TOP KIDS

I have decided this week to write the blog myself, on behalf of a small group of children who made me so very proud on Tuesday night.

Tuesday is the day that we play netball at the Edgar Centre against a variety of other schools around the Dunedin area. When we played this week, we had only 5 players for the first quarter and 6 for the remainder of the game.

The children who played just left me speechless – they gave it their all and being one player down for the majority of the game meant that they really had to put in their best effort.

Despite an extremely competitive opposition, we came away losing 11 – 14. An amazing effort from some very weary souls.

Thank you to:

GK - Briarna who managed to make so many intercepts as the opposition tried to get the ball into the goal circle

GD - Abbie – one of the youngest players in the team, Abbie was able to free herself from her very tall opponent to receive the ball

C - Natasha who constantly ran from one end of the court to the other and also help cover the opposition's 'free' player

WA - Samara as always, a lovely mover around the court, able to anticipate where play is going and gets herself there to receive the ball

GA - Jacob – a talented player who was literally everywhere, intercepting passes and shooting some much needed goals

GS - Storm who played a great game and was able to help feed the ball into the circle and even have the confidence to take a shot or two

Who has the courage? Who has the skill?

Who has the strategy, the form, the will?

Who will play fair with discipline and speed?

Who has the strength of real team work?

We have the courage, we have the skill

We have the strategy, the form, the will.

We will play fair with discipline and speed.

We have the strength of real team work.

We’re Bradford. We’re the best. We pull together as one.

We got – team spirit. WATCH OUT!

Here we come. –

Invincible, strong, together as one

We rise! We rise!

Ko matou te tima. E tu kaha! Awhina mai. E tu, tu kaha!

Kia rite, kia rite, rere mai!

Kia oho, kia ma taara.

Timata! Hi!

Hold your heads high guys, because you are what our song stands for.

Our Thoughts of Term 2

Term 2 was the best. We were very busy with so many visitors. We had Sleeping Beauty, Kat Anna Fiddle, and also Stars on Stage. We also had the ten sec club where we have to say our times tables in 10 seconds.  But the best part was Mrs Tobin coming back. We also visited KVC and had a fun afternoon doing science experiments, baking, making wind twirlers and doing PE.  

Cody Smith

In term 2 we were learning about entertainment. It was cool because we had lots of perfomers and plays come.  My favourite was Once Upon a Pie.  That was cool because it was about a baker and his daughter who had been taken by a witch and he has to find 4 things to get his daughter back from the witch. But thats not all; we did lots more stuff like Stars on Stage, and swimming and lots more.

Tama Masina

I liked Term 2 because we got to do Stars on Stage and two plays came to our school.  One was 'Kat Anna Fiddle' and the other was 'Once Upon a Pie'.  The top field had been getting a bit wet so some trucks and diggers have been up there putting in a drainage system.

David Pask

Term 2 was really fun.  Some of the things we did were start up our scramble club in Room 5.  We also performed in Stars on Stage a few weeks ago.  I thought it was extraordinary.  Another thing that we did in Term 2 was that Mr Hamilton picked some people to be PALs (physical activity leaders) who were Sydney, Jacob, Shaniia and me.  We even started up our own word worm - if we find a word we don't understand and we think it would be a good word to use in our writing, then we get to put it on the word worm.

Samara Mackie

Our pick-a-path stories were really cool after they were published on powerpoint.  We showed some of them in assembly.  I helped by teaching the others to hyperlink which makes the powerpoint go to another slide.

Aaron Rumpler

In Term 2 Briarna, Brenna and I moved up into Room 5. It's wonderful here and Mrs Tobin is a great teacher.  The council is very good and is going to hold a disco.  I think Term 2 is the best term of my life.  I don't ever want to leave Room 5 because 1) Mrs Tobin and 2) everyone is so nice.

Natasha Humphrey

This term has been a very exciting term. We have had Stars on Stage and lots of performers came.  First we had Kim - he's a man who travels around schools with plays.  This time he came with the play Sleeping Beauty.  The next performer was Kat Ann Fiddle and she told us stories.  Kat told the story and Anna played the fiddle and sang.

