On Monday the 11Th of May Cody, Riley, Shaniia, Abby, Luka, Jonathan, Jeannie, and Sydney went to an Illustrators Workshop, at the Dunedin Public Library. Where David Elliot talked about his books and illustrations. He read us Pigtails the Pirate and the Pokindales. The Pokindales is about some sheep that live in Pokinville. One spoilt lamb comes along and said she was going to the pet parade. Middle lamb decides she wants to go, so her mother makes a dress out of an old sack. Then she gets teased because of her dress. After that she saves a little goat so the bull gives her the Biggest Bull Award. It was a great book. At the end we all got a bag with a pencil, a balloon, a bag of chips, 3 free DVD rentals and a lollipop. We all had a great morning!!!


This picture took David 3 days to draw the basic outline.

SLEEPING BEAUTY

On Tuesday 5 May, Kim Whitta came and shared a play called Sleeping Beauty. First Room 3 came up and did their part in the play. They gave Princess Aurora her christening gifts. First came the gift of speech. Second came the gift of grace. Third came the gift of love. Fourthly came the gift of beauty. Lastly came the gift of good luck. After that Carabosk came and set the curse on Aurora, so that when she turns sixteen she will prick her finger on a spindle, then die. But then the good fairy came and set a different spell, that when she pricks her finger, she will fall asleep for 100 years. Next we jumped 16 years to Aurora's 16th birthday. After that the Room 4 girls came and gave Aurora a gift. It was a swan music box. Finally Room5 came up and did their song which was about Aurora's coach. The music was Grease Lightning. It was my favourite part of the whole play. Next Room 6 and Room 4 boys came up and did their part. It was about the entertainment at Aurora's 16 birthday. The entertainment was bare knuckle fist fights. After that Carabosk dressed as a beggar and knocked on the door. He gave Aurora a spindle. She played around with the spindle. Then she pricked her finger and then fell asleep. After that Room 5 boys and Room 6 girls chopped and kicked through all the vines and over grown bush to get to Sleeping Beauty. Lastly Prince Jacob kissed sleeping beauty/Mya. Prince Jacob helped Mya up and they got married.

THEY LIVED HAPPILY EVER AFTER!!!

Recount by Cody

In the last few weeks of Term 1 we went to Moana Pool. On the first day Room 6 went over to the wave pool. Room 5 were split into different groups to see what level we were on. At the end we played a game of penguins. If the swimming instructor called out 'penguins,' we jumped in and swam to the lane rope, touched it and swam back. The last person standing up was out and sat down. If the instructor said 'penguins' and you didn't jump in, you were out. If the instructor said anything other than 'penguins' and you jumped in, you were also out. Then we got to go and play in the wave pool while Room 6 had their lessons. For the rest of the sessions we had normal lessons. Aaron's favourite part of the lesson was backstroke. It was fun. I can't believe it is over .

Mural

Over the past few weeks rooms 5 & 6 have been talking about ideas on a maori design mural.

We have been working on the mural.
Mr Cox has been taking small groups from each class to do a wee bit at a time.
First Mr Cox drew a design of the Maori gods and its surroundings on to a bit of A4 paper.
We then traced it on to a clear sheet of paper.
Then it got moved onto a big piece of
paper using projector.
The next step was to paint the gods. Tumatauenga,
Rongo, Humia-tiketike, Tane mahuta,
Tawhirimatea, Papatuinuku and
Ranginui.
After painting, we had to outline where the characters, trees, clouds, stars and hills would be on the mural. Then we got some cardboard and drew the characters on it. We then had to paint and outline the bits of cardboard.
After painting and outling we stuck it on the mural to making the characters look pop-out. During all of the painting, drawing, and outlining, other people have been cutting koros and tracing around them on strips of cardboard. Then we painted around the koro tracings and stuck koros inside the tracings. These strips are going to be the border around the mural.

Today some kids helped Mr Cox put the mural up in the foyer. It looks AWESOME!!! Here are some more photos!!!
Elle & Shaniia

Balamac cross country

On Tuesday 10th of March Bradford's year 5's and 6's went to the cross country at Balamacewen  Intermediate. 

The year five girls ran first. It was a little bit drizzly but alright. Samara Mackie came eighth out of the year five girls and got a certificate. Jason-Mark and Aaron came round about in

 the twentys of the year five boys. 

The year six girls were running in a tiny bit of sunshine but when it got to the year six boys it was nothing but rain,rain and more rain.

When we finished the bus wasn't there because we finished a bit early. 

When we got back to school we had a milo and finished watching Suzy's World for our inquiry about insects. Once we warmed up a bit we went back to class and finished our inquiry. 

Then we went home.

 

Jacob & Tama

Whew! That was a long way

On Friday 6th March, the whole school went on a bus to the top of Brockville where the Fraser's Gully track starts.  We all had to make sure we had good walking shoes, warm clothes and something to drink.

Mrs O'Donnell led the way.  It was fun walking through the bush.  We met some people who were walking their dogs.

It was downhill all the way so it didn't take us long to get to the bottom of the track.

Mr Graham and some parents had a BBQ on the soccer field and they cooked us sausages for lunch.

We got to play some games like, relays, sack races, frisbee throwing, tunnel ball and rob the nest.  It was fun.

Then we had to walk all the way back to school.  This time Miss Robertson and the senior class led the way.  Boy!  Were we tired when we got back, but we had a nice surprise - Mrs Tobin was giving out ice-blocks  and they were really yummy because it was sooooo hot.

It was fun.  I hope we do it again next year.

By Sydney and Falefia

Walk 'n Wheel Week

This week is Walk 'n Wheel week and Bradford kids have been walking to school every day.  We got given a progress card that our parents had to sign to see if we walked or not.  

Luckily the weather has improved and it is not rainy in the mornings, or not so many would be walking.  If we walk every day and get our card signed then we go in the draw for some prizes.  Some people walk from the bottom of Bradford Street and some walk from the round-about.

Mrs Tobin came down the street to take photos of the people who were walking and she said it was lovely to see so many families walking.  

WOW means walk on Wednesday.  All the classes see if they have the most

walkers on Wednesday.  Room 3 is the toughest to beat, so come on Room 5, let's start walking!  The class who has the most walking to school gets a certificate at the end of the term.

Tomorrow we will be walking from the top of Brockville, down through Fraser's Gully and back to school.  We hope we have lots of parents walking with us.  It should be fun, but a long way too.  We are having a BBQ lunch at the bottom of the track.  We will have another Blog about that soon.

From Jordan and Samara

 

The Hill family - Mum, Dad, Ryan, Callum, Grandma & Grandad and a cousin.  Great family effort.

Tagging along with Regan, Briarna and Jesse are Craig and family dog.

And this person was moving so fast, she was out of the shot before it was taken.  I wonder who it is?