End of Year Swim and Picnic

A beautiful day today for our end of year swim and picnic down at Grasslees Reserve
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A Santa Poem

Look at the wonderful poem Ruby composed:-

Its Christmas morning and I’m rushing down the stairs

I go into the living room and see Santa there!

He isn’t putting down presents and he isn’t eating cake.

He’s stuck in the chimney – oh for goodness sake!

I quickly try to help him but it is of no use.

I really want and really need to get him loose

So I go up to the chimney top and slip and slide on down

Then jump and jump and jump again  - I tumble down!

“Ho ho ho! I’m free!”  Santa shouts with a little cough

 “Ho ho ho! And a Merry Christmas” and then he’s off!

By Ruby (Year 2)

Attendance 2015

Today Ashton was honoured with having 100% attendance this year! Murray and Zara were very close behind with 99%.


Way to go guys!

Candy Cane Science!

A bit of a Christmas theme was running throughout Discovery today. The science focus was looking at Candy Canes and how they dissolve. We had them in white vinegar (and added baking soda), cold water, and hot water. We wondered which one dissolved the quickest?

Solar Ovens

Part of being a schoolgen school means that we look into solar power. This week we have been investigating the best way to make a solar oven out of a pizza box. Groups devised plans, worked together building them, cooking marshmellows and chocolate, and of course eating the evidence!

Advent calendars with a difference!

We've made "Acts of Kindness" Advent Calendars. Lovely ways to practise being manaakitanga!

Children's Concert at Wellington Botanic Gardens

Some of us were involved with our friends from other classes to put on an item at the Wellington Botanic Gardens Children's Concert today. This is a fund-raising concert for the "Children's Garden" that is being developed at the gardens.

What a stunning Wellington day for it!


Childrens Concert Bot Gardens 2015 from Mrs B on Vimeo.

School Disco 2015!

What a great night out -Everyone looked fantastic! We could have danced the night away....

Conservation Week

It's Conservation Week. A great reason to have a "Green Day' - activities with an environmental theme.
We did paper making in Room 4

Chromatography for Kids

 Felt pens are often mixes of several coloured dyes.


 We separated these combinations of colours through a process called chromatography.

 This is what we did:- We had filter paper strips stuck to a kebab stick, plastic cups, water , and our felt pens (which are water soluble)
We put a couple of different coloured dots near the bottom of our strips of filter paper and placed them in the cups.

We put some water in the bottom of the cups – but only enough to touch the bottom of the filter paper.

We observed the colours moving up the filter and how the colours split up.

 What's Happening? When the liquid creeps up the coffee filter, it dissolves the colouring molecules and splits it into different coloured chemicals. Different colours get carried along faster and farther than others because some colour molecules are bigger and heavier than others. http://www.education.com/activity/article/Color_Science_kindergarten/