Harvest Time!

Remember when we gave the garden a makeover earlier in the year? Well things have been busy growing and as part of our gardening rotation a few weeks ago, we decided it was time to harvest our vegetables.

It was a fun and busy time pulling up carrots, snipping kale and spinach, cutting cabbages, broccoli and cauliflower.

We gave them as wash (and carefully removed the slugs!). We were so impressed with what we had grown.

Some children took vegetables home but we had so many that we decided we would gift the rest, so Tia delivered them to our local food pantry where they were hopefully made into a delicious dinner.

We have started planting some of the seedlings that we have raised in our greenhouse, and we can't wait for our next harvest in a few months time.

Thankyou

This term our school wide writing focus is persuasive writing.
We are learning that when we choose our words carefully, we can use them to persuade others.

Last term we learned about a company called Thankyou which has recently come to NZ. Their goal is to end world poverty by 2030. They sell personal care products and give 100% of the profits to go towards reaching their goal. You can learn more about Thankyou here.

We decided to use our persuasive powers to convince the staff at our school to buy these products.

Here we are ready to deliver our letters!

Mrs Waird and Miss Baird receiving their letters

After delivering our letters we put Thankyou soap in the staff toilets for them to try.

Lots of teachers have already told us they plan to buy the product next time they are at the supermarket and we read a lovely email from Mrs Dayal who thanked Gordon and Latrell for introducing her to the Thankyou range (which was followed by high fives and a round of applause by the kids in Room 8 😊)

It is exciting and empowering to know that WE have the power to influence people and that our actions can literally help to save lives. Ka pai Thankyou for all you do and well done Room 8!

Buddy Reading!

We had a lovely time reading with our buddies in Room 13 on Friday. Room 8 went to the library early to choose a book that we knew our buddy would enjoy and that we could confidently read.
Our focus when reading today was to make our words flow smoothly and to add expression, so our buddy would enjoy the story.

Latrell, Gordon and Markell even read a story aloud to us all.

We finished off our time together by drinking milk under the oak tree and a fun game of 'Cat and Mouse'.

See you again next week Room 13!

Nexo Knights!

What a fantastic surprise the Senior and Middle School kids at BMPS had last week! Each student go their very own Nexo Knight lego set! 

These were gifted to us from Eat My Lunch. Eat My Lunch is an AMAZING company who provide our school and schools all over NZ, with lunches for those who don't have any. 

It is their 2nd birthday, but we were the lucky ones that got the presents. How awesome is that?!

In Room 8 we got to test our literacy skills by carefully reading and following the instructions. We worked cooperatively when we got a bit stuck on the tricky bits and had a whole lot of fun sharing and playing with our creations.

Thank you Eat My Lunch for helping to keep kid's tummies full so they can focus on their learning. We appreciate you! 

Totara Park

What a wonderful week to be a BMPS kid! The seniors had a fantastic day at Polyfest on Thursday followed by an equally amazing day at Totara Park on Friday. 

A huge thank you to our wonderful parent helpers for taking good care of us!

Here are a few pics from Totara Park...

Fantail and eel spotting

Building a campfire :)

Let me think...

Thumbs up for Thursday!!

We LOVE Thursdays!

We start the day with swimming....

Then head back to school for cricket...

Do some creative writing (Today we were learning how similes can add interest to our writing)... 

Then electives (here is the R8 electives creating code to progamme computers).

What a great day!