Well done to Floss who was selected from all NCS students to be awarded the Sir Peter Blake Leadership Award. She was selected because of her great commitment and involvement both at Nelson Central and the wider environment.
Last term the Totara Syndicate had an arts interchange where we were involved in dance, drama and visual arts workshops. Check out our final results below.
Here is another video from last terms EnviroSchool Inquiry Project.
Here is their vision for what our school will look like 10 years on joining the EnviroSchool Programme.
Term 2 well and truly ended with a bang! It has been one action packed week!
On Monday a number of students from Room 2 participated in the Regional Cross-Country Champs. This involved shools from all around the Nelson/Tasman Region. Well done to Nills who placed second.
On Wednesday we had Totara Trading. This was a chance for us to spend our Totara Dollars that we had earnt throughout the term as part of our class reward system. Sally was particularly impressed by Sabine's stall where she sold beautiful handwarmers she had personally made. Way to go Sabine!
We were also treated to performances by Sylvie and Floss at lunchtime as part of Zoe's group of students who she tutors.
On Thursday NCS held their very first student led conferences. As part of this we shared our learning with our parents, completed Reading and Maths tasks together and played a fun Maths quiz game on Kahoot against other families. Most of us were very proud to be sharing our learning with our whanau.
And to wrap up the week we had our own class party. This was a part of our Statistics Investigations where we investigated Room 2's favourite flavour of chips, jelly, chocolate etc. Look at the delicious spread that we enjoyed! What a great way to end Term 2!
What a great week we've had in Room 2. Check out some of the action we have been involved with!
On Tuesday a number of us participated in the Inter-School Cross Country event at Branford Park with several other Nelson City Schools. It was a great course with many creak crossings and lots and lots of mud!
Well done to Nil's who once again won the Year 5 Boys race and contributed to NCS also winning the Year 5 Boys team event
We have also carried on with the Keeping Ourselves Safe Programme. During one of the lessons this week we talked about bribes, secrets and tricks. Here are several of us analysing a cartoon.
In Maths we are focussing on Statistics. As part of this everyone has carried out their own statistical investigation in order to plan a fantastic class party. We look forward to having this at the end of the term.
On Thursday many of us had our final water safety session at Riverside Pool. We had lots of fun using the inflatable boats and talking about safety on boats.
This week at Nelson Central we celebrated Wig Wednesday. This was a fundraiser for the child cancer foundation. As a school we raised over $400. Well done Nelson Central!
In Maths this week we are focussing on Statistics. As part of this we have been learning all about Pie Charts. Guess what we used to create pie charts about this week?
What's been happening in Room 2 this week you ask... Well let us tell you!
We have continued on explanations in Writing. This week we started writing explanations about the water cycle. We enjoyed singing along to this fun water cycle song. Some of us even made up some actions for it!
This week we finished off and presented our Inquiry Projects. We developed our vision for what we would like to see happen at NCS now that we are an EnviroSchool. Many of us focussed on just one element. Check out the videos and presentations below.
We also had our whole-school cross-country. Whilst we have already made selections for the Inter-School Cross-Country we still got in the whole-school spirit and joined in with the cross-country today. Well done to Nils who once again won the Year 6 boys race and the open race!
It may have been a short week but it sure has been an action packed one!
On Tuesday we carried on with Mahi Toi - A Totara Syndicate Arts Interchange Programme. The students with Sally have been working on a collaborative piece of art work. Each student was given a small piece of the artwork below to then enlarge. Look at the masterpiece we created when we pieced it all together!
As part of ICT and Inquiry we have been working collabortively with a buddy to create a Google Slideshow presentation. Below you can see Josie and Grayson both working on the same document but on separate computers! Sally has been very impressed by the we have worked together on these. Look out for the completed projects on our blogs soon!
On Wednesday we had our Totara Syndicate Cross-Country and boy did Room 2 dominate! Students from Room 2 won three out of the four races.
Year 5 Boys
1st - Nils
5th- Koebi
7th- Zai
10th - Michael
Year 5 Girls
7th - Rosie
8th - Emma
Year 6 Girls
1st - Floss
7th - Hannah
Year 6 Boys
1st - Ruben
5th - Max
6th - Ryan
9th - Sam
Thursday ended up being a bit of a foodie day!
We kick started the day by making popcorn as we have just begun a new unit on explanations. As part of this we are going to be explaining how popcorn pops! Check out this amazing slow motion video below of popcorn popping!
On Friday to celebrate Matariki the Totara Syndicate shared kai together for lunch. Room 2 were amazing and iced and decorated 120 star cookies to share with our friends!
Also on Thursday many of us were involved in the Water Safety programme at Riverside Pool. This week we had the challenge of jumping into the pool, putting on a life jacket and then forming a huddle.
On Tuesday we were lucky enough to visit Founder's Park to have a clay session run by Esther from the Suter Art Gallery. We each made a wall hanging inspired by the historic buildings at Founders.
On Wednesday as part of the EnviroSchool focus Mel came and spoke to us about how precious water is. She showed us a model of a local landscape and the negative impacts that our choices can have on our water. We also got to have a look at some of the critters she captured from our local Brook Stream.
On Thursday a number of us partook in a big inter-school hockey tournament. Congratulations to the boys team who placed third overall and to the girls who placed 4th. They were up against approximately 20 other teams!
On Sunday our school choir is participating in a special fundraising 24 hour concert called 'Sleeping with the Steinway'. This is a fundraising concert for the redevelopment of the Nelson School of Music. Our choir is lucky enough to perform with the group called 'Off your Rockers'. They are a group of elderly singers. We will be performing songs from both their era and our era. Check us out practicing below!
Today half of our class enjoyed a walk up the Centre of New Zealand as part of our Syndicate Sport. Aren't we lucky to live in such a beautiful part of the world!
What's been happening in Room 2 this week you ask?
Well in writing we have carried on our Advertising theme. As part of it we designed our own Cereal box. We had to think about the use of colour, names, slogans and gimmicks.
In Inquiry. We investigated where the food in our lunch boxes came from and then designed a lunch box menu with low food miles. Check out more about food miles in the video below.
Last week in New Zealand we celebrated Sign Language Week. So this week in reading we made our own videos in sign language. Check out Floss and Alex below.
This week we carried on with our Enviro-Schools themed inquiry unit. Sally shared with us an illustrating example using an apple. We decided that our earth is very precious and we should look after it as only 4% of earth is suitable for humans to live on.
This theme was carried on in Reading. We read about a couple of different EnviroSchools in NZ and some of the projects they have organised. See below for some of the ideas we think NCS should try
Half of our class were lucky enough to go to Riverside to participate in some water safety lessons this week. Many of us were not looking forward to this but afterwards we reflected that it was pretty awesome!
