Kath Bee

Kath Bee visited MPS today and what a musical treat for the whole school!



Here are some of the Room 8ers busting some moves...



What fun...we had lots of laughs and enjoyed Kath's fantastic songs.

Year 5 Table Sale

Thursday was Year 5's Big Table Top Sale - it was incredibly busy....



There was everything from toys to fizzy for sale..

Yummy looking cupcakes Henry!



Guess how many lollies in jar...?



Tasty...



Ice-cream sell-out!



Books galore...



These jellies are tops!!



Harrison and Matthew their purchases.



Those jellies were very popular...



The sale was a huge success raising over $600 for the Year 5 camp well done Year 5's and thank you Miss Keene and Miss Hubec for all your hard work organising it - you're the best!

Ganesha Assembly

Today was Room 8's Assembly item. We shared some facts about India.

Hayley played the Goddess Parvadi and Tyler was Ganesha; the son she made from clay.

Bobby played Lord Shiva and came home to find Ganesha guarding the gate of his home. He chopped off Ganesha's head.

Jeremy played Ganesha brought back to life with the head of an elephant.

Speech Day Super Stars

What an amazing job you did today at Speech Day Will and Makayla. You really did Room 8 proud. You tackled the gritty and terrible problem of homelessness in New Zealand Will and gave us all something to think about. Makayla - I think you gave all us teachers something to think about with your topic of Stopping the Homework Cycle! Great job, you two!

A Busy Day in Room 8

Today started off with a visit from Halo, Molly's pet pup. Halo loved meeting all the children in Room 8 and we learnt some interesting facts about Halo and how she arrived in Dunedin on an aeroplane, from the North Island, with her brother who also lives in Dunedin.

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Will went the extra mile with his research on Germany. He brought in an amazing poster full of facts about this interesting country. He had also baked some Liebkuchen: delicious iced german spice biscuits. We had a lovely shared morning tea whilst listening to Will talk us through his terrific poster which is now on display in the classroom. Awesome work Will. Here is the recipe if you want to try them at home.

Here is Will at Morning Tea Time finishing off one of the delicious Liebkuchens.

Room 8 gave a good send off to our cross country competitors Hayley, Kyle, Bobby, Ethan and Henry. We crossed our fingers and toes - as we wished them luck for their races.

Cross Country Day

 Yay! Cross Country Day has finally arrived and we can put all that practice to good use on the track...Here we are on the bus.

 All quite excited and raring to go!

 We drop off our bags and enjoy the beautiful sunshine; feels like spring is almost here.

Laureen and Sebastian with Xavier who is raring to go!

 Year 5 girls get ready...get set...

Go!!!!

 Xavier sets off with his amazing high school helpers and Sebastian and Harrison too! Enjoy the run Xavier...

 Year 5 boys on the starting line...

 The Year 6's are waiting their turn.

 In comes Hayley...not far to go Hayley.

 Xavier and his helpers cross the finishing line awesome job boys.

 Ethan is strides ahead - terrific work - all that training has paid off.

 Year 6 Girls line up for their turn.

 Finally the Year 6 Boys get to race.

Off they go. What a wonderful day it has been - lots of sunshine, lots of running and lots of fun.

Xavier is working hard

Xavier has been working hard on his letters and phonics this week - here he is working on the letter 'd'......with a little help from his friends! Thanks Sebastian, Harrison and Sophie; learning can be fun.