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Party Pills Video - Abby, Danny & Shaan

Week 6 Term 4 Assembly Award - Aaron

Great efforts with your music and Band(s) you have been performing in lately Aaron - great skills and some good entertainment for your audiences

Challenge Day Out

We had a fantastic day out on Thursday the 1st of December. We were located on a farm near Outram and had Evan Jamieson and his team from Adventure Masters runninfg some super cool activities for the day. It was 29 degrees and sunny, a super day out, many thanks to our parent helpers for their time with us!!

Week 5 Term 4 Assembly Award - Breanna

Well done to Breanna for her fantastic writing of a "fractured" fairytale poem. Great skills!

Little Red Riding Hood and the 3 Witches - Shaan Kumar

Little red was much misjudged when she went to court for stealing a bowl of porridge, breaking a little chair and even sleeping in someone else’s bed. In fact, when the judge asked what was going on in her head, she started with the true story, of what really happened in pleasant hill forest.
Little red was just having a stroll around the forest, after a wolf had stopped her in her tracks and asked her for directions. She was walking to her grandma’s house and came to the door. But little red riding hood didn’t realise that she had come to the WRONG door. She knocked three times on the door but no one answered, so she walked in to wait for her grandma. Knowing that her grandma would let her eat her porridge, sit on a chair, sleep on a bed, she did so.
Meanwhile, three witches were sitting outside, laughing at her. They had tricked her to come into THERE house and so she would have to pay a fine to them. They had set up half broken chairs, broken beds, and porridge to chew through. They laughed as they transformed themselves into bears to accuse red and take her to court.
“And now, here I am now” Little red finished. Of course, no one believed her. With no one believing red, she said “If you don’t believe me, I will huff and puff and blow this court down” Since the court was made of straw, the whole court blew down. But before anyone was eaten, the woodchopper burst in, and chopped her into fine meat pieces. And also, that night, the witches all ate red meat.

Challenge Day Out Reminders

Our end of year Challenge Day Out is getting closer. Thank you to those parents and caregivers who have volunteered to come along. We have had a fantastic response with many adult helpers who are able to join us for the day.

Hopefully your child’s fundraising has gone well and they have contributed towards the cost of this day. The $35 needs to be paid before the trip.

Details for the Challenge Day Out Trip
Students and helpers are to meet at school at the earlier time of 8:30am; we will need to leave school at 8:40am in order to meet at the Outram Glen Farm by 9.00am. In the unlikely event that this day is cancelled then I will contact adult helpers shortly after 7:00am.

The students need to come prepared regardless of the weather. We are exposed to extremes of hot and cold on this mountain top, it can go from +30 to -15 wind chill.

Wear old clothes!!!!! There is mud and cow poop everywhere. You will get dirty!
• Wear suitable footwear (No gumboots) and an old pair of shoes for swimming.
• Bring a rain proof jacket / thermals and backpack.
• Bring your togs, plastic bag, and towel for swimming.
• Sunhat / beanie and sun block.
• Please ensure that you have a large packed lunch.
• Water bottle (1.5 L), No energy drinks.
• Bring any personal medication needed. Carry your inhalers with you but give any other medication to your teacher.
For your own safety come prepared with suitable clothing. The weather is unreliable!

We aim to get back to school by 4.30 – 5.00pm. If we get back earlier then the students will stay at school until they have contacted you and arrangements have been made to go home.

If you have any further questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at school.

Abby - Speech Video

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Week 4 Term 4 Assembly Award - Abby

Well done Abby, you prepared and presented a fantastic speech. Great use of expression and body language in educating your audience on "Hair Do's and Don'ts"

Speech Video - Sam

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Speech Video = Shaan

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Week 3 Term 4 Assembly Award - Olivia

Well done Olivia, you have made some fantastic effort sand shown some great knowledge and skills with your maths algebra.

Balmac Wearable Arts 2011

A big "well done' to Emily Lane, Abby Hubbard, Anna Lindsay, Olivia Gold, Georgia Rhodes and Emma Dunn who were all involved in our school Wearable Arts show that was held at Otago Boys High School on Wednesday 2nd of November. A super show and super effort out into all of your costumes and ideas.

