Spudie our potato

On the 9 Aug we planted a potato in a bucket. It is a nadine potato. Trafalgar and Nile Rooms also have a potato to plant. We are going to have a potato race. Each day we water it and put it out in the sun.
29th August
Today we saw a little leaf popping up, so we gave it our special ingredient, thats worm pee.
I will update this blog each week. Rueben

A description of Auckland Point School.

Auckland Point School is a really cool school because it's a really small school and you know everyone. My teachers name is Judi and she is a very kind teacher. Our school is a special school because it's right by Haven Road and people coming to Nelson from Blenhiem and Picton will drive right past it.
Auckland Point is special to me because my brother Sean and my Dad Steven went to school here as well. Two of the reasons I love Auckland Point is because in the summer you are allowed to go swimming in the swimming pool after school, in the weekends and in school time. The other reason I love this school is because people who like to ride their bikes can ride them on the pump track.
Our school is the only school in New Zealand that has an adopted ship. When Enterprise is docked our class is sometimes allowed to visit Skipper Lee and the forty sailors. Brenden and some other people show us around the ship and at the end of the day, our class gets fish and chips with as much tomato sauce as we want.
I've been at this school for four years and next year when I'm nine, I'll be in Mrs P's room. Auckland Point School has two iconic things they are, the palm trees and the bell tower which came off of the old two story building.
I think this School is a great school for children and preschoolers because it has a big kindergarten. I never want to leave Auckland Point School, but I guess I will have too.
By Samantha Wilson

Received message from Jim Hickey

I sent Jim the weather man, a letter and he sent me a parcel. It had TV1 news pens (five of them) one TV1 news cap and some kind of thing that you could put your keys on it (it even had a little light) I will email him again. I watch him each night. His best saying was "this conveyor belt of bad weather from Camp Penguin".

Blue Penguins

Blue Penguins are noisy birds. Blue Penguins regurgitate fish to their chicks. The chicks are covered in fluffy down. They have to get fat and get their proper feathers before they can go fishing at sea. Did you know the thin flippers helps it to swim fast in the water? In the sun you can see blue on their feathers, that's why they are called Little Blue Penguins.
by Victoria Stringer 7 years old 8 and 5 months.

Blue Penguins

In Wales where I come from there are only penguins in the zoo. I am interested in penguins because I haven't seen one, although I go out boating quite often.
Blue penguins are birds, so they lay eggs. They have feathers as well. Blue penguins have flippers to glide and steer in the water. But they are flightless. They live around the coast of New Zealand. They lay their eggs on land in burrows around beaches and bush. The parents share looking after the chick,
one parents goes fishing while the other looks after it.
Penguins live only in the Southern Hemisphere. Jasmyn Paine. 8 (and 9 in 4 months.)

Enterprise on TV1, Tuesday 23 August.

In March Celebrity Chef, Simon Gault visited Enterprise our adopted ship at sea to film a programme for TV1. He cooked breakfast,lunch and dinner for Skipper Lee and the 40 sailors. The chef cooked really yummy food and some of the sailors thought he was a very good cook.
On Tuesday evening at 8.30, 23rd of August the programme is on. We are going to watch it.

Helen, our sports coordination

Every Wednesday Helen comes to our school. She teaches us Fundermental Skills, like ball skills and lots of games. We are learning hockey skills with her. We all have real wooden sticks.
Victory Room come with us and join in our games. Helen teaches Nile Room and Trafalgar Room too.
She teaches at other schools too, but she likes teaching us best.
My favourite game is poison ball. We can play it with heaps of kids too.
by Tinneka

Fur Seals

Seals like to sunbath on the rocks and sea shores. They eat fish and sqiud but the big seal called bulls eat penguins. The females eat squid and different kinds of fish. The females are called cows. The baby seals are called cubs. The cubs live with the herd of cows and the bull, until they are 8 weeks old because they will not have water proof fur. The cub can’t leave because the seals won’t have much blubber.
The mother has live births because they are mammals, they have fur and are warm blooded. So when the cubs have turned brown they will be able to go and fish for themselves. Then by the time the cub has turned into a teenager, the cow would have been pregnant again. Whaitiri

Seals are Mammals

Seals babies are called cubs and seals have their babies in spring. The mother seal is called a cow and the father is called a bull. All seals are mammals so they are warm blooded and have live births. They drink milk until the cub is old enough to go to sea and catch fish by themselves. In New Zealand they are protected. Noah

Seals

Seals
Seals live in the north and south of the world. In New Zealand we protect seals. Some seals are called leopard, elephant and fur seals and all sorts more. Seals are mammals, they are warm blooded and have live births. The female seal is called a cow, the male is a bull or the beach master and the young are cubs. They are fur covered. Seals lie on beaches, on rocks and ice.
The seal has flippers, which help them swim fast. They swim to catch their food and can dive deep and hold their breath for a long time. Their prey is penguins, fish and squid. The seal is an agile predator. When the seal is cold, they put their flipper up out of the water and soaks up the sunlight like a solar panel.
I think seals are cool creatures. Jack

