All that glitters is GOLD

We were so very fortunate today to meet the 2014 Olympic Gold Medalist, Joseph Sullivan!

Joseph Sullivan won Gold in the Men's Double Sculls with his rowing buddy Nathan Cohen.

Not only did we get the opportunity to hear all about the efforts that it took Joseph to get the gold, both on and off the water, we were also lucky enough to hold the GOLD Medal.

Thank you Mr Sullivan for delighting us with your tales of blisters, shoes stuck in the boat and the 100 McNugget challenge!  We loved every minute of your talk today! 

Share the excitement by watching his amazing Gold Medal race and have a look at our photos below!

We have had four new fantails flutter into our classroom!

Meet our newest Fantails!

More adventures with Franny the Fantail for Churchtown Primary School!

During our winter school holidays, Franny the Fantail went home with one of our lovely Fantail class members.  
Check out their adventures :-)

I brought Franny to swimming and then I came home to have dinner and Mummy made pudding and the boys did homework.

Te Papa is a museum in Wellington.  Wellington is the capital city of New Zealand!

Technology Day

The last day of Term 2 saw our entire school get involved in what is fast becoming one of the most exciting days of the term........Technology Day!

The school was divided into groups ensuring that each group included students from each year group.  The brief given to the groups was to make a free-standing Marble Run with two drops, using only cardboard and sellotape.

The opportunity to work together with peers of different ages enables our students to develop their teamwork and communication skills.  Points are given to teams for their ability to work as a group (these points are determined by them as well as the teaching staff), how interesting the structure appears (voted on by the school), whether or not the marble run meets the brief.

Interestingly, the teams that attain a good overall score are ALWAYS the teams that have achieved high scores for their TEAMWORK.  This is a great discussion point for reflection at the end of the day.

The Marble Runs this term were AMAZING and the students worked really well together ensuring everyone was involved.  A great way to end a busy and FUN term 2.

Have a look at our engineers at work!

Yee Ha - You had better watch out Cowboy cos we all got Disco Fever!

The Disco on Friday 24th June was a huge success!  

Fantails flew around the room - dancing, playing limbo games, eating hotdogs and rounding up an unusual heard of mechanical animals.

Thank you to the Wentworth Families and Friends for your amazing support with this event.  The money that you raised goes to support our World Vision charity.  Thank you all so much.  These events would not be so successful without your hard work.  

We really appreciate it!

Churchtown Primary School - Meet Franny the Fantail.

Kia Ora (means 'Hello' in Maori) and welcome
Churchtown Primary School. 

This year we are partnering with Churchtown Primary School in Southport, United Kingdom.  The aim of this is to share with the children of Churchtown Primary a little bit of New Zealand life.  They will get to see what we do after school, where we go on the weekends and who we are as New Zealanders.  In return we will get to view the blog of our Churchtown friends and see what life looks like in the United Kingdom.

We look forward to getting to know you and we can't wait for you to read all about our adventures with Franny the Fantail!

Can you guess how the Fantail got it's name?

Our classroom is named the Fantail classroom because we are like fantails.  

We are fun, energetic, curious and always darting here and there!

Meet our Fantail class!

Franny the Fantail (Piwakawaka - Maori word for Fantail) is our classroom mascot.  

We will be sending Franny home each week with one of our Fantails.   Franny will take part in the everyday activities that we do and we can't wait to share these with you on this blog.

Kia Ora Churchtown Primary - Check out what Franny got up to last week!

Great reading Franny!

You make me feel like dancing!

Yee Ha!  Our disco had a 'Western' theme.

Franny is learning to do the splits on the balance beam ;-)