The Balmoral Karakia

Learning the Balmoral Karakia is an essential part of our school's history. Let's learn a bit at a time and work on the correct pronunciation. Small steps at a time people!

Karakia Te Kura o Te Roto a Rangi

Tēnei mātou te whanau
o Te Kura o Te Roto a Rangi
Here we are the community and
family of Balmoral School

Whakakahangia mātou ki te
manaaki me te tiaki i ētahi atu
Strengthen us and our ability to
respect and look after others

Whakakaūngia mātou ki ā mātou
mahi katoa kia whakapūmautia
ai ngā akoranga o tēnei rā
Help us to persist in all that we do
so that we enjoy the benefits of
our learning

Tiakina hoki tō mātou kura me
tōna taiao
Help us to work together to look
after our school community and
its environment

Tihei mauriora
Life force!

Grease Lightning!!

Over the past term we have been enjoying learning the different dance routines during our Stepz Dance classes. Our instructor taught us a variety of different dances from Latin to Hip Hop to the very popular "Grease Lightning" Although it was challenging at first to get ourselves motivated and coordinated, by the end we would be saying to ourselves "step, out, lean, out" in our sleep...Well I was:-P

Below are some photos of Room 4 in training. Post a comment and leave your thoughts about what you enjoyed about Stepz Dance this year and if you like, a message for our awesome Stepz Dance teacher:-)

What It Takes To Succeed At The Olympics

On Monday the Year 7 Syndicate was very lucky to listen to NZ Olympic swimmer, Danyon Loader speak to us about his success and all the hard work it took for him to be the "Best in the World"


He made some very meaningful comments about working hard, finding the balance between sport/education/social and is winning everything.


Post a comment about your thoughts on being the best you can be and letting that be enough. 

Balmoral Book Games

The Team: Aidan, Anton, Seamus, Alec


Table Decorating Team:


Carlos

Charlotte

Tanmayee

Lynn

Amelia

Lachlan (possibly)

Heeni

Sam

Nathan

Ngaronoa


Items that we need for the table:

White Table Cloth that has been experimented on

Models to show experiments (Sam, Callum)

Test Tubes and Beakers if possible ( Jonty)

Rockets from Science

Periodic Table (Alec)

Plasma Globe (Yonas)

Lava Lamp (Matt)

Goggles/Microscope (Charlotte)

Mirrors

Lasers

Fair play.... what is it??

When someone says to you what is fair play in sports what do you say to them?? When a football player takes a dive and fakes and injury.... or when a boxer punches below the belt.... 

Make a comment about what you think fair play is.

Stella the Magnificent

Tomorrow Stella from Room 31 will lose her lovely locks in support of leukaemia and blood cancer. Everyone at Balmoral and her friends and family are very proud of her as this is not an easy thing to do!! Check out the link below for the full article and post a comment:-)

http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/central-leader/6650144/Close-shave-for-cancer

We are the Survivors of Piha Camp 2012

Despite all weather warnings and the postponement of camp by a day, the Year 7 Turanga Whanau persisted and ventured out to Stedfast Camp at Piha for what would be an adventure!!
Although we had some rain we didn't let that get our spirits down and continued on with the activities planned. Post a comment below and share your highlights from Camp 2012:-)

Up the Mountain We Go!!!!

This term 40 students in four groups from Year 7 set off on the adventure of a life time.....To tramp up to the very top of the Pinnacles. Through bush, rivers, hills and stairs, these young warriors toughed it out to make it through. Even the story of Don Brown, "the baddest man in the whole darn town" came to life once more! The students carried all their food and cooked up a meal to keep them going. The Balmoral Habit of Persistence was key to their success. Here are some photos of the group that I tramped up with! Post a comment if you like.... but be careful what you say.....Don Brown could be watching??!!

Such a Great Song!

Destruction!!!

We are looking at response to image writing starting with the image below.

Look out for some of our finished writing soon:-)

Challengers Ready!!!!!

Today as part of a team building a problem solving activity we made structures out of paper and tape to try to support my ghost figurine. Some were very successful and some weren't:-P

This task was all about working together towards a common goal, something that we will be doing a lot of in Term 1.

Here are some photos of the madness! Post a comment if you like.

As you can see some didn't make the cut....

We're Back!!!!

Welcome back to 2012:-)

I hope you have all had a good start to the year. I wanna hear from you!

Post a comment and let me know how things are going.