Dad's Breakfast

A reminder that this Friday 31 August is our Dad's breakfast. 

Please return all forms to Mrs Bargh by Wednesday. 

All Dads and Grandads are most welcome!

Olympian Day

On Friday 24 August we warmly welcomed a group of 7 Olympians to our school. The sun shone, the sausages were delicious and the visiting Olympians joined in playing games with us.

The senior children decorated our school with flags and balloons. The decorations were everywhere.

Will, Samantha, Luciano and Bobby enjoyed the sausage sizzle.

Our Kapa Haka group welcomed our Olympians to Merrin.

When they arrived we let out a huge cheer and we waved our flags.

We were fortunate to have a visit from Nathan Handle, Seamus Marten, Tim Myers, 

Shane Archbold, Neil Emblem,Kevin Marr and Sarah Walker.

The team from 'Classic Hits' introduced everyone to the crowd.

Kate received a cheque for $1000 worth of Sports equipment. We are very thankful to her for wining this amazing day!

In the afternoon we played games with some of the Olympians. The games were organised by Sports Canterbury. 

Shaun Archbold helped Samantha with the obstacle course. Shane is a track cyclist.

As part of the obstacle course we had to jump over hurdles, jump in a sack and climb under a parachute.

Shane signed Ronan's bike.

He gave Ronan one of his special Olympic badges.

We all wanted to see Sarah Walker's silver medal.

Room 1 enjoyed having their faces painted with the Olympic rings.

Mrs Coker kindly delivered flags to all of the classrooms.

We cheered so much that we even got slightly sore throats!

Samantha and her buddy Melissa enjoyed looking at Sarah Walker's silver medal.

Sophie and Megan got to meet Sarah Walker and she signed their posters.

Saya thought Sarah's silver medal was very big!

Thank you to all the organisers for such a great day.
Well done Kate! 

Ronald McDonald visit for Road Safety.

Week Rima...Happenings in Room 1

 Ms D visited Room 1 to give us some new die. They are very bright and made of strong plastic. They are great for maths as well as using as cushions!

Thanks Ms D.

 Archie and A.J used our new dice to play 'Snakes and Ladders.'

 This maths group is learning how to use a tens frame to make and compare 
numbers to ten.

Ronald McDonald came to talk to us about road safety.

 Remember to "Stop"...

 "Look"

 and "Listen" for traffic.

We thought Ronald McDonald was very funny.

Woo hoo...Kate has won the Press Medal Competition!

She came to tell us that a group of Olympians are coming to visit us next Friday. They will play games with us and we will be awarded $1000 for Sports equipment.

This is a photo from Archie's farewell party. His family are off to have an adventure in Sydney for a year. We miss him already as he is a special friend!

Our experiment on Wednesday was about mixing paint colours. Scientist 1 organised the equipment. Scientist 2 squirted in yellow paint.

Scientist 3 squirted in red paint.

Scientist 4 added in blue paint. Then we squished the paint together to see what would happen when we mixed the colours. Come and read our results in Room 1!

Tonight is the school disco. The theme is 'Black and White.' Imagine trying to get these balloons to school!

Milk Rainbows

Mrs Bargh has put us into Science groups. We each have a numbered science badge so that we can take turns at doing some of the experiment.

 Today we talked about what might happen if we added food colouring and dishwashing liquid to milk. We wrote down all our ideas.

Then we got out the equipment that we needed.

 Super Scientist #1 put the milk in the bowl.

 Super Scientist #2 added in 3 drops of red food colouring.

 Super Scientist #3 added in 3 drops of yellow food colouring.

 Super Scientist #4 added in 3 drops of blue food colouring.

 Each group had 4 children so that we could easily see what was happening.

 Sophie made sure that the blue food colouring didn't mix with the other colours.

 Samantha was Super Scientist #4. Today was her first day at school!

 The next job was to use a cotton bud to add in a drop of dishwashing liquid.

 The colours swirled around like a rainbow. 

We thought that it was the dish washing liquid that made the top of the milk move. This made the colours mix together.

You might like to try this experiment with your family at home!