Look at our amazing sustainability project

This is Apisit he is painting his groups recycle bins

Here are a few people playing cricket

We are the new classroom bloggers! ;D

Hi our names are Brianna and  Maricar, we are the new weekly reporters and we are awesome!

Rocket Day Preparations!

2014 Senior Speech Competition

Today we held our Senior Team Speech Competition. It was a fantastic to here all the speeches that made it through the classroom preliminary competitions.
The finalists were:
Telesha Rm 7
Suma Rm 7
Julian Rm 9
Alex Rm 7
Paige P Rm 9
Liam Day Rm 9

Our Judges Mr Weaver and Kelly were thrilled with the calibre of this years entries. The top three placings were awarded to: 1st Alex from Room 7, 2nd Liam Day from Room 9 and 3rd place went to Paige P again from Room 9. Congratulations to all of these amazing Speech Super Stars. 

Our Culture Festival Performance!

Check us out! What a great day, It was a pleasure working with all you Waltham Stars, you really did our school proud. Not to mention we had no on stage rehearsal. You were absolutely brilliant!

Mrs Atherton

Water Saftey

Water Safety

Swimsmart learn to swim programme!

For the last two weeks our school has been participating in the Swimsmart programmes available at Pioneer Pool. I have been absolutely thrilled with the Room 7 children. Their enthusiasm for learning new water safety skills was to be admired. I was also proud of their self management throughout this whole experience. I'm so proud of my Room 7 Superstars! 

Alex and Felix's Speeches About anti swearing in school

Weekly Reports Matthew and Villami

Term 3 week 2

Hi we are Keilia and Makhaleo and we are the weekly reporters this week

Winter sport tournement

This week on Wednesday the senior team went to the South Zone winter tournament. We played rugby, soccer and netball. Soccer won 3 & lost 2. Netball won 2, drew once & lost 2. Rugby won 1 and lost 5. Here is a photo of all the room7 tournament players.
Story & photos by Keilia & Makhaleo

Year 5&6 netball team

The Soccer team (Room 7 players only)

Year 5&6 rugby (Room 7 players only)

Alex shows us how to make a lightsaber using loom bands

Part 1

Alex show you where to put the bands on your loom.

Part 2

Alex shows us how to twist the bands.

Part 3

The last step in making a lightsaber out of loom bands. Thank you Alex for sharing your fantastic loom band skills. A big thank you to everyone for watching.
From
Suma and Jeremy ;)

Self Portrait's

This Week Room 7 has been working on self portraits. We started off by painting our background,T-shirt and our neck and face. Now most of the class has started adding facials and other accessories. By next week we will hang our self portraits on the wall. Next time you come to our class or pass it make sure you check it out. From Suma & Jeremy

Week 1 Term 3

Hi we are Suma and Jeremy we are this weeks reporters for Room 7.We will be sharing some of our learning.

Campbell Live

Hi Cherubs!!
Hope you're enjoying your holidays. The bit on Dancing like the stars will be on Campbell live tonight. I believe it's mostly about Woolston schools journey but you never know.... You may spot yourselves. Channel 3 7pm
Mrs A

Dancing like the stars!

Wow! We sure did end the term with an amazing performance. I'm thrilled with how the children performed and conducted themselves during the evening. I will put together all of the photos etc that we took, but here is a video of our last rehearsal before the big night. This was taken last Thursday morning.

Our amazing Cross country team!

My apologies everyone, I've had this photo our Cross Country team which went to Zones to represent our school. Keilia, Makhaleo and Apisit from Room 7 were selected to go! They did an amazing job and I was thrilled to hear that they loved the experience. A special thank you to Mr Weaver for being the lead teacher and sending a Waltham team this year to participate. 

check out these maths games

This is the game I had a go in class earlier today.
Have a go guys
Mrs Atherton

Maths games

How are you going with the Tango?

Monday madness at Inflatable World

What an awesome way to begin a week! We had so much fun at Inflatable World. After two hours of high energy activities, I still had moans and groans when it was time to leave. I was super impressed with the behaviour of our senior children, they were just that fantastic! You should all feel very proud of yourselves. You showed others what it is like to be a true 'Star' at Waltham school. 

Extra homework challenge 

Room 7 it would be good to share your thoughts about our trip. Post a comment and don't forget to leave your name. A good opportunity to earn extra house points for your houses. Don't forget to re-read, re-craft and edit your posts before you click 'publish'

Mrs Atherton

Inflatable World Tomorrow

Faakaalofa lahi atu Room 7,

Please don't forget your socks and drink bottle for tomorrow's trip to inflatable world. And if you haven't already please, bring your permission slip back. Parents send me a message should you have any queries regarding payment. Look forward to seeing you tomorrow 

Mrs Atherton :)

Clever Girls

Check out what Mary-Angel and Valelia do in their 'Leisure time'. Mary-Angel has now taught this to the rest of the class with Valelia's help. I'm so proud of these two awesome girls!

