Bring on the new Year Room 7!!

Room 7 is beginning to take shape as the new Year 3/4 classroom. I will post up a stationary list for you soon.

Meanwhile I hope you have all had a lovely, safe Christmas. New Year or Hogmanay as it is known in Scotland is a time for celebrating with your family - reflecting on the old year and welcoming the new one! Its a time to think about a New Year Resolution - mine is to eat less and exercise more!! What might you have as a goal for the New Year ahead?

Looking forward to all the exciting things we will do in 2012 Room 7!

Whaea Pam

Graduation 2011

Graduation 2011

Room 9 had our Graduation Celebration yesterday. We had a great Prizegiving ceremony. Thank you to all of the school for being so well behaved and for their beautiful singing. A special thank you to Ben - his speech was fantastic - you are a great leader and role model for next year Ben!
We had a lovely dinner and a fun disco last night to celebrate. Our last few days at Russell have been awesome. We could not have done it all without the amazing staff at Russell - especially Whaea Sose, Whaea Rachel, Whaea Lehi, Miss Anderson, Whaea Deb...all of our hall decorators, our teenage waiters and waitresses,all of the teachers who helped us celebrate - Whaea Laura, Matua Carl, Whaea lynda, Whaea Helaina -man can you all boogie!! Everyone who brought the delicious food - yum,... and most of all to our parents and whanau - we love you!! Thanks to Debbie for our cool cake - we know you were very busy this week so thank you!!

Check out our slideshow --- big big thanks to Whaea Laura's husband Dave whose pictures are fantastic = what a talent he has!!

We have yet to have our final leaving assembly tomorrow at 11am - we will be sad as we also say goodbye to Miss Anderson, Whaea Lehi and Matua Carl, but while it is the end of one part of our journey so we begin a nother exciting chapter of our lives!!!

At last Tolovae's powerpoint on our Sailing in Wellington this term. Well worth the wait!!

Sailing on Wellington Harbour

At last - Tolovae's Powerpoint about our sailing in Wellington. Well worth the wait!!

Sailing on Wellington Harbour

Try this awesome Advent Calendar to count the days until Christmas!

Try this advent calendar

Its that time of year! Year 6 get ready to transition to a new school. We visited Brandon Intermediate to get an idea of what we might expect next year. Thanks Brandon staff and students. We had an awesome day!!

Oriana and Roseta have a guitar lesson.

Astina rocks on in music!

Our Brandon hosts guide us round the school.

Our topic this term is plants. We planted a sensory garden with herbs and plants like lavender and thyme which smell lovely. Do you know of any other plants or herbs which smell nice or help heal?

Mr Sam - Harry Samuela, Teacher and Special Friend of Russell School

Mr Sam sadly passed away on Tuesday 8th November. Our thoughts and prayers are with his family at this difficult time.
"When someone you love becomes a memory, the memory becomes a treasure."

Duffy Book Assembly

We had great fun at todays Duffy Book Assembly with Rhubarb! They were awesome! here is some of the photos from todays assembly. Even the teachers had to dress up! The stories were based on Cinderella and The little Red Hen. Some people laughed through the whole story-  everybody loved it!.  

Hockey Tournament 2011

Our awesome hockey team!

who are we supporting for the world cup

For the Rugby World Cup I am supporting South Africa Because they are the all time champions. My uncle is married to a South African. She is my auntie and they really love their culture. On Christmas eve my auntie's make a big dinner, sometimes I help and when my auntie See's the first star in the sky that's when we eat.

GO SOUTH AFRICA!!!!!!!
By Shania Dave.

I am supporting the All Blacks in the rugby world cup because they are a strong team, a fast team and so far they have won all their games also if the All Blacks win everyone will want to come to N.Z my homeland.

Go All Blacks

By Noor Shabber Aljbouri

 

It has been another busy week at Russell School - On Thursday we visited Cannons Creek Library

Listening to a story from our awesome librarian.

Happy faces walking to the library.

On our way to the library.

 

                                                       hey look its kelly dressed up in a kimono
                                                               as part of our reaserch on japan.

Josiah, Elekosi, Astina and Mapui work with Miss A to produce some awesome writing

The most important thing to me is being loyal

Our rugby team was training and the Tawa rugby team took my best mate, they beat him up.  When they went, he was hurt; he didn’t look good.  His nose was purple, it was bruised and bleeding.  So I picked him up and said “Let’s go to the coach and ring the ambulance”.  I felt sad, the other team were wrong, that’s not rugby; it’s fighting.

Elekosi

Our awesome - Recorder group

Read Joseph's awesome Powerpoint about Scotland

For homework this week we had to present facts about our chosen Rugby World Cup Country - Scotland. Joseph is a real homework hero! He made a cool powerpoint about Scotland - Whaea Pam even felt a wee bit homesick reading it!! Well done Joseph!!

http://www.slideshare.net/slideshow/embed_code/8556367

Beach Party Disco

Today we are really excited about the disco we are having  it beacause we are fundraising for stage two of Whanau Awhinatias playground. We hope you come in your beach clothes we hope to see you support us watch this space for photos.

by Ioselani

Our Te Papa Trip

Last week on  Thursday 16th June Whanau Awhinatia hopped on a bus and made their way to Te Papa in Wellington. We went to learn about Matariki and what it means to the Maori culture. When we got there we had morning tea outside. After everyone ate we went inside and we sat in a little area.Later we met Keryn and Riria who were the people that were going to teach us about Matariki. I felt excited because Matariki is a very interesting subject to learn about. I really enjoyed the Star Lab and the Pasifika Patterns but what I didnt enjoy was the bus ride because I felt sick and it was too loud. I learned how to find Matariki using the stars and what shapes you can see like the Fish and hook. I want to find more information about how special Matariki was to the Maori's back then and I also want to learn more about other cultures.It was a lovely day and I hope everyone had fun.

Welcome to Room 9

Russell School Rocks! The new term has started and we all are exited about learning!