Reminders

Wow, it's been a busy term!  Hard to believe it's already Week 8.  Just a few quick reminders of up coming events as we countdown to the holidays!

• Conferences:
  This Tuesday 24th and Thursday 26th.  We are looking forward to catching up and discussing the reports that you received on Friday.  Students will be leading these conferences and sharing their learning and goals.  Remember it's still not too late to set a time.  Please contact your child's teacher to see what times they still have available.

• Jump Jam team competition:
  Wednesday 2nd, 9:00am start in the auditorium.
  Parents/caregivers are welcome to attend and support all our students as they take part in this fitness challenge.
  

• EOTC:
  Dates have been booked, thank you to all who paid their $50 deposit promptly.  Please remember the full amount of $180 is due at the beginning of Term 3.  A newsletter will be going home this week with more details.

Easter in Room 20

The challenge! Find as many things as you can, starting with the letter 'A', and fit them into your matchbox! There was also only allowed to be one of each item - students were not allowed to fill a matchbox with apple seeds! They were also invited to decorate their matchboxes. The prize? Easter eggs, of course!
The winning team: Tessa Baker and Tiana Holland managed to put 22 items, all beginning with 'A' into their matchbox!

 And the best dressed matchbox went to.... Jay-Jay Finlay, Madison Edge and Rebecca Major!

This is what they all looked like:

Cross Country Training

It's that time of the year again - Cross Country training has begun!  Goals have been set by our students and they are working hard during our PE sessions to improve their personal fitness levels.

Our school Cross Country is scheduled for the afternoon of the 19th of June. We encourage our students to bring their sports shoes to school regularly for training as on the day they must run in shoes.

We are looking forward to some great individual efforts and team results! 

Room 19 - Trivia Winners

Congratulations Room 19 - Trivia Winners for Term 1

QR Code Competition Winners

Congratulations to Room 19 - QR Code Competition Term 1 Winners.  A fantastic effort Jakeb and Sam, we are proud of your achievement!

Jakeb and Sam with their prizes

The prizes



Jakeb & Sam's presentation
(Note: Their presentation was even better than shown here!)

Science Night

Science Night took place on Tuesday April 1. There was a great deal of excitement as students and teachers set up the experiments on the tables. Totara was set up in the corner and we took full advantage of our allocated space!

To one side there were students from Room 21 conducting Fair Tests to create salt crystals using food colouring and pink salt. Meth burners have been used in Science over a very long time and were used here to create the most beautiful salt crystals.

To the other side the students of Room 20 talked about their upcoming bottle house, blew up balloons with the aid of baking soda, vinegar and lemon juice and made wasp traps in an attempt to combat the wasp invasion currently affecting New Zealand from end to end.

Set up on a table at the front was a group of students from Room 19. They laboured over Technic Lego and explained the technical information behind their structures that demonstrated pulleys, levers and mechanisms.

Truly the fastest hour on record sped by as students amazed visitors with their scientific knowledge and answered a huge range of questions earning themselves a well deserved red koru for their efforts.

Thinking like a Scientist has enabled students to think more extensively rather than to simply accept the obvious. In class students have investigated a huge range of scientific possibilities endeavouring to Think like a Scientist and succeeding.

Maeroa Triathlon

On Monday afternoon 33 courageous Totara students participated in the Maeroa Triathlon.

We had 10 entries in the team section where one person was the cyclist, another did the swim and the third team member completed the running circuit.

We need to make special mention of 3 students-George, Tiana and Ailee, who competed as individuals and did all 3 disciplines!

Every single one of our students completed the event and certainly displayed the virtue determination!

50 teams were entered in the Team Event and we are so proud of Blake Watson (Cyclist), Jakeb Stent (Swimmer) and Yami Losaki (Runner) who won the team event. This is an amazing achievement!