Middle Syndicate Visit to the Aquatic Centre

Wacky Hair Day

Winter Sport with Nelson Girls College

For the last 4 weeks we have been doing winter sports with the girls from Y12 at Nelson College. They have battled wet weather and a muddy field to teach us for 5 lessons in soccer, netball, rippa, t-ball, miniball and hockey. They did a great job and everyone had a ball (especially the HSS teachers who just cruised around while someone else looked after their class!).

Once were Warriors!

On Friday we had a visit from Simon Mannering and Michael Luck from the Auckland Warriors. They were in town to promote rugby league in Nelson. Katherine said, "they were big, but not as big as Ronald MacDonald!" Simon Mannering is the captain of the warriors and used to go to Nelson College.

What a load of Rubbish!!

Ray the school caretaker talks to us about what becomes of all the rubbish at Hampden Street School. He said that we go through about 5 60litre bins of paper each week!

We went round the school and collected all the rubbish from one day and put it into 3 piles: food compost, lunch rubbish and classroom rubbish. Scarily all 3 piles looked much the same. We decided that something had to be done so we sorted it into the appropriate place! This is what it looked like when we finished. Well done R18 and R13!!

Making Papermache pencil holders

At the moment we are doing a topic on Recycling. Rather than just throwing away toilet and gladwrap rolls and paper, we decided to reuse them by making pencil holders. First we stuck the rolls together using tape and now we are papermaching them. Next step is to decorate and paint them.

By Mr F, Anna and Katherine

Measuring around HSS

For maths this week we are looking at measuring. We had to measure the roads around the outside of Hampden Street School using a measuring wheel. This is the members of Ngatiawa house measuring up and down Ngatiawa St. First time it measured 195m then next time 185m. Next we are looking to work out the perimeter of the school.

By Mr F, Anna and Alice

RM18 CROSS COUNTRY RESULTS

Year 4 Boys

2nd: Burty

3rd: Tom

5th: Josh

6th: Zach

8th: Finn

9th: JD

Year 4 Girls

1st: Alice

2nd: Amelia

6th: Katherine

7th: Anna

8th: Connie

Middle Syndicate Cross Country

Last Thursday we did the cross country at Fairfield Park. On Wednesday night I was about to fall asleep on the couch when i got startled by my sissy (she said"Burpy lets bounce on the trampoline"). Well I couldn't hear of course, I was listening on my stereo! I fell asleep and my mum carried me to my bed. The problem was that I sometimes got woken up by my neighbour's dog barking. This night though I couldn't be bothered to get out of bed to see what was going on. There was something else that I was worrying about too - the stereo! I could actually hear it. Nah, it's just the neighbours I thought. In the morning I ate breakfast, did my Kumon (it was simple - it looked like this 872579x7=). Well I got that right - it might look hard but it is very easy! I had my shower and got dressed into my spike shoes (the spikes are pretty sharp!). It was 10 to 9 and I went to school and into class.

Finally the bell rang for lunch and I hardly ate anything. When lunch was over we lined up like the other classes and we set off to Fairfield Park. I felt like this race was going to be random! First it was the year4 boys and Mr F said "go to the start line." I felt good!

On your marks...set...GO!!

I absolutely ran my guts out. The race was weird. At the start I was coming 5th until Todd tripped up. I was right behind him and i had no choice but to run right over hi back in my spikes!! In the end when the race was finished i came second.

By Burty

Ronald visits the Middle Syndicate

On Thursday the 3rd of June Ronald McDonald came to promote the My greatest feat world cup challenge. We did jump jam, and relays to get our steps up on our pedometers. So far we have done 211km as a class. Hopefully by the end of next week when the soccer world cup starts we will have done 500km! Ronald was massive and scared the life out of Sidney & Mr F!

By Sid, Luke and Mr F