EPAC/Dance Troupe Performance

Today the Senior Extension Performing Arts groups performed 4 shows:

9am for the Year 0-4

10:30am for a local kindy

11:30am for the Year 5-8, and 

1:30pm for another local kindy. 

The show was really enjoyable!  Well done!

Dance Troupe - Dance 1

Dance Troupe - Dance 2

EPAC Nursery Rhymes - Louie as Humpty Dumpty

EPAC - Max Cr. as a sheep

EPAC - Eliza as Hickery Dickery Dock

EPAC - Final scene

EPAC - Final scene

Young Writers Workshop

A few weeks back, 3 talented writers from each Year 7/8 class were selected to attend a two-day Young Writers workshop at school.  The workshop focused on how to create an effective radio play.  They worked on character creation, writing dialogue, completing a story rather than letting it hang unfinished, caring for the audience's needs and creating sound effects. 

This afternoon, the group went to Plains FM from 4-5:30pm, to record the radio play that they wrote in Week 1.  

Over the next couple of weeks, Plains FM is going to work on adding sound effects and tidying things up.  In about two weeks, the play will be broadcast for all to hear.  It will be broadcast during school hours so that the whole school can tune in (likely after lunch) and then again at night (so families can listen together).

There will also be a podcast on the Plains FM website for us to download and enjoy forever!

The play is absolutely hilarious!  I particularly like the character named Mr Callaghan! 

Stay tuned for the broadcasting date and time!

Clara, Loui, Conal, Lachlan, Rosa, Adam, Dominic, Eliza, Ben, Holly R., Evelyn and Rosie

Plains FM link to other radio plays http://plainsfm.org.nz/news/radio-plays-create-buzz/

Room 18 Mt Thomas tramp Thursday

We are still waiting on some outdoor education permission forms for Thursday.  Please bring these in tomorrow!

Also, we still need another parent helper.  Thanks Anna and Arne for offering parent help!  Anyone else available?

A notice with further details will be sent home with Room 18ers tomorrow.

Room 19 will be staying back at school with me to study forensics on Thursday.

Due Date Reminders

If you are applying to be considered for the Year 8 Performing Arts Cup, your submission package is due to Miss Rowe by this Friday 6th November.

If you are applying to be considered for the Year 8 Visual Arts Cup, your visual art portfolio is due to Mrs Pateman by Monday 16th November (Week 6).  Please check requirements under the Home Learning tab - on the Arts slide.

*Year 7s who submit a visual art portfolio as per the Term 4 Home Learning, will be eligible for a Senior Success Badge.

Show your rugby colours day!

Elements of the Periodic Table writing

Recently the students did some creative writing around an element of the periodic table.

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Where do we start...

You might think that calcium is the ingredient for making your bones grow strong but actually I am a metal. People say that I am very light for a metal

With an atomic weight of 20.078, but actually I am more than just a metal I help to make up the earth, being the fifth most abundant element in the earths crust.

        

My beautiful wife scandium is one of the most elegant metals in the periodic table, but then my neighbour on the other hand is so stuck up and she is only the eighth most abundant element on earth, at least I am higher than her.

I was adopted by Sir Humphrey Davy and he is one of the most cleverest chemists of all time, when he passed away he was remembered by his  discoveries of alkali and alkaline earth metals.

My job is to produce the minerals contained in bones, shells and teeth.

I hope you have learned a lot about me because if I weren’t alive you wouldn’t be either. I am off to the salon to have a glass of milk (champagne) and to be polished.

By Lily and Lydia :D

Howdy partners, my name's Idiom, let me tell y’all about my next door lover… Tinny-Boy.

     We first met when Demetri Mendeleeve placed us together in the Periodic Table. At first sight we knew we were placed together because of the Chemistry we had between us, coincidence I think not!

     I think about him everyday, I think about his atomic weight- 119, his all positive protons 50, his number of neutrons 69. 

 I also think of his soft, pliable figure that turns to a powder under 13 degrees, but he doesn’t need to worry about that… I’ll keep him warm!

     I think he loves me too, because I always see him spying on me through his tin cans, over the black line that separates us.

     His oh so sexy symbol keeps me awake all night as I chant it over and over… SN SN SN.

     I hope later on that the tiny black line that separates our love can be broken and then we will see what chemical reactions we can create… His name is Tin.

Written by Lauren and Evelyn.

Term 4 Home Learning

For those Year 8s who are close to achieving 1 Gold Success Badge in each category, you may want to set some goals around Home Learning this term so that you can recieve a Distinction award at the Year 8 Graduation.

Year 7s, are there some categories that you should be targetting this term?  With the long term goal of achieving 5 badges in each category and a Gold badge in each category... which areas are you lighter in?

The slides can be enlarged by clicking on the arrows.  If you'd like a printed copy of Home Learning, please ask Mr or Mrs P next week.  Best to get cracking, because some of the tasks are due shortly, e.g. Art Portfolio is due Monday 16th November, Week 5.