Mrs Atherton : )

Friday Afternoon

Brayden, center (top) Apisit, (bottom) Makhaleo and Tamati. Definitely not camera shy!

'All cultures shine' Inquiry - How to make Koko Alaisa

Here is a gorgeous video of some pre school children making Koko Alaisa with their Teacher. This was one of the Samoan dishes we sampled on the second to last day of last term (using canned coconut cream and cocoa powder). It was such a hit! We had so many children from other classes stopping by for a bowl as well.

Perhaps something that you may like to make these holidays. Especially as the weather has been getting cooler. If you do decided to have a go at making this. Let me know how you get on.

Enjoy the rest of your holidays

: ) Mrs Atherton

Happy Easter!

click to get Orkut Myspace Easter day Comments & Graphics Wishing you all a happy and safe Easter. Enjoy spending time with your family and friends. Take care  and I look forward to seeing you all in term 2 ready for an amazing nine weeks of  'S.T.A.R.S' learning.

Try not to go overboard with your Easter eggs Room 7, I'm just about to eat my first one. How many will you eat? Mrs A

Dancing like the stars

Next term Room 7 are participating in 'Dancing like the stars'. This is where we have professional dancers who come and teach a particular style of dance over 24 sessions. Our school has been lucky enough to activly participant in this event over the past few years. After we've completed our sessions we perform at an evening concert at the Aurora centre. 

Next term we will be learning the Tango. We are fortunate to have Graham and Gloria as our dance teachers. Graham and Gloria have already popped into room 7 to meet us and had a fabulous conversation in Spanish with Alex. 

It was lovely to see Alex using his first language in our class. We all watched and listened intently. No doubt we will pick up some Spanish along the way. 

I hope Room 7 you are as excited as I am. 

Remember these two habits from our class treaty,

"We come to school with a smile and try our best" and "We help each other be the best we can be"

Mrs A 

Elgregoe Show

This afternoon we had the privilege of having Elgregoe come to our school. He entertained us with his amazing illusions & through his show we were reminded of our school values. We learned about ways to be trustworthy, respectful, to accept others, be responsible and care for one another. These five values will help us to have the best day at Waltham school. We sure did enjoy his energy and enthusiasm.

Sailing Pt 2

Last Friday we had an awesome ay of sailing. I was so impressed with how the children actively participated in the activities throughout the day. The team work displayed was another highlight for Kelly and I.

A very special 'thank you' would have to go out to our wonderful Mr Weaver (classroom teacher Room 10) for his organisation of this thoroughly enjoyable day. We cannot forget our fantastic helpers as well, who on this occasion were all older sisters of Charlotte, Jorja and Georgia in room 7. Megan, Karla and Pam we couldn't have had such a great day without your help.......or treats

Kelly and I took so many photos, here are a few so far and I'll upload more later on. 

Thank you Room 7 for an amazing day.

Look what I found in my pigeon hole!

After an awesome day of sailing Room 7, I come back to see this!!!

Fantastic team work everyone, we finally have the 'Golden brush and shovel'

Sailing Part 1

On Tuesday we had the first of our Sailing session. We learnt the skills that we would need for Friday.

We are excited to head to lake Rua tomorrow for our sailing trip. 

Can you remember the most important parts of the boat that you need to remember for tomorrow, room7?

Crazy Taxi

Malo Room 7
I've been looking at some online math games for our class and I stumbled across'Crazy Taxi'. I've been a little addicted to it, so I've decided to put it up on our blog. Let me know what you think. Be sure to read the instructions first. I'm sure you will all be better at it than I have been. ( I blame my new long nails, for my feeble attempts) 
See you all tomorrow, remember we come to school with a smile and try our best! 

Mrs A : )

Click on the link
Crazy Taxi Math Game

Rugby - By Brayden

On a beautiful sunny day I woke up, pumped for training! This was my first training of the season. I took one step out of the door, and I was gone! "Oh no" I said to myself, slow down you're wasting your energy. So, I slowed down and my mum caught up. As I got to Waltham park I saw a group that looked like it had kids the same age. We walked up to them and asked if we were with the right people and they said "yes". We waited for more people to come. When more arrived we ran around the park twice. Next we sprinted to a tree and back. Man, was I puffed! My coach is called Rob, he's the best coach ever. I have made new friends, their names are Max, Toby, Cory and Harry. The best part was at the end, when we got the the gear. I love my Sydenham rugby shirt and jacket!

 

T Ball

This morning we had Hayley from Sport canterbury come and teach us T Ball skills. The children worked extremely well together. There was a lot of positive interaction and good willed competitiveness during the skills & game. We look forward to more T- Ball with Hayley. 

Thanks 

Mrs A

What did you like best about today's session Room 7?