Congratulations to all

What a success!!! Room 2’s two teams fought it out and combined earned $154.60 profit from the sale of the cookies.

On reflection the children were surprised how much of the curriculum they had covered. Oral language was a big part of the challenge with a lot of conversation between teams but also to customers that were looking to buy. A calculator was never far away to calculate budgets for cookies which was incorporated with ICT as they looked through the Countdown website to work out what they could afford at the price desired. Recipes were also located online and surveys were handed out to find out what biscuits were popular.

Some of our talented artists were hard at work creating signage and posters to advertise the biscuits and some were creating packaging that was appealing to the eye of the customer.

An incredibly successful 4 weeks from start to finish with both teams doing themselves very proud.

We learnt everything from hygiene to advertising to selling to success and all with only 1 broken cup.

We hope you enjoy the slideshow.

The Making and the advertising

Here are some photos of Room 2 making and presenting the biscuit.  The sales are to follow will they  make a profit. You will have to wait and see.

The Big Shop!!!

On the 8th November the 2 CEO's headed off to gather the ingredients with their budgets of $30. They were under strict instructions from the other members of their teams not to forget any ingredients. As you can calculators were essential to keep track of the price.

It was up to them to tell Mr D who was driving them around where they needed to go. 

Here are some photos of their experience at the supermarket.

YOU'RE FIRED!!!

Together Everybody Achieves More.... Is our topic for this term and Room 2 have started the Room 2 version of The Apprentice. Mr D obviously filling in for the hugely successful Donald Trump.
The class has been split into 2 teams. The Biscuiteers who have Hine as their CEO and The Goody Goody Cookie Company who have Timmy as their CEO.
The 2 teams have 3 groups within each. The Design Team who create the packaging, The Making Team who locate recipes and make the product and the Advertising Team which promotes the product.
The challenge for the teams is to create a biscuit to promote and sell.
The budget is $30 for each company which must be spent on ingredients, packaging and signage.
Watch this space to see their progress.

Book Week

It has been an exciting week at Netherby School with the annual book week taking place. Room 2 was lucky enough to read with Room 4 who showed us some amazing reading. Also a big thank you to Hoopz from Classic Hits who came in and told us stories about his time in radio and how important reading was in his profession.
Here are some photos from our Book Character and Grandparents Day.

Long Weekend

Well we woke up to snow on Monday morning and therefore had an unplanned long weekend. On Tuesday more snow followed and we had another day at home. Wednesday we returned to school with only 15 children showing up in Room 2. But we made sure we had a great time in the snow. Here are some pics.

Winter Tournament

Netherby School entered three teams into the Mid Canterbury Winter Tournament. Soccer, Hockey and Netball.
All three teams had a great day with the Soccer finishing the competition in 3rd place. They won 6 games in a row before losing their semi final against the eventual winners Borough by 5-1. Every child in the team played exceptionally well and the success came from excellent passing to set up the shots.
The hockey team also had some great wins with Brendon Johnson scoring 7 goals. They finished the day in 7th place.
The netball team started the day with a very tough low scoring game against Rakaia who they defeated 1-0. The netball finished the day in 11th place.
Well done to all those children who competed and thank you very much for all those parents who came down to transport, support and coach the teams. We would not be able to do it without you. :)
Also a big thank you to all the schools that helped organised the tournament. A very successful day. :)

Full speed ahead.

Welcome back to Term 3 and it has been a full on week 1. We were lucky enough to be visited by Tracey Hickman from Swimming NZ and her friend 'Koru the Kiwi' who had some fantastic dance moves. With the sun shining and more and more NZ children heading to the water to cool down Tracey explained the importance of learning how to swim and how to keep yourself and your family safe in the water, whether that be in a pool, at the beach or on a boat.

We also welcomed 15 and 16 year old students from Tokorozawa Kita who responded with singing their school song and showing us a dance.  Then showed us how to write some symbols in Kanji. It was very interactive with a number of children writing Kanji using authentic calligraphy quills and ink. Afterwards the children got a lot of autographs from the Tokorozawa students. The students must have felt like celebrities.

