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.

Happy Holidays

Holidays are finally here! I would just like to say that this years class was awesome. Each and every one of them contributed to the class in same shape or form. You will all be missed a lot!

Keep aiming high and push yourselves to the max.

Happy holidays and all the best for 2012.

Matt

"Citizenship Companies"

This term for rich task we were divided into 5 “companies”, in which we have a specific role in the classroom. The companies were:

· AlphaMedia-the media team

Xerox-the environmental engineers

· Wizbang-the technology team

· Ace Fitness-the health and fitness team

· M.Y.S.T-the logistics team

We were given tasks to complete as a team, and each company employee were appointed titles such as CEO, CFO, HR, and the rest were team members. Even though the team members did not get a title, they still helped out as much as they can and worked well. AlphaMedia had a great time during this term, what do you think?? Please post your thoughts.

"Artz Festival Twenty Eleven"

Last week we had the first stages of the annual Balmoral Arts Festival. Over three days students created some amazing art work that will be displayed at the Arts Festival Open Evening in Term 4. The students also enjoyed performances in the form of singing, dancing, music and theatre sports. A highlight for Room 4 was watching the dance performances of Holly, Issie and Maria and also the singing of Dom, Caitlyn and Khadija. Post a comment and share your highlights from Art Week 2011.

Room 4's Super Gymnasts

A couple of weeks back two of the "superstars" from Room 4 - Ayla and Maria competed at the AIMS Games in Tauranga. They were lucky enough to be photographed in the Bay of Plenty Times newspaper. Here are their pics!

Response to Image Writing - Term 3

As a result of a lot of hard work in Room 4 we have make excellent progress in our writing and have really been "making our writing come alive." Above is a photograph taken by a photographer named Margaret Bourke-White from the Buchenwald Concentration Camp in Germany, 1945. From your writing I would like you to post a couple of your best sentences from your story. Remember to focus on language that paints a picture in the reader's mind.