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Celebration songs

We can sing these songs at our end-of-term celebration assembly.

What do you Celebrate?

Our Wheels Afternoon

Our Wheels Afternoon on PhotoPeach

We made our chain touch the ground by getting links in the chain.
We got links by working hard as a TEAM.
We chose to have a wheels afternoon and a treasure hunt.
Here are some photos of our wheels afternoon :)

Perseverance

Rugby World Cup at Vardon School!!

We supported Romania today at our RWC assembly.

Today we had a Rugby World Cup assembly. Each class supported a rugby team. Here are some photos....

We can't wait until tonight.... the opening game of the RUGBY WORLD CUP!!!!!!

Parent/Teacher Conference Practice!!!

Our Year 4's practiced having a conference with the Year 3's.

We had to find two samples of learning in our learning logs to discuss. We are also discussing some of our learning on our e-journals!

We had to discuss these points;

This is a sample of my....
My goal was to ....
I have achieved this goal because ....

I am proud of.... because
My next learning goal is to....

We can't wait until P/T interviews next week!

Room 7's Assembly!!!

Photos and videos of our assembly!!!

We had a treasure hunt after our assembly so you can also view photos of us working out the clue. It was tricky but we persevered!! :)

Slideshow for assembly

Never say never!!!

This will be our song for our assembly this Friday.

It has great messages about staying strong, not giving up and fighting for what you believe.

So.... NEVER say NEVER!!!

SNOW IN HAMILTON !!!!!!!!!!!

ITS SNOWING IN HAMILTON

Healthy Breakfasts

Today Millie came to talk to us about healthy breakfasts. First she asked us what we learnt about last weeks session on healthy drinks.

First she asked us to tell her what we had for breakfast this morning.

Some answers were.... porridge, nutrigrain, weetbix, milo, toast with butter or jam, pancakes.

Millie had lots of breakfast foods. She asked us to put them in groups. The groups were;

Everyday, sometimes and occasional/never foods.

Here are some examples of these groups...

Everyday breakfasts - milk, weetbix, brown bread, porridge, left over home made dinners, fruit

Sometimes breakfasts - muesli, up and go,

Occasional breakfasts - cookies, chips, coke, coco-pops

See the photo above!!!

Perseverance

Our big idea this term is perseverance.

We watched these video clips and discussed how they showed perseverance and what that means.

Healthy Drinks

Millie from Project Energize came to school to talk to us about healthy drinks. We have to order the drinks form the least amount of sugar to the most amount of water.

Water has NO sugar and E2 has the most sugar - 20 teaspoons!!!!!

We sorted the drinks into... everyday drinks, sometimes drinks and occasional drinks.

Our thoughts....

Ariana "Raro has 4 teaspoons of sugar in it and that E2 has 20 teaspoons of sugar" "I was surprised the V has less sugar than coke!"

Lucas "Don't drink unhealthy drinks with lots of sugar in them:

Maia "I thought that V would have more sugar then E2 and coke would more sugar than E2" "I thought that flavoured water would be healthy but it has sugar in it"

Loren "I learnt that every time you breath you lose water from your body"

Kharma " Don't drink drinks that have caffeine in them at all!"

Mrs N "I like flavoured water and I am surprised how much sugar it has in it!"

Holiday sharing....

Wyton Rufer visits our school

Today we met the famous soccer player.... Wyton Rufer!!!

He is a retired soccer player and he now coaches soccer. He told stories about soccer and the soccer world cup in 2009.

He asked us questions and the correct answers got a prize!!!

Ian Foster's talk to Vardon School

This morning Ian Foster who is the ex-coach of the Chiefs came to our school to talk to us at assembly.

His key messages were:

• how the 4R's help with both rugby and at school



• "stand tall" is a positive phrase that you can say to build relationships



• resilience - never give up with our learning - that's just the same as in rugby




• even though they have lost some games they have to keep trying and knowing that they are still good. So at school we can keep trying with our learning.

Now.... after we have listening to Ian Foster's messages we are going to....

• we are going to use the 4R's to help us with our learning!



• NEVER GIVE UP!!!

What we know NOW about Matariki!!

We learnt a lot about Matariki. This is what we learnt.....

Matariki

Our pre-ideas about Matariki....

Our river walk

river walk on PhotoPeach

Made by Toby