Cultural Diversity Day

Cultural Diversity Day

At Kilbirnie School we have so many children from different countries around the world.  To mark this special day we held our annual special assembly. We sang songs from different countries then each class was invited to stand up and share an item relating to diversity. In Rm 1 all the children  made a flag representing the country they were born in, or where their parents were from. They stood in assembly, said hello in their own language and introduced themselves, stating which country they were representing.  Some of our children even dressed up in their national costume.

Namaste my name is Sai and I come from
INDIA

Yassou my name is Gabriella and I come from
GREECE

Kia Orana my name is Millie and I come from the
COOK ISLANDS

                                                         

Cross Country

Every year Kilbirnie School holds its Cross Country Event at Hataitai Park.

We buddied up with Rm 10, then the whole school set off to walk over to the course.

It began with the Year two girls running first and after a warm up session with Mrs Patel, the race began.  We only had to do one lap of the course and it was so exciting listening to all our friends cheering us on. There were lots of parents there too.

Next race was the Yr 2 boys, followed by the Yr 1 girls and finally the Yr 1 boys. After Ngake Hub, the Yr 3 children had to run two laps of the course.  As we were very tired after running just one lap, we know we need to practice our running ready for next year.

Exploration Time

On Friday afternoons the Ngake Hub have Exploration Time where we create explore and construct using a range of different materials. It’s fun because we get to play with our friends from other rooms and try different things. This week we were allowed to explore the space around the Playcentre. The water pump and outdoor music maker were both fun to tryout. Outside Room 3 there were two science experiments. In the first one we had to guess whether objects would float or sink then test them in the water trough.

In the second, we experimented pushing a plastic cup with a tissue into a container of water. Surprisingly the tissue didn’t get wet! 

Other activities include play dough, dress ups, crafts, painting and construction. We love Exploration time on Fridays! 

Life Education

Every two years Kilbirnie School invites Life Education to come along to teach us about Looking After Ourselves. We chose to study "What does our body need to stay healthy and happy?"
For those of you who do not know about Harold well here he is!!!!!!

 

This is his best friend Charlotte, who travels with him all around Wellington. They visit lots of different schools and we have so much fun when we go into the caravan. Today Harold had to decide which cereal was best for him and we helped him to decide by looking at the different cereals and finding out about which one had lots and lots of sugar in it. We told Harold the cereal with lots of sugar in in was not healthy. The next visit we sorted foods out into three different categories.:-
Go To Food              Fruit, vegetable and cereals
Sometimes Food       Dairy products, fish and meat
Occasional Foods     Sweet foods

We will be sad to see Harold leave and look forward to seeing him in 2021.

Rugby Training Sessions

We were very excited when we found out that a member of the Wellington Axeman Rugby Club was coming to give us coaching sessions.  We have had two sessions with Jamie and each time we started off with warm up games followed by a skills session.  We did lots of fun games like running in and out of the cones and  throwing and catching the ball to our buddy. The coach thought we were very fast at our running skills and maybe one day we will represent New Zealand playing rugby.

Next term we look forward to going to the ASB  where we will be taught gymnastic skills.

Monarch Butterflies

Last week Mrs Patel brought a swan plant into Rm 1 with two Monarch Caterpillars and some eggs on it. We watched the caterpillars get bigger and bigger, as they munched on the leaves. Baby caterpillars hatched out of the tiny eggs that were hiding under the leaves. The caterpillars gobbled up all the leaves on the first plant, so we had to get a second swan plant for them to eat. After a week the biggest caterpillar found itself a good position and started curling up.  Within 2 days it had turned into a beautiful green chrysalis with gold dots. For 10 days we waited patiently, until eventually the chrysalis got darker. On Monday, we came to school and were excited to see a Monarch Butterfly sitting on our swan plant, pumping its wings. It was orange and black with white dots all around the edges of its wings. We knew that it was a female because it didn't have two black dots on its hind wings. When it was strong enough we took our Monarch Butterfly outside into the garden and set it free.