Sydney Mowat

In Term 2 we have had two plays come and help us with our inquiry topic - Let Me Entertain You.  One play was called Once Upon a Pie and the other was called Kat Anna Fiddle.  Also, at the start of the term, Gill picked some new librarians.  They had to fill out an application form.  When Gill picked some people they had to get trained on how to use the computer.  Our library is really cool because on the side of it we have a big bright painting of our native birds.  Inside our library there are lots of books for us to read.

Mikayla Te Whaiti

Have a wonderful, safe holiday kids and I'll see you all back at school on 20th July.  Mrs T

Stars on Stage

Stars on Stage is finally here.

Rooms 4, 5, & 6 are so excited and some of us are very nervous.

Today we had a rehearsal at the Regent Theatre.  We all went down there on the bus and we only had 30 minutes to practice our dance on the stage.  There were lights shining in our eyes and we could hardly see the seats.

We have four different groups - Earth, Air, Fire and Water.  We all have been practicing hard and poor Miss Twitchin has had nightmares about things going wrong.

Water wear skirts and a blue top; Fire wear a mask and have red a

nd orange bits hanging off their arms; Air girls 

have a white dress and the boys have a cape; and Earth wore wraps with leaves.

The story is about the elements and how the usually get on together, but sometimes they fight.

We can't wait until tonight when the show is really on.

Sydney & Natasha

Bradford's Got Talent

As part of our unit on Celebrations, we held a Bradford's Got Talent afternoon.  Everyone was allowed to try out for the show but the classes were only allowed to choose three acts to show to the whole school.

We had heaps of people 'try out' in our class and Miss Robertson & Mrs Tobin said it was a really hard decision to pick the best three.

On the day, we all went to Room 1 and the children from Mrs O'Donnell's class went first.

They had a group of children sing a song from the Jolly Phonics programme and these three boys had some great moves to a song.

The other classes all had their turn - some girls from Room 4 did a hula hoop dance; Room 6 had some boys who played a series of sounds on the electric keyboard; and ... then it was our turn.  

We had magic tricks, singing and a balancing act.  Fabian can do hand-stands for a very long time.  He walks around on his hands to help himself balance.  Mrs Tobin told him to tuck his shirt in before he started but, as you can see, he didn't.  Fabian was amazing; he must practice a lot to be able to stand on his hands for so long.

Breana has a lovely voice and we were lucky to hear it as she nearly got stage fright.  Mr

 Hamilton played the guitar while she sang.  It was the first time she has sung in front of people, we hope that she is brave enough to do it again one day.

It was a fun afternoon and it was cool to see what talented kids we have at Bradford.

Our New Playground

Our playground has finally made some progress but none of the fun parts have gone up yet.  We hope it can be finished by the end of the year so we can all play on it.

Our PTA has been very busy raising money to get the playground finished.

We have had some new pipes installed to help drain the water away.  There were some men who came with a truck and a digger and they dug a long stretched hole.  They put a big pipe in first and filled it with gravel and then covered it back up again.

We're not allowed around the playground area at the moment but when it is finished the whole school will be up there.

By Jayden Kirby

Pals

Because we are an Active School, we like to keep busy in the playtimes and lunchtimes. We have a great sports shed and we are allowed to take gear out and play with it - as long as we put it back. Some days, some of the senior children run games and stuff like that for the rest of us.

The PALs (Physical Activity Leaders) were having a great time on Friday doing Jump Jam in Room One. The pals are Jacob, Samara, Sydney and Shaniia. They did a great job entertaining people. Everyone had smiles on their faces. There were lots of students in there dancing and having fun. Some children even gave the pals hugs. Hope you enjoy these photos








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Kat Anna Fiddle

On Wednesday Kat and Anna came to our school to perform for us. Firstly they performed a chant and introduction. Secondly Anna played an instrument called a mandolin. She had with her blue dog puppet that was attached to her instrument with strings. Thirdly Kat told us a story about seven fish. The story was from NZ and about Matariki. In the end the fish turned into stars. After that Kat told us another story about stone soup. When a lady had no money and she found a rich man's house. She tricked him into giving her food. Afterwards Kat told us another story about a family of Riley's. Bridget Riley caught a leprechaun with a pot of gold and she wanted it! Jordan and Natasha H helped with that story. Kat performed another story about a mosquito and sand fly, that wanted to rule the earth. Lastly Stacie thanked them for coming. My favourite part was the Stone Soup story, it was cool. Recount by Zayleah.