Brook Sanctuary

Brook Sanctuary Trip

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Blogging Mahana

This morning we spent some time checking out the Mahana School class blogs. We made some comments on their posts. We hope they like receiving some positive comments from Room 8!

Working on our mapping skills

This morning we are trying to locate as many mountains from around the world as possible! We had no idea that Mt Fuji was in Japan and did you know that the Rockies in America stretch for 4,830km?

Interschool hockey tournament

On Wednesday 2 Year 5 and 6 Ranzau teams went to a hockey tournament at Saxton field. We had a boys team and a girls team. The boys team was called the RANZAU SUPERMEN and the girls team was called the RANZAU PRINCESS. It was a very fun and active day! Each team had about three or four games and then depending if you won your games then your team were into the semi finals. Then if you lost a game you were out! The girls team did really well, we didn't get into the finals but we came 3rd overall. By Sofia

Sports Committee goes to the Ark

The Ranzau sports committee went to the ark to teach some preschoolers Ripper rugby skills. We were given some little people to look after and take to an activity that had been set up. The kids were very excited and it was a fantastic morning. We were teaching them to pass, kick and score a try. They all did very well. The preschoolers and the sports committee had lots of fun. We got to practice our leadership skills that we had learnt with Janice from Sport Tasman. By Bree

Hockey

On Wednesday we went to an inter-school hockey tournament at Saxton Field. The boys team were the Ranzau Supermen and the girls team was the Ranzau Princesses. We had a fantastic day with the boys winning the competition and the girls getting 3rd! The hardest team we came up against was Henley. The score was 4-3 to the Ranzau Supermen, thanks to a late goal with about 20 seconds left to go in the game! It was awesome. By Hamish

ANZAC Art

Over the last few weeks Room 8 has been working on some ANZAC art. We had to choose an image that we thought represented ANZAC day or the War. We only used pencil to create our art and the only colour came from the red poppy. Brooklyn and Sofia chose to do a war solider. They look fantastic!

People Savers - First Aid

On Friday Renee from NZ Red Cross came in to Room 8 to teach us first aid. We learnt our DRS ABC and the order to do things when someone is hurt. D-Danger, R-Response, S-Send for help, A-Airway, B-Breathing, C-Circulation. We learnt how to put a bandage on and also how to put someone into the recovery position. Renee helped us understand what the people from NZ Red Cross did. They helped the people during the Christchurch earthquake. She also taught us about Poisons and the phone number if anyone swallows or breaths in any type of Poisons 0800 POISON. By Meg Rukuwai

Hockey

Yesterday Jackie from Nelson Hockey came to take us for hockey. We played some fun games that helped us to improve our dribbling and trapping skills. On Wednesday we are going to a hockey tournament at Saxton Field. We have 2 Ranzau teams entered. A year 5/6 Girls team and a year 5/6 boys team. Hamish

Problem Solving

On Friday we had to try and make a poppy that was free standing. We had to try and make it as tall as possible. It was really hard because as it got higher, the weight of the newspaper would make it fold back! Only one group got their poppy to stand on its own.