04.12.12 Assembly

The Gala

This week is the Gala. The Gala is on the 7th of december 2012 4.30pm-5.30pm' are the performances. 5.30pm-8.00pm: chocolate wheel' face painting' balloons' raffles' and more' we hope we see you there!.

As part of the Homework Challenges in Year 7 and 8 Brad decided to raise money for the Haemophilia Foundation.  He organised haemophilia wrist bands and distributed them to each class.  For a gold coin donation students could get a red wristband to wear.  Watch this video to hear what what he did.

NZ Poverty

While the year 8's were in Wellington, the year 7's (And some of the year 8's who didn't go) researched on Poverty in New Zealand. We learnt about houses that were unstable and unfit to live in. We also learnt about different ways to keep our houses warm. We learnt about different ways houses can be heated effectively and keep our houses warm with minimum cost. So we made small houses and we also had to write down some blueprints and how our cardboard houses were going to be heated.

Houses

Houses

Houses

Houses

Houses

Christchurch South West Schools' Zones Athletics 2012

Here are some photos from the the 2012 Zones at Hillmorton High School. They happened on Thursday 8th November. About 70 Yr 4-8 students went. The events were High Jump, Long Jump, Shotput, Discus, Long Distance, Sprints, and Relay. There were about 14 schools competing. The weather was really good because it was sunny and there was no rain. Students from Oaklands who made it to Canterburys were: Luke White, Sophie White, Mia Warren, Mesepa Fui, Micheala O Hagan, Rachel Pullan and Olivia King.

Gold CARE awards

Luke and Shannon are the the first two students at Oaklands School to be awarded with their Gold CARE awards. CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!!!

On Monday 5 November we had a full school assembly. The first two Gold CARE awards were handed out to Luke and Shannon, also alot of Silver and Bronze awards were handed out. Mrs Hall talked about excellence being the term's CARE value goal. Excellence means always trying your best at everything.

Athletics Sport Update - Sprints

On Friday the 26th October, the Oaklands Athletic Sprints took place on the field after lunch. Year 4 - 8 students took part in the sprinting. The sprints were 50m to 100m in length, depending on the age of the student. The Athletics took place on Tuesday the 23rd October and it was really fun but because of bad

weather after lunchtime, the sprints were postponed until Friday.

Bailey, Thornton, Michaela, Callum, William, Rachel and Matthew all did really well in the sprints.

50 of our students are going to the South West Zone Sports on the 6th November.

Look out for news about that.

Athletics at Oaklands School

In recent weeks we have been practising for our School Athletics which will be held on Tuesday 23 October. (PP date Friday 26 October) We have practised high jump, sprints, discus, shot put and long jump. It is really great to have a new high jump mat which means we can easily run two high jumps at once. We have been learning how to do the scissor jump correctly. You have to jump with one leg before the other, make sure your legs go over the bar before your shoulder and that your run up has good speed. We hope the weather will be kind to us. Athletics 2012 on PhotoPeach Athletics 2012 on PhotoPeach

Celebration of Learning Term 3

On Thursday 27 September all the classes shared their learning about science from this term.
The Supernova team conducted several experiments about flotation and density and are conducting longer term experiments about how things change.

Touch Game.

This is the touch game that was happening at lunch time on the 27/9/12.

Kapahaka Performance

Lunch time.

This was posted at lunch time. This is James, who was chasing Jason.

Kapahaka

Here is the senior kapahaka doing a performance in front of Oaklands school. The seniors also did this for the cultural festable.

Jump Rope for Heart.

This is Jump Rope for Heart. We raised about $400 and all the classes took part. We had a time skip event, which is who can skip for the longest. We also had class skip, which all of our class had to skip on the big ropes, or two people on the smaller ropes. In the Super Nova's, room 3 won the class skip. We all dressed up in our house colors. This was on the courts all throughout the day. Each team had their own session. We did Jump Rope for Heart for the Heart Foundation and for our own fitness. It was really fun and I think most of us enjoyed it.

The Year7/8 Common Room.

Common room opened for the year 7 & 8 on 5/9/12 we had a shared lunch there. It's a place for the year 7 and 8's to be by themselves without the younger kids around. We are allowed in it anytime at morning tea and lunch time, as long as we pack up afterwards.

Handball tornament, Teachers beat the students 5-2