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!

WELCOME BACK!

I hope you have all had a fantastic holiday. This term we make our way out of winter and into spring. Yay! Our big topic is CHALLENGE and we will be focusing largely on health topics; including taking care of ourselves, learning about the human body, pubertal change and learning a little more about local health organisations.
Check out the side bar for a few important dates that we have coming up this term
I'm looking forward to another fun term of learning with the fab room one students.
Mrs Q