Fingers crossed for fine weather tomorrow!

Hi all

The weather forecast is still a bit dodgy for tomorrow so remember to check this blog tomorrow morning and listen to 97.4 More FM for cancellations.

Before you leave the house please check you have:
-warm clothing
-a rain jacket
-sturdy footwear
-a packed lunch
-a drink bottle
-a hat
-sunscreen

-a torch (if you want)

-A SUPPORTIVE AND POSITIVE ATTITUDE :-)

Fingers crossed for fine weather.!

Web address for angles

http://www.mathsisfun.com/angles.html

Nigel Brown Art Evening

Again a big well done to all those students who worked hard on their Nigel Brown inspired art works. Here is a pic from the special evening held at Summerset Retirement Village (thanks Mrs Tasi-Cordtz). I'm looking forward to hearing how Room 13 students went!

The inFORM

Check out the video of the inFORM. Exciting new technology.

 If you want to know more follow this link Stuff article to an article on the stuff news website :-)

Get excited and get writing

Entries are now open for the prestigious Balmacewen Writing Competition. The criteria is very open this year so you can let your imagination (and your pen) run wild. Check out the details and get writing :-)

Balmacewen Intermediate Writing Competition 2013.pdf

Special guests

Balmac students were treated to some special visitors on Wednesday with the Championship winning Otago Volts coming to speak to the school in our new and improved hall. Volts players answered questions put to them by Room 7 students, sharing some of their experiences and offering words of wisdom to their audience.

Nigel Brown inspired art

Throughout the start of this term Room 13 have been working on creating their own work of art based around the art of New Zealand artist Nigel Brown. This Wednesday the class voted on their favourite pieces and the top 5 were selected to go on display at the Summerset Retirement Village.

It was a very close race for the top 5 spots with some real skill on display. The lucky 5 to make it through, as voted by their peers, were Alannah, Taylah, Solomon, Niwa and Abe.

Maths link - nets

Follow the link to the geometry info page and game for nets:

Info page for nets

Nets game

Celebrate the good, shame the bad

As many of the speeches from term 3 mentioned, packaging of products can have harmful consequences if not properly disposed of. Even if the packaging is put in the rubbish it still takes up valuable space in the landfill and uses precious resources (often oil) to be made just to be dumped.

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle is a familiar catch phrase. Reduce is best, if you can reduce then make sure to reuse, and failing that recycle. 

Below is a link to Unpackit Packaging Awards. Follow the link and vote for the best and worst packaging from the 16 finalists. 

http://www.unpackit.org.nz/

This link was forwarded to me by the Dunedin Curtain Bank - a non-profit community organisation (see article for more on them -  ODT Article).

Make sure you select Dunedin Curtain Bank from the drop down list when you vote as they could win $1,500 to help more Dunedin residents.

Voting is open until 8th November so get your friends and family to vote.