Focus on Performing Arts! Camp! Sports! Random stuff!

Hi everyone  - as we get into the last half of the term we have many events to practise for.

• Good luck to choir and kapa haka groups on Tuesday night at the Cultural Festival and to any children who may be playing music or speaking at the Speech Competition on Thursday night.
• Have you checked out the Team 2 song yet for the Xmas Fun Night? Practices will start this week - it would be great if you already knew the words.
• We also have singing practices for the end of year assemblies. Who can sign the National Anthem?

People will be practising for their soiree performances too.
Has anyone written a poem yet for the competition? (see earlier blog posts)

• Welcome back from camp at Living Springs Year 5 and Miss Murphy and Miss Mauchline! We missed you! We are looking forward to the PHOTOs
• Remember you only have another week and a half before the RED Challenge Rewards Day - you need to have completed all of the required challenges and had them signed off by your teacher to take part.

Congratulations to our 27 Team 2 SE Zone athletes - what a stunning day you had with a number of successes and people going on to the Canterbury Athletics Tournament. More details to come!
Remember to read ANY notices you are given and give them to your parents to read too.
Have a great week
Mrs Thomas

Team 2 Christmas Song

http://youtu.be/557tQC86thA Follow this link to practise our Christmas fun night song

Team 2 Speech Finals

Finalists were: Serge, Fin, Rose, Julia, Isis, Tommy, Isobel (Rm 5,7) and Taygen, Bernie, Ella, Claudia, Robb, Anna, Eva, Jessica (Rm 4, 6)
Results were:
Year 5 : 1st - Rose; 2nd -Tommy; 3rd - Isis
Year 6 : 1st - Robb; 2nd - Eva; 3rd - Anna
Robb will represent Redcliffs at the Bays Cluster Competition  on the 24th November.
Thanks to Mrs Hayward for judging and congratulations everyone.

Arthur's Pass Camp Photos

Watch this slideshow from the second camp.

Term 4- a race to the finish line

Welcome back everyone! A great start so far to the term 
Keep an eye on the blog this term as we will be trying out a few interactive links.
We are really hoping for a fine day tomorrow for our Athletics. Remember your sunhats and sunscreen as the sun is definitely a lot hotter than last term and the weather is very changeable. Great to see everyone practising for athletics with such enthusiasm and showing real support for each other.
There will be lots of notices coming home in bags this term - remember to pass them on!
Honesty and Integrity: our values this term. What do they mean to you? A chocolate fish to anyone who writes a poem for the blog that captures what either of these values mean to you personally. Give the poems to me or email them to sandy.thomas@redcliffs.school.nz

Have a great week!

Year 6 Camp - at last some news!

You will have all heard tales from Arthur's Pass Camps this year. The good news is no one got left behind!Mr Paxie and I had a super week with fabulous parents, great activities and good weather.
We crossed rivers climbed hills, bushwhacked, visited old huts and power sites, tramped through snow, played in snow, ate snow, fell over in snow, fought in snow..... bird-watched, bird-listened, wallked blindfold, made damper, ate and ate and ate, orienteered, visited glow worms, cleaned toilets, fell out of bunks, snored, coughed, shouted and laughed, got wet and wetter.....
Thanks to Dave our camp manager who knew so much about everything we did!
We have literally hundreds of photos, including some great ones from the first camp that Georgie's dad took on his super dooper whizz bang camera.  If you would like a copy of camp photos bring a flash drive (removable pen drive) to school and we can copy the photos onto it for you.

I am going to try and put a link here on the blog to them now - if that doesn't work I will post a few photos instead.  

Geometry shapes and angles website

Have a go at this interactive website. You can practice your geometry skills that you have been using in class. The website is fizurl.com/anglesha