CELEBRATE GOOD TIMES

On Tuesday 28th June Netherby School celebrated their annual Celebration of Learning day. They say schools are flexible to deal with any mishap and after a small fire in our hall and foam dust everywhere and not to mention the very poor weather that comment was really put to the test.
The day began with a free sausage sizzle that was well received by all parents, children and whanau alike. With the hall being out of action  and the weather being dreary the performances began underneath the sunshade. The Room 1 and 2 choir performed first accompanied by Mr Leverton on the guitar. They sang beautifully and warmed up the crowd for the first performance of the Hip Hop group who performed incredibly bravely in singlets battling the temperatures. The final act was that of Pua Waitanga the Netherby School Kapa Haka group who continued to impress with Mrs Mackenzie and Mrs Livingstone leading them well.
After the formalities the parents were encouraged to come inside the classroom and be involved in art activities for the whole family.
The day concluded with the appearance of the Ashburton Mayor Angus McKay who encouraged Netherby School children to listen and concentrate in class.
Finally on behalf of Room 2 it was great to see so many family members of all ages at school. These days are only successful with the support of the community and because of this positive outcome Room 2 are already looking forward to the next chance we have to celebrate.

BREAKING NEWS

Today Room 1 and 2 went over to the hall to practise their choir songs for Celebration of Learning day today. We were sounding amazing when smoke began to fill the back of the stage. Josh was first to notice the smoke and Neke shouted fire. We not so calmly made our way out of the hall while Mr Leverton and Mr Dravitski grabbed the fire extinguisher and put out the fire. It seemed to be an electrical fault that caused the fire. Luckily it was noticed early enough and there was no chance for the fire to spread to the stage curtains. Miss Cruickshank made her way over to dial 111 and within a few minutes two big fire engines arrived along with about 6 firefighters. They checked over the hall while we stood and watched and took photos. Mr Leverton was checked over by the Ambulance because he had inhaled a lot of the fire extinguisher fire retardant foam smoke. In 6 months we have had an earthquake and now a fire. Hopefully our luck will change.

Acting Up

Last Friday Room 2 performed a number of skits in our Acting Up unit along with Room 4 to a large number of family members. Joshua performed some of his own material as a stand up comic. His material was excellent and included jokes and impressions. Aaron and Brendon performed there own mime routine and without speaking had the audience engaged and smiling. Ella and Alex were excellent presenters and spoke clearly and with excellent volume. Room 2 also performed a skit as a whole class and we must thank Mr Leverton for being such a great damsel in distress.

Term 2

Unbelievably we are already a week into Term 2.
Our new topic this term is Acting Up!!! This means we are going to be performing some skits and researching and studying famous actors/actresses. Keep an eye on this space for some children acting.
We really enjoy skits that make us laugh in Room 2 and we have been watching a short skit at the end of each day to see if it can help us in our own performances.

Breaking News

Yesterday Netherby Dynamite had their Slow Pitch Softball final against Ashburton Borough.
It was a hard fought game in very hot temperatures. After 2 innings the scores were tied at 14-14.
In the third inning Netherby fielded first and with some excellent pitching from Timmy Vaevae and some superb fielding by Corbin Taylor, Neke, Kamoe and Elama Touli on the first base they restricted Borough to 3 runs.
Coming into bat Netherby started off slowly before Hine Wairepo superbly stroked the ball deep into the out field for a triple.
As our last batter Elama Touli came into bat the scores were all tied up at 17-17 and the bases were loaded with Tayla Love on first, Levi Bodie-Rouse on second and Neke Kamoe on third. Elama waited patiently for a good pitch and sprinted as he saw Neke and Levi both get home to win the game for Netherby 19-17.
A big thank you must be given to all the children, parents and supporters who have come down every week and we look forward to defending the trophy at the end of the year.

THE NEW BLOG

It is a new year and Room 2 has started a new blog.
We have had a busy start to Term 1 with lots of hard working kids coming back after the school holidays. Room 2 is a Year 6 class this year and are the seniors of the school. We have been trying hard to be role models in and out of the classroom demonstrating positive behaviours that Netherby School can be proud of.
Room 2 had one student arrive from Christchurch after her school was closed during the earthquake. Talia was here for 2 weeks and made lots of friends. Wednesday was her last day and Room 2 hopes everything is going well back at Westburn School.