Our Olympic Day

On August 8th we had our own Olympic Ceremony at school. Each class was given a different country to represent and we all dressed up and had a parade of the countries in the hall. Room 13 dressed up as Norway and we got our faces painted. We also had a show of the different sports being played at the olympics and the house captains said the olympic oath and took down the banner. We also had a torch bearer relay. We had medals to give out for the best dressed classes. Room 1 came 3rd as Australia, Room 9 came 2nd as Japan and Room 16 came 1st as Jamacia. It was such a great day!!!

Raincoat BP Technology Challenge.

On Friday 1st August the Taranaki Syndicate had a syndicate wide BP Technology Challenge afternoon. The children were split into groups of 5 or 6 and were all given 6 plastic bags, 2 meters of sellotape and 1 pair of scissors. Their challenge was to make a raincoat to protect them from the rain. One person in each group had to be able to wear it. The kids had heaps of fun making their raincoats. All of the raincoats were modelled for the rest of the syndicate at the end of the day then the teachers chose the best one from each class. The people wearing those ones had to walk around the courts 3 times so we could see if they raincoats were durable and wouldnt fall apart. Mr Dickey also got the house out to test that they would keep the rain out. It was a great afternoon! Here are some of the photos: