Cricket

For the last few years Ben O'Brien Leaf has been coming to our school to teach as some skills and tips.Ben is very glad to come and teach us cricket skills and persuading to play cricket. He is one of the best spin bowlers in the Gisborne district. 

Thank you Ben ( by Tiaan and Joseph)

Football with Blake Term 3

Over the past 9 weeks we have been doing football with Blake. He has been teaching us awesome new skills and games.  He is very kind and skilled he can teach you basic, advanced and intermediate skills. He is an ex-all white (Junior)  Blog post by sam and Jospeh

Master Chef

Noah won the Gisborne Primary School  Junior Master Chef Competition.  Congratulations Noah.  Feel free to bring any of your cooking to school for your teachers to try!

Te Papa Visit

On Tuesday our class room 13 went to the museum. We went to talk about our taonga. Then someone from our group had 30 seconds to grab 5 things to dress up in to take photos in.  We were either in a group with Ati, Kimberley, Khali or Herbee. Then we all spread out across the museum and took photos of us in our dress up costume with our taonga doing a  cool pose. (Sam B)


Why visit Te Papa when Te Papa can visit us? 
The Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa is coming to Gisborne! The Education and Discovery Centre teams will be based at Tairawhiti Museum for a week of exciting art workshops and learning programmes. Schools in the Gisborne area are taking part in free hands-on workshops, exploring kākahu (cloaks), taonga (treasures) and their connection to the area of Gisborne. Two large artworks, in the form of cloaks, will be created by the students, using digital photography and mixed media. The cloaks will be on display at Tairawhiti Museum and then at Te Papa in Wellington for thousands of visitors to see. (from Te Papa Blog)http://blog.tepapa.govt.nz

Room 13 visiting Tuesday 18th September
Room 14 - Wednesday 19th September
Room 15 - Friday 21st September

Remember to bring your permission slips and your taonga!

Room 16 will be visiting the following Thursday.



This is the finished Korowai - filled with all our faces.  This will be displayed at Te Papa for the next year.

Weka Cup

An amazing game today. Well done Central. Details to follow. Gisborne Herald Photos

Rangi Cross Country winners

The Cross Country Winners- Missing Christy Tate.

Bloke's Day

A wonderful day, thanks to all the blokes who came to school.

School Photos.

Look pretty on Thursday 6th September.

Interschool cross country

 I'm not sure where Zorik is in this  picture, but here are our Rangi Boys before the race.

GO Zorik!!!  Placed 4th.

Here they are, the fastest kids in the school.  Congratulations on representing Central.

Seb's Dad

Seb's Dad, Ben lives in Auckland.  He has two jobs, a carpenter and an actor.  We were lucky enough to hear him speak today about following your dreams and his journey as an actor.  He has been in a movie, tv shows and plenty of commercials.  We even found out today that Seb and his sister Jemina have starred in a Vodafone commercial (they are the kids waving to them Mum as she goes to work)

Ben and his son Sebastian.

Watch the commercial and see if you can find them.

Science Fair

Congratulations Cole Bava. An amazing result. Cole won the best primary entry as well as winning the best overall project for dental hygiene, that means he won over intermediate and high school students. A photo will be posted soon of his trophies. Have a look in the office at his project. Special mention to Joseph Burt who won silver with his solar powered oven.

Leonari Trio Perform

Talented young musicians Hilary Hayes (violin), Edward King (cello) and Maria Mo (piano) make up the Leonari Trio. As winners of the 2009 Pettman/ROSL ARTS International Scholarship for a New Zealand Chamber Ensemble, they undertook a tour of the UK in 2010 where they played sold-out concerts in major venues such as St. Martin-in-the-fields and St. James Piccadilly, and at the Budleigh Salterton and Edinburgh Fringe Festivals - receiving standing ovations and invitations to return.
The Leonari Trio was formed at the University of Waikato in 2009. Tutored predominantly by the New Zealand Chamber Soloists, they have played numerous concerts around New Zealand to great acclaim, and are regularly broadcast on Radio New Zealand Concert. All three members have also had individual successes at major competitions such as the National Concerto Competition, the PACANZ Young Performer of the Year Award and the Kerikeri National Piano Competition. (from Chamber Music NZ webpage)

Food Can Collection.

212 cans were collected for the Salvation Army food bank.  Thank you Central School Students.

Kim Gearon the manager of the food bank came and talked to some students about how the food bank works.  Here some students are presenting some of the 212 cans.  The Salvation Army has been in Gisborne for 125 years.   Kim was very pleased with our contribution.

