Life Bus comes to APS

The Life Education Bus was parked at our school last week. All the classes visited Victoria at the bus for 2 lessons. At lunchtime on Friday, Harold came out to join us. The little kids were very excited.

Our Mallard Duck returns to school

For years now a duck and her drake have been visiting Auckland Point school. Yesterday she brought along her 12 ducklings. I spotted her taking them on a tour of the school, after class.
When I approached her with the camera, she called them close to her and she put her head down and she threatened my bare toes. She was saying, "Back Off, keep away from my ducklings!"
I left them with a tote tray of soggy left over lunch.
It was all gone this morning.... and so was mum duck and her family. I hope she didn't cross Haven Road!
Jack Thompson. Nov. 25th

Tideline at APS

On Friday Judy Keylock came to our school. She taught us how to do some new painting skills.

Georgia and I used blue, red and yellow for the stencils.

The class painted the tideline that is going to go up around the school, which will have the clay tiles of creatures and faces on it. The tiles went in a kiln and got fired.

I worked with Georgia.

I painted stencils, I had a special paint brush that you dabbed the paint on with it.

In the end Georgia's and my tideline turned out to be awesome! I was very proud of it.

By Sophie

Tideline at APS

Judy Keylock came to show us some new patterns we could do on the tideline.

Some of the things we did were painting, blotting, stensilling, detailing. We even used some pens to draw on the paint to make patterns in it. We also used sponges to smudge the paint.

Sahria OBrien. 8

Tideline at APS

On Friday Judy Keylock came to School. We painted some wood off the wall outside our class. First we painted then more painting and next stencils. The first colours were orange, green, white, red, silver, purple and blue. The second colours were dark blue, orange, blue, red and pink Then we used the stencils. We all enjoyed it. In the end, we all had paint on our hands.

Tideline at APS

Today Judy keylock came and taught us art skills. She told us how to paint the planks, layer by layer. First Georgia and I used light blue, then red, yellow and then we used other colours. Ours was very colourful.

Tideline at APS

Judy Keylock is a good artist at painting. She gave us a piece of wood and we painted it white. Next Matt and Noah and me brushed blue, just in parts. After that we decorated our piece of wood with patterns. Ours was white and blue and yellow. Judy Keylock said "Thats good".

Marlin. 7

Kapa Haka

String games and stick games in the hall at kapa Haka.

Jazmyn was very quick to learn how to make a cat's cradle. Lucy and Whaitiri had great timing with the sticks.

Lost in books!

Caught with noses in a great book. Alex,Manaia,Summer, Samantha and Whaitiri love to read.

Karin from Switzterland

Karin from Switzerland

Karin is a very nice lady and she is really kind and really helpful. She is full of bright ideas and good sportsmen ship. She always included people in all her games .

She loves to ski and hike and she loves to bike around the mountains. Karin has the rhythm in her soul cause she moves to the music. She liked to do Jump Jam. Her favorite food is chocolate, sausages sandwiches and Swiss cheese. She loved our school especially the kids.

She has gorgeous blond hair and tanned white skin and she is really slim and she has beautiful blue eyes. Karin always wears purple clothes and always wears jeans with her scarf around her neck and she always has a smile on her face.

Written by her friend Whaitiri

Twilight Fiesta

On Friday night there was our school "Twilight Fiesta". There was lots of stuff there. Some of the stalls and games were:

baking stalls, lolly stall, pizza stall, white elepahant stall, used clothing stall, christmas decorations stall, vegetable stall drinks stall, fish sandwiches, hot chips, sausage sizzle, baked potatoes, Spanish food and lots of others.

There were many activities for kids and adults to do like, little hot rods, plate throwing, face painting, jump jam, bouncy castle, bikes, raffles and lots more things.

