Sensational Speeches

Our class speech finals were held last Tuesday, and my oh my, what a difficult job judging was! Mrs Ford came down with Room 26 to help Ms A judge. It was a very close competition and it was brilliant to see how well prepared the Yr 5's were. The class results were:

1st: Grace - Jamie Curry
2nd: Toby - The Hobbit and Lord of the Rings
3rd: Maddie - Diggy Dog
4th: Jack - Orlando Bloom

Grace and Toby went through to compete in the senior speech finals on Thursday. This was another incredibly close competition with some amazing speeches from a group of talented children. Grace did an amazing job, even though she had the difficult task of being the first up. Toby also did a splendid job and he placed second in the Year 5 group! Awesome work Toby!!

Disco Fever with a Twist

Good times were had again at the disco on Friday night, but this time the outfits were slightly different! Have a look.

Kids Can Cook Kitchen

Last week Chris fro the Kids Can Cook Kitchen came along to show us some healthy eating tricks as well as some cooking tips. He made french crepes (yum!) and put grated apple and chopped silver beet in them! Believe it or not, nearly everyone liked them. It was Nikole's 10th birthday so she was chosen to be the Sous Chef, which is like the second in command. Everyone got to be a taste tester. Delicious!

Football Festival

On Tuesday afternoon English Park held a Female Football Festival to encourage girls to get into football. Since we are just next door, we got to take our girls and boys over to have a few games. It was a beautiful afternoon packed full of non-stop football. It was hot and thirsty work but heaps of fun. Hopefully after this, as well as the football lessons we have been having, we will have some girls and boys keen to get into football clubs. 

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

Crusaders Again!

Finley and Toby participated in the Rugby Ready course so they were lucky enough to go to a Crusaders training at Rugby Park. They got to watch the team go through some drills and play some games, then they were allowed to line up for a few signatures. Very cool!

CRUSADERS!!!

Today we got blown away by some exciting visitors. It was Zac Guildford and Tom Donnelly from the Crusaders. Toby and Finley got to meet them, ask some questions, get signatures and play a game of touch. They did this because they are doing Rugby Ready on a Wednesday afternoon. The Hagley rugby team got to meet them and Ms A was pretty excited as well! Here's what Toby and Finley thought:

Toby - It was awesome that they were able to come and play touch with us. It was interesting to find out that before their match on game day they just rest and relax.

Finley - It felt like I was in dream world when they came through the door. I learned that if you follow your dreams and work hard you'll get to where you want to go.