Room 3 / Rimu Room

Poisonball Tournament

2011-07-08T22:36:00.000-07:00

Some Year 4 students were selected to participate in a Poisonball Tournament held at Clifton Terrace School recently. They practised beforehand and proudly represented Hira School. These photos show some of them psyching themselves up at the top of the driveway (or maybe they are psyching themselves down at the bottom of the driveway), some of them in action and one random gorgeous photo of the CTS playground from behind bars. Thanks to Marie - our chief photographer on the day. Congratulations to all players and supporters - you did us proud!
P.S Sorry about the lopsided angle of one of them - can't fix it!

Kahikatea Performers

2011-07-08T21:57:00.000-07:00

Congratulations to one of Room 3's reading groups - Kahikatea whose members are Emmeline, Logan, Meg, Paul, Isla, Dhillon and Harry. They recently practised, perfected and performed a play called 'A Peach for the Queen'. The performance took place in assembly last Friday in front of the whole school and invited guests - parents and granparents. The group used expression and confidence in their roles. They sorted their costumes and props which were simple yet effective. They were able to present with little reliance on their scripts which meant they could immerse themselves in their respective roles better. Well done you seven - thanks for the entertainment and we hope others will be inspired by your example to do some similar stuff.

Matariki

2011-06-26T21:45:00.000-07:00

Last week we at Hira School acknowledged Matariki and celebrated it in our usual style. Lots of families came along to school with food to share together. We sang songs - Kapokapo which is our Maori Twinkle Twinkle Little Star song and Te Aroha.Rod accompanied us on his ukulele and Josh on his flute. After we had feasted on delicious food, we lit lanterns, turned on torches and trudged round the Hira School Highway in the starlight - what a delightful evening! In these photos Paul, Sophie and Macey are about to walk around the highway with their Matariki lanterns and stars

Hira vs Victory Soccer Game

2011-06-21T17:11:00.000-07:00

Last Friday a soccer team came from Victory School to play against a team from Hira School. Harry and Logan were the Room 3ers in the team - the rest were kids from Room 4. While the game was on the rest of the school cheered on the sideline as spectators. In these photos Hira School are the players in blue and Victory are in red. Logan said the game was quite fun and challenging. Emmeline thinks everyone played well. Macey said that everyone was being a good sport while Cameron said it was a very peaceful game. Cameron and Chi were the chief photographers and what a fine job they did. Most of the photos we have chosen for this blog entry were of Logan and Harry of course but one is of a truely amazing supporter with a placard - who do you think it is? The one of Logan looking lazy is actually him being subbed off. Harry looks exceedingly happy in his photo even though Hira were beaten 5 nil by Victory - this just goes to show that we play for the love of the game and that it's not all about winning!

Fundamental Skills

2011-06-15T13:20:00.000-07:00

Every Wednesday, Room 3 have a fundamental skills session with Helen Clark. We have been learning how to throw and catch balls properly, to move while doing this and to hit and field balls in games. It's all lots of fun and our skills are developing along with our fitness levels increasing. Do you know that we all run around the Hira Highway 5 times each morning for our fitness session and none of us puff, none of us race, we all just jog at a steady and manageable pace. Here are some of us playing a game called Skittle Ball. The rules of this game make it a bit like netball. Pammie has just taught us a game called Evolution where we have to prance around the court being eggs, ducks, dinosaurs and super heroes and we definitely have to know how to play Paper, Scissors, Rock.

Hira School Cross Country

2011-06-05T21:55:00.000-07:00

Last week the whole school trudged over to Hunters property to participate in our annual cross country event. Room 3ers had been doing some serious training over the past few weeks and were well ready! The course was up and down hill which we found quite challenging. However - everyone competed and completed with no major dramas. Emma even managed to run with a sore leg and by doing so earned herself a piggyback ride back to school courtesy of Pammie! . Here are some photos of some of us. Wren and Emma are running down towards the finish line as are Logan and Harry. The other photos are of the boys and girls lined up waiting for the starting whistle. You go Room 3!!

Uke's Rock!

2011-06-05T21:39:00.001-07:00

Ariane Turton recently had a bedroom garage sale to raise money for charity. Some of us brave and courageous ukulele players fronted up on Saturday morning at the Wakapuaka

Hall to support Ariane by playing and singing. We were trying to attract customers! Fabian played the melodica, Rod, Ariane, Emma and Pammie played ukulele and Laura conducted! Thanks to Morag, Karen and Burkhard for jiggling and singing along with us.

Book Week at Hira School

2011-06-05T21:04:00.000-07:00

For Hira School book week we did lots of interesting activities. The two big highlights were the book fair in the multi purpose room and the book character parade on the last day. There were hundreds of books displayed for us to enjoy, browse through and buy. The theme was 'Camera, Lights, Action' so there was a stage, dressups and makeup - we had such fun times. For the book character parade we all dressed up as our favourite book character and paraded on the stage in front of all our mums and dads and whanau members. Here are some of us - Dhillon, Paul, Holly and Isla.

