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Balmacewen Intermediate School

School Newsletter: May 2020

IMPORTANT DATES:

Monday 1st June - Queen's birthday observed. No school.

Friday 3rd July - Last day of term 2.


Contents

Message from the Principal

by Andrew Hunter

We have enjoyed a great two weeks in our return to school.

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Year 8 News

by Terry Tarapi

A very warm welcome to our Year 8 Whanau.

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Year 7 - Cushion Creators

by Angela Burden

It is great to be back in our Fabrics room creating with textiles.

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Year 8 - Fabulous in Fabrics

by Angela Burden

This week our Year 8 students have completed their projects in Fabrics. It has been awesome to be back in the classroom learning alongside each other.

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Year 7 News

by Lisa Dixon

Welcome back to school! Returning to school after the lockdown, students have settled back into their classrooms and have enjoyed reconnecting with their friends and teachers. It has been an opportunity to reset, reconnect and reflect on how our lives have changed over the last few months and sharing stories and photos of life in our “Bubbles”. We feel we actually know our students even better through their sharing of their life beyond school during these times.

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Year 8 Artists

by Mary Brady

Students focused on mixing colours and building variety in their Sense of Place Paintings

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Alphabet Adventure

by Mary Brady

Year 7s explore painting techniques, observational drawing, building a background and doodling.

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What's hot in the kitchen with the Year 7's?

by Alex Buttery

The Year 7's have finished their second rotation in the technology block.

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Y8 Pies

by Alex Buttery

The Year 8 have designed, and created their designer pies.

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Basketball registration 2020

by Sara Quelch

Please read on for information regarding the year 7 & 8 basketball competition for 2020

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Hockey - 2020 season.

by Sara Quelch

The 2020 hockey season will look a little different this year. Read on for more information and to register your child to play.

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ICAS assessments

by Sara Quelch

Please read on for information regarding ICAS assessments this year

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Y8 Mystery Box

by Alex Buttery

The Year 8s finished their their time in Foods with their Mystery Box Challenge.

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Year 8 writing

by Sara Quelch

This is an excellent piece of writing created by a year 8 student, Megha Kumar during isolation.

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Writing Extension

by Sara Quelch

Our writing extension group have been exploring haiku poetry. Read on for a couple of examples...

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Room 25 Haiku

by Lisa Dixon

During their online learning Room 25 wrote some Haiku poems based on their lockdown experiences - here is a selection of their poems.

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Bubblenation..

by Lisa Dixon

During our lockdown period we set a PBL project challenge for our Year 7 students - to become a photojournalist and take photos to record their time at home.

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Absences

by Sara Quelch

With Covid-19 we are having to do extra reporting around student absences. Please read on for information regarding this...

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Online lunch options

by Sara Quelch

Our regular online lunch options (subway and sushi) will be available again from Thursday 28th and Friday 29th May. NO DELIVERIES THIS WEEK SORRY.

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Class photograph orders: closing Friday 29th May

by Sara Quelch

Online orders for class photographs closes on Friday 29th May. Please read on for more information.

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