Open Day

On the  6th of August it was the open day for Balmacewen. Students came to our school from all across Dunedin to check out what we do here at Balmac. I was assigned to help in the fabrics room. We had some great fun making hanging decorations. I thought the year 6's did very well, some struggled but at the end of the day they had a great product. It went for the whole day and I enjoyed it a lot. There where also other technology classes open that the students from different schools went to such as Art, Hard Materials, Cooking, Robotics and of course Fabrics. The process of making the hanging decoration was fun. First of they had to pick 2 shapes of the same design to sew together. They next had to pick a button of there choice to sew onto there shape. After they had completed that they sewed a ribbon onto the top of there back piece of fabric. There where lots of different ribbons they they could choose from. The next stage of the process was to sew together there two pieces making sure they had sewn on the button and the ribbon. they didn't sew all the way up they left a little gap so they could stuff the inside of there decoration with fluff. They thanked us helpers and left with a cool hanging decoration! I'm glad that there are going to be lots of friendly faces to see next year at Balmac!

By Solomon

Here are some finished products made by the Year 6 students:

 

Mandarin

Ne How

Over the past two weeks room13 has been learning Mandarin with our Lao Shi (Our Teacher).

Here is a video of us singing our first song.

The name of the song is Ne how(Hello)

Volleyball

Volleyball

This week we have been learning volleyball skills. Some of the skills are the  dig, serve and the underhand serve. One of the skills I did not like is the dig because it hurt my arms.

The one thing I like about volleyball is learning the underhand serve.

The way you do the underhand serve is place the ball on the bad hand and swing your good hand towards the ball, then hit it with the top of the palm.

We all had fun learning some new skills with the volleyball.

KFC Not so Good For Rainforests

Green Peace has been trying hard to stop the rainforests being destroyed by KFC using mulch from the trees to make there packaging. 

The Colonel’s been keeping his chicken fresh with packaging made from rainforests. Despite the impact on Sumatran tigers KFC have been using rainforest packaging made by Asia Pulp and Paper, a company also exposed for using illegal timber. KFC thinks turning the tigers’ home into trash is timber rippin’ good – but rainforest makes revolting packaging.

We need thousands of people to join the revolt to change the Colonel’s secret recipe for destruction. Sign up by creating your own revolting packaging. Pick a character, fill in your details and watch them come to life. Then share with your friends and build up the biggest revolt. GET revolting!

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Fractions in action

Cross Country

Cross country

The 2013 cross country was an extravaganza.

All room thirteen pupils tried their hardest.

When I started running nearly everyone was trying really hard to get to the front some people ran competitive and others ran for fun.

When we got up to running past the large turf (where the crowd was situated) the crowd was roaring, cheering for Lynn,Chapman,Highgate and shetland.

Their raucous cries could be heard from the far side of the track.

On the second lap I got so puffed I had to take a break, after that I ran until I got to the finish.

I came 68th.

I then walked to the house scoring desks and gave my placing to the lynn score representative.

One room 13 student Emese came 11th place which was an excellent place and there are many others that did welll.

-Kelvin  

Ballet at school

Ballet

On the 29th of July, at 1:20 pm, Room 13 were heading down to the dance room in the PAC (performing arts centre), for ballet. Every year at Balmacewen Intermediate, the Royal Society of Ballet, up in Auckland sends a representative down to the school to teach the year seven students ballet.

Soon Hannah, the dance instructor had us all running around, and when she said stop, we all had to stop.We played a number of different variations, and then all lined up in 3 rows. Then Hannah began teaching us the 5 different feet positions, and after that the 5 arm positions. She told us about the 3 most important  things in ballet (posture, turnout and pointer toes), and also impressed upon us the importance of strength and flexibility. She taught us sautes, plies, tendus,ton-leve, enchainments and port-de-bras.After that we covered mime and choreography, and at the end we had a talk about ballet shoes. Everyone in room 13 enjoyed learning about ballet, and we look forward to doing it again sometime.

By Daniel Scott.