Room 3 Class Photo

2011-05-15T20:59:00.000-07:00

This week we are working with the Kia Kaha programme which is about creating a safe environment where we can all feel respected and valued along with revisiting appropriate and effective strategies for responding to others who try to bully us. Constable John O'Donovan is working with us. To begin with we are examining similarities and differences we have within our families and with our classmates at school. To do the latter we have taken two Room 3 class photos. One is sensible and one is silly - can you tell the difference?

Reading Rocks With Adrian Kirk

2011-05-14T20:45:00.000-07:00

Adrian Kirk is from Christchurch and performed for us on Thursday. He was giving us a message about how great reading is and books are and showed us some of his favourite books. He is a very clever juggler and showed us the book that he learned most of his juggling skills from. He kept saying that we can find out almost anything we want if we just find and look in the right book and to do this we need to be able to read! Adrian did a trick with Tessa from Room 1 and attacked Jarred - Cam's young brother - when he was pretending to be a Star Wars character. Adrian juggled with Hani - well he tried to and Hani tried to catch his flying balls - she missed them all though. We laughed and laughed at his jokes and his tricks. Finally he put Max on his shoulders while he rode his unicycle / looneycycle! Tonnie was asked to catch Max after he'd done a somersault in mid air. None of this happened and they all - Tonnie, Max and Adrian ended up in a pile together on the floor!

Life Education Programme With Victoria and Harold

2011-05-14T20:24:00.000-07:00

At the beginning of this term, the Life Education caravan visited Hira School and ran a week long programme all about Food and Nutrition. Room 3 learned more than they already know about why healthy foods help our bodies and brains to work better and have happier days. We learned about three different sources of foods - food from the ground is kai atu whenua, food from animals is kai atu kararehe and food from ingredients is kai atu wharanu. We also studied the passage that food takes once it is swallowed - some facts are fascinating and some are a bit gross! Harold taught us a new song and came to visit us in assembly - we so love him. Here are a couple of photos of us in the Life Ed caravan with Victoria and Harold.

Our New School Gate

2010-10-30T17:45:00.000-07:00

Wow!!! The school frontage is complete. In keeping with our beautiful school fence, we have had a new gate created which is covered in titoki (cabbage tree) and kowhai flower designs.

Nelson Arts Festival Red Square

2010-10-30T17:35:00.000-07:00

Every year at Arts Festival time, a huge stage is erected at the top of Trafalgar Street. This is called The Red Square and is used by hundreds of primary and secondary school students to perform. Our Hira School group comprised of some Room 3 and 4 ukulele players and singers. We performed 8 pieces including our Hira School Song. People were singing and clapping along to us and we had a very appreciative audience who were enjoying listening to us as they ate their lunch. Since then we have had lovely comments given to us about how great we looked and sounded and even an email sent from a man in Collingwood who said his wife was over in Nelson for a hospital appointment and by listening to us she was cheered up! The 'Red Square' group are so proud of themselves they are going to stay together as a music group and learn more pieces with Pammie for performing in the future. Congratulations you all - you certainly did us proud!!

Kidpower

2010-10-30T17:15:00.000-07:00

Last term Room 3 did the Kidpower training. This is a programme that teaches us strategies for keeping ourselves safe when verbally or physically threatened by others. We learnt assertiveness skills and ways to respond to another when being spoken to in an inappropriate way or when being bullied into doing something we don't want to do. We have found many of these strategies useful in our everyday life at school and we all feel stronger and safer with our peers as a result of completing the programme.

Ukulele Hoolie

2010-10-30T17:02:00.000-07:00

A bunch of great ukulele players from Hira School attended the first Ukulele Hoolie recently held at Richmond School. We got together with many other ukulele players from several Nelson schools and played and sang together. We all had so much fun that we're going to assemble and perform again next year.

BFF (Best Friends Forever)

2010-10-30T16:44:00.000-07:00

When Room 3 were creating books for Hira School Book Week, everybody took photos of themselves with some of their friends to make up one of the pages in these profile books. We chose 3 or 4 friends and proceeded to do a photo shoot with them somewhere around the school. Here are some of them. If you want to pop into Room 3 and read the books in their entirety - please feel free - they are on display and are beautiful. We are very proud of them.

