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Paparoa Range School Swimming Sports 2019

After the swimming sports the learners in Ruma 4 worked co operatively and wrote a recount of the day using google docs.
We discussed what recount writing involves - it tells when, where, who, what and is ordered sequentially.
It was amazing to see everyone working on the same writing simultaneously. Read our shared writing.

On Thursday 28th February the Paparoa Range School swimming sports were held at the Blackball pool.

The Dobson pupils travelled on the bus to Blackball school.

On the way to Blackball the bus got stuck in road works.

When the Dobson students arrived at Blackball school we had assembly.

First the teachers handed out some certificates. At the assembly,

the prize draw was held and two people got pulled out, Stella and Nixon.

Then the PB4L team did some role plays showing the children

something wrong and then how to fix it up.

After assembly the year fives to eights had a game of Capture the Flag.

It was a really good game because people played fairly.

The year 1- 4s went to the Blackball pool first to do their races.

At the Blackball pool there were dead and real live insects on the bottom

of the freezing, cold pool.

Some of the different races were duck dive, underwater swim,

kickboard, freestyle, backstroke and breaststroke.

The children enjoyed swimming and having races.

Next time the sports should do it earlier in the term so the pool

will be warmer and have a few more races.

Baroque Concert

This photo shows Nikau at the Baroque concert learning to hold the violin and then draw (move) the bow across the strings. Nikau found that it wasn’t easy to play even Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star. The concert provided new opportunities for our students; travelling on the school bus, hearing violins, a harpsichord and oboe being played and thanking the performers for the wonderful concert.

Ruma 4 students reflected on the experience and this is what they thought.

I was shy I put my hand up and got picked to play the violin.  Nikau

I enjoyed listening to how the instruments worked.  Christian

I learnt that the violin’s strings were made from sheep’s gut and the strings on the bow was made from horse hair. Jordy and Mitchell A

I liked the look of John’s violin.  Mitchell S

I liked the music because it was beautiful.  Jacob

It was my first time in a church. I was interested because I would make a scratchy noise with the violin.  Piper

I liked the violin.  Sophia

I liked John playing the violin like a guitar.  Scarlett

I liked them all because they played freaky tunes.  Angus

I liked the sound of the violin, the scary music and the glass windows on the way in.  Brooke

I liked the songs and the windows.  Aura

I loved the beautiful music.  Bailee

I liked the scary music.  Marley

I liked the beautiful glass windows.  Kimberley

I liked when they made the scary sounds.  Beau

I liked the sound. I liked the glass windows in the church.  Tane

I liked watched the men play the violins.  Alicia

I enjoyed the music they all played, calmly and quietly. My favourite instrument is the violin.  Levi

Welcome to Ruma Whā - Room 4's 2019 Blog

Ruma Wha is a class of year 3, 4 and 5 students.

During the first week we discussed why we come to school.

One reason given was to make friends and learn to work with others.

To help us get to know each other we competed a people search and wrote

introductions.  Here are some of the ideas we shared....

Alicia likes to go to the pony club with the awesome Rosie.

Angus likes eels because their brain is in their tail.

Aura likes ice cream.

Axel loves picnics in the trees.

Bailee likes paddling in the water.

Beau likes going to his Nana’s house because he can ride a grey, friendly horse and he gets to feed it apples.

Brooke loves mice because they are fluffy and cute.

Christian likes swimming in the hot tub at home.

Jacob likes playing games, especially the lego game on tv.

Jordy likes climbing trees.

Kimberley loves her chickens and hens and her cute, baby chickens.

Levi loves the outdoors.

Marley likes swimming in the Greymouth Pool.

Mitchell enjoys helping Grandad build stuff.

Mitchell likes going into the forest with Dad and shooting because they can get the meat out of the deer.

Nikau is interested with his X box and plays Fortnite.

Piper likes to be in the car singing.

Scarlett loves growing things in the garden.

Sophia thinks home is good.

Tane likes playing outside with Leroy.