Cross Country

Room 6 have been training hard in preparation for the school cross country doing lap after lap after lap after lap........after lap and colouring in our distance on the Otago Peninsula map.

Your support will be appreciated on Tuesday 5th August (weather permitting) to cheer us all on. Please make sure children are dressed in suitable clothing for running with additional layers to stay warm while waiting in the thin Dunedin winds and variable temperature. You must have a jacket!

Races

10:30 Year 1 girls             10:35 Year 1 boys

10:40 Year 2 girls              10:45 Year 2 boys

10:50 Year 3 girls            11:00 Year 3 boys

11:10 Year 4 girls            11:20 Year 4 boys

11:30 Year 5 girls            11:40 Year 5 boys

11:50 Year 6 girls             12:00 Year 6 boys

12:10 Return to school.

Book Week and PJ Day.

This week we have been reading daily to raise money as part of our school read-a-thon. We have all collected sponsorship from friends and family. The more we read, the more our sponsors donate. On Friday to celebrate the week we had the opportunity to wear our PJ's.

Inflatable Brain

Today we were fortunate to have Molly-Jo's mum (Joanna) and some of her co workers to teach us about the brain. We went to 3 different stations.
The first station was going inside an inflatable brain and learnt about Alzheimer, strokes and other diseases
Next we got to touch real preserved brains, one with Alzheimer, one with a stroke and one normal. People said the brains felt like bouncy balls.
The last station we went to was with a person called Diane. She told us what she did and she showed us a picture of real brain cells. She wanted to figure out if there were more chemicals in a persons brain with a disease or less chemicals. She did this by using animals brains and squishing them then she put them in a little tube and whizzed them for 5 seconds in a little machine, some of us got to put our finger in that machine.
We really enjoyed all of the stations but the only downside was that we only had half an hour! we still loved the learning everything about the brain and we wish that we can do it again!.

Inflatable Brain.

We have been fortunate to have Molly-Jo and her mum (Joanna) offer to bring in the inflatable brain and a team of university experts for Room 6 and the senior team to learn more about the science of our brain.

The pictures tell all and some of our shocked faces.