'.  

I am so proud of Elizabeth, Jacob and Emily!

Congratulations to Anneliese, Emily, Jacob and Amy and best of luck to Anneliese and Emily in next week's TACs Speech Competition!

Cape Sanctuary

Wow!  Friday was a busy day.  We were so lucky with the weather on our syndicate trip to Cape Sanctuary out at Cape Kidnappers.  Tasmin and the team from the Cape did an amazing job of showing us around, explaining all the predators in the area (thanks for all the gruesome examples Travis!), showing us how to track and monitor kiwis, and introducing us to your Kaka family.  It was great to see the fence in person to understand how important it is and expensive!  

What was the most interesting fact you learned on the trip?

What will you remember most about the day?

What does it inspire you to want to do next?

Speeches

Congratulations to all my wonderful superstar speech writers! I was really impressed with the range of topics and how carefully you had structured your speeches. It really showed during the performances how much practise had gone into them! You made my job SO hard to choose 3 finalists! Well done to Emily, Lizzie and Jacob and best of luck for Friday afternoon!

Backyard Biodiversity

We have had a busy start to our Backyard Biodiversity Unit with Robyn this week.  Over the first two modules we have learned a stack of new words and found out lots of interesting facts about our endemic flora and fauna.  

What have you learned?  

What questions do you have?  

What are you looking forward to about our field trip next week?

Spread The Word To End The Word - Cleo & Paige

One of my children from last year has made this beautiful video about her little sister that I just had to share with you all.  Well done Paige!