Summer Sounds Concert sounded angelic

Last Thursday some of the Year 3s from our class performed to the parents at the Summer Sounds Concert.  They sounded wonderful and it was a great way to finish a successful year under Tania's expert lead.

Well done Crystal, Jesse, Isla, Tom, Sari, Finn and Lexxis.  After all your hard work going along to practices you sounded amazing and did us proud.

Sculptors in Room 9

After our experience with Esther and creating clay christmas trees in the Suter Art Gallery, Room 9 students were keen to try it again in the classroom.

We chose our own native bird and tried to incorporate all the features in our clay masterpieces.  Hopefully we will get a chance to paint them before the end of term.

Brook Waimarama Sanctuary

Well, the Syndicate weren't quite so lucky with the Nelson weather on the day we visited the Brook Waimarama Sanctuary!  It was a great opportunity for us to celebrate our learning from this term's Inquiry topic - Brilliant Birds.

However, we needed to return to school early due to torrential rain!




Seeing the fence close up was interesting and we can't wait for the native birds to be introduced once all those pests have left.







We still got the chance to see how BWS trap the pests and saw some not so lucky creatures close up as well.

Hopefully everyone will make a trip to this wonderful Nelson treasure in the holidays and enjoy the bushwalk and visitor's centre.  

Thanks Rick, John and Mel for having us!

Tennis Skills

We were lucky to be offered Hot Shots Tennis in Schools sessions, run by Zach Raff, recently.   All the children enjoyed learning new skills with the tennis racquet and we may even have some future Wimbledon tennis stars amongst us!

We had some fun playing 'cricket' tennis and the hamburger game and it certainly improved our hand / eye coordination.  Thanks Zach!