St Vincent de Paul

Today Olivia from St Vincent de Paul came into NBC. We learnt about how St Vincent de Paul is charity that focuses on feeding the poor and hungry, it helps people within the community. Since its beginning in 1880s in France, it has expanded to include helping the elderly, paying for petrol and bills and feeding people all around the world (they fed 550 people from Christchurch in January alone). We also learnt that the charity was set up by a student who believed his church was not doing enough to help those in the community.

Olivia came in to tell the students all about the St Vincent de Paul Lenten appeal to collect cans to give to those in need. The class learned about the importance of giving during lent (helps us to become more like Jesus), we practiced this in class, first by doing a compliment circle, then by making a mouse with a string tail. Each time a student gives to others (compliments, donating food, helping others) they can tie a knot in the string to keep track of their Lenten challenge.

The classes first challenge was to give a sweet to another person to practice giving to others during Lent. If you would like to know more about St Vincent de Paul you can visit their site https://www.svdpchch.co.nz/.

If you would like to know more about Lent and why it is a special time for the church, ask your children all about it and their Caritas learning.

Duffy Theatre

On Thursday 14th March Duffy Theatre came to NBC. This year the play was all about how it is important to work together to solve problems. Duffy had gone to stay with his cousin, who was playing video games, when he was sucked into the game. Duffy and his cousin then had to work together to solve the problems with their knowledge of words and coding to get out of the game. They ran into trouble with the dismantler (destroyed all the bricks) and the puzzler (rearranged the words they created to get new clues).

The students enjoyed the performance and asked some great questions such as what books the actors enjoyed reading and how long it took to practice the show? The boys in Room 4 were great at giving Duffy advice about how he should solve problems in the game and loved how the story focused on gaming. It was great to see that the solutions involved students reading and writing about how to solve the problems.

 

 

 

 

Life Education Lesson 1

On Friday we ventured to Harold's Classroom. We learnt all about everything your body needs to be healthy. We found out that we need exercise, food, water, sleep, shelter, safety, oxygen, washing and love. Matias was lucky enough to have his body scanned so we could look at his digestive system, we learnt he had sandwiches for lunch. We also found out about what foods we should eat and how often we should eat different kinds of food (a lot, sometimes and a little), these were put into a food pyramid.

Room 4 looks forward to learning more on Monday about how to keep ourselves healthy.

         

The Junior School's Camping Day Trip

On Tuesday 26 of Feb everybody in the junior school was excited the... Junior school's camping day trip! My class (Room 4) are the oldest in the Junior school so we were the leaders of our group. My class got into groups (e.g. marshmallow, sleeping bags, insects), then we made name tags with out group names on them. After that Room 8 showed up and we made scroggin. Then we met the rest of our groups and we set off. There were a bunch of activities that each group had to do, my group started at the sensory garden. There we found a few things for our nature art bag and I was in charge of my group's bag. Then lot's of groups went to a big green field where they made a human pyramid and did cloud gazing (even though there weren't many clouds to gaze at.) Then we went to the playground to have something to eat and to play. next we did some more walking until we came to the green swamp, yuck! Then we went to a place with logs that you could walk across, after that we went to stump alley. Next we went for a little hike through the bush, when we came to a clearing with the tents and games. There was fishing (not real), P.E. games with Mitch, reading and sleeping activities and a game where you guide someone around trees. Everyone enjoyed it and it was awesome!

Nā Scarlett Hollis

                                                                                        

Inquiry Taha Tinana - Move it Mama

On Monday 25th February, Lisa Fong came into school to teach Rooms 1 and 4 all about the importance of exercise. We learned about how exercise releases endorphins that make you happy and how it helps us to look after our bodies. We started with a warm up bean challenge, where we did a Mexican bean, jumping bean, flat bean and baked bean. My favourite one was the Mexican bean, this is when you say ooo la la. Then we started the workout, we had to do lunges, burpees, mountain climbers and squats, it was hard work.



This is how you do a burpee; you jump up and then lie flat on the ground and then jump up again. To do mountain climbers you need to be in a plank position on your hands and bring your knees to your chest like you are running. For lunges you need to lean on one of your legs and you switch them around. To do squats you need to put you hands together and sit down like you are in an invisible chair. It was really tiring to do the work out.



Nā Fletcher Franklin