Dreaming Big Dreams

In St Vincent Room we are dreaming big dreams....What would you dream you could do when you grow up?? What's your big goal? We all talked with our parents and friends and shared our dreams. We wrote them down and laminated them. What inspired us to do this was Sally Kidson.
Sally is a reporter with the Nelson Mail, and she is doing an article on schools in the 1980's and now.
Sally went to A.P.S. in the 80's and sat on our mat in St Vincent Room when she was 6. She wrote her dream when she was at school and her mum kept it for her. She wrote "When I grow up I want to be a reporter!" and now she is!!!
We shared our class and ideas with her and she told us about her teachers, her friends(Sally has a twin who was her best friend!)what she did at lunchtime and what she liked best about school. Sally did like school. We hope we reach our goals too
We are setting our goals for Term 3 in maths, reading, writing and our social skills.

Disco photos

Everyone came to the dicso dressed up and we all had a great time. Lots of kids danced and did the macarena around the floor. Summer

School disco Term.2.

I went to the school disco in Term 2. I went as a purple fairy. Paige and Victoria were green fairies too. We danced together on the stage and the lights were shinning on us. Mum and Dad thought I was beautiful. Summer, 6.(but I'm 7 in September)

K.E.G.S

Each Wednesday I go to K.E.G.S which is Kids Edible Gardens in Schools. The person that takes it, is Lindsay Fish. Last week we planted radishes and peas. And we wondered "How a pea knows it's a pea and not a bean?". Jack Thompson

Our Hoodies

These are our Adopt a boat hoodies. We wear them when we go out to visit the museum and other places. We have an adopted fishing ship called MV Enterprise. It is a fishing factory ship, it catches fish for Talleys. Skipper Lee and the 40 sailors send us frozen fish from the bottom of the ocean and we get emails about what they are doing and interesting stuff too.
Quentin.

Rock Da House

On Wednesday St. Vincent and Nile Rooms went to Henley School to practise for Rock da House. It is a concert we are going to sing in. It is in September at the Trafalgar Centre.
We went in a bus cause Henley School is in Richmond. We sang lots of songs and did the actions too. There were lots of children from lots of schools. About 8 schools.
My favourite songs are Hey Soul Sister and Black Horse in the Cherry Tree.
Whaitiri

Beach Scavenger

In the holidays, I made a bird out of feathers, shells and drift wood that I found on the beach. I call it a "Beach Scavenger."
A few days after I had collected the things, I got the glue gun out and started to glue. It took a couple of days to finish my bird but it was worth it. My bird looked amazing.
Samantha Wilson

Our classroom, St Vincent Room

Our classroom is a big room with lots of stuff. Dylan

Penguins and Seals

This is Percy Penguin. He is our class penguin, who is stuffed. Percy was hit by a car at Paton's Rock in Golden Bay many years ago. He was given to St Vincent Room children. We have emailed Enterprise to ask them to help us find answers to some of our questions about penguins and seals.

Alex Donnelly. aka Jim Hickey,weatherman

St Vincent Room
Auckland Point School
111 Haven Road
Nelson.

Dear Jim Hickey
My name is Alex and I do the weather every morning just like you do for my class. My teacher Judi thinks I am as good as you. To do the weather, I watch you every night on 1 News. I have been doing the weather for 2 years and I want to do it until I move to the next class [which is next year].
I am a year 3 but my teacher treats me like a year 4. We have class gardens and a pump track and we have a big leftover hill of clay and we are going to turn it into eco huts. We have a school swimming pool and a great big, big field which is good for playing sport. We have done lots of trips, and even met Andy Dalton. Did you know we have an adopted ship, it is M V Enterprise and they email us about what they are up to and where they are in the ocean. My favourite trip was when we went to the Boulder Bank and ambushed the second load of kids that came on the little ferry, the Waka-to-&-fro. What is it like as a weather man? What do you do before you go on TV? What do you do after you do the weather? Do you do the weather live? How many times do you go on TV each day, cause I only see you at 6.45.
I want to be in the army and be a general. But maybe generals need to know what the weather is going to do.
From Alex D and the St.Vincent kids of Auckland Point School. St Vincent Room
Auckland Point School
111 Haven Road
Nelson.

Kapa Haka

Kapa Haka is now on Friday morning and we have a new teacher, Whaia Tania. The first lesson was about making pois. We worked in family groups and most children completed two pois.
In this photo Jack supported Shay and Emma from Trafalgar Room