The Lambs

2010-10-26T15:47:00.000-07:00

Hi my name is Grace.I have two lambs Bambi and Angel they lived

with us for four weeks now they are up at the farm in the Glen . They are very cheeky

the first night they ran away only down to the gate I LOVE BAMBI AND ANGEL

By Grace

Our Beehives

2010-08-26T18:17:00.000-07:00

I am standing next to our beehives. We get 8kgs of honey from each hive. We pay $150 each year for the beekeepers to care for the hives. My mum and dad love honey but I dont really. We keep the hives at the place where we walk down to the toilet on the flat area. You are not allowed to put your hands in the hole but they won't sting you unless you try to attack them. They just fly around you and don't even get distracted by you.

My Cat, Camo

2010-08-19T15:54:00.000-07:00

Hi it's Emma and this is my cat Camo.To me she is the most adoroble thing ever. She gets the name Camo because shes a tabby and ''camo'' from camouflage.The coolest thing about her is she has a white heart right where her heart would actually be.We got her from our friends the Harvey family which is Stephianes cousins. By EMMA ROSE PHILLIPS

My Cat, Yoda.

2010-08-12T16:10:00.000-07:00

My cat Yoda is part of the family. He is soft and cuddly. He loves me and I love him too. He some times gets up on my bed to sleep. I am his best friend and I show him that by protecting him from my dad. He tries to kiss Yoda a lot and Yoda hates it. By Cody

My Dog, Toby

2010-08-11T16:25:00.000-07:00

Toby is sitting on the couch and watching a tv show it is a bad show. If we leave the house and we leave Toby inside he gets crazy. If we leave the tv on he likes it. Toby likes people next to him and sitting in between people legs. He is brown and white and big . When we let Toby out and we are going to leave Toby runs up in the trees and stays there. He will come down when the car starts. Toby comes everywhere with us and he is 7 months old. Toby will be my favourite and my best pet by far. By Chani.

Our Rat Artemis

2010-08-09T16:48:00.000-07:00

The rat on the screen is my brothers rat called Artemis.I know most people do not like rats because they are smelly and their tails are scaley.But Artemis is a very very kind rat he likes people holding him.Pammie has put a photo of Artemis on her computer so she could begin to like rats. By Meg.

The Skate Park

2010-08-05T19:08:00.000-07:00

Hi, my name is Logan and this is a picture of me,Harry and Josh at the skate park. I'm on a Ripstick, Harry's on a scooter and so is Josh. There is a guy on a BMX bike who can 360 over the spine and tail whip it. I got my ripsick from my dads friend and you ride it by wiggling the back of it and the front if you want to.

The Pig Hunt

2010-08-02T15:58:00.000-07:00

My dad, Wow, me and of course the dogs went pig hunting. Wow had a tracking device to track the dog . It tells how far away the dog is and it can track where the dogs are.I think it is $500 for the.... well I will just say that it is a telephone because I don't know what it is called and it is $800 for the collars. Then the dogs caught the pig and i gutted it. By Kaine.

My Friend Jonty

2010-07-27T19:07:00.000-07:00

Hi, my name is Ruby and I'm going to tell you about my friend Jonty the pony. Jonty is such a trustworthy pony. He taught me how to ride even though I was riding before I started riding him. I have been riding Jonty for three years !! Jonty is a grey pony and he is 12 hands high. He has been my best friend and I would like to say thankyou to him for helping me get confident enough to get used to another pony - Honey. By Ruby

Me In The Goal

2010-07-26T18:30:00.000-07:00

The goal that I am sitting in was made for us by our grandad. It s so cool. It took him a week to build and me and my brother - Johnny use it all the time. We put it on the front lawn . The soccer balls that I am by are ours - the red one is mine and the yellow one's my brothers. I love soccer - it is such an awesome sport. I watched all the FIFA World Cup 2010 games. I am a fan of the All Whites, Argentina and Spain. SOCCER IS AWESOME ! By Nathan.

My Brother, Eytan.

2010-07-22T19:11:00.000-07:00

My brother is called Eytan. He is a baby and he is very cute and funny. He loves playing tag with me and Nikau . He is one and a half years old and he has long hair with long eye lashes. I love him very very much. By Zoe

Our Dog, Sam

2010-07-21T17:08:00.000-07:00

Sam is my family's dog he is very old and lazy. He takes up all the space on the couch and he runs diagonally -thats funny. He's like a guard dog because when a car is coming to our house he barks but sometimes he barks at birds and confuses us. Sometimes he gets a little grouchy because he is so old he no longer enjoys being cuddled. By Wesley Klassen-Ladd.

Custard

2010-07-19T14:55:00.000-07:00

This is our sheep Custard.We got him as a lamb from some friends. We had to feed him powderd milk every morning and night .We have one more sheep called Pinky so we have now got two boys which eat grass and sheep nuts. By Bea

Harry's Jump

2010-07-18T16:43:00.000-07:00

I go down to the car park and there are two jumps. I put a gap between them, I get a run up and I go up and jump over the gap and land on the jump. My friend Logan was going to have a turn but you can not see him in this photo. By Harry

Technology

2010-06-21T20:29:00.000-07:00

From our visit to Te Hora Marae early this term, we have been doing a technology study called 'Containers For Precious Things'. We have all sewn a flax pouch for our bamboo koauaus (whistles / flutes) that we made at Te Hora. We designed and sewed them and then decorated them with a shell as a clasp to close it. Thanks to some of our parents and grandparents for holding several working bees in order to complete these stunning creations.

