Rubber Band Ball

Look what Rain showed the class today.

• Over 1000 rubber bands
• Her Uncle Jason made it.
• The rubber band ball has a tiny piece of paper in the middle of it.
• You start off by tying a knot around a small piece of paper, then you just keep adding rubber bands.

Now that's a bright wall!

 Standing in Room 14 has become quite a magical experience, especially if you are looking at the wall, covered in eye-catching art.

The close up bird shots with the delightful colourful beaks are a visual spectacular!

 Come and admire the stained glass like images created on Room 14's trip to the 

Tairawhiti Museum on March 28th. 

Tairawhiti Museum Visit

Week 9, Term 1,
T he Rangi Syndicate are visiting the Tairawhiti Museum.
Today Room 13 went to experience the Graffiti Light Lesson. 

Diaramas

 Rangi students became the teachers.
Teaching the younger students of the school about Diaramas.

They showed the diaramas they made and answered questions.
Thank you Room 1, 2, 3, 4 and Waimata for coming in and letting us show you our work.

Origami Lesson

 Keelan Wray taught his class today.
He prepared an origami slideshow the night before.
Thinking ahead, he prepared 30 pieces of square paper and then guided the class to follow the instructions on his slideshow so that everyone could make a sail boat.

Keelan, thank you for your patience with the class and your gentle guiding nature in helping us all succeed.

Mrs Twit?

Who is this lady?  She thinks she is shrinking.  She has horrible messy knotted hair.  A grumpy face.
Couldn't be...it's not is it?
Mrs Twit - really?

Mrs Chrisp is visiting a Rangi Class introducing a "Passion for Reading".   We love her visits as we explore and get excited about reading.

Mrs Cameron talks about her beautiful daughter (one of them)

"Wonderstruck" the shared book in Room 13 has two main characters, Rose and Ben.

Both characters have something in common, they are deaf.

We asked Mrs Cameron to come and talk to us about her daughter Amanda who is at University studying  architecture (Clever!) She has faced the extra challenge of deafness along the way.
Mrs Cameron taught us some sign language.
Thank you Mrs Cameron, it was really special to hear the story of your daughter.

Rm 16 Waioeka Gorge landslide project

Rm 16 have been doing a project on the Waioeka Gorge slip. We split ourselves into groups. The groups that we had were History, Businesses Affected, Title Page, Transport, People Affected, Facts, Machinery. Each group had to make a large poster about their subject.We also did a page of how students and their families have been affected. We spent every afternoon for a week studying the Waioeka Gorge's massive slip. We have learned quite a lot about the Gorge while we have been studying. We enjoyed the study. Come and have a look in Room 16 some time!

Michelle from Gisborne Netball.

A great netball training session was held today.  Thank you Michelle from Gisborne Netball who came to Gisborne Central School at lunchtime today.  The next session is 26th April at 3pm.

A Special Visitor

Today at lunchtime the children spotted a visitor high up in the tree. 

Can you see the Kereru?

Bring Props.

Eli Ardern, a Rangi student delivered his news to the class.  The article was very sad about a man who had a terrible accident involving a bolt in his head.

Eli brought along a bolt that was the same size as the one mentioned in the article.

Can you bring anything to support your news article?

GLOOP Disaster

OH No!   what went wrong?
This reading group enjoyed the article about how to make gloop.  So we went ahead to make our own, but gloop failure - any gloop tips out there people?  Feel free to post a comment.

SWIMMING SPORTS - Dolphin Day 2012

 Thank you parents who came and helped and showed their support.

Results will be up soon.


Rangi Swimming sports was COLD but fun.
I always had a sneaky feeling that children "shapeshift" into animals -

Therianthropy is the name of this event!   Check out this amazing photo of Kayde who is transforming into some swimming creature! 

Congratulations Travis Mitchell and Kya Wright for winning the Central School Swimming Cups. 2012.

Here they are in front of the entire school at assembly being presented with their cups by Miss Mac.

Thank you Miss Mac, that was a HUGE job to organise.


TUESDAY 6th MARCH
11am.
Come along and support us!
Students - bring two towels. A warm sweatshirt for afterwards. 

CAMP TWO RETURNS

We did it!
All year six students have now enjoyed camp Kaitawa.
The second camp returned to school on Friday 2nd March.

Sneak Peek of some photos: 

The Travelling Musicians

Today the Rangi Syndicate watched a very special performance by David and Sol.
David is from Ireland and Sol is from Argentina.  They performed some traditional Irish songs as well as a beuatiful spanish song. 

 

The Inter-School Triathlon

A big thank you to Kayde's Mum, Natalia for taking photos of our four Rangi Syndicate students who participated in the interschool triathlon today.

Thank you to the parents of Will Pittar, Kayde Barber, Sarah van Dorp and Hannah Veitch who took the time to take the students down and support them.

Will Pittar placed 4th in the year 5 boys with Kayde close behind finishing 6th.

Hannah Veitch placed 5th and Sarah van Dorp did an amazing job participating.  

 Well done to all four of you for representing Gisborne Central School.

Please look on our sport page for more photos.

Bye Bye Camp 2!

 See ya later camp two!

Mr D giving out the last instructions "They will be NO singing Wheels on the Bus go round and round!"

 The parents gather to the side of the bus.

Rumour has it that one or two needed some Kleenex. 







The remaining Rangi Syndicate line up ready to wave good bye.

There they go!

See you in a week!

Sneak Peak of Camp Photos.

 At school loading up the bags.

 The Pipe Line!!

 Panekiri Bluff behind us.
All smiles before we walked up,

 Thank you parents.
Craig, Penny, Chris, John, Nigel, Reuben, Dave - you were all awesome.

More photos to come.  Camp Kaitawa  - wonderful!

Camp One returns - FINALLY!

 Finally the bus returns!

Three hours late.


Why were we late?


The bus broke down and we were stranded for hours on the side of the road.

Look out for the next blog entry all about our amazing camp.

FUN RUN

The Fun Run was held on Thursday the 16th February.

Thank you PSG for another great event.

Georgia Borrie and Sam Blackburne - where are you?  Looks like you have left your Mums behind in your dust!