During Term 3 we enjoyed visits from the Tauranga SPCA, visiting Illustrator:  Greg Kinnaird and the Wonky Donkey Author.  Room 1 was also lucky to enjoy the company of two kittens that had been adopted by one of the children.  We enjoyed learning about caring for animals and how much fun writing and illustrating books can be.

On the last day of term we dressed up as our favourite 'legend' and had a parade around the courts before watching the teachers vs students game of rugby.  Lots of fun!

Here are one or two photos from last term of us creating 'Out of This World' cookies, as a last day of term Topic celebration.  We drew a plan of what our cookies would look like, then we followed a recipe to  create the icing and set to work!  Yum!

The oil spill from the Rena has been covering our beaches but thanks to an awesome community and official clean-up crew, our beach is recovering.  We certainly hope we can continue with our beach afternoons next term!!!

Today we had a real surprise!! Mid-morning we heard police sirens so we rushed out to the field to see what was going on....a M.A.S.H helicopter arrived and out jumped The Gruffalo! He raced to get away but was soon tracked by police officers and their tracking dog. Gruffy was handcuffed and led away to a waiting police car. It turns out that it has been The Gruffalo who has been caught on Security Cameras around school this term - after the mysterious disappearance of Mr Parry's chocolate biscuits. The Gruffalo had tried to fool us all, but clues were left behind. Gruffy was taken to the local police station for processing and later returned to School Assembly to apologise and to hand over the chocolate biscuits. He decided to stay for a song, so we think he is not so bad after all...


Check out this link to see us on SunLive News!  http://www.sunlive.co.nz/news/14180-police-capture-gruffalo.html

As part of our 'Out of This World' Topic this term our poem for the week was 'Paper Aeroplanes'.  Of course we couldn't miss an opportunity to create our own paper planes and test them out!  Through trial and error we discovered which way the wind was blowing on our school field.  We lined up for several attempts at setting a class record for greatest distance travelled by our modest aircraft.  Who's plane went the furtherest?  Well...we may need to keep practicing....

Sent from Spain

The twins sent us some photos of them at their new school in Spain - thanks girls! Room 1 and Room 2 miss you :)

Mia Leaves for Spain!

Friday was the last day at Mt Primary for Mia and her sister Elly, who are off to Spain for two years. We are sad to see her go but also very excited for her. We wish her, and her family, best wishes for their time away.

Surprise card from Sam!

This week we were delighted to receive a card and letter from our Christchurch guest student Sam! Look how happy we are:) Thanks, Sam! Good to hear that you have settled back in with your class.

From Grey to Hey!

We are very excited to be back in our newly renovated classroom after a week in the hall. It is bright and clean and new. Thank you to the parents who gave us a hand moving - it was a big job but many hands made (lighter) work!

2011 is Underway

Welcome back to a new school year! We are now Room 1 and we have changed from Year Ones to Year Twos.

During the last two weeks we had a special guest student in our classroom - Sam from Christchurch. Sam was at his school in Christchurch City Centre when the February 6.4 earthquake struck. He and his family have had some time-out at Mt Maunganui and have just headed back home as Sam's school is now repaired. We have enjoyed meeting Sam and he will be missed in Room 1.