Jump Rope Afternoon

On Wednesday the 11th of June the children of Bradford School participated in a Jump Rope Afternoon. This was part of a fundraiser for the Heart Foundation. We had some year 5 and 6 children who were leaders. There were 10 different stations that had different skips such as long rope, partner skips, show off, roll a dice, and a station that had chalk to draw yourself skipping and write what you liked about a skip.


It went from 1:35 till 2:50.


Here is a group that is doing show off. In show off you could make up a routine then show it to your group.
The 5 year olds got to choose a skip that was easy for them and the leaders helped them.
The older kids were allowed to choose a skip they know or learn a different skip that they don't know. We have been learning lots of skips at P.E. with Mrs Brown.Some kids have raised 15 dollars so they will get an electric skipping rope and a flyer and if you raise 5 dollars you get a flyer.



We moved all around the activities but we missed 1 activity.
To move around a station everyone had to wait for one of the teachers to ring the bell. Each person had to stay with their leaders. There were 2 leaders at each group.





By Sydney and Deanna.

Activ8

Hello everyone. We haven't blogged for a long time but hopefully Mrs Tobin has us up and running again. We have two teachers in our class now - Mrs Tobin is acting principal so she spends half her time in the office, so Mrs Baines is teaching us too. She is doing some cool stuff with us about space and hopefully we can do a blog about that.


Last term some of the Year 6's went to a thing called Activ8. There were 8 of us (of course), four boys and four girls. It was held at Kaikorai Valley College.

The first activity we had to do was like an egg and spoon race. We had to go over and round lots of obstacles as quickly as we could without dropping the 'egg' off the spoon. We weren't very fast but we didn't drop the egg very often.


Our next challenge was an obstacle course right round the Kaikorai Valley field. Boy, was it hard! We had to swing along bars, climb walls, slide down poles and work as a team to shift heavy sacks. Here Deanna is coming very carefully down the wooden wall.



This was fun! We all had to get in a hoop of cloth and walk along like a big tyre. We were one of the quickest team at this because we used great team-work.







Do you like our food pyramid? We had to make it with the packages of lots of different food.






Steady on team. This is tricker than it looks. We can't remember the name of it but we had to all lower a rod to the ground by using only the tips of our fingers. There was a washer on the end of the rod and if that fell off then we had to start again.




What a tangle we have gotten ourselves into. It took quite a bit of twisting and turning to get untangled.



This is called the 'spider's web'. We had to get all our team from one side of the 'web' to the other without touching the ropes, because they were poisonous. To make it even harder, once one person has gone through a hole, no-one else can go through the same hole. Here we are lifting Camble through his hole.

The day was really fun and we learned a lot about team work.

Season Dioramas

Room 5 and 6 got together to make some dioramas representing the four seasons.   First we were put into groups of 3 - 4.  The Year 6's were the leaders and had to make sure everyone was participating. We had to plan what we were going to do.  Then we were given some cardboard, scissors, tape, crayons, paper and, of course, a box to make it in.

  We tried to design our dioramas as 3D models but some groups found that quite hard.

When we were finished creating the dioramas we showed them to the classes and told them about what each feature represented.

posted by Karina, Khali & Aiden

Visiting Musician

We all had a real treat this week.  Bob Bickerton came to visit us and he brought along heaps of really interesting musical instruments.  We all went over to Room 1 to listen to him tell stories and entertain us with his music.

He had some bagpipes which sounded really screechy when he first started to play them.

 He had to fill a bag up with air, stick it under his arm and squeeze the air out.  As he did this, the air passed through the mouth piece which is where the sound was made.  He had a flute-like thing which changed the notes.

He also played a harp which sounded very beautiful.  It was so big that it sat on the ground and Bob sat in a chair and plucked the strings.

He had all sorts of other musical instruments like drums, a violin and different types of flutes.

After he had shown us the instruments and we heard them being played, Bob played a piece of music and we had to pretend that we were playing the instrument that we could hear.  It was really cool.

We enjoyed being entertained by Bob and hope he can come back again next year.

Cinderella

This week we had a visit from a story teller called Kim.  He came to show us a play called Cinderella.  He told us that this play has lots of dances and music, but there were no dancers or actors which surprised me because he wouldn't be able to do the play all by himself.  When Kim called up the first group of children, I then realised that all the classes were helping with the play.

Room 2 and 3 were birds and they had to clean the cobwebs from 

the walls and ceiling and eat the spiders up.

 Their part was funny when they were running around the room pretending to eat spiders.

Room 4 had to play the part where Cinderella was heading to the ball.  The fairy godmother danced around the room and then gracefully introduced Cinderella to the audience.

The children from Rooms 5 & 6 had to play the part where everyone was dancing at the ball.  I found the steps tricky because I had to do funny things with my feet but I managed in the end.  The clock was struck, Cinderella ran out and everyone danced to 'Dancing Queen.'

(Thank you to Deanna for this post)

Miniball

Our miniball players were treated to a special session with Brent Charleton and Lamar Gayle from the Otago Nuggets.

These two very tall men came to school to teach us some miniball skills.  We had lots of fun dribbling the ball up and down the court, trying to steal the ball of other players and passing the ball to each other.

Look at this great action shot!  He may play for the Nuggets one day.

Doctor Margaret Visits

Last week we had a visit from Dr Margaret. She was talking to the children in Rooms 5 and 6 about the organs in our body.

She brought along some plastic organs and we were able to hold hearts, lungs, a stomach, a liver and a small intestine.

She also brought her friend - the skeleton! He had a few bones missing but we thought he was awesome.



Dr Margaret explained how we can take care of our insides - wear protective clothing when we're riding bikes, exercise and not get too fat, eat lots of fruits and vegetables, drink lots of water and not to eat too many salty foods.

Dr Margaret is teaching Jasmine how to check her reflexes and now David is having a go. Don't sit too close or you might get kicked in the face!

Dr Margaret let us use a stethoscope to hear our heart beat. We worked with a buddy and we checked our buddy's heart rate. Our heart goes lub-dub, lub-dub. Our ear canals face forwards so we had to put the ear plugs in a special way or we wouldn't hear our heart so well.

We were able to check our pulse with a little clip thing that went on to our finger. A digital read-out told us what our pulse was. Some of us went for a run and checked our pulse again - it was way faster!




Nicole and Khali have found a new friend.


Here are Sydney and Brin checking their pulse. Brin's pulse at rest was 82 and after he had run around it was 106.

Thank you Dr Margaret for coming to visit us and thank you for answering all our questions.