Friday 27 February 2015

Our fantastic grad school intern

Introducing Lynn Fletcher...

We are fortunate to have Lynn working in Room 10 for the rest of this term. She is training with the New Zealand Graduate School of Education. The class are really enjoying having 2 teachers this term!

Saturday 21 February 2015

Beach day Number 2 - Sand-dunes session

We had another super day at the beach learning about the sand-dunes - where they come from, why we need them, and the threats to them (both man-made and natural).  We got to make our own miniature sand-dunes and we also discussed how we can look after them. It was really interesting and we learned a lot about how important the sand-dunes are for our beach. Special thanks to Collete, Rob, and Mark for helping us on this trip. 








Wednesday 18 February 2015

CCC Shoreline Study

What a fabulous day we had at the beach today. Chris, our teacher from the Christchurch City Council, guided us through a series of activities which helped us learn all about the inhabitants of our shoreline, as well as learning about the threats and dangers to these creatures. We found out about man-made things and natural things and did a treasure hunt to collect various objects from each category. We then created a message to leave behind as a stamp of our learning. Thank you to our wonderful parent helpers! We are looking forward to another day of learning down at the beach tomorrow.






Monday 9 February 2015

Surf Life Saving Education and Beach Trip

Today we had a morning lesson with some experienced Surf Life Savers and then went down to the beach to have a go at some Surf-Life Saving activities in the surf. A HUGE thank you to our parent helpers who came along and also thanks to those who braved the conditions and got in the water.



 French lessons with Kaia on the walk down to the beach!



Monday 2 February 2015

Class of 2015

Welcome back to school for 2015. Today we had a super sweltering first day back at school. Here we are...