ROCK CLIMBING

Morning everyone. What a gorgeous morning. We are all good to go, but don't be fooled, it will still be pretty cold out there so wrap up warm and bring lots of layers. Don't for get your lunch, drink, torch and spade and shovel if you have one. See you at school, be there about 8.30am
Mrs Q

DISSECTING RATS

Today we dissected rats. Why? To learn more about the internal organs and general make up of our bodies, because they are very similar to a rats. We saw large intestines, small intestines, heart, lungs, bladder, kidneys, lungs, spleen, and more. All of the students showed lots of interest. We had Jonno (a teacher aide from room 14) helping us, he has studied anatomy at University and his father is a vet, so he had some good knowledge to share with us. I dissected one too! It was very interesting, I hope all students learned a little more about the body today. Check out the pics,

Make a comment: tell me what was most interesting about dissecting rats today. What did you learn?

Mrs Q

CONGRATULATIONS AND GOOD LUCK

Balmac has been in the news a bit lately, and some of the students who featured are from the fabulous room one! Well done to Jaren and Henri who were both part of the winning yr 7 matheletics team in the Dunedin competition. Also well done to Henri, Brieana, Hannah and Fiona for their awards at the Otago Technology and Science fair. On top of this Te Ariki found out over the weekend that he has made it into the NZ u14 basketball team. He will be going to Australia to compete with his team the koru's on 11th January next year! Hopefully there is more good news to come... Jaren and Jimmy are off to Christchurch to compete in an intermediate schools competition. They will be playing football for a mixed yr 7 & 8 school team and are being coached by Mr Martin. Good luck boys!

CROSS COUNTRY

Well done to all of the fantastic room one students who completed the school cross country on Friday. Everyone tried really hard. We also had a few students who made it into the Otago Cross Country Squad. Well done to Henri who came 3rd and Jaren who came 4th in the yr 7 boys. Also Zack Matthews who came 13th and Josh Malcolm who came 14th will be reserves for the Otago Cross Country. Looks like there is a bit more training for those boys! Good luck guys!

Football skills

Keep checking back here. Soon we hope to have some pics and simple instructions on how to correctly kick a football. The video clip below is our 2nd session. Lets see how much we can improve
Mrs Q

Room One Football Skills

CHALLENGE:

I have a writing challenge for any keen takers. There are PRIZES up for grabs too! You may have seen this in the ODT in the weekend. But here are the details...


If you're a Dunedin resident we want to hear your stories about what makes this city special beyond the touristy stuff.

Have a look at the videos, photos with captions and stories on this site to see the sort of thing we're after. And don't forget to get everyone to rate your video or photo entry because the highest rated entries are our finalists

If you are just writing your mini- story (no longer than 250 words) get your friends and family to read it on the ODT website, as only the most read stories can make the finals.

Your work might even get to feature in an ad promoting Dunedin. And as a final incentive, check out the great prizes on this website:

http://www.insidersdunedin.co.nz/

WEEK THREE ALREADY!

Hello folks
Well it is week three already, we have completed parent interviews and have our open evening this Wednesday night. Lots of room one students are involved, it should be fun!

I hope everyone enjoyed the Anatomy Museum on Thursday. I was very disappointed I couldn't be there but I picked up lots of fab ideas at my conference in Auckland,and I am keen to try them out on Room One!