Otawhito Speech Finals

On Tuesday we held the 2016 Otawhito Speech Finals.  The standard of speeches was extremely high and Mr Naysmith (our guest judge) had a really difficult time selecting the winners.
We were treated to amazing presentations about reality TV, procrastinating and saving electricity - to name just a few.

The results were:
1st Mya Wolfenden
2nd Bethan Edwards
3rd Lana Rogers and Bridie Coughlan

Huge congratulations to all of our other finalists - Leah Daly, Rosa McNeil, Ameya Raut, Claudia Edy, Emma Moore, Mila Burke-Denholm.  They all demonstrated outstanding oral presentation skills.

Paralympics

As a learning centre, today we supported past Halswell School pupil Sophie Pascoe at the Paralympics. She was competing in the Women's 100m butterfly final S10. Sophie broke the Paralympic record and earned a gold medal! We were all so excited to cheer Sophie on from New Zealand! 

Character Dress Up Day 2016

Well Done to all the Year 5/6 winners for Character Dress Up Day. The winners were: 

First place: Holly Ifeild, Emma Moore and Claudia Whittington. 

Costume: Alice in Wonderland trio.

Second place: Makaia Wakefield and Sophie McIntosh 

Costume: Oompa Loompas. Credit to Micheala McIntosh for creating the costumes. 

Third place: Emily Burgess 

Costume: Miss Trunchball off Matilda.

First place got a moro bar each and the Roald Dahl book, Matilda. Second place got the book, The Twits. Third place got a moro bar and a crunchie. 

Happy Birthday Roald Dahl! 

By Emma Moore. 

Parachutes with our Buddies

Our buddies are learning about forces for their current inquiry.  Today T31, T32 and T33 made parachutes with our T14 and T15 buddies and tested the parachutes to see how well they worked.