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Kowhai Syndicate Newsletter
Kowhai Syndicate Newsletter
Semester Two 2011
Dear parents and caregivers,Welcome to the second semester of the 2011 academic year.
We are always focussed on the core learning areas of reading, writing and maths.
In addition our topic focus for Term 3 is ‘I Am An Innovator’. The title for our topic studies is ‘Thirst To Be First’ and students will be studying within the Social Studies and Technology areas of the curriculum. -
Ukulele Festival 2009
On Saturday, November 21st, the Advanced Ukulele Group went to a Kiwilele Festival. The Kiwilele are a massed orchestra of 1300 ukulele playing school children.
We were going to try to make a world record of having the most people playing ukulele together. We had a competition of which school decorated their gazebos the best. Some schools had pictures, balloons and ENPS had both paintings and balloons. First prize was a free ukulele for every student of the winning school. There were 1300 kiwilele players and their parents, friends and teachers.
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Year 4 Term 4 Newsletter
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A BIG THANK YOU FROM ROOM 5!!!
We would like to thank everyone who sent along cellphones to school. We have collected 112 cellphones for Starship Childrens’ Hospital! These have been sent off but we are still able to collect any unwanted cellphones and forward them on!
Natasja from Room 5 brought in the most cellphones – 13! Followed by Ana from Room 14 and Jayna from Room 5 who each brought in 7 cellphones!Thank you to everyone for joining in this great sustainable effort!
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Room 5 is Making a Difference! See how you can help.
Dear Families
Room 5 children have been learning about rubbish. We have found out what types of rubbish can be recycled and what can’t be. We discovered that rubbish that doesn’t go in blue bins can be recycled elsewhere. We found out that unwanted cellphones can be collected and sent to Starship Childrens’ Hospital. Starship Hospital send the cellphones to overseas people. The money they collect helps the children in the hospital.
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Auckland Grammar Pipe Band
Auckland Boys Grammar Pipe Band performed in front of Epsom Normal Primary School on Thursday the 14th of May. Bag pipes originally came from Scotland then as people migrated, their music went all around the world. Now we were very lucky to have the bag pipe players from the Auckland Boys Grammar School to come and play for us. They had six bag pipe players, one base drum, four little drums and two medium drums.
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Kowhai (Year 4) Term 2 Newsletter
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MARK INGLIS
On the 11th of May we had a special visitor called Mark Inglis. Mark Inglis is a man who has been up Mt Everest, Mt Cook and many more dangerous mountains. The one great thing he said was referring to his lack of legs was rather than it being a disadvantage, it’s an advantage.
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Mr. Creamer: What a Windbag!!!
This is Room 16 reporting children saw Mr. Creamer blowing up a windbag in one breath. Do you want to learn how Mr. Creamer did it?
A windbag is a blue, big bag that is about two metres long and made of plastic. The challenge was to blow up the bag in five breaths or less. The whole class tried on Monday to blow up the windbag, and we could keep trying until Friday. Do you think anyone did it?
No one was able to do it on the first day so Mr. Creamer gave us some time to try. Some people were nearly able to do it but no one was quite able to do it. Then we started cheating as we tried more people with five breaths each. Then we showed Mr. Creamer, and he said “No more cheating!” It wasn’t fair. We started grumbling but we kept on trying (and cheating) but not succeeding until Friday.
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Blues vs Lions - Eden Park Live
On April 10th it was the super 14 Blues vs. Lions rugby match at Eden Park. I won a contest called Blue for a Day and got to choose a friend to take to the game with me. It was a very hard decision for me to make, I decided to take my good friend Yunes to the game. I got to run the match ball out in front of 20,000 people! And they showed me on the big screen. I got a Blues jersey and hat and a goody pack and Yunes got a hat and a goody pack.
When we arrived at the game one of the Blues helpers, Robert, took us in. After that we went into the player’s tunnel and we went into a little room where we got all of our goodies. Then we went out to the field and they showed us what we had to do. When the Loins came out I ran the ball out to the middle of the field. The announcer introduced me and they showed me running the ball out on the big screen. After that the Blues came out and the crowd went wild. Then I ran to the side line and I sat down on some very blue chairs next to the team.
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Hedgehogs At Our School
One Monday in March we found out that some hedgehogs were roaming across the senior field at daytime. Did you know that hedgehogs are nocturnal animals? Well, if they are nighttime animals, then why were they coming out in the day? Room 5 children thought the hedgehogs might be sick. We called Mr. Jacka and said “Could you please help us?”
On Tuesday, at lunchtime, we found a hedgehog on the field. But it wasn’t walking well. Room 5 children thought it had a broken foot because the foot looked very swollen. Mr. Jacka picked up the hedgehog and put it carefully back in its habitat in the flax by the senior playground. We started up a hedgehog patrol to keep an eye on hedgehogs and make sure they didn’t come out on to the field again.
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Impressionism and Monet in Room 5
On a gloomy Monday this month we got to school and noticed that our classroom, Room 5, had been changed around. “Wow!” we said, “It’s not so gloomy after all.” It was amazing! Afterwards, we learnt about Claude Monet who was a French artist who made a style of painting called “Impressionism”. He was born on 14 November 1840 (the same year that the Treaty of Waitangi was signed). He was born in Paris, France. In 1865 he met a young lady called Camille and they got married. That day we did a collage with a buddy. We cut out lots of colourful pictures from magazines and pasted them on to card.
The next day, our fantastic friend, Hannah, said “my mother is coming today to help us with our art because she is an artist”. We were so excited we jumped with glee! When Mrs. Shale arrived, she taught us what the primary colours were and what colours you can make when you mix them. We all made a colour wheel – it was lots of fun. Afterwards, we thanked Mrs. Shale for wasting her time in a good way.