Merry Christmas and a happy new year

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! Hope you have all had a fantastic year and I wish you all the best for next year and the years ahead!

This year in Room 6 we have had some great fun like when Ryan Nelsen came to school and we got to play soccer with him!

This year has been so fantastic I have enjoyed working with you all and good luck for next year!!

All the best and Merry Christmas. God Bless.

OLA SCHOOL/PARISH FAIR 5.00PM FRIDAY 29/10/10. Come along and support our fair.

Weeks 1 & 2

Well we have had our first  'normal' school week this term.  Tuesday's aftershock was certainly eventful but Room 6 handled themselves extremely well.  One minute they were sitting at their desks finding out about their reading activities and the next they were under their desks.  They new exactly what to do and did not hesitate - I did. I was a couple of seconds behind them.  I'm sure it must be an age thing!  Well done Room 6. 

Art Attack Week 1
We had a very exciting Art Attack week.  Room 6 students had a great week creating a variety of art.  All this of course culminated in the art display last Thursday afternoon and Friday morning.  If you were not able to attend, the Room 6 art pieces that were on display are now on display in our classroom so feel free to come and have a look at their wonderful creations.

Athletics

Today was athletics day and we participated in field events and track events.

The seniors and juniors all participated in the sprints,50m, 60m, 8Om, 100m

and 200m. The field events were shotput, discus and long jump. The seniors

also participated in high jump and the juniors in hurdles. At the end of the day

after lunch, Red House came 1st by an inch then Green, then Yellow and last but

not least Blue. I still think Yellow House should have come 1st. Then it was the

Parent, teacher and House Captain relay. The parents came first and then

the teachers, the House Captains came in a close 3rd. Everyone had a great

day and just a few injuries occurred. Good luck to those going to zones!

Skipathon

Today we had our skipathon to raise money for the Heart Foundation. 
It went extremely well and everyone had a fantastic time.

The year 8 and 4's got to lead our groups around each station. Thanks to Miss Rooney 
for organizing this event and to all the teachers and parents for making this as much fun 
as they could.

Helping Others

On Friday with my shovel in hand, I became part of the large group of volunteers to help clean up one of Christchurch's worst affected street in New Brighton. My son came with me and my daughter jumped on one of two buses heading out to Kaiapoi.
As you can see, the amount of liquefaction in this street was phenomenal.   Sadly many houses are so badly damaged that they can no longer live in them. The impact on the resident's lives is huge.
I know our contribution was small but every shovel full was one more closer to helping the residents clean up their street.   Truckloads of silt were taken out of the street. 

Sam Johnson from Canterbury University and his team of volunteers have done a fantastic job of organising the distribution of volunteers around the city.  Thank you to you all.
The only failure I had that day was the muffins I baked.  They ended up being baked for 1hr & 20 mins.  Muffins do not like being baked that long and came out looking like black mini discuses.  Moral of the story:  Don't leave your son in charge of oven timer when he doesn't know how to use it!  All is fine though.  He got to clean the pans afterwards.

Mrs W

No School until Mon 13th Sept

Oh my gosh Room 6.  What an unbelievable few days we have had since the big earthquake on Saturday. I sincerely hope you are all safe and well and have not had too much damage to your homes.  I am fine and my home did not sustain any damage.  
We heard today from the Ministry of Health that schools are closed until Monday 13th September due to unreliability of the water and the rechecking of structures due to the continued aftershocks.
Keep safe everyone.  Check the Civil Defence section inside the back cover of Yellow Pages to check that you are doing what you can. 
I am sure each and everyone of you will have an experience to share.  Talk about them with friends and family.   I hope to see and hear from you soon about your experiences during this time.  My husband and I were in Kaikoura at the time of the earthquake so didn't experience the 7.1 quake.  But we certainly heard from our children minutes afterwards.   Luckily we had an emergency kit that they could use and use they certainly did!  Did you have an emergency kit to use?

Mrs Welsh

Our Lady of the Assumption School Feast Day

Today we celebrated Feast Day. To start off the day we went to Mass, then we spent the rest of the morning with our buddy class RM8, we made puzzles of Mary. They look fantastic. Check out some of our photos.

Cantamath Competiton

Over the last few weeks the room seven maths class has been making projects for the Cantamath competition. Matthew from our class came in the excellence category

WELL DONE MATTHEW!!!

Black Out Day

Today we had a great Black Out Day to show out support for the first All Blacks game on Saturday night. Have a look at our class photo.

Room 6 Has a New Star.

Well what an eventful day Monday was for Room 6.  Ryan Nelsen, former OLA pupil and Captain of the All Whites, visited school to hand out pedometers so OLA pupils can help the All Whites on their journey to 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa.  Have a look at My Greatest Feat website www.mygreatestfeat.org/.   Go the All Whites!
Our very own Dominic was filmed in Room 6 for the TV programme What Now.  It was very exciting!  But the Room 6 star took it all in his stride.  Dominic was lucky enough to be selected to interview Ryan and ask him some very important questions.  We can't wait to see the interview on What Now in a couple of weeks time.
Miss Shaw was also another rising star, being a former teacher of Ryan when he was at OLA.  Miss Shaw was interviewed by TV One News.  To watch this great interview visit Mr A's blog at  www.olaroom8.blogspot.com/.

OLA Year 8's with Ryan

                                              

 Room 6 kicking the soccer ball around inside the inflatable soccer field.

Air Force Museum Visit

The The A Team  had an excellent time at the Air Force Museum on Monday 3rd May.  Everyone had a great time experiencing what it was like to be at war.  Bombs raids, rescue missions or sitting in an Andover aircraft ready to make a parachute jump.  Check out some of our photos.

                                      We are about to crash land!

                                       A very accurate Gunner!

 

"We need rescuing.  We are stuck in the middle of the ocean in a life raft. Over. "

Mr Stanley's All About Respect Song - OLA Term 2 Theme

Have a look!

Room 6 has finally gone live.  I am very excited about this as we have so much happening at school both inside and outside of the classroom.  Currently our Inquiry Topic is Serving our Community and we have been looking at the two World Wars.  We have completed our Absorb part of our Inquiry with all the A Team having learned some interesting pieces of information about the wars.  I am sure many of you in Room 6 will have started to think about your bigger question(s) by now. 
Below is a very interesting link showing you what it was like to shop for food when it was rationed during war time.  Scroll down and click on 'Rationing - shop for food in 1943' in the Activities section. Good luck shopping!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/schools/primaryhistory/world_war2/children_at_war/