OneSchool Global - Upper South Campus eNewsletter

Some photos taken by parents and Lavinia Rice from Upper South Athletics Day on Friday 12th March.

Congratulations to our top athletes in each age group!

Year 7 and 8 Girls runner up - Zatori Clifford

Year 7 and 8 Girls winner - Imogen Filluel

Year 7 and 8 Boys runner up - Tamar Smith

Year 7 and 8 Boys winner - Yves Powell

U14 Girls runner up - Bree Garton

U14 Girls winner - April Malcolm

U14 Boys runner up - Barclay Hill

U14 Boys winner - Rome Deck

U16 Girls runner up - Capri Filluel

U16 Girls winner - Biddy Guy

U16 Boys runner up - Vitarli Woodman

U16 Boys winner - Auburn Malcolm

U19 Girls runner up - Jessamy Beatson

U19 Girls winner - Brooklyn Senior

U19 Boys runner up in equal place - Errol Smith and Silas Woodman

U19 Boys winner - Burkley Woodman

Every participator is recognised - whether you come last or first, whether you are tall or small; your team appreciates you a lot.

Congratulations to all Upper South Conquer Award winners!

Maddox_Award.pdf

timothy_conquer.pdf

Otto_conquer.pdf

Our Inquiry questions is: How can something small make a big impact?

We have been investigating how rockpools are vital for our sea life along with exploring mixing secondary colours from primary colours.

Enjoy our Rockpool Paintings.

As part of our inquiry "How Might Something so Small Have Such a Big Impact", we plan to make a bee garden which will include a bee water bath.

Although, we have all done different inquiries, we decided to help Jovan create his bee garden. We hope that the garden will help bees pollinate and help the other gardens in the school.

As well as a bee garden we are also putting in a bee bath that bees can drink from. We think this is a good idea because lots of bees are dying and we really need them on earth.

To be able to buy plants and other equipment we decided to raise money by having a morning tea. We raised nearly $220.00.

Bella Fisher

After a bit of arguing and some compromise we had it all planned. It came up on us with the blink of an eye.

We rushed around the place, cooking stuff, setting up stuff, making stuff and washing stuff.

We had our problems, like spilling stuff and forgetting to cook stuff. In the end it was a huge success and we made around $220. We were very happy with this.

Jett Clifford

In writing, we have been focusing on our writing structure. Here is an example of a short, but powerful story that has verbs, adverbs and list sentences.

Into the Flames by Jett Clifford

Gasping for clean air, Thunder the elephant, bellowed to his friend Stripe. Weakly, Stripe let out a low growl. He lay on the ground lifelessly. The air was thick, as Thunder picked up the droopy tiger and placed him gingerly on top of his suit cases which were placed on his back.

Trudging and limping, scared and apprehensive, Thunder made his way through the burning embers that once was his beautiful playground. Now it was a waste land with black sky and burning ground.

Abruptly, the land began to rumble and shake.

As part of our Assignment called “How might something small have a big impact?”, the Year 3-6 students at the Blenheim Campus have been investigating germs.

We took some swabs from various locations around our campus and wiped them onto some agar plates. These were then sealed up and labelled. It didn’t take long for some germs to grow!

Here are some photos to show the icky progress! A very good reminder about why we should wash our hands regularly! Once we finish our experiment, the agar plates will be taken to the hospital to be incinerated.

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