Futsal

Today we had our first session of Futsal. This was a skills focused session where we practised using different parts of our feet to control the ball.

Check out the link below to find out about more about Futsal and their new Roadshow where you can see some teams in action.

What is Futsal?

Roadshow

Year 3 Cantamath

"Yay, it's Cantamath time," Room 18 exclaimed excitedly.
After lunch on Wednesday the 12th of August, rooms 16, 17 and 18 met in Room 17 to do a math quiz.

First we found out who the teams were and sat with our groups in a circle. Then we decided with our group, who was going to be the runner. We sat there nervously waiting to get our first sheet.  It was very important to remember to write our group number onto it, otherwise you could lose some valuable points. We could earn bonus points for sitting quietly, working as a team and for using our manners.

Each group had to figure out problems like, secret numbers, what colour the balls were, put the people in order from smallest to biggest and stack the cups in order. Some questions were easy and some were a lot harder. When we had the answers, the runners had to take it up to the teachers or Magnus to be marked. The points got gathered up and put onto a spreadsheet.

Finally when all the sheets had been handed in, Mrs D announced the winner. Da da dahhhhh!
In third place was Team 14 with 17 points, second was Team 9 with 19 points and the winner was Team 1 with 22 points. Rory, Olivia D, Asher and Tane won a chocolate bar - and all the glory.

We hope the Year 3 team get to do the Cantamath quiz again really soon.

Assembly Certificates

Thank you to Room 16 for hosting the Year 3 assembly this week. Congratulations for also earning the Heather Trophy.

Congratulations to Anaru, Millie and HenryC who were awarded certificates this week. Keep up the great work everybody.

Diabolical Dragons

Dragons are found in many of the myths and legends we are looking at this term. This morning we listened to a song called Custard the Dragon. This was a story written by Ogden Nash nearly one hundred years ago and has been set to music. Everyone has a copy of the words in their poetry book., or you can read the story, and the sequel, by clicking on this link. http://glenavalon.com/custard.html

Click on the picture of the dragon below to listen to the story turned into a song.

Welcome back for Term 3

I hope you all had a wonderful holiday break and are ready for a very exciting term.

Make sure you have all your equipment for ready for Monday and get to bed early on Sunday night.

See you soon.

Concert at Alpine View Lifestyle Village

Energy Projects

This afternoon, Aoife and Cooper presented their model of a hydroelectric power station. We learnt about how the water travels down the penstocks to turn turbines which generate the electricity. This then travels through wires on pylons and power lines until it reaches our homes.
Great work!