Celebration Assembly

Thank you to our presenter for Celebration Assembly, James...you did a great job!

Thank you Room 18 for entertaining the audience with your dance...Don't Stop Me Now. You were amazing! Jade did a wonderful job of leading the dance.

Congratulations to our Award Recipients:

Citizenship-Natasha and Aayush

Gems-Sophia and Raymond

Leadership lessons

Thank you to all the Room 18 students who have planned and prepared to lead the class for a lesson...
Samantha-a floating and sinking experiment
Jade-making string telephones
Sienna-creating a pop out card
Jaxon, Ben, Spencer and Arlo-teaching us how to play Touch Rugby
Liam-learning about wild cats with multi-choice questions
Sophia-an experiment with M and Ms and water
Raymond- making an origami camera
Jessica-making a mini poi
Natasha-colour changing milk experiment
James-how to make a Kahoot
Bella-art design lesson
Max-maths problem with chickens and rabbits in a cage

Congratulations to Blake and Noah

Blake...thanks for presenting your exciting experiment using mentos and coke to cause a fizzy reaction, for your leadership lesson.

Noah...you are such an enthusiastic learner and you have made great progress. We are glad you moved to Sunnyhills School!

Principal's Award to Cassie

Congratulations Cassie. You lead a group showing empathy for others. You have made excellent progress with your schoolwork this year. Ka pai!

Congratulations to our Sprint finalists today

Athletics Day...well done Jaxon(4th), Jing(5th), Bella(4th) and Emily (3rd) in the sprint finals. Tu Meke!

Congratulations to Spencer

Spencer received the Kauri Syndicate award recently for being a great friend to others, showing a positive attitude and for super progress with his work. Ka pai Spencer!

Bike Track Opening

Today our new bike track was opened. Ms Driver gave a speech and Mrs Venville cut the ribbon. After that, Mrs Venville led one representative from each class around our new track. Blake represented Room 18...Ka pai Blake!

Kauri Syndicate Award to Jing

Congratulations Jing. You are a popular pupil in Room 18 because of your caring and kind ways. With your schoolwork, you have made pleasing progress. Ka Pai!

Celebrating Diwali

Today we celebrated Diwali. Aayush dressed up in his kurta. His Mum came in her salwar kameez. 

Mrs Nagpal drew a rangoli pattern on a table and we added coloured powder to the pattern. 

Vibrant colours, spectacular and breath taking result!

Principal's Certificate awarded to Jessica

Congratulations to Jessica for being an empathetic friend to others. She has put a lot of effort into her schoolwork and has made pleasing progress. Well done Jessica!

Grandparents reading to us

We were very lucky to have seven grandparents in Room 18 to read to us today. A big thank you to Kaya's Nana, Ben's Granny and Poppy, Arlo's Nana, Roman's Papa, and Caprice's Nana and Gam!

Book Character Parade

What a wonderful parade. Thanks so much Room 18 for your enthusiasm today!

Cassie Celebrating New Zealand Chinese Language Week

Cassie proudly wore her Chinese clothes on Thursday to celebrate  

her culture.

Should Dolphins Be Taken From Their Natural Habitat? by Peter

Should Dolphins Be Taken From Their Natural
Habitat?

My answer is no, why?  The reason is dolphins only have
specific feeding times and specific food but in the wild,
dolphins have the freedom to eat anything, anytime.

My second reason is that dolphins are forced to do tricks
for humans-it gives the dolphins a lot of anxiety, pressure
and stress.

Another reason is that dolphins will get very bored in a
blank aquarium.  A suggestion to those who don’t agree
with me should at least tell SeaLife to give a bit more
decoration to the aquariums.

Next reason is that they have no friends, just think about
it-a life without family or friends and being forced to act
for strangers, imagine that.

My 5th reason is that dolphins don’t have the freedom to
roam in those little tanks, it could be a big tank but they
would need to swim in circles every day but if they are in
the wild they can swim with freedom and they will think,
“I love freedom!”

6th reason here we go!  This one is because that dolphins
get excess chlorine because of the chlorine in the pool which
gives skin illness and that means that the dolphins have
only a short lifespan of only about half the time in the wild.

Next reason is that the breeding in the aquariums is hard so

the keepers have to keep on capturing the dolphins from the
wild, this is reducing the number of dolphins in the wild and
later there could be no dolphins at all!

8th reason-Don’t put dolphins in captivity, it’s not nice.

By Peter

      

Should Dolphins Be Taken From Their Natural Homes by Cassie

 In my opinion,  dolphins shouldn't be taken from their natural habitats. 

In an aquarium there isn’t a lot of space, and it’s really boring to swim
around in circles. In the clear ocean water, they can swim as far as they
like. 

In dolphin shows, they sometimes get hit in training, if they don’t do it
properly. I think that's just cruel, dolphins have feelings too. 

Also, if they take the dolphins away from the sea, into Sea World and
Kelly Tarltons, it would be like taking YOU away from home, to another
random place to live. That would make you feel lonely and sad.

Instead of taking dolphins away for people to view, you could go on a
ferry and you might see dolphins playfully jumping out of the water and
scientists would be able to see dolphins in their natural habitat, not in a
squishy little aquarium.  

Dolphins shouldn’t be taken from their homes, stuck in a tiny little
aquarium makes them bored, and they also don’t have freedom. It’s like
being stuck in a small room for your entire life.

If you are about to put a dolphin in an aquarium since you are a scientist,
you might want to reconsider.