Who wants to be a millionaire? Abel Tasman

Who wants to be a millionaire copy 2 from Sussexgirl

Move It Day for Caritas

On Wednesday 16 April the students of Saint Paul’s School, Richmond, Nelson participated in a fund raising day to raise money for the Caritas Solomon Islands Appeal. The first part of the day saw the students doing wide range of physical activities to benefit the school. The activities ranged from pulling weeds and mulching the school gardens to collecting rubbish and sweeping the classroom courtyards. At lunchtime the children were able to buy lunch for a gold coin donation and this was followed by fun lunchtime activities such as jump jam, tennis and scooters. At the end of lunch they all gathered to have a photograph taken with the Solomon Islands flag that was provided by one of the children who have family and friends who come form the Solomon Islands. The day raised $350.00

Scooter Safety

This week we had some visitors to our school who showed us how to fit our cycling and scootering helmet properly. They taught us the "two finger" rule. 1. You should only be able to get two fingers between your chin strap and your chin. 2. You should only have a two finger width between the top of your eyebrows and the edge of your helmet. 3. Your strap should fit neatly, either side of your ears, like a "V" for victory sign. We also found out how to check and cross safely at the zebra crossing and across driveways. Safe scootering everyone!

Visiting Bishop's School, Nelson

We had a taste of what it would be like to be a child in Victorian times when we visited the Bishop's School. We had to line up in silence, wait until we were told to sit down, read all together from the blackboard, do an arithmetic test and do copperplate handwriting.

A visit to the Suter Art Gallery

We had an enjoyable visit to the Suter Art Gallery in Nelson. We looked at paintings from an exhibition called"Sunstroke". All the paintings had bright, hot summer colours. Esther showed us how to look closely at the paintings and choose one colour that really stood out to our eyes. Then we looked At  the two to three colours that were surrounding that colour to see why those colours made the first colour look so bright. After that we took those three colours and created our own picture.

"T" is for Tasman

We spent a morning travelling around our local area on a red double decker bus looking at lots of places of interest. We visited the Abel Tasman statue in Tahunanui, the settlers memorial wall and statue on Wakefield Quay, Founders Park and the birthplace of Ernest Rutherford in Brightwater.

Welcome to Kea Class 2014! We hope you enjoy checking out what we have been learning by following our blog this year.