Swimming

We have had a wonderful time at the Kaiapoi Temporary Pool over the last few weeks. We have been learning how to: kick properly , float on our front and back, dolphin dive, swim underwater, breaststroke, backstroke, freestyle, caterpillars and building our water confidence. 

Jesus' First Miracle

Patterns

We have been learning about patterns this week in maths. We have been learning to create, describe and continue patterns. We have discovered that patterns repeat and that there is a rule to describe the repetition. (For instance, after you have clapped, you stomp your feet and after stomping your feet you clap)

Here are a couple of videos.  You can view all the videos in the media gallery at the top of this page.

See how many different patterns you can spot around home.

Laura Fairweather Paralympic Champion

Today we had a visit from paralympian Laura Fairweather she won a bronze, silver and GOLD medal at the paralympics earlier this year. She is the pilot of a paralympic tandem cycling team and rides with Phillipa Gray. She visited our school today and let us hold her medals it was very exciting, especially holding the gold medal. She spoke to us about achieving her goals and how hard she trains. 

Welcome to Rata Robotland

We have had a wonderful week creating robots. We came up with our design ideas and then we tried them out. We had to make some modifications because of the shape of the boxes. We then had to wrap all our boxes in paper or tinfoil. We then painted and added lots of recycled materials to create our spectacular robots. We are looking forward to writing stories about our robot adventures.

Welcome to Rata

This week we have begun to make our robots. We are lucky enough to have a new member in our class   for the next week. He has created a lot of excitement and is a stunning robot. Meet our class dalek.

St Patrick's School Fair

We have been busy painting pots in Rata to sell at the school fair. First we had to paint the pots white and wait for them to dry. Then we thought about the colours and design we wanted to paint on our pot. We looked at lots of other pots to get ideas. After we had painted our design on we looked at everyone else's pots to get some more ideas. Then we added more detail to our own pot including glitter and sparkles. Then Mrs McRandle sprayed the pots with some stinky clear spray paint to make the pots shiny. Last of all we put a beautiful pansy plant in our pots. We think they look spectacular and hope they all sell at the fair.

They are $5.00 each and made with lots of enthusiasm.