We have a variety of sports at Bradford School and some of us play netball on a Tuesday at the Edgar Centre. We have two teams - the Magic and the Mystics.

Some of the games we win, and some we lose but we always have heaps of fun.


Sometimes the games are quite rough and Jacob usually manages to fall over at some stage.

Most of the time Brin and Jacob are the shoots and Natasha and Deanna are the defense.






We have a lot of good players in our team who work together to help us win.

Our centre Tayla, is in the Otago Year 6 team.




At the end of each game we always shake the other teams hand and give them three cheers.


by Natasha and Caitlin

New Road Patrol Jackets.

The Road Patrol kids have got awesome new jackets because the small vests don't keep the rain off us.
Do you think we look snazzy in them?


Krystal's Dad bought them for us.
Don't you wish you had our job?


David and Aiden

Mr Graham's Awesome Concert

On Friday 4th July, Mr Graham brought some of his friends along to play us a concert. Guess who came? Ms Dillon brought her sleeping son, Max. Isn't he so cute!





Graham and his friends played some awesome songs. He played with a friend called Bevan and a friend called Mitchell.

Mitchell actually went to Bradford School when he was younger. Mostly all the mums, dads and teachers showed up to watch.

It looks as if everyone is enjoying themselves.

We all had a good last day of the term and we hope it happens again.

by Nicole and Freya

Reading and Writing Awards.

On the 2nd of July Trev, Crystal and Henny Penny came to present some reading and writing awards.

When they first came Henny Penny discovered the bongo drums and made the bongo drums her new favourite sport. Trev and Crystal said that if Henny Penny was naughty we had to say 3 letters which were "KFC".













The first award went to Tane but he was sick so Jack D took his book on his behalf.













Next Courtney got a book from Trev and Crystal.

The third award went to Zayleah who got a big chapter book to read.

The last award went to the Bradford school library about teeth and Storm took it on behalf of the school.













After the awards all of Bradford school sung "Singing In The Shower" and Trev recorded us.

Next we got to ask questions to Trev, Crystal and Henny Penny. Most questions were like why doesn't Henny Penny doesn't like "KFC".

When everyone left Courtney, Zayleah, Jack D and Storm got to talk on the radio.

By Shaniia & Karina

SPACE

In room 5 we have been learning about space.
First off we thought about what we wanted to know.
Some of the wonderings were mysteries and some still are.
Then we had a test about night, day and the seasons.
After that we did some rocket writing with Mrs Baines,
(rocket writing is when you write down as much as you know about
something in five minutes.)
Then we had to publish it on a rocket.

Later on in the inquiry unit we had to buddy up with someone
and choose a planet/star to research.
We also had a black piece of paper and little cards that had the name of things that are involved with space that we
had to stick onto the black paper.
We also had a lot of fun watching videos on
night and day and also space.
After all that we had the same test that we had at the start of the unit.
The results were much better than the first time.

By Brin and Cameron

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.