2010-05-23T21:09:00.000-07:00

Here we all are settling down for the evening inside the wharenui. We were certainly very cosy. Once we were ready for bed and tucked into our sleeping bags, we all shared our mihi which is an introduction of ourselves in maori. We were very proud of ourselves and each other.

Wharenui Time

2010-05-23T21:04:00.000-07:00

At Te Hora marae we spent a lot of our time in the wharenui which means 'big house' and is the meeting house at the marae. This is where we met, we learned and we attempted to sleep like a huge can of sardines - even though we were not allowed to have food inside this building!

Inside the wharenui are lovely carvings, many photos of members of the tangata whenua who have passed on or died and also some weaving and craft pieces - a sacred space indeed.

More Te Hora Joy

2010-05-23T20:55:00.000-07:00

Nicki and Cindy from Nelson Provincial Museum joined us and shared some wonderful skills with us including singing, carving and playing the koaua or maori wind instrument. These photos show them playing for us and also Dhillon and Brendan having a go too.

2010-05-23T20:51:00.001-07:00

The people of the marae who cared for us and made us feel so welcome were three elders or kuia called Nora, Chris and Hazel.

2010-05-23T20:46:00.000-07:00

During the powhiri we sang songs, listened to speeches, gave a koha or gift to the tangata whenua and at the end did the hongi with many new people. The hongi is a way of greeting and means to shake hands, carefully press noses twice and say 'Kia ora' or 'Tena koe'.

Te Hora Marae

2010-05-23T20:40:00.000-07:00

Last week the whole of Hira School travelled to Te Hora Marae in Canvastown and stayed overnight. We experienced a powhiri which is a maori welcome and met many people from the tangata whenua - the people who belong to the marae. We were the visitors - the manuhiri. When we arrived at Te Hora we gathered at the entrance way - waharoa and waited to be called onto the marae - this call is called the karanga.

More Glee With Lee

2010-05-05T21:08:00.000-07:00

We were treated to an extra session with sports specialist Lee Corlett last week during which we had our usual half hour of fun and fitness with a challenge or two thrown in. We were required to cooperate in our groups of four at a very high level. The gear we were given to work with was a pile of hoops. First we had to create a free standing circle and then each climb inside it and stand up without tipping anything or anyone over. Some of us met with success while some of us totally collapsed into balls of laughter!! As if that wasn't challenging enough - we then had two groups place their hoop circles on top of each other and then...... yes you guessed it - climb inside and stand up. What skills do you think we needed for all of this - cooperation, listening, balance, steadiness and extreme care - oh and did we say cooperation, cooperation cooperation?

Life Education Programme

2010-04-26T21:16:00.000-07:00

Our whole school has been enjoying the Life Education programme in the giant trailer this week. It is a programme about life skills and social skills and we in Room 3 have been learning about how special and unique we all are. We have also been learning about different parts of our bodies and how they work. Some of that is nice and some of it is a bit yucky! Victoria has been our teacher in the programme and she has an awesome friend called Harold - a giant giraffe.

Cool School Peer Mediators - 2010

2010-04-24T19:03:00.000-07:00

On Friday the new Cool School Peer Mediators at Hira School for 2010 were commissioned at a special assembly. There are eleven new mediators who are about to start duties on Monday. Their proud parents attended the assembly along with the regional Cool School coordinator from Wellington - Lyn Scott. Even though Room 3 kids use some very sensible problem solving strategies when faced with tricky situations - they are looking forward to having the mediators support in the playground to help them solve their problems and deal with conflict.

Sports With Lee Corlett

2010-04-24T18:53:00.000-07:00

Every week of last term we have been learning many new fundamental sports skills with sports expert- Lee Corlett. We have our final session with Lee this week. We learning balancing, running, jumping and manoeuvring skills that the All Blacks and the Silver Ferns have to do in their training sessions. Lee keeps telling us we are almost as good as those experts who represent New Zealand at rugby and netball!! We believe him!!!!

Fitness and Picnic - Term 1

2010-04-16T21:47:00.000-07:00

At the end of Term 1 Room 3 students trekked up the hill at Laura's farm to the top where we enjoyed a magificent almost 360 degree view of the sea to the south and to the west. The trek was steep and interesting and the slide back down was fun. Thanks to Laura and her family for a great day out. We all felt fitter and more connected after having a picnic day out.