This Is Karin and Belgui doing the narchos
This is Jack Thompson on his decorated bike
Duncan and Judi helped on the sausages and the fish sandwiches BBQ.
This is Beat (Bay Art) doing the helium balloons. He was good at it!
THE BOUNCY castle COST ONLY A GOLD COIN DONATION FOR A STAMP ON THE HAND THAT YOU CAN COME BACK WHEN EVER YOU WANT .
The horse that was meant to be a cow. She picked the right spot.... it was my mums spot and she won $1000.
This is the big banner that said the details for the "TWILIGHT FIESTA"

St Vincent Room Kids picked bunches of lavender from the big bush outside our room, as a fund raiser for the Twilight Fiesta. Our selling point was... Lavender helps you to sleep ( a bunch under the pillow will help you sleep all night!) and it keeps away the moths ( a bunch in your wardrobe keeps the moths out of your clothes). We hope it works! Karin lay on the carpet with the St v. Kids!! Can you spot her?

At the fiesta, Dylan and I went on the go carts. I went on the go carts by myself once and that cost $5, but the rest of the rides I went with Dylan. Dylan was crashing into every one. I was pushing the cone over, with my hands as I went by.

I really liked the Fiesta because there was heaps of things to do. Noah

At the fiesta my mum and dad helped to do cooking. My dad helped with the juicies, my mum helped with the nachos, it was beans which were real good. It had no vegetables in it at all. Mum and dad gave me money to spend. Mum gave me 5 dollars and dad gave me 2 dollars so I really had over $20. I bought STUFF!

by Paige

Rugby Players

Our Rugby Players on PhotoPeach

Science in St Vincent Room - Magnets

Science in St Vincent - Magnets on PhotoPeach

Cricket Begins. Term 4

Cricket has begun at Auckland Point School. We have 2 coaches who come on Thursdays and help us learn skills we need to play cricket.

We have catching, batting and fielding practice on the field. Karin came out to watch us.

In Switzerland they don't play cricket. She found it rather confusing and asked lots of questions.

Heat from the Sun

HEAT FROM THE SUN

Today we had some special visitors, they were Peter and Des. They are very interested in science. Des is a science teacher and Peter is an engineer.

They had a solar disc, that is like a sky dish, that has tin foil on it. Peter and Des demonstrated how to cook things on a solar disc. They even made paper burn by holding it in front of the disc. The paper smoked and then it burst into flames.

The disc used the sun to cook the pikelets. It was amazing.

Matt helped mix the pikelets and then the men put them into a pan. The pan was in front of the solar disc.

The pikelets were different because they had the secret ingredient, it was the solar energy! It was cool. We all got to try one.

Peter showed us a little plastic tug....but the really cool thing was, there was an electric motor on the boat and a solar panel on it’s roof and we put it in the swimming pool. The tug went around the green pool. When Peter put Samantha’s hat over the solar panel...it stopped!

We learnt lots of new words, like expand, parabolic and vaporize.

It was cool having 2 visitors in our class room and we learnt heaps of stuff about the solar energy.

By Jack Thompson,age 9

ABLE TASMAN WALK

As the van pulled up out side of my house ,“Are you ready YET!” Mum

shouted, “Yes I am mum’, I replied, going out the door and hopping into the van. On the way through Motueka we saw an alien in a phone box with the space ship by the side of the phone box.

We finally got to Kaiteriteri,and the boats pulled up. I didn’t know which boat we were going on but it was the Wilson's boat. It was so choppy that I almost fell off the side of the hand rails. The waves were up to the top of the boat. I got a little bit sea sick but I was okay. I was sitting by Eve on the boat. The boat stopped, “Why did the boat stop Eve?” I said.

“There is sand in the motor Jack " she told me. “

We went past a rock that looked like a mushroom, so we nicknamed it "mushroom bushroom". We all thought it was a pretty good name. We saw another one that looked like a apple split in half and its name is Split apple rock.

Then we went past a rocky kind of beach and we saw some seals camouflaged on the rocks, and the boat went slowly round it.

We pulled up on a beach that is called Torrent Bay and we were given two walk guides. They were both from the Wilson’s boat, one was named Dave and I can't remember what the other mans name was. Then we started walking around the the Abel Tasman Track all the way to Bark Bay. It took an hour and a half to get there. We all had lunch. We saw a tree from Australia that has killed an elephant because it has poisonous leaves.

The boat came to pick us up at Bark Bay and it was raining on the way back to Kaiteriteri Beach.

It was such a cool trip and I got to bring my mums old camera.

By Jack Thompson Age: 9