Table Tennis Champ visits HSS

In accordance with China week in Nelson, HSS were lucky enough to welcome a championship table Tennis pro named Mr Zeng Sang. In an outstanding performance, the middle and Senior syndicate were glued to his demonstration of a ping-pong master-class. His opponent, John Armstrong (headteacher at Henley school) put up an equally impressive display alongside eventual opponents Carla (Room 5) and Mr Mackenzie. A fabulous atmosphere and great opportunity to witness an athlete at the top of their game.

Senior Disco!

Senior Syndicate Disco from Mr Skiperoo on Vimeo.
Last night the Children of the Senior Syndicate pulled off their best dance moves in the annual Senior Syndicate Disco! The theme was the letter 'W' and the costumes failed to disappoint... From Wheelbarrows, to washings baskets, Waterfalls to William Wallace and numerous Willy Wonkers to famous Woody from Toy Story. An evening of some 'shape-splitting' music with all the children wiping their feet on the rhythm Rug. Well done to all those involved; the children and their dance moves, the teachers and their organisation and natural dance moves!

Maths week continues...

Challenge # 3 - If every child at HSS stood side by side with fingertips touching, estimate how far the human chain would reach?

Challenge # 2 - Using the value per letter on a scrabble game - Which member of your class has the highest, and which has the lowest?

Challenge #1- Estimate how many balloons it would take to fill the school van?
To introduce a fun packed maths week, several challenges have been set to the children of HSS. Each day, a new task requiring problem solving and using a range of strategies will be set. Each day the teachers are also rotating classrooms and introducing fresh maths activities to a different syndicate.

Today's task required the children of HSS to estimate how many balloons will fit in the new school van? We used our understanding of shape, area and volume to calculate a total of 896.... We then decided to take off 200 for the space taken up by chairs etc. Unbelievably, our initial guess wouldn't have been far off!

Congratulations to Room 16, that got the closest estimate to the correct amount of 897!!

The teachers of HSS were completely worn out after spending most of their Monday staff meeting inflating balloons!

Buddy Time maths

Room 4 teamed up with Room 10 for a buddy maths challenge this morning. We were trying to calculate who's name had the highest value and the lowest value in scrabble points. We then worked together to see which groups value totalled the most!

Room 4 then presented some of our speeches, and we even got the opportunity to learn a bit of Chinese!

Rainbow: Skiing in Year 5

Rainbow Year 5 2015 from Mr Skiperoo on Vimeo.

Last Thursday, year 5 had a marvellous day on the slopes at Rainbow, near St Arnaud. The weather was perfect; milky blue skies, with whispers of cloud cover and crisp white snow conditions.

All the children attempted skiing lessons on mixed ability. The majority of children pushing themselves, to make some excellent progress. 

A big thankyou to all those parents that volunteered their services, as drivers and supporting the children in their learning. It was a thoroughly enjoyable day with no injuries to report; just some incredibly happy exhausted faces!

Maths Week

Challenge #1- Estimate how many balloons it would take to fill the school van?
To introduce a fun packed maths week, several challenges have been set to the children of HSS. Each day, a new task requiring problem solving and using a range of strategies will be set. Each day the teachers are also rotating classrooms and introducing fresh maths activities to a different syndicate.

Today's task required the children of HSS to estimate how many balloons will fit in the new school van? We used our understanding of shape, area and volume to calculate a total of 896.... We then decided to take off 200 for the space taken up by chairs etc. Unbelievably, our initial guess wouldn't have been far off!

Congratulations to Room 16, that got the closest estimate to the correct amount of 897!!

The teachers of HSS were completely worn out after spending most of their Monday staff meeting inflating balloons!

Challenge # 2 - Using the value per letter on a scrabble game - Which member of your class has the highest, and which has the lowest?

Challenge # 3 - If every child at HSS stood side by side with fingertips touching, estimate how far the human chain would reach?

Speeches

Room 4 have been preparing and performing their speeches this week. It feeds forward to a syndicate speech competition to represent HSS in the speech finals.

There was a great range of topics discussed throughout Room 4. Some chose an environmental argument, the impact of war, animal cruelty, Does less mean more? Do we really need physical money anymore? There was also a range of informative speeches about immunisations, the landrover defender, selective mutism and a comical speech by Jonny about Pies!

The class did a marvellous job in preparing there speeches, and presenting them clearly and confidently to the rest of the class. Well done Room 4, another super piece of literacy, and some great feedback to your peers.