THANK YOU

A very big thank you to all in our school community for another wonderful year.

At prize giving there was so much to celebrate.

Broadlands School is definitely the place to be.

Farewell to all those moving on to other things: staff, students and their families. You will all be missed.

Roll on 2015 for what promises to be yet another outstanding year.

Rehearsing for Prize Giving

On Wednesday morning we had our final rehearsal for the end of year Prize Giving. We were fantastic. Kapa Haka - Utaina Simply the Best - our new school song. Wednesday night was wonderful, well done everybody.

End of Year Prize Giving Assembly

On Tuesday it was our end of year awards assembly. The last event before the BIG Prize Giving on Wednesday night.

Flower Show 2014

On Friday we had a wonderful morning over at the hall being CREATIVE with flowers and vegetables.

After morning tea they were judged and in the afternoon families and whanau came to the prize giving assembly.

Blake was the junior runner up.

Liliana won the junior trophy.

Maggie was senior runner up.

Kate won the senior trophy.

Well done everyone.

We await the house results.

Grandparents Day

The year two poetry competition winner, Zara, and runner up, Jaxson, shared their poems. Angus the year three speech competition winner shared his speech, as did Jack the year four winner. The students who are learning the piano also shared. Here are Anthony and Griffin.

Grandparents Day

Yesterday was one of the highlights of the school year our annual 'Grandparents and Special Friends Day'. The whole school greeted our guests with a Haka Powhiri. Then we sang He Honere And some of other favourite Kapa Haka waiata.

Halloween Dress Up Day

Our Halloween Glyphs

This term our Mathematics strand is ‘statistics and probability’. For statistics we have been presenting data in different ways. This week we have been making ‘Glyphs’. A glyph is a special picture that tells us information about something or someone. To interpret the glyph you need a ‘Legend’. The legend explains what the different parts, shapes or colours mean. These Halloween glyphs tell you all about us. The rib lines show how old you are. There is one line for each year you are old. Stella's has six lines because she is six. The eye shape shows how many people are in your family. Smooth eyebrows are a girl, lightening bolt eyebrows are a boy. The stem colour shows what kinds of lollies you like best. The colour of the eyes show whether you like scary movies and stories or not.

Meeting Valerie Adams

The year 2 students were thrilled this week to go and see 

Olympic Gold Medallist

 and 

World Record Holder 

Valerie Adams.

Panapa and the Fairies Rehearsals

Next week it will be our class production of Panapa and the Fairies. We are very busy rehearsing. Magic Mist Angry Fairies The Ancestors

Golf Challenge

Earlier this year our Golf sessions were postponed 

because of bad weather.

On Wednesdays this term Coach Anna has been in to 

teach us golf skills.

This week she set us a really difficult challenge. 

We had to balance one golf ball on top of another.

It was very tricky and we had to use the virtues of 

DETERMINATION and PERSEVERANCE.

We felt very proud when we made it.

If we were successful we tried 3 golf balls or 4 golf balls.

Great fun!!!!

Move It Term 3

In Term 3 the teina have been following the Go4It programme 'Move It'.

Each Monday we have worked hard for Monique to develop our gymnastics skills.

It has been great fun and we have all risen to the challenges

 she set us.

Our favourite activity was playing the parachute games

 in the last 2 lessons.

Numeracy Term 3

We have started this term with some problem solving in Numeracy.

We have had two problems this week. 

  Mother Bear’s Shirts 

 Mother Bear is making three shirts for the young bears. 

Shirts can have 3, 4 or 5 buttons. 

 How many buttons might she need? 

Show all your answers. 

And

 Mother Bear and the Cookies 

 Mother Bear is making 4 cookies. 

She is going to decorate them with lollies. 

She can use 2, 4 or 6 lollies on each cookie. 

How many lollies might she need?

We had lots of fun and practiced our number work at the same time.

Watch our movie to see us working.

Cross Country

In Term 2 our main sports event is the School Cross Country, followed for some by the Cluster Cross Country

 and for a few the Bay of Plenty Cross Country.

We all train hard and do our best.

This year for the first time we had hay bales to

 jump over, that was great fun.

MATARIKI

It is Maori new Year. 

We have been learning about the seven stars of Matariki, also known as Pleiades.

With Mrs Sutherland we have done some amazing art work.

Reporoa Cluster Cultural Festival

The culmination of 2 terms Kapa Haka practises was our performance at the Cultural Festival.

We looked great in our Kapa Haka uniforms and enjoyed a photo opportunity with Whaea Janine before we went.

We practice hard and enjoy all our performances.

Thank you Matua Grant and Whaea Martha for supporting and teaching us.

Enjoy watching our videos!

Happy Birthday

In Te Whanau Whakaakonga we have a unique way of doing things.

When it is someone's birthday we give them a special gift, a song.

We have quite a large repertoire and these boys chose opera style.

Enjoy!

Earth Systems

Our Term 2 Inquiry is 'Earth Systems'.

We have been busy doing ontological searches about each of the different Earth Systems

• hydrosphere
• cryosphere
• atmosphere
• biosphere
• lithosphere

This week we have been presenting our learning to others by making 'Earth Systems Posters'.

Each poster has a definition of the 5 spheres and appropriate illustrations.

Leg It -- Jumping, Hopping, Balancing, Racing

More measuring

Measuring - comparing foot lengths

Share the Road - Be Safe, Be Seen!

Today Mr Nairn came to school to talk about being safe on the roads when large logging trucks, milk tankers and buses  are around.
There was a colouring competition too and Silvana, Brooke and Angus all won prizes of book vouchers.

Having Fun in the Pool

As well as swimming lessons and swimming sports we have found time to relax and have fun with our friends in the pool. Very good for building water confidence as well as developing new friendships.

Broadlands Kids at Iron Kidz 2014

Smiles all round on a windy day.

Lots of children digging deep when competing but still finding time to have fun together.

Thanks to all the students and their whanau who attended.

GO BROADLANDS!!!

Broadlands School Triathlon photos

Look on our kidblogs soon for individual photos and posts.

Harold and Jude with Room 2

We were learning about body systems too.

See our kidblogs for posts about Harold and Jude.

Harold and Jude with Room 1

We were learning about our respiratory system - how we breathe. 

Look on our kidblogs to see our individual photos with Harold and Jude.

Harold and Jude

We enjoy visiting the Life Ed. caravan and seeing Harold and Jude. We have been learning about BODY SYSTEMS - particularly the respiratory  system and the digestive system.

The first three weeks

We have had a busy start to the year settling in to our new classes and getting to know one another.

In Te Whanau Whakaakonga we have been talking about IDENTITY - who we are and where we are from. We are already practicing our Mihimihi with one another.

Mrs Sutherland has already been in and started some amazing art projects with us - watch this space for photos soon! 

Harold and Jude have also been at Broadlands this week helping us to learn about how our bodies work and how to keep them healthy.

On Friday we had our Broadlands School Triathlon, a great fun event in preparation for all those competing in Ironkidz this weekend.

2014 Welcome Back Everyone

Welcome back to a new school year. We have new faces in our class and a new class photo will be published soon - watch this space.