Finally the Netball Photos from the big win!

Our netball champions!

Food Technology

Please tell us about these photos. Write about what you made and how you made it. I'm very interested in how you made the sushi.

Netball

Congratulations to our fantastic netball team for winning the ASB Netball Trophy this year. We are soooooo proud of all you!. Please comment on some of the highlights of the game. Once I get the camera back I'll post some photos for us all to see.

On 7th of September 2010, Saint Patricks 'A' team travelled up to Westport to compete in the ASB Bank Primary Netball Challenge. We left the school at about 8:45 and arrived at the Solid Energy indoor stadium at 10:45. Captain Eilish got us all ready for the warm ups. After stretching and warming our muscles we had a quick game of half court. Finally the other team arrived and we started the game.
Our 1st game against Westport North. The positions were: Carla-GS, Tay-GA, Briana-C, Eilish.R-WD, Bridget-WD, Eilish.B-GD, Breesha-GK,Alexandra-WA, Brittany-WA, Kristina-GK. Everyone had a court time on both games. We won 18-14. Close game!

Our second game we played against Westland High school. They won last year so we thought we were going to lose. But by surprise we won! (25-12) By this time we were all so tired and worn out, but we kept going and giving all our effort. We kept trying and trying.

We are all so proud of EVERYONES performance. Great thanks to Sall & Helen, the awesomest coaches ever & also a thanks to the parents that took the time off work to take us up to Westport.

Fingers crossed for the girls next year (:

Free Verse Poetry

Vocabulary work Week 5, Term 3

Find an interesting word from another language. Write the word here and tell us what it means. Don't forget to put it in your writer's journal as well just in case you want to use it in your writing in the future :) Have fun :)

Map Work for Week 5, Term 3

Ok choose a country that of your ancestors came from. Write and interesting fact about it. You might want to list all the countries your ancestors have come from.

Find three towns or cities in New Zealand that start with the letter 'E'. List them all here and write an interesting fact about one of them.

Vocabulary

Please comment below with a single word that describes your favourite place.

Map Work for Week 4, Term 3

Think of a place in the world that you would be nervous to visit. In the comment box below write that country down and why you would be uncomfortable visiting it. Give us an interesting fact about it. Don't forget to add your New Zealand towns also along with the interesting information about one of them. Missed you all today :(

Week 4 Map Work

Share with us a place in the world that you would like to visit and tell something interesting about it! Three places in NZ that start with the letter 'C' and teach us something about one of those places. :)

Red Maths Box people's video

This is to help you with the long division we looked at today. This is just one way of doing it. Can you come up with other ways?
Remember only go halfway through. Don't worry about the decimal part of the video at the moment.

West Coast Basketballers

Good luck to all the people representing the West Coast at basketball over the weekend in Dunedin. Travel safely tomorrow. If you are able to use a computer while you are down there post a comment to let us know how you are getting on.

Map Work

Sorry I didn't have this ready for you sooner. Please put your map work here!

Our Writing Motivation

We have looked at this video today to inspire us to write. We have to choose our audience, our purpose and the style we want to use to write. We used our writers journal to take notes as we watched the video. Some of us will put our writing below so come back and see what we have done!

Map Work

Use the cluster map or globe on our blog site. Choose a dot. Find out where that dot represents. Mark it on your world map in your homework book. In the comment box below:

- Name the place you have chosen
- Name two towns, cities or landmarks that are close to your chosen place
- Find two facts about your chosen place or one of the places you have identified as being close by
- Think of a question you have about that place and write it in your comment box as well.

Weekend Sport Report

Comment below to let us know how you got on with your sport this weekend.

Our Artwork

Raising money for our ski trip

We are planning a ski trip next term. We have started our fundraising process with a sausage sizzle.

National Young Leaders Day

Several students from our classes attended National Young Leaders Day in Christchurch at the beginning of June. This was an awesome experience for all of them. When reporting back to Room 5JP the leaders told us some of the really inspiring quotes they heard from the fabulous speakers they listened to.

If you went on the trip please share one of the quotes that you heard and tell us what you think it means.

Queens Birthday

Hey everyone. I hope you have all had a great weekend. I'm sure our basketballers had a great trip and played their best. What interesting things have you done over the weekend? If you are a bit bored with this awful weather you could explore some of the links on the right hand side of our page. Enjoy the rest of the weekend :)

Vincent Van Gogh

Please place a comment below that says:
- how you feel when you watch the slide show and listen to Don McLean sing Starry, Starry Night
OR
- something interesting you have learned about Vincent Van Gogh

MAKE SURE YOU PUT YOUR FIRST NAME UNDER YOUR COMMENT (AND YOUR LAST INITIAL IF SOMEONE ELSE HAS THE SAME FIRST NAME AS YOU)