Pink Shirt Day!

A very warm welcome to our Year 8 Whanau and friends.

We have had a very busy start to our term in classrooms and with winter sport getting underway. Classes have been working on ANZAC writing, reading and ART, as well as starting our planning for our Term Two PBL - Hooked on Science. Read on to find out more and check out some of our work in this Newsletter.

Online orders for class photographs close on Friday 11th June. Please read on for more information.

A reminder.... We have a teacher only day tomorrow Friday 18th June (Term 2.) Thank you

There is a Paid Union Meeting on Wednesday 23rd June at 1.30pm. Please read on for important details...

If you would like to register your child for this competition please see details below...

Pink Shirt Day -Friday 21st May.

Students design and create a cardboard dwelling with a limited colour palette. Having a limited colour palette helps them use a variety of materials. We focus on two of our Balmac Super Skills: Problem Solve & Persevere and being an Independent Learner.

The Year 8's have been busy learning new skills and playing with flavours before planning their pies.

Our Year 7 writing focus for the first few weeks has been on Moment in Time writing extending work from Term One into now writing by putting themselves in the shoes of someone else - an ANZAC soldier. Here are a few of our diary entries...

We have been invited to help support The Neonatal Trust by sewing small scent hearts out of cotton. These special fabric hearts are given, as part of a care package, to parents with a premature baby in a neonatal unit.

We have 2 rotations to go! There are many wonderful cushions being created in our room. Our Year 7 students know to "choose PROGRESS over PERFECTION" when learning new skills and creating.

The screen printing process is an exciting one for our Year 8 students. We use acetate, sharpies, scalpels, nail scissors, cutting mats and tape to create our own stencils.

Balmac Blue, Red and White competed in the Dunedin Rippa Rugby Series

Group 3 are working hard in the foods room putting their spin on the recipes we are following

Yr 8 students have been investigating Maori Waka history and building techniques. The students have then built their own concept as a model or display board.

The ICAS assessments provide an opportunity for all students to gain a measure of their own achievement in an external assessment situation. Read on if you would like more information about registering your child to participate in an ICAS exam.

Some of our writing Extension pupils have entered the Fabo Story competition, where a guest author writes a story starter, and pupils from throughout New Zealand are invited to finish the story in less than 550 words.

Please read on for notices from our community including marching have a go, speech and drama classes,