CONGRATULATIONS BOYS CADILACS RUGBY TEAM

Zack, Jimmy, Hayden, Te Ariki and Josh L were all in the Cadilacs team that played Kavanagh in the year 7 boys rugby final last week. They won by a close margin 38-35. Great work boys.

OTAGO CROSS COUNTRY, AND RED CROSS SAUSAGE SIZZLE

The sun finally decided to shine last Friday. Which was lucky because our school was hosting the Otago Cross Country. We had Jaren and Henri representing room one and they both did really well, placing 16th and 17th respectively. These two boys had also been busy during the week organising a BBQ for the Red Cross Christchurch Earthquake appeal. They managed to get some free bread and cheap sausages and ended up raising almost $400 dollars. Great job boys!

more rock climbing pics

LONG BEACH

What a fabulous day and a fabulous bunch of students! You all did yourselves and your parents proud. I had a great day with you guys and gals out there today. Here are a few pics. I'm having trouble uploading to photobucket at the moment, so hopefully will have more up soon. Nice one Room 1!

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!