Beach Clean

To conclude our topic of "Citizenship", the whole of Poutama syndicate did a "beach clean". Some classes walked to Waikanae Beach, collecting rubbish on the way. Others drove to Midway Beach and collected rubish along the beach to Midway. Once there we made huts, played on the playground and enjoyed a yummy lunch.

Blokes Day

We had a great day when dads, grandads and other good blokes came along for Blokes Day.

 

Oliver, Talia, Hirday and Liam achieved credits (top 14%) in  the recent New South Wales tests.

Awewsome!

 

 

 

 

 

Poutama Olympics

The mini Olympics were fantastic.

2012 Cross Country

 Congratulations to all the Poutama students who ran in our cross country.

Personification Poems

Room 10 has been learning about personification. Personification is when non-living things are given human characteristics.
Here are some of our poems.

The Tunnel

The tunnel laughs when children climb over it.

 It moans when the rain starts to pour.

The rain stops - it’s happy again.

 The tunnel  loves hearing  children whispering secrets that no one will  ever hear.

Its night time - the tunnel gets lonely and it’s sad again.

By Luka.

         Grass

The bushy grass feels joyful when it softens somebody’s fall.

It feels dead when a bird digs a hole to find worms.

Grass is sad and lonely when some of its family gets mowed over.

Grass is happy when it gets water to drink from the rain.

It feels squished when kids stand on it on their way out to play.

The grass begins to droop when it gets scorching hot.

By Finn 

Puddle

When the puddle hears someone coming he hopes they don’t step on him.

When it pours down with rain the puddle gets excited because it wants to get bigger.

When the puddle smells hot salty chips it licks its lips.

The people splash in the puddle so it wets them and they have to change their clothes.

The puddle is so sad because its best friend dried up.

By Tyler

The Rain

The Rain makes a tune when it bangs onto the ground.

It moans when the sun comes out and they make a rainbow together.

The rain loves to give everything a great clean.

It loves to wet my hair when I go outside.

The Rain builds circles when it drops into a puddle.

It feels relaxed when it trickles down the slide.

The Rain slowly dies when it falls into a fire.

The Rain feels excited when it runs down the pole like a water slide.

It feels happy when it soaks in the ground.

By Marisa

The leaves wave at us when they see us inside.

They get hurt when the wind blows them from their home.

 The leaves are sad when they see their friends still in the tree.

 

 The leaves moan when they get stepped on.

They get sick and die.

 By Brody

New Websites

Here's two great web sites to explore.

Kiwi Kids News - Get your news here!

e Ako maths - awesome maths site!

Brody's Morning Tea win

Brody from room 10 won the recent "lunch online" competition and received a wonderful morning tea from Wild Food. It was delicious! Thankyou Brody and Wild Food.

Abstract Tikis

A few weeks ago Room 11 walked down to the museum. We learnt about Pablo Picasso
 who was a famous artist. We produced some tikis using Cubism. They are just awesome!

Cory Recital

Cory typed out and recited Magaret Mahy's famous "Down the back of the chair". Have a look!

Room10

Swimming Sports

This Friday, 2 March.
11am.  Please come and support Poutama Syndicate.

More Triathlon Pictures

Thanks to Yoko Houthuijzen and Justine Crawford for these pictures. Enjoy!

Poutama Triathlon 2012

We hope you enjoy these photos. Thanks again to all those that helped out.

Room 11 Children on their first day at school 2012. We are all big Year 3 and 4 children and we are all ready for for a new year of learning.