The Senior Syndicate are making puppets, a person in the crowd watching the Rugby World Cup. Room 11 people are mostly on to painting the faces. I can see that there are puppets sponsoring teams from some other countries. Most people painted their face to represent the All Blacks. Mine is sponsoring the All Blacks as well!
By: Annie Lee
T.N.I.S
On Wednesday 7th the Year 6 children who are going to T.N.I.S in 2012 went there for a visit. I was so excited. I had a ride in a bus and sat on the chair. The bus arrived at T.N.I.S and Annie and I and other children went to a kitchen. The teacher talked and divided us half and half. One team went to the science room and another team didn't go. I was on the science team and we made torches.
By: Jane Son
F.P.S
Future Problem Solving
On Tuesday the 5 of September,
the Year 6 FPS group did an exam.
Our topic was Water Quality.
All students participated in groups of 4.
The test took 2 hours and it started at about 9 o’clock.
Everyone was very excited...but some were more
nervous than ever!!!
There are 6 stages.
The first step is challenges.
We identified problems from a futuristic scenario.
The second step is the U.P.
(U.P stands for Underlining Problems)
We wrote down the best problem.
The third step is solutions
We created our own futuristic solutions that help solve our U.P.
The fourth step is the criteria-Questions-
We wrote down 5 questions that are related to our U.P.
e.g. Which solution will be the easiest to manufacture?
The fifth step is applying the criteria.
We choose the 5 best solutions and grade them from 1 (worst) - 5(best) and we added up the total. The one with the most points is our group’s solution to our problem.
The sixth step is the Action Plan.
For our Action Plan we wrote down who will provide the product, when it will help us, where it will take place and how it will solve the problem.
At last we were finished!!!!!
Our papers got taken to the office in Orewa on Wednesday, to be marked by judges.
The judges get 1 group of papers from each school,
when the papers get sent back we can check the comments and feedback , we also get marked from 3 or 7 groups (the best group gets marked a 1).
It would be great if one of Sunnybrae’s FPS groups got in the finals.
By Christine Sim and Sian Stuart-St.Clair
SPORTS EXCHANGE
Last week Rooms 11, 12 and 13 had a sports exchange with St Marys School. Tapuae, netball, ripper rugby and soccer were the four different games you could choose from. The tapuae and soccer teams stayed and played at Sunnybrae, the netball teams went to the AMI Netball Center and the rugby teams went to Onewa fields. It was it was a beautiful sunny day and while I was playing netball I was dripping with sweat and thirsty all the time. Luckily I had a water bottle with me because I really needed it!
My team lost two games and won one game. I would like to do it again sometime!
By Priyanka
Sports Exchange
On Friday we had our sports exchange.
I played rippa rugby.
I think lots of people were hogging the ball and not passing, so thats probably why we lost both of our games. But its not all about winning, it’s about having fun.
Jayden got a blood nose and had to go back to school in a car.
David and Jayden were the try scorers.
Next time I would like a bigger field because people were running out of the boundary.
I think that having fun is important, more important than winning.
By Liam Greenacre
Sports Exchange
On Friday we had our sports exchange.
I played rippa.
A sports exchange is a time where we meet up with another school and play sport.
There were four different sports, taupae, soccer, rippa rugby and netball. I think that it’s not important that we win or lose, having fun is the most important thing overall. I think we all had fun no matter what sport we played. Fair play is important too. It felt good when I got the rugby ball I ran as fast as I could and tried to get a try or ripping a rip off an opponent. In my opinion it doesn't matter what sport we play, its either sport or no sport.
By Angus Avery
Last Friday Sunnybrae had a sports exchange with St Marys Primary School.
It was a hot sunny summery afternoon when we started walking down to Onewa. There were four different sports we could choose from soccer, netball, rippa and tapuae. I chose netball. Most of us were in the same teams for netball as on a Wednesday night. Soccer and tapuae stayed at Sunnybrae, while netball and rippa went down to Onewa. Luckily it wasn’t muddy on the fields. St Marys teams were quite good at netball. We only won two out of our three games. Some of our girls were being a bit silly fighting over their positions.
Overall I think everyone had fun and worked together as a team.
