Omaka Scout Camp

Omaka Scout camp has great hospitality including a hall, dining area, kitchen with all your essentials and a tent area. Treat yourselves by coming and have a break from your annoying kids. The outdoor area has a big field for your children to run wild and play games. On the camp there is a shallow river flowing slowly which you can raft down. The camp provides the rafts for you. Omaka also provides you with different experiences of wildlife, such as friendly eels, fish and also some pretty birds. If you do decide to bring your children Omaka camp provides lots of fun adventurous activities to entertain them and maybe even you adults. There are lots of opportunities for you guys to run wild and be safe at the same time, there's lots of fun activities as I have explained earlier on. But one thing I really enjoyed when I had that experience was the water activities and hiring the people to teach kayaking and paddle boarding. I hope now you've read my advertisement of Omaka camp you will now go and have the same experience that I had.

Tent site set in beautiful trees.

Rafting down the beautiful flowing stream.

Kayaking in the calm lake.

Lovely mowed grass and big back yard.

Phoebe-Take the stage

This term we had our yearly speech competition. For this, we had about five weeks to write a speech with the topic "Have I Got Something To Tell You," and also have a presentation to go along with it. For my topic, I chose Volunteer Lesley Ottey, i thought i read my speech a bit too fast but i thought i did ok. have a listen along to it and please comment, hope you like it!

Maths-22.6.16

In maths Lucy, Kate N and i are learning to do timetables in place value. aim really enjoying place value this week.

Extending school hours-22.6.16

Extending school hours

We already come to school for six hours per day, which is thirty hours per week. Loburn School’s proposal to extend school hours would cause problems for teachers, other families with kids going to different schools, kids and parents going to work.

Starting school earlier would mean children won’t be able to be there and ready before 8:15 some days they would be tired and grumpy. Teachers don’t like grumpy children at school. I also don’t think we would get any more work done in that extra two hours.

The reasons I think this is because that would mean children would have to go to bed earlier. That would also affect some of the teachers having to get up earlier, the bus driver having a new schedule, also other families that have other children that have to go to other schools and parents having to go to work. With parents going to work they would have to get up earlier and then they could get grumpy and tired.

Those are my reasons on why I don’t think that it’s a good idea to have an extra two hours at school. I hope now that you’ve heard my ideas that you agree with me.

Maths-16:6:16

In Maths this week we are learning different ways to do our times tables i am really enjoying maths this year. Please have a look below at the video and please comment.

Matariki Kate N and Phoebe

In Literacy this Week Kate N and i have been learning about Matariki. There are some interesting facts and some videos have a watch then give us some feedback in the comments below.

Project 7- 8.6.16

While the year eights were at there William pike Ropes the year sevens were cleaning up the school by doing Project seven. 

Each of the year Sevens have a job and that’s their job for the whole year. We do these jobs whenever the year eights are away at William Pike or in our spare time if needed. 

 Once Mr Priddy got back from the Ropes day he was really impressed with how tidy we had made the school. 

 I was on the Strawberry plants which the school are going to sell sometime soon. We only put small strawberries in the little pots to sell and are going to re plant the big ones and grow new strawberries with those ones. We also mixed some compost with our plants that we are going to sell and we put some in the garden.