Syndicate Assembly Week 3

Shoes and Slippers

·      Remember to put your shoes and slippers on the racks.

Corridors

·      Stay clear of the corridors at morning tea and lunchtime, especially the entrance door.

Library

·      The library is open at 1pm on Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday.  You need to enter the library through the ‘outside’ door (the door by the playground).

Art Class

·      The Y6’s art session will be today instead of Friday.  The Y5’s art class begins next week.

Table Tennis

·      The competition continues…

Waterpolo

·      Practice in hall at lunchtime today.

Camp DVDs

·      These were handed out today.  If you still want a DVD, see Mr. Chadwick ASAP.  He will take some late orders.

CZ Soccer – Tuesday 28 May

·      Teams are required to assemble at Sladden Park at 9.15am for a briefing about the tournament organization. The first game will then commence at 9.30am with the last game finishing at 12.00pm. The tournament concludes at 12.30pm with a 10-minute prize giving. We will be leaving school at 8.45am. Please be at school at 8.30am on the day of the tournament, we will meet in the library. 

The postponement day for the tournament is Thursday 30^th May.

Jackets

·      We are continuing to collect jackets this week.  If you have any jackets at home that you can donate, take them to the office.  We will be donating all of the jackets to a school whose students are in need of some winter warmth.

Friday

·      Remember: This Friday is a TEACHER ONLY day

Our Big Bang!

Muritai school has enjoyed a super science week this week with teachers and students involved in science experiments and investigations every day! To celebrate the final day Mrs Ryan and Mr Macmillan organised aGeyser Tube Challenge for the whole school.

Every class chose a student - (we chose Rosie) to pull the pin on a tube of mentos which then dropped into a bottle of coke. 

The resulting acid/base reaction shot a geyser of bubbles as high as 15 metres into the air! 

Congratulations to the winners - Year 5&6!

A very busy term

Term 2 is off to an amazing start!  Here are just a few of the exciting activities the children have been involved in over the past 3 weeks...

Inquiry - Our Changing Earth... The effect of Continental drift on the Earth's crust.

Firstly the children explored what is inside the Earth.  We found out that the Earth is likened to an Egg, in that it is made up of layers of different material.  The inner and outer core, the mantle and the Earths crust. Heres a rap that we listened to that explains it all:

When we understood what is inside the earth we began to explore what is happening on the layer that we live on... the earths crust.  We watched a short BBC film about continental drift, tectonic plates, the layers of the Lithosphere and what happens when plates colide.  We also found out that the continents used to be joined together, this Mega-Continent was called "Pangea" or "Gondwana land".

To further understand how plates move above the mantle we did a couple of experiments. The first experiment we boiled water, dropped in a handful of peas and watched the peas and how they moved. 

Our second experiment further explored how plates can move by demonstrating the scientific process of convection currents using red and blue dye. 

This video shows the same experiment:

Lastly we used slices of bread to represent the tectonic plates and explored the different ways they interact with each other. And that is just what we have been doing for inquiry learning!!!! PHEW.

Syndicate Assembly Week 1

Camp DVD of photos

·      Order forms were given out last week and need to be returned to the office by Friday.

·      If you need another order form, see your teacher.

Peer Mediators

·      There will be a training meeting on Tuesday at morning tea.  ALL peer mediators are to attend.

Road Patrol

·      A BIG thank you to all of our road patrollers for your work in term 1.  Keep up the good work!

Y6 Art Class

·      The art class will be on this Friday and next Friday lunchtimes in Room 14.

NO shoes inside

·      Remember to take your shoes off before you come inside AND to put them on when you are back outside.

Inside play

·      There will be more days spent inside during morning tea and lunchtime because of the winter weather.  Make sure you choose your ‘inside’ activities wisely.

BP Challenge

·      Mr. McMillan will LAUNCH the BP Challenge this Friday. 

Cross Country

·      The school cross country is next Tuesday @ Williams Park

·      The Y5/6 cross-country race will be run in reverse this year.  This means that you will run up the ‘switchback path’ and then down the walking trail.

Table Tennis

·      The Central Zone tournament has been cancelled

·      Mr. Chadwick will set up a school competition that will run throughout the term.

CZ Football

·      The boy’s trials are on Tuesday at lunchtime.

Waterpolo

·      Practice will be in the hall each Monday lunchtime.

Lest we forget

In the holidays many students from Muritai School attended ANZAC day celebrations to remember those soldiers who have passed away. In Eastbourne the Muritai Kapa Haka Roopu (group) was responsible for welcoming the parade and finishing the ceremony using haka and waiata. This years group were fantastic!

Callan, Harry and Willis perform Ka Mate.