Holidays?

Holidays?  Not for some parents as they were dragged out early for the keen duathletes on (daylight saving) Sunday morning. It was a smaller than usual field who tackled the 1k run/2k bike/1k run course but the regular top athletes were all there.

It was Room 6 children once again filling the top spots in the boys section, with Wesley 2nd, Will 3rd, Noah 4th, George 5th and Oscar 7th.

Only Frances represented the girls from Room 6 but she did it in style, improving by almost a minute to take out the win!

While the top 3 boys achieved times close to their last performances, George is closing the gap by taking almost a minute off his previous and Oscar is making good progress by shaving almost 30 seconds off his p.b.

Noah - sucking in air?

Oscar - giving it all!

Frances dominated on the bike and held on through the run to win by 6 seconds.

Different view - different yawn!

Congratulations all!

Westley Gough Visit

Haumoana School had the privilege of a visit from Olympian Westley Gough who attended and spoke at the End of Term Assembly.

Haumoana Cycle Team with Bronze Medallist Westley Gough

He also had time for a photo opportunity with the cycle team.

James' Bus Message

Great Poster James!

LTTC - Cycle Group

Cycling

Wesley, Will, Noah and George are training for The Lake Taupo Cycle Challenge which takes place on the November the 24^th.They are competing as a team so have to train for 40 km of very steep terrain around the Lake to complete the 160km journey.

On Sunday Wesley, Will, Noah and George went for their first long training ride of the season. We started at Wesley’s house and went anti clockwise around the Tuki Tuki loop. We all did 32km which was a great start. 

Mr Barclay led the group nearly the whole time. It took us 1 hour and 30 minutes to complete the loop. We rode at an average speed of 25km per hour.

Wesley said the part he enjoyed the most was climbing the hills, while Will prefered flying down the hills.

by Will and Wesley

Room 6 Unplugged

Recorder sessions are going well with Room 6 developing a range of songs that they can play on the recorder. (rumour has it that the girls are better than the boys???)

Tour of the Bay entries info

Online entries - click on this link

http://regonline.activeglobal.com/builder/site/emailviewer.aspx?eventid=1122500&aid=sgUpHpqdBb3sSsU+woWvSA==&emailid=bRN7EDQ/IYk=&typeid=9&themeid=-1

XC Results

School Results - congratulations to:

Year 5 boys
1st - Wesley
2nd - Will
3rd - Reif

Year 5 girls
1st - Tessa
2nd - Frances
3rd  - Maddie

At the interschool event at Westshore, there were 8 Room 6 children in the top ten which was really impressive.
Wesley 2nd, Will 3rd, Noah 6th, and Reif 7th
Tessa 1st, Maddie 5th, Frances 7th and Aimee 10th

Mathletics For iPad

NEWSFLASH – Mathletics is coming to iPad on 9 October!

FROM 9 OCTOBER THE BRAND NEW MATHLETICS STUDENT APP WILL BE AVAILABLE IN THE APP STORE.
Mathletics is evolving... right into your hands. The multi award-winning e-learning platform is coming to iPad. Students will be taking Mathletics with them anywhere with the new (and incredibly good looking) app. Click here to check out a preview of the app.

Win an iPad with Mathletics

To celebrate the upcoming launch of our Mathletics Student iPad app we are giving away 5 iPads! Click here to find out what you need to do to enter.

 

Its as simple as taking a photograph of you with the "Mathletics Here" poster and emailing it to ipad@3plearning.com


BUT wait, there's more. . .  .The Room 6 challenge for the holidays is 'as above' - just take a photo of you and the sign in the most creative place - and there will be prizes for the 3 most creative  photographs from the class! (one prize per child).

Email your entries to me (david@haumoana.school.nz) as you complete them over the holidays and I will post them on the blog.

ps - it wont be an iPad :-)

VLK#5

                                             VLK

It’s a another day of the Friendly Dental VLK (very low key)Duathlons on a perfect Havelock North Spring morning.

 The distances were 2km run, 11km bike and a 2km run. Frances and Mr Barclay did the last of the series with Mr Barclay finishing 1^st and Frances finishing 4^th in their age groups.

Frances took 9mins off her first VLK time which is a fantastic improvement! Mr Barclay’s time was 37.39secs and Frances’s time was 49.22secs.


It was also great to see ex-pupils - The Gray boys - performing so well in the, very competitive, Junior boys division.

Impasto with acrylic

This is Aimee's daffodil painting. It was the best in the class. We had to sketch it first then do a good copy. After we had done copying the daffodil we painted it what ever colours we wanted to. We could mix colours to make a new colour or just use normal colours.