Room 13 Student results from North Zone Athletics

Some great efforts and results from Room 13 students who competed in the North Zone Athletic Sports on Thursday 10th of November

Felix Hunt - 1st 100m Sprint final, 4th Hurdles final
Breanna Rowe - 4th Relay final
Emma Ward - 1st 100m Sprint final, 1st High Jump, 3rd Long Jump, 2nd relay final
Sean Kim - competed in hurdles and sprints
Olivia Gold - 1st 75m sprint final, 3rd 800m
Emma Dunn - 3rd Relay, competed in long jump and sprints

Term 4 Challenge

Our Big focus this term is on CHALLENGE, the questions we are looking into are "How do people respond to challenge?" and What challenges do teenagers face?" there will be discussion relating to social and emotional challenges relating to peer pressure and choices, a visit from the life education team as well as our Challenge day out with some great fun and physical challenges in Week 6 (Thursday 1st December).

Inquiry Project - Facebook - Anna & Olivia

Check out a snapshot of Anna and Olivia's term 3 inquiry looking into social networking sites. Their big question was "Is Facebook Killing our youth?"

Week 10 Term 3 Assembly Award - Amy

well done Amy, always showing a positive attitude and a hard working approach to all tasks, great stuff!

Week 8 Assembly Award - Shaan

Well done with your recent Sustainable home design Shaan, lots of thought and great ideas put into your design.

Vivisection... the debated issue...Felix Hunt

I believe that people should not be doing animal tests in labs.

Lots of people will say that humans are the most valuable form of life on the planet, but I fail to see how. We pollute the air, we are over populated and we destroy other animal habitats. So actually we are one of the least important races on the planet.

People will also say that a human’s suffering is a lot worse than another animal’s suffering but that is not true in the slightest. Animals can feel just as much pain as us, they just don’t have the voice to say “stop”.

So hopefully you agree with me that animal testing should not go on.

Week 6&7 Assembly Awards - Thomas & Ben

Week 6 - Assembly Award - Thomas for a super effort in designing, building and explaining the features of your "Edible Eco-Home"

Week 7 - Ben for a fantastic use fo "Google Sketch Up" and IT skills in putting together the 3d image design of your eco home (some fantastic input into this by Shaan also)

Eco Home - Thomas

These are the design features that my house has to make it eco-friendly. (The best thing about my model I made was that it was Edible - A tasty Chocolate Cake that we "Demolished")

Water harvesting and recycling –my house has a sloped roof so the water runs off into a tank. Grey water is also used in the toilet and outside taps.

Day-lighting systems-the sunlight streams through the windows and sliding doors so you don’t have to use artificial light as much.

Thermal mass-the driveway, veranda and floor of the house is all thermal mass which keeps the house an even temperature.

Insulation-the walls, floor and roof of my house are all insulated.

Solar gain­-my house is facing north so lots of sunlight gets in and heats the house.

Security-my house has good visibility from the street.

Energy use-my house uses renewable energy and has star rated appliances.

Solar power and water-the solar panels on the roof and walls are used for heating the hot water and generating electricity.

Wind power-there is a wind turbine to produce more electricity.

Georgia - Eco Home

If my house was a real Eco House it would feature a mud brick wall at the front and back of the house to keep the warmth in all year long. My house has a 1.5 meter roof overhang to shade the house from the sun in the summer and in the winter to shelter the mud brick walls from the rain and bad weather. My roof is slopping, there is a rain water tank collector at the back of the house that water would flow into and then would get filtered for other house hold needs. This house also has a glass conservatory to soak up the heat and transfer it though the vents that lead into the house in the conservatory also has a black slate tiled floor to pick up more heat . My house has a vegetable garden to grow its own vegetables and a windmill to have my own electricity generated, I have 3 solar panels on the roof for hot water and at the front of the house I have high windows so the sun can shine directly in the house, my house is painted in dark colours so it attracts heat.

DCC Waste Water Guest Speaker - By Cody and Jacob

On The 14^th of September Mike Ind the DCC waste water operation’s manger came to speak about waste water from where it goes and where it end’s up.

He started of by talking about Dunedin’s main water treatment plant’s the water start’s of at many Rivers and Lakes then it get’s pumped into the treatment plant’s where it take’s out the Sludge, Grit, Mud And So Forth. It then drain’s all of the unwanted bad stuff and then it will pump out the bad stuff into the sewer’s.

Next the water gets treated with chemicals to make it drinkable. They would add carbon dioxide so the bubble’s would rise and take little particle’s of Sludge and Grit that wasn’t empted before. All I can say that it went though a lot just to make it clean and now I will never look at tap water the same again.