Rugby Visitors

Last week we had our second visit from Marcel Cummings-Toone and Belgium Tuatagaloa. They have "adopted" St Albans School for the 2013 ITM rugby season. Marcel used to go to school at St Albans! How cool is that? This visit, senior school children who weren't busy with Kapahaka got to have a game of dodgeball with Marcel and Belgium. They loved it, and so did we!

Book Parade

Today we launched book week with a dress up day. We had a wide variety of book characters in Room 23 including Star Wars Jedi's, Dorothy, Little Red Riding Hood, Things, Cinderella, Harry Potter, EJ 12, Richie McCaw, a Blind Mouse and many more! Everyone looked fantastic, yet the best had to be chosen. Best dressed our class was Thing 1 and 2 (Maddie and Grace), Pirate Darkwhisker (Jordyn) and The Cat in the Hat (Jada-Lee). Best dressed boys were the Blind Mouse (Toby) and King Bill (Swastik). Here are some photos from today.

Best Dressed Overall 

Best Dressed Boys

Art Piece 5

This was our final piece of art done last week as part of our 5 pieces of art in 5 days challenge. It actually took us 6 days, but this last piece showing contrast between hot and cold colours is definitely my favourite.

SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Bet you wish you were here!

We have 6 whole people at school today! (7 if you count Ms A). We have Maddie, Niamh, Neve, Olly, Swastik and James.

First thing after the roll we headed out into the snow and down to Oak Leaf Cafe for a delicious hot chocolate. Yummo!!! Don't you wish you came to school now?

If you are at home, send us photos of your snow excursions. You can email them to Ms A. The address is on your homework sheets.

Have a super duper snow day!

Picasso Art

Here are a few samples of the superb art work that the Room 23 children did last term. After learning how to draw portraits, we learned about how Picasso took the idea of a face and turned it into abstract art. We were also learning how to blend pastels for effect, and which colours blend together well.

Year 5 Big Day Out

On Tuesday the Year 5's headed off to Blue Skies for their Big Day Out. They had a fantastic day doing a confidence course, initiative activities and orienteering. It was fantastic to see them pushing their confidence and working together with their team mates to solve problems. Here are some photos from the day.

Student Council Reps

Today we finally got to hear the last of the class representative speeches and we could vote. It was an incredibly close race so well done to Maddie, Jack, Niamh, Grace, Bella and Emma for having a go.
Our class reps are:
Year 4 - Bella
Year 5 - Jack