MATHLETICS RESULTS

 Well done Reif for finally beating Reid
Results

Reif-16,092 
Reid-11,214 
Aimee-7,000  

GYMNASTS IN THE MAKING

class practising their gym

 Practising falling safely!

Running relays as a warmup. sprinting for their team

Wall of Medals

Abstract Acrylics

Little kids again! These are the sun finger paintings.
We used hot coloured paint like red,yellow,orange and white. We weren't allowed to draw or write anything on our painting. They are now on display on our wall. Wow!

by Dhylan

by George

by Mya

We also scanned our artwork to email, then inserted the photo into MS Word, used artistic effects to enhance it and used it as a background for our cinquain Sun and Earth poems.

MATHLETICS WEEK 9

Well done this weeks mathletes. A big round of applause for them. Still going after that big 2 days when the competition was on. Here are the results!

Reid-11,265
Aimee-7,330

Reif-6,407

Speeches

Congratulations to the Year 5 speech finalists - James, Laura, Will and Oscar.

Wesley filmed the speeches on the evening so check out their videos.

 

 

 

Weekly Habits of Mind Certificate

Last Friday (7/9) it was Oscar who had been caught working interdependently as he used his ICT skills and his lunch break to help Sophie with her speech.

Congrats Oscar!

ASB MATHLETICS RESULTS

The results are up. . .

In the Hawke's Bay region

1st  - Will T
3rd - Tessa B

Room 6 - Top class in NZ
Haumoana School - Top school in NZ

Congratulations children!  What a fantastic effort!!!

Speech Finals

Wednesday evening from 6.00pm

Most Room 6 children were highly motivated to succeed in the class speech competition.  The speeches were of a very high standard and scores were very close.  The finalists have been chosen and will be presenting their speeches on Wednesday evening.

Finalists - Laura, Oscar, Will and James

Come along and support your classmates!

The Planetarium - part 2

The planetarium.

Jazae - the sun is the biggest planet.

Patrick - we learned about stars and watched a video of,lots of planets.

George - you cant land on Jupiter,Saturn,Uranus and neptune because they are made of gas.

Lars - Pluto is a dwarf planet.

Anthony - the sun is the second hottest planet or star in the Solar system.

Lauren - Neptune is the coldest planet.

Barney - the sun is hotter than the sun itself.

Madeline - the moon is closest planet to the earth.

Noah - jupiter has 65 moons.

By Aimee

What room 6 learnt
at the Planetarium
James- Mars has the largest canopy.
Wiremu - Venus is the closest planet to the sun.
Dhylan - The volcano from mars is as big as the north island.
Will-there is a big crack in Mars.
Wesley- saturn has moons cirling it.
Sophie-neptune is the coldest planet.
Reif-earth is a millions times smaller then the sun.
Maisie-  that whenever you journey through the stars you always start at the southern cross.
Zavanah- where the cross was in the stars.
Ana- that there are no spikes in the sun its just your eyes.
Reid- that a million earths can fit in the sun.
Mya- that there are nno spikes on the sun its just our eyes messing with us.
Noah- jupiter has 65 moons.
Grace- neptune uis the coldest planet.
Laura- the most sars we can see in the night are 3,000 although there are actually billions.
Aimee- that pluto is not a planet.
Frances -pluto is a dwarf planet.
Tessa- the closest star to us is the brightest pointer star.

Mathletics - Week Ending 9th Sept

The children had permission to give Mathletics a rest after their fantastic effort of the previous week.  Most did. . . except for Reid and Reif who continued their battle! They have moved on to the next curriculum level and are going from strength to strength.

1st  - Reid - 23032pts

2nd - Reif - 20182pts

3rd - Aimee - 6814pts

CHB Primary School Cycle Championships

Earlier this year, students from Room 6 competed in the inaugral CHB CC with great results.  The format has changed to a 3 race series.  This is ideal preparation for Taupo or to check out your fitness against others of your age.

Check out the flyer for dates.

http://www.cyclingchb.co.nz/events/88-chb-primary-school-cycling-championship

IRONKIDZ #2

Another successful Sunday at Ocean Spa for the Ironkidz Duathlon.  Haumoana School dominated the podium.

BOYS
Wesley - 2nd
Noah - 3rd
George 4th


GIRLS
Siena  - 1st
Frances - 3rd

Wesley battling for the lead.

Noah entering transition at speed.

I am sure there would have been personal bests among the other competitiors as well. Congratulations to Maisie, Oscar, Katelyn and Jessie.  If parents have photos to add, please email me at david.haumoana.school.nz

Rugby Reps

Congratulations and good luck to Wesley who has been selected for the Napier East Rugby Rep team.