Capacity

In maths this week we have learnt all about capacity.
The children had a chance to explore the materials, read the scales and even solve some rich problems.

One question we had was:

"Isao was sick. He had to have 5ml of his medicine 3 times a day. How many days would Isao be able to take his medicine for if the bottle was 100ml?"

Discuss this as a family and see if your child can help explain how they got their answer. Leave your answers in the comments below. (Keep in mind- not all children had this as their groups question so it may be the first time your child sees the question) Happy exploring. 

Rippa rugby!

There was 7 pupils from Room 8 that attended the Tremains Rippa Rugby tournament held in Flaxmere last week. What a great day! Even though we had some rain and it got a bit cold the children were amazing, the rugby was pretty exciting and everyone supported each other! 

HNPS won the trophy final and both of the other teams made it into semi's or quarter finals so some great skills were on show and everyone had fun!

We even got to meet some famous people.. check out our photos from the day.

Reading corner

This week we have had a new addition to our reading corner.

We have got a stereo!

The stereo will be used to play audio copies of the children’s ready to read books which they can listen to and follow along with.

It is portable so we can even take it outside for PE lessons or any other ideas we come up with.

Come in and see our reading area. 

Newsletter

Hi all

Here is next weeks newsletter. 

I hope you are all having some good Keeping ourselves safe conversations at home. This unit is coming to an end at the end of next week. 

Rugby training for PE is getting underway this week. We have Andy Green from the HRFU in taking us for an hour session for the next 3 weeks. 

Hurricanes open training session: This is on Wednesday 3rd June 3.30pm-5pm.. If you have a keen rugby player in the family head on down to Tremain Field at Park Island and see the Hurricanes in action before Friday nights big game against the Highlanders! 

Enjoy the long weekend, stay safe and see you all on Tuesday. 

Keeping ourselves safe

We are over halfway through our Keeping Ourselves Safe topic and we had the pleasure of having Constable Chris join us for a lesson on Confusing Touch. The children were fantastic and they came up with a variety of great ideas and discussions. We have one more unit to cover starting next week. 

Weight & Baking

We also do a lot of work in Room 8 and one of "the most fun maths lessons ever" took place on Wednesday! The children have been learning about weight, reading scales and more! So what better exercise then baking? The children were given instructions and ingredients then left to master the task of weighing all the ingredients they needed! It was great fun with flour, salt and sugar going everywhere. The toughest measurement though was how to work out a pinch of salt! 

Here are some photos of us in action. 

SPCA Collection

In keeping with the theme of our good deeds.. Room 8 also did a food collection for the Hastings SPCA. The children managed to collect 2 boxes worth of pet food and the odd $2 as well.

I wonder what their next project will be..?

Vanuatu Collection

After a long cycle of brainstorming ideas, meetings with Mr Bremer, writing letters home to parents, collecting money on Mufti day, trawling through the OfficeMax brochure and waiting for our order to arrive we have finally come to the end of our efforts to send school supplies to Vanuatu. 

The children were so amazed to see how much they brought and cant wait to see where it all ends up in Vanuatu. Watch this space.. we will hopefully soon have a photo of the exact school where our goods are going to be delivered!

Newsletter

Hi all,

Here is the newsletter for this coming week. 

We are starting Rugby for PE with a coach from the HBRU this week and we have practice for all those who have been put into teams for the Tremains Rippa Tournament. 

Constable Chris is in for Keeping Ourselves Safe on Tuesday plus we have Singing on Wednesday. 

Next weekend is a long weekend so lets enjoy this week and look forward to a three day weekend with family fast approaching. 

Hawkes Basketball Training

On Thursday, we had a 2 players from the Hawkes Basketball team come to school and take training for all of our students at HNPS that play basketball. 

This was the first training of 5. 

Here are a couple of pictures of some of the children in our class participating.