Kia ora year 8 Whanau

Another exciting Term is underway for our Year 7 students - their last as Year 7's before they move on as Year 8 next year. We have our term topic "pARTicipate" underway. This is an integrated PBL focus of the ARTS and Literacy.

This term all classes have written and presented speeches as part of our literacy programme. We were impressed with the diverse range of topics that engaged our students and the way they presented to their classes.

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Balmacewen has 7 teams participating in the Oval Junior Competition this term

On Thursday the Balmacewen orchestra performed a variety of pieces as the Guest Artists at the Otago Boys’ and Otago Girls’ combined Orchestra concert.

While most of us are looking forward to the end of 2020, it is a time to reflect on how lucky we are to be at school, playing sport, attending events and socialising while many other countries are still living with restrictions and lock downs. Written as part of our class speech competition we would like to share Tila's speech on the positives of 2020.

Year 7 students took up the challenge to create miniature clay warriors.

This weekend we have entered a team in the South Island Intermediate Waterpolo Championships here in Dunedin.

Students had the opportunity to tackle a real world project that had a personal connection to their community. The Hospital rebuild project promoted ideas of wellness that extend to school life. We included a range of specialists within the process.

Every now and then a group might just have one session left. One crew focused on working collaboratively and was inspiring by Keith Harring's body outlines. The other group focused on being creative and designing personified food characters.

Learning new skills, persevering and questioning.

Our boys team travelled to Arrowtown last week to play in the Otago/Southland final.

In art Year 8 students reflected on the meaning of HOME and then designed and created miniature homes. The focus was on our super skill of problem-solving and persevering which helped us develop the skills of an independent learner.

The final group of Year 8's have made it to the foods room.

A warm welcome to Balmacewen whanau and friends to our Prize giving assembly.

Cricket but not as you know it. To register see the link below

We have a teacher only day on Friday 13th November.

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