Athletics Day

The Year 4, 5 and 6 children went to the Forsyth Barr Stadium to experience a variety of fun athletic activities with other schools. A great time was had by all the children. Thanks to Peter, Linda and Serena for providing transport.

Crosscountry

Congratulations to Nate, Liam, David, Devon, Layla (back row) Louie, Eva, Isla, Hunter, Delrio, James (front row)  and Leo who all participated in the Taieri Schools Crosscountry event held at Outram this year. All the age groups had considerable distances to run and it was great to see all our athletes finish the course. Well done, you all strived to achieve your best.

Special congratulations  to Devon who came 5th in the Year 5 Girls Taieri Schools Crosscountry and represented Taieri Beach School at the Otago Primary Schools Sports Association Crosscountry held at Kaikora Valley School. She had even further to run than she did at Outram over a more demanding course. Well done Devon.

Well done to Tori, Lily and Harry who participated in the crosscountry practices at school but were unable to attend the Taieri Crosscountry event.

Healthy Eating with Pip and Harold

The Juniors learnt Harold's song that teaches us about good healthy food choices.

Lots of food from the ground
Some of the food from the animals
A little bit of food from ingredients
Sugar, salt, fat
Sugar, salt, fat
My body doesn't want too much of that!

The Seniors learnt about eating healthy food and making heathy food choices with what we eat.
Some foods have more sugar than we expected. Some yoghurts had lots of sugar.
Cornflakes was very surprising because it does not have much sugar.
We made a menu for breakfast and lunch. We thought our first menu was healthy but it had 23.75 teaspoons of sugar. Our second menu was much better with only 7 teaspoons of sugar.

We looked at the sugar, salt and fat content in different foods. Nutrigrain and Cocopops had heaps of sugar so perhaps they are good to eat in the weekend. Weetbix and Cornflakes are good for breakfast during the week.

Layla got a scan of her body to show what it is like inside a body.

Your brain is only as big as your two fists together.

 It takes 12 hours for the food to go through the intestines.

 Saliva helps to soften the food so it can go down your throat easier.

 Layla’s heartbeat was slow when she jogged on the spot and then her heart

 started going faster when she started running and when she stopped her

 heart went slower.

Road Safety with Constable Ross

We had Constable Ross talk to us about road safety. Miss Shine got into Constable Ross's car and we walked behind the car.  Miss Shine did not always see us.

We learnt that drivers in cars cannot always see children when they are behind the car, so we have to be super careful. If we have to go behind a  parked car, like at the supermarket, we need to watch out for reversing lights on the car, listen for the sound of the engine, and look at the driver so we can judge whether it is safe. It is much better to walk in front of a parked car so the driver can see us.

Principal's Photo on Monday, 24 July 2017

Hockey with Greer

Greer the Sports Activator came and taught us some basic hockey skills. We had a great time practising these skills. Thanks Greer for a great session!

Harry: Read and write to 1000

Louie: Read and Write to 1000

Nate: Count forwards and backwards in 100s

Harry: Unit Fractions

New Library Books

These are the awesome new library books that Stacey has donated to our school library. Thank you very much Stacey. We will enjoy reading them.
by Layla and Devon

From School Garden to our Plate

We took home some vegetables from our school garden. Here are some photos of us eating our school grown produce. We will show our photos to Pip and Harold the Giraffe from The Life Education Trust when we do our Healthy Eating unit on 26th June.

My Dad made this sandwich. It had lettuce in it from our school garden. It tasted really good because it went well with the mayonnaise. Louie

Mum made a sandwich for me.  She put bread out and then I put some lettuce from the school garden on it and Mum put bread on top. It tasted good.  Delrio

 This is my soup that Dad made from the school spinach. It tasted nice. Leo

Mum cooked up some silverbeet from our school garden. It tasted really good. Nate

My Dad cooked some burgers and we had the school lettuce, cheese and chicken on burger buns. Devon 

Leo and his violin

Leo brought his violin to school and he showed us  the A string, and the D string and what  notes he could play including F sharp. He showed us two different ways of playing - using the bow and plucking.

Thank you Leo. We enjoyed learning about playing the violin.

Crystal Making with the OutReach Scientists

On Tuesday Dave the Scientist came with his science students Jacob, Caleb, Michaela and Sian to make crystals in three different ways with us.

First, we put nickel sulfate in cold water and ammonium sulfate in hot water. When we put the two liquids together, blue crystals started to form.

Then we made crystal gardens using metal salts in water glass. We made individual ones in sample tubes and a class one in a glass jar. You can see the photos of our amazing crystals gardens.

Finally, we had three tubes of different solutions of silica jelly and we used the dropper to put liquid carefully on the top of the solutions. The crystals will grow where the liquids meet. We need to check them to find out which solution made the crystals grow the fastest.

At the end, we had fun with dry ice.

by Lily, Layla and Devon