Thursday, September 27, 2012

BP Technology Challenge

On Tuesday 4 senior children (Max, Hamish, Abbey and Kendall) went to the BP Technology challenge at the Waimea College Hall.  It was heaps of fun!  We had 3 challenges to do.  2 of them we already knew about so we had time to plan them out at school.  The 3rd one was a mystery challenge.  We had to make a fishing rod out of newspaper and we had to catch as many fish as we could in 1 minute.  Hamish did a great job of collecting 390 points worth of fish (each fish was worth a different amount)
We came third in the mystery challenge and we got a certificate and we could choose a prize.  Hamish and Max each got a frisbee and Abbey and I got a drink bottle.

By Kendall

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Letters reaching their destination!

Our Blog Buddies received our letters! And it only took about 5 days!

Click here to see what they had to say


Friday, September 21, 2012

Comparisons with our Blog Buddies

This is what our Buddies sent us back today.  Room 8 will create a venn diagram next week to compare the differences and see what we have in common.


Star of the Week - Savannah


Virtual High Five!

This is to say thanks to Mr Neal and the Mahana students who came to teach us about the game Ki o Rahi yesterday. It was awesome and we hope we can get a kit soon so we can start playing it at Ranzau!

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Miniball Final

On Friday the Ranzau Giants played in the miniball final against Nayland Blue Saints. We beat them 32-20.  Player of the year was Ollie and Player of the day was Max.  The Ranzau Giants were unbeaten this season!  Thanks to Nigel for coaching us this season and to Delcan and Ben from the Nelson Giants who helped out too.


(Photo courtesy of Leah)

Star of the Week - Hamish


Global Children's Challenge

Today we started the Global Children's challenge.  We have all been given pedometers to count how many steps we do each day and to challenge us to do more.  It is to get more children moving!  At Ranzau we are really active so this will be easy for us to get our steps in each day!  We have a stepper of the day each day so we will let you know who our champ is each day!


Friday, September 14, 2012

Winter Sports



Feedback from Dave for Joshua and Daniel:

Fabulous Friday Fitness

What an awesome start to the day!  The sun is shining and it is going to be a great day!





Fair Go - Sneak Peak

This photo was taken yesterday while we were filming our final scene for our Fair Go entry!  It's pretty exciting and our entry is looking great!


Tuesday, September 11, 2012

Well Done Kendall!

Last night Kendall performed her speech 'A Special Place' at the Waimea Inter-school speech contest.  She did an amazing job and she got 3rd!  Well done Kendall!  You represented Ranzau School with pride.  You shine!


Friday, September 07, 2012

Hello Barnaby Class!

We really enjoyed receiving your comments on our blog when we got to school this morning.  We would have been fast asleep when you were posting them!  Now you will be fast asleep while we are posting this!
Some of you commented on our Star of the Week awards.  Our certificates for star of the week look like this:



To celebrate our star of the week we make a poster that shows what is special about that person.

Can you show us what your star of the week certificates look like?

This morning we wanted to find out why your school was called Charles Dickens Primary?  We knew Charles Dickens was a writer and now we know that he use to live Lant Street and that your school runs along Lant Street.

We also compared your school street view to our school street view on Google Maps!

Outside Charles Dickens School


Outside Ranzau School



We are all really excited to get to know you all and to learn more about blogging with you.  We will have to have a Skype Date too :)

Star of the Week - Meg


Thursday, September 06, 2012

Persuasive writing.

This morning we watched a short clip about a hover bike. We had to create a persuasive advertisement to persuade people to buy a hover bike! Our advertisement has to include:
Powerful adjectives
A question
A snappy slogan
The benefits of having a hover bike.

Star of the Week - Ben


Monday, September 03, 2012

Vote for Ranzau

http://www.letscookwithparmco.co.nz/class-of-2012/Ranzau

Please click the link so you can vote for Ranzau School to win the Parmco Let's Cook challenge.

New Project - Medium from Megan Adamson on Vimeo.

Netball Closing Day

On Saturday it was the last weekend of Netball for our 2 Ranzau teams.  They have had an awesome season and they have represented Ranzau with Pride each week.  Thank you to all the parents, siblings, grandparents and friends who have come along each week to support the girls.  How awesome were Tim and Craig with their sideline support on the weekend?! I think we need to get these Dad's helping out with our Production next term! Go Ranzau



large from Megan Adamson on Vimeo.