HSS future All Whites

On Friday HSS sent 5 teams to compete in the Hira six-a-side tournament at Saxtons Field. It was a fantastic day with plenty of wins (and a few losses) spread amongst the teams. The kids from R18 all played in the competitive grade which was a real challenge! Thanks to those parents who helped with looking after teams and transporting us to the event.

Congratulations Room 18!

Last week we recieved our prize for getting in the top 5 for the Fair Go awards. We got a cool certificate and a wicked teeny-weeny video camera! Now all we need to do is figure out how to work it!!

LAND AHOY!!!

On Tuesday 2nd of November we went to the museum to see the 'Land Ahoy' exhibit. I will tell you all about it. I thought it was quite cool but you might not! It started off like this, first we dressed up in old fashioned clothes. I wore a little fluffy hat, some frilly edge pants and a dress-like top that had frilly edges on the short sleeves. Then we got told about how 200 people got on a boat in England (London) to NZ to build a colony there. They had to put everything they needed in a trunk abou the size of my desk. The captain had these things; a map, a telescope and a compass. It took them 5 months to get there! The poor families had to go in one bed all together - imagine that! The only people who got to sleep by themselves were the rich people. Because they paid for it they got a bed to themselves, a small bookcase and some playing cards.

Guess what? We saw spew/vomit! It was disgusting!! Mr F took a picture of Ella, Katherines and I pretending to spew in to it. We also got to look through a real telescope from that actual boat. After that we tied reef knots with Mr F. Guess what foods they had to eat (not the rich people), rice, flour, porpoise heart (a dolphins heart) and they drank beer and wine. The poor people ate with rusty browny types of cuttlery while the rich people got to eat with china and crystal.

They took pine cones with them to grow pine trees and to make fires. They took apples to grow trees. We found out that the English are responsible for bringing stoats to NZ. It was really fun at the museum - I liked it!!

By Flora

FAIR GO AD AWARDS TOP 5!!

For the last half of this term the children of R18 have been working with IT expert Craig Martin to put together an ad for this years Fair Go awards. We had great fun, learnt heaps and in the end were a finalist. This meant our ad was played on TV (check it out in TVNZondemand) and we won a video pack for the syndicate! Thanks to Mr Martin for his efforts. Well done guys...look out Peter Jackson!!

All Aboard the Yellow Submarine Parade

Last Friday was the Nelson Masked Parade. On a beautiful spring evening the children of HSS decked themselves out in their production masks and costume and hit the street to celebrate. As always, a massive crowd was watching as 1000s of people sang, danced and marched through Nelson. Well done HSS and well done Nelson!!!

Spring Holidays

Another 2 week holiday has come and gone! What exciting things did you get up to in your time off? Who did you see? Write a comment for others to read telling us about what you got up to.

Yellow Submarine - what did you think?

The Yellow Submarine production has played to 3 sell out crowds. A massive amount of time and effort has gone into making it the success that it is...but what did you think?
Parents, how did you find the show? What went well?

Kids, how did you enjoy the build up/practices before the performances and how did you find the experience on the night?

Comment back and tell us your thoughts!