A visit from the local firemen

Last term we learnt about how to be Firewise Kids!

We know the difference between a tool and a toy, a safe fire and unsafe fire. We know what to do if we discover a fire and all about what firemen do and the safety gear they use.

Our local fire brigade were generous enough to come and demonstrate what they do when they get called out to a real fire.

They came to our school and smoked out one of our classrooms (don’t worry it wasn’t real smoke) and unfortunately there were two teddy bears stuck in the classroom… OH NO!!

The fire brigade were called and arrived in their fire truck, thank goodness! They jumped out of the truck, put on their safety gear and one of them pulled the hose out and tested that it was ready to go.

Then they went up to door and checked it was ok to go into the classroom. They went inside and rescued the teddies, brought them outside and gave them oxygen.

It was really good to be able to see the process of going into a burning building (even if it was a fake fire), thanks heaps guys! 

Check out the photos below... 

The firemen giving oxygen to the teddies

Some Room 6 members waiting for our visit inside the firetruck

More Room 6 members waiting patiently 

Harrison in the fire truck

Maria in the fire truck

Milla sitting in the fire truck

Kadugli seeing what's inside the truck

Rereahu in the truck

Josh sitting in the drivers seat! 

PE with Mark

For term two we have a man called Mark coming to help us learn basic PE skills. He is from Sports Canterbury and he has heaps of fun games to teach us!

Before the holidays we got to have a special one off session with him. We learnt how to play Toilet tag/Banana tag, Green light/Red light and Strike ball.

Here are some photos to show you what we got up to, it was heaps of fun! We can’t wait until next term when we get to work with him and play fun games every Monday! 

Harrison rescuing Reneea during Toilet tag.

Room 6 helping save each other during Banana tag.

Bouncing tennis balls with our left hand... Tricky!! 

One of the actions we had to do during Green light/Red light.

Jumping around while keeping the ball between our feet... Super hard! 

Strike Ball

Don't let the ball go through your legs!!

A visit from Thailand

A couple of weeks before the end of Term one we had a visit from some Thai students from the College. 

We had a special assembly in the morning. We sang the National Anthem and School is Number One. Then they sang a song, when they finished that we went back to class.

After the assembly Miss Brown read us a story about an Easter egg farm and some of the Thai students snuck in! Once Miss Brown had finished the story they introduced themselves and we all said ‘Hello’.

Then we got to design our own Easter egg and so did the Thai students. They were awesome artists and helped us to draw some cool things on our Easter eggs.

They got to stay until lunchtime and we had such a good time hanging out with them! 

Hockey Skills 2014

In term one this year we were really lucky because we got to practise our hockey skills. We learnt how to push and stop the ball, tackle the ball off another player and we even got to try and juggle the ball.

Joyce and Tania were awesome coaches!!! 

Check out our photos below to see all the awesome skills they taught us… And there is even a video of us practicing juggling!! 

Josh and Tania showing us how to hold the hockey stick correctly.

Room 6 practicing holding the stick properly.

Josh, Harrison, Marnel & Kadugli pushing the ball.

Inid, Jorja, Ihaka & Maria stopping the ball.

Zayla and Alizah pushing the ball.

Stop the ball! 

Catch that ball Nikau! 

Rob the nest... Cooper protecting his hockey balls.

Good Friends

We here in Room 6 think that it's important to be a good friend. We discussed during Oral Language one day what we thought good friends were, then we typed our ideas up on the computer! 

Check out our ideas below... 

I like going on the flying fox and the fort and also going on the bars with my friends.

By Poppie

I like doing cool stuff at my hut with my friends.

By Harrison

I like doing writing with my friends.

By Jorja

I like doing reading with my friends.

By Maria

A friend is someone who is kind and friendly that they play with me and my friends.

By Rereahu

      

A good friend is someone who plays cool games with me.

By Josh

A good friend is someone who helps me draw.

By Kadugli       

                                      

I like playing with my friends at school.

By Ashley

A good friend is someone who makes me laugh.

By Cooper 

 

A good friend is someone who makes up funny jokes.

By Paige

I like doing maths with my friends.

By Marnel

I like going on the flying fox, the bars and jumping of the cool fort and green and yellow slide with my friends.

By Milla

I like playing H2O with my friends.

By Roxanne

A good friend is someone who looks after you.

By Indiana

      

I like playing on the playground with my friends.

By Nikau

A good friend is someone who plays nice games like H2O.

By Zayla

I like going on the slide with my friends.

By Alizah

Practising our ICT skills

At Hampstead we are lucky enough to have a computer pod full of laptops that we get to use every week to practise our ICT skills on. 

We already know how to turn on the computer and open up Word but this week we learnt how to make a capital letter using shift or the caps lock button and to only put one space between our words when we type a sentence.

Miss Brown wanted to find out what we liked most about being at Hampstead school so she gave us these sentence starters...

1) My favourite part about school is... OR

2) I like being in Room 6 because...

Then we had to choose one, type it out and then tell her what our favourite part about school was or why we like being in Room 6.

While we did that she took some photos of us, check them out below! 

We bet you are very curious about what we like about school and being in Room 6, so here is what we said. We typed it ourselves! 

My favourite part of school is playing in the sand pit. 

By Cooper

               

My favourite part of school is playing with my friends. 

By Roxanne

My favourite part of school is using the tablets and books.

By Nikau

My favourite part of school is Art and reading books.

By Ihaka

              

My favourite part of school is the playground.

By Zayla

My favourite part of school is the classrooms.

By Ivy 

My favourite part of school is that I get to watch the triathlon.

By Jorja.

My favourite part of school is I love being in Room 6.

By Indiana.

I like being in room 6.

By Kadugli.

My favourite part about school is eating my lunch.

By Alizah

I like playing with my friends.

By Maria

My favourite part about school is painting.

By Marnel

I like being in Room 6 because I love Maths.

By Harrison

I like being at school because it’s so cool meeting new friends at Hampstead.

By Paige

I like being at school because it is so cool and fun and I like seeing my friends.

By Poppie

I like being at school because I am with all my friends.

By Milla

My favourite part of school is learning things.

By Ashley

My favourite part of school is the playground.

By Rereahu 

I like being in Room 6 because I like Miss Brown.

By Reneea.

Swimming!!!

At Hampstead we are lucky enough to have our own school pool! We get to go swimming every day and practise lots of different skills; floating on our tummys and backs, gliding on our tummys and backs and diving under the water to pick rings up off the bottom of the pool.

On Fridays we get to have free swim and this is our favourite time because we get to use all the pool equipment e.g. noodles, balls, floating toys and heaps more... here are some photos of us enjoying our free swim Fridays! 

Rereahu practising her gliding. 

Roxanne practising kicking with a kickboard.

Milla having fun with a pool noodle.

Maria, Marnel, Kadugli and Rereahu in the big pool.

Nikau and Ihaka preparing to jump in the pool.

Indi, Jorja and Kadugli.

Rereahu and Ihaka.

Roxanne and Marnel on the pool noodle.