Marahau Camp 2016

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Where's Woolly?

Students from the Nelson boys College visited Room 6 today promoting their business studies project 'Where's Woolly'. Based on the popular children's book, the HSS children had to locate key characters in the visual book.

This was part of a spot of market research for the boys project, but was a great insight into how projects work in the senior school.

We discussed the similarities with our genius hour projects and explained how planning, research, trying and failure are common skills that we have faced along the way.

Swim sports

Camp at Marahau 2016

The year 5's from Room 6 joined Room 3 in world famous Abel Tasman National park for four exhilerating days of fun-packed activities, marvellous food and continuous adventure. We had the opportunities to face our fears in the glow-worm caves and heading out on a night walk and the Bhurma trail. Challenging ourselves in assembling tents at Anchorage and a testing 5hr walk in the Tasman heat. We worked collaboratively designing and creating sand castles, palaces and kingdoms. Solving problems through Orienteering, treasure maps and beach activities. We took risks in trying new water sports, trying new foods and spending 4 days away from our families.

I was really proud of the positive attitudes and teamwork demonstrated throughout the week. A huge thankyou goes to all the parents that helped out throughout a hugely exhausting week.

Camp preparations

Room 6 embarked on the HSS field, armed with tents and a positive attitude with intent on developing their teamwork. Children were not able to talk and therefore had to use a range of creativity and body language to assemble the tents ready to be used on next weeks camp.

It was quite an eye-opening for many members of Room 6, realising that it wasn't quite as easy as initially thought. But as the old overused cliche goes "Teamwork makes the Dream work!"

Chess club

A great start to the term saw the beginning of Chess club. A class full of problem-solving enthusiasts, armed with their lunch, positive attitude and competitive spirit has created a real buzz throughout the syndicate. All the children have taken the opportunity to compete with one another in a friendly, welcoming environment.

Mandarin projects

Emma has been supporting Room 6 with their China projects. We have been learning Mandarin and to further our understanding, we are expanding our knowledge with independent projects about the food, fashion, culture, history and particular areas of interest.

library visit

Today, Room 6 visited Nelson library to support our 40-book challenge. A typical warm summers day in Nelson greeted the HSS children in the short walk down. Penny was helpful in providing us with an insight to the incredible selection available. It was great to see so many young passionate readers and behaving impeccably well in a public place. Now the Room 6 bookworms are ready to take the challenge and try some new pieces of literature.