Weeding

Today in Enviroschools we started weeding our vegetable gardens. Hopefully soon we can head to our local mitre 10 and buy some winter crops to plant.

Pen Pals

Room 3 have started communicating with a class, same age as us, in Canada. In this photo we are reading our emails for the first time. 

If the world were an apple

This afternoon in our enviroschools group, we compared our world, our country to an apple. It was a really powerful activity which really shocked us and put things into perspective. We also unpacked "what is environment?" Then "how are we putting pressure on it?" We realised we can't change our world tomorrow, nor our country. But what we can do, is start making a change within our school and our habits will flow back into the community and homes.

Outdoor classroom

It is so hot at the moment in our classroom, we decided to go outside into our brand new fort and do our maths session in there. It was nice to get out amongst the breeze and the birds.

Statistics

For statistics today, we went outside and recorded the different colours of cars which went past Bulls School. Once we had our data, we then had to display it into a bar graph and write a summary on it. 

Library revamp

Our library is in the schools old dental clinic. It is very small and crammed which has resulted in it being unorganised and not an overly exciting place to visit. The year 5/6 students have decided there is better ways of utilising the space in the library, so we got investigating with a birds eye view map and manovered furniture around. Once the librarians have been appointed, the will look at the plans and take them on board.

Relay for life

Bulls School have some snazzy looking teachers

Interest based projects

Mrs Hanson wanted to get to know Room 3 a bit better. So for homework Room 3 were to create a project on something they are interested in and present it however they like. 

Mother's Day

Room 3's Mothers Day cards

Easter Egg Hunt

Last day of school, before the Easter holidays, Room 3 took part in a scavenger hunt in the new fort. 

Hot chocolate Easter bunnies

Easter time was approaching. We thought it was a perfect excuse to use the rest of the leftover ingredients from gala day to make hot chocolate Easter Bunnies! These were a real hit and we raised $130.00. This money is going to go towards some crops for our vege gardens.

Winter Sports

The winter sports are now underway. Last Saturday, Mrs Hanson went along to cheer on the future All Blacks. Here are a few snaps...

River Clean Up

The Enviroschools group went down to the Rangitikei River this afternoon to tidy up around the water ways. We cleared tones of rubbish as well as weeds the size of us. We felt so proud of our efforts and making a positive change within our community. 

Senior Hub Kapa Haka

Wow! What amazingly talented learners we have in Senior Hub this year. It was the first time singing this song with Papa Doug- pretty impressive! Looking forward to seeing what we can achieve as a team.

Welcome to 2016!

Welcome to our Senior Hub 2016 blog!  We look forward to sharing our learning opportunities with you through this site.  Each whanau class also has their own page located on the top of the blog. We would love to get some comments so please come and check out our whanau room pages for regular updates :)

The Senior Hub Teachers

Wear-A-Bull Arts

Successful night for Bulls School at the Bulls Wear-A-Bull Arts. All that hard work paid off! Come along to Middle Hubs assembly this Friday to see a snippet of our amazing masterpieces.

Play Time!

Due to a mucky week with our People Savers Course, Rooms 2 & 3 got together and made use of our incredible resources, School Journals, and acted out plays. We always ask to do plays but never have the time so here was a perfect opportunity. We looked at the structure of plays as well as paying attention to our key competencies, Participating and Contributing.

Netball

The netball season has now come to an end.  A great, yet very chilly tournament this Saturday. Bulls Tahi came first place in the tournament as well as being award most improved team for the season. Well done to all the girls for carrying our Pride values on and off the court. Thank you to all the parents and umpires for their support. 

Dictionary skills

Every Wednesday when the year 7 & 8s are at Tech the year 5 & 6s take part in a research skills programme. We focus on areas such as dictionary skills, atlas skills and newspaper skills. All of these are skills which will support us when researching. 

Room 1's Collaborative Art

WOW! Amazing what we can achieve when we all work together!!
Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" was divided into 28 sections, with everyone taking responsibility for re-creating their piece of the painting.

What a masterpiece, looking forward to displaying this in Senior Hub.

Room 1's Masterpiece.

Based on this original painting "The Starry Night" by van Gogh.