Magnolia Street Play

A big thank you to PSG for buying our tickets.  We really appreciate this opportunity.  Streets are always full of fascinating characters and Magnolia Street, Capital  E National Theatre For Children's latest production, is no exception. Writer Dave Armstrong says the inspiration for it came from the old Wellington street where he lives and "where old and young, rich and poor, long-time residents and new immigrants live cheek by jowl". And from this he has developed a fascinating and engaging piece of theatre that director Frank Newman and his cast have magically brought  to the stage. The old, poor, long-time resident is 85-year-old Beryl (Erin Banks), on her way home on her Zimmer frame with her shopping.  The young and rich is Jake (Robin Kerr), cruising down the street on his skateboard from another neighbourhood. When Beryl and Jake first run into each other, there is the usual animosity that arises when the old try to interact with the young.   But slowly a friendship develops and Jake becomes fascinated by the memories that Beryl relays about her life in  Magnolia St.   But her memory is not all that accurate at times, such as calling it Mongolia St, which often has hilarious consequences. But it is not the slowly unfolding story of Beryl's life - interesting as it is - that makes this show unique but the way in which it is told, and the use of modern technology to complement the storytelling. A model of the houses on the street is projected on to a large screen, over which are projected many other images, including shadow puppets. Trams, cars and the  insides of offices all effortlessly merge from one image to another, the audience never quite sure what is going to be used to highlight the story. Adding to this are many other characters who come in and out of the story, all energetically played by Byron Coll. And when eventually Beryl arrives home and invites Jake in, her house is revealed as a treasure trove of memorabilia. Although this final section of the production drags a little and doesn't appear to have the same impact as the rest of the show, the gentleness and heartwarming sentiments conveyed nevertheless hold the audience's attention.   Reviewed by Ewen Coleman, Dominion Post

2012 Inter-School Chess Tournament

Thanks Mr Mahy for arranging the Central School Chess club.

Congratulations to the following students who represented Central School at the Chess Tournament today at Riverdale School.
Hirday Bajaj
Tiaan Barbara
Jack Faulkner
Zorik Peneha

Esteban Mariette

Keelan Wray

Joseph Burt

Morgan Kibble

Isaiah Stewart

Thom Simmons

We were placed 4th out of 7 schools.  Morgan won a movie pass and Keelan a book.

Tiaan scored the highest points for Central with 16 points.

MATHS FUN

OK Rangi Students, listen closely to your challenge.

Sign up to http://e-ako.nzmaths.co.nz/

Then, start getting some points.

The Rangi Student with the most points by the end of Maths Week will get One Million Dollars!

Note to parents:  This is an excellent New Zealand Maths website which supports our learning in the classroom. 

Dancing with the Stars

Mr Tony Scragg can be seen around our school fixing up all our computer problems.  Well on Saturday night he took his talents to the dance floor.  Have a look at this great dance routine. Special mention to another Central parent and PSG legend, Mr Dougal Watts,  A super disco performance. Gisborne Herald article A big congratulations to Mr Matt Skuse, a BOT member and parent of Central students Holly and Jed.  Mr Skuse took out first place.  He sure did have the time of his life. 

Where on earth is Ulaanbaatar?

  

Today Ms Gaertner taught us about Mongolia.  She had recently returned from volunteering at an orphanage.  We found out about the nomadic people who live in a Ger, a traditional portable dwelling (a very flash tent!).

Thank you Ms Gaertner we really enjoyed your interesting presentation.  By the way Ulaanbaatar is the capital of Mongolia!

Ms Gaertner took this photo of Mongolian girls in their traditional costume.

The ceiling inside of a Ger.

Poetry

Look on the writing page to read student's poetry.

JPK

On Monday night, 5:15pm  the 30th July in Room 13 will be the first ever JPK (Junior Pecha Kucha)

 Pecha Kucha is Japanese for  chit-chat.  It is  is a presentation methodology in which 20 slides are shown for 20 seconds each (six minutes, 40 seconds in total). The format, which keeps presentations concise and fast-paced.  They are very entertaining nights.

We will be hosting the first JPK night and are lucky to have three special guests:  Pene Walsh, Sarah Cleave and Darryl Monteith.  They will select a winner to speak at the next Pecha Kucha night.

What a great evening! Congratulations to all 8 participants. Your presentations were entertaining, informative and very well constructed, and your deliveries confident beyond your years.


 After due deliberation, the judges announced that Rata Simperingham would be invited to repeat her presentation at the next meeting of the Gisborne Pecha Kucha group. Rata was a popular winner, her Samoan Holiday presentation having taken us (albeit briefly) from a miserably cold and wet night in Gisborne, to a sun drenched tropical paradise. Well done Rata. We know you'll do Central School and yourself proud when you mix it with the adult PKers. 


Thanks to all those who came along to support this event and for your donations of canned food, which will be passed on to the Salvation Army Food Bank. Thanks must go, too, to all the children involved and to Ms Young for organising another great 'first' for Central School. 


I must apologise for the quality of the photographs: I decided against using a flash, as I didn't want to distract the speakers - not my cleverest decision ever.