Metamorphosis

This is a clip we enjoyed watching late last term. A great example of the transition with Metamorphosis. Turn the volume right down as the sound quality isnt that good.

Making Flax Putiputi (flowers)

Red and Black Day- Fundraising for St James School

Room 5 and Room 8 put their heads together to organise a 'Red and Black' Day for St James School in Aranui, Christchurch. This is a school that was badly hit with the earthquake back in February. They have only now just opened up again. Kids have been travelling to other schools while they waited for their school to be usable again.

We had an awesome time fundraising today. A huge coin trail saying "Kia Kaha Christchurch", Building challenges, Sand pictures, Cup cakes, Liquefaction pud (jelly and chocolate mousse) to name a few things.
The whole school got behind this venture and we raised about $430! A huge effort from our small school!! Nice work everyone!We are so proud of you!! Kia Kaha Hampton Hill!!

Get Wi$e!

Today Geoff from the ASB came and talked to us about getting wise with our pocket money and how to earn money. We learnt what interest was and how to plan ahead.

Market Day Term 1

Today we had our first Market Day of the year. We are fundraising for the Year 6 camp. It was lucky that the weather turned out nice and sunny after the cold rainy day yesterday. (It always does that!!)

We had sausages, ‘suck the m&ms’, ‘sponge throwing’(Water),’ light bulb tests’, ‘dancing’, ‘drawing’, ‘netball shoots’, and “guess how many lollies are in a jar” to name a few stalls.

Using our SOLO chart on market day we think that most of us ran our stalls in a “RELATIONAL” or even an “EXTENDED ABSTRACT” way.

We raised $793.34    

Nice one everyone!

Book Week- We love Books!

As part of Book Week, we had an 'aerial' shot taken of us. Can you make out what it says?

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.