Year 5/6 Sports Day

Today we walked down to Tawa school for an interschool sports competition. What a stunning day it was! Loads of fun, sun, and great sportsmanship by all!

Hampton Hill Staff Portraits

Have a look at our 3D portraits of the teachers and other staff at Hampton Hill School. We used papier mache, paint and wool.

Swimming 2011

We've been walking down to Tawa Pool over the last 3 weeks for our swimming lessons. It is awesome to see the confidence and skill develop and improve. Each time we went we asked ourselves the 3 SOLO questions- "What am I doing? How well am I going? What's my next step?" We also watched several utube video clips showing us how to breath, kick, and polish up our strokes -well done everyone!

Book Character Day

There were fairies, pirates, and all sorts of other awesome folk hanging out at school as we got to dress up as book characters.

Next week there are going to be lots of different activities as part of our Book Week.

Japanese Student Visit

Today we had some special visitors in the school. They were students from Japan. We made origami with them and played games outside. It was fun being with them- reporter Tracy

Liquefaction

We viewed Andrew Gee's informative video about what Liquifaction is and have come up with our own descriptive pieces about Liquefaction.

Liquefaction

Many thanks to Andrew Gee  for his fantastic visual explanation of liquefaction

Collage Self Portraits

Have a look at these awesome self portraits...

They are also on display in the school foyer for the next few weeks

Zealandia

Kids get in FREE on Children’s Day

Sunday 6 March.

Bring the kids to ZEALANDIA on Children's Day and they’ll get in free. Enjoy free ranger talks and boat rides (11am – 3pm, weather permitting).
There’s so much to explore. Check out the weta hotels, spot a tuatara with the help of our roaming guides and wander along to see the kaka feeding. If you are lucky you might even spot our new takahē pair. Children must be under 15 and accompanied by an adult.

Great Comments

Here is a little poster I came across from Room 9's Blog at Russell Street School in Palmerston North. They have a really interesting blog

 

 

This poster outlines how to write a great blog comment- we'll look at this in class 

 

 

Rainbow School- Northern Courier Article

Khanh wrote an awesome piece for the local newspaper- the Northern Courier. It was featured in this week's edition. Well done Khanh!