The Button Box Production

Wow! LZ1 did an amazing job as main cast, crew, dancers and singers in the The Button Box.  The whole school created a fantastic show. 

Well done!

EPro8 Semi Finals

The team competed at the semi finals and did very well. We look forward to the 2017 EPro8 Challenges.

EPro8 Challenge

Twelve year 5 & 6 students went to Northcross Intermediate to compete in the Epro8 Challenge (Engineering, Problem Solving, and Innovation) The challenges involved building a crane which had to lift 1 kg, building a Rover on Mars to move 1 metre while carrying 5 kg of weight and building a swing that held 1 kg and swung 10 times in 31 seconds. Each station had various equipment e.g. Pulleys, electrical wire, batteries, bolts, aluminium poles, chains, gears, circuits and wheels.

The teams had four challenges to complete in 2 and half hours, the students could complete all of a challenge, or select which parts they wish to complete. Each challenge had a “Criteria” and a “Hint” Criteria and this is what the teams were marked on.

The three teams worked collaboratively and enjoyed the challenges. Close to the end was very nerve wrecking with the Bobby Juniors team tied in first place with 3 other teams on 200 points. They finally shot away by gaining a further ninety points to win the EPro8 challenge across these schools. They will now compete in the semi-finals. Congratulations to Charlize Porter, Holly Lupton, Luke Grobler and Jacob Lyndon. By Charlize Porter

EPro8 Team first place in the challenge series.

Special Olympics

 In the weekend, I went to the Bay of Islands to compete in the T2 Equestrian Regional special Olympic games in Kerikeri. I did not stay in Kerikeri, I stayed in a kiwi sanctuary. This was really cool.The next day, after I went on a bush walk with my family, my dad said we can fish here. Sadly we couldn’t actually fish here at that time as we had a busy schedule ahead of us, and we had no fishing rods with us too.

We arrived at the event, I was all dressed up in my special Olympic outfit which was, my black leather riding boots with my team chaps and my steel cap socks to help me grip in my boots. I was also dressed in a white shirt with a flash white bow and a special blueish black jacket which made me feel good at the time.

Sadly my dad didn't come neither did my big brother, but the best thing they said to me before I went was “good luck you are going to win the gold”, this made me happy knowing they see me as a champion.   

During this day, I did one event which was the individual equestrian, I felt really happy because my team did really well in the competition. They won a gold medal… yippeeee I said.

Goodbye day 1 bring on the next competition on day 2.

The next day I was doing the working trail, ‘yippee’ I said, this was my second favorite special event. The reason why I like this event is it is my strongest point, I really like this competition.
At the end of the day, “yippee” I have won a silver medal, I felt extremely excited and happy.    

That was my adventure, thank you for listening.

Cam

It’s a craze that started in New York and has now come to Auckland. It involves the humble Post-it note.

Ad agencies in New York were the first to display the mosaic-style pictures in their windows, and now Auckland is the latest city to raid the stationary cupboard in the name of art.

Look high above the streets of central Auckland and there is an art gallery emerging.

Scroll down and you will find LZ1's version of this Post-it note craze.

LZ1 students were asked to work collaboratively to plan and create a piece of Post-it note art that reflected the Olympic games.  As you look at our photos you may notice some students not in uniform - these were our Chinese visitors who joined us for the afternoon program.

Scroll down and enjoy our creations.

Abby, Lucy, Maryam, Tamzin

Author's Purpose - PIE

Today LZ1 J learned how authors can have different purposes for their writing. We looked at this because we are doing persuasive writing over the next couple of weeks.

Authors can Persuade, like advertising; Inform, like the news; and Entertain like jokes. The acronym is 'PIE', so today we made pies!

First we formed into groups of three. One person's job was to Persuade...they had to come up with persuasive words, make it in pastry and put it on the top of the pie. The second person's job was to Inform...they had to write some information like the names of the people in their group, the ingredients of the pie.on baking paper, line the pie plate and fill it with apple. The third person's job was to Entertain....they had to create an entertaining 'plate' to present the pie, with fun pictures, jokes and stories.

Then when they were all complete, we put them in the oven.....

 Then the persuade, inform, entertain parts were altogether....until.....they were eaten!

So making pies will help us to remember that authors write for different purposes....Persuade, like advertising; Inform, like the news; and Entertain like jokes....and sometimes mixtures of the three!

The Healhty Lunchbox ladies

The Healthy Lunchbox ladies


Hello people we are the healthy lunchbox ladies.We are doing this blog for all our ideas for healthy lunchbox's. With me are Savanna,Jade,Sahara
Jonelle,Holly,Arielle and Kendal. We will be doing a blog every week. This week we are researching some healthy ideas for a video for the people in our school and we will be doing a healthy tasting cafe too. We will be having visitors to help us with the learning. We are doing it for fifteen weeks, so wish us luck, bye for now...

Lucy