Sunday, 15 September 2013

Cheer-leading Success


Congratulations to Abby and her sister for gaining Gold in the Cheer-leading Tournament in Auckland at the weekend. Abby, Jorja and Millie gained Silver. 

Friday, 13 September 2013

Excellent chess playing

Congratulations to our Halswell A chess team who recently played at the South Island Tournament. They had tough games against some Dunedin teams and Cobham A and B and ended up in fifth place nbeing narrowly beaten by the Cobham teams on points.
Well done Nash, Eddie, Jack and Tatenda.

Breakers Training

Watching the Breakers Training




More progress on the foundations

The ground has been dug out around the piles. a wooden edging is up and gives an idea of the size.

Sunday, 25 August 2013

New Build Piles

Exciting progress being made. this video was taken after school and is very close to our building. The piles driven in earlier today were not as loud or as shaky.


Exc

Thursday, 22 August 2013

Canterbury Chess Tournament - A successful result.

Tatenda and Jack concentrating.

Eddie and Nash

Off to the South Islands thanks to a third placing.

Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Hockey teams at the Tournament at Burnham



Piles at Last

This could be a slow process. I thought it would shake the building more. Feel the thuds as it goes in deeper.








Good progress on Thursday.

Giving instructions in Spanish

Putting the face parts in place while blindfolded. practising instructions.






Monday, 5 August 2013

Zone Netball

A lovely warm day for netball! A few wins and losses for each team :-)

Sunday, 4 August 2013

Chess Tournament at Rolleston.

A successful day at Rolleston with our A team coming second in the A grade which qualifies them for the Canterbury Tournament in Week 4. Our C team came second in the B-Grade. Congratulations to all players.  I was proud of how you played and behaved during the day.










Some progress on new build being made.



Tuesday, 2 July 2013

kids blog

Hi Team, I have set you up with a kidsblog for your writing. Use the link and update your profile. You can choose an Avatar. Start writing!!
Mrs Townsend

Monday, 1 July 2013

Finally some action on the field.


A truck became stuck in the mud while trying to dump a load of shingle. The digger had to tow it along to dump the load, before towing it out. 


Sunday, 30 June 2013

Mt Cook Photos

Aoraki Mt Cook 1 on PhotoPeach

Becky's music festival audition results.

Becky has just found out that she got into the concert band in the Christchurch schools music festival playing clarinet !!!

Sunday, 23 June 2013

Forensics - what do you think has happened.

In the comment box put your thoughts about this scene? How could we work out what has happened and who is involved?

Thursday, 20 June 2013

Science fun


Fun making casein plasticky substance from milk and slime from borax and PVA glue.