Follow's last day at HNS

Tomorrow I (Mr Walker) have to send Follow, the kidsedchatnz mascot, onto his next holiday destination. He is heading off to Broadlands School but first we let him and Action Man have some fun times together and got some photos of Follow having fun At our school.

Matariki Celebrations at Corbans Art Centre

Matariki

On Wednesday  26 June some Henderson North School students went to Corban Art Centre to learn about Matariki

Matariki means seven stars and the Matariki Celebrates the maori new year. Other schools watched the performance with us. We learn how to      play the maori flute the flute is made out of  bamboo. It was interesting to learn about the maori 

culture. The maori flute name is koauau.  

By Jordan

Boy vs Beast

Boy vs Beast

This book is about a Boy vs Beast. The boy fought the beast, it looked ugly.

Kai shot with a crossbow and shot it with a crystal and made the beast die. The beast got cured by Kai's new upgrade and came back to life. Kai has a hover board and he does stunts.

his weapons

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by Jordan

the book

Jordan's first movie

My Eye-test by Sara

Today, kids were called up to do their eye-test, we had to go to Room8 to get it done. There were three stations to go to.  We had to sit down and then they tell us what to do like: "Please look at the chart and call out the letters". It was really hard because the letters were getting smaller at the end and they were hard to say them. When I got to the third station, my eyes were sore from all that light flashing in my eyes. When I finished, I got my light meter, a light meter is when you have to wear the light meter on your top and it records how much light you have been watching in a day.  You have to wear the badge all the time when you are awake, you have to take it off when you go to bed.

My eyes were sore but it was fun.

By Sara      

Students with their light metres on their chests.
This is part of a research project at the University of Auckland.

Water colours

It's Autumn don't you know...

       

PB4L

PB4L is a big focus at our school, this week we have been focussing on being friendly.

Room 1 - a big day!

Sometimes days develop that are better than you could have imagined, I'm glad I shared today with all the great kids in Rm 1. Here's some of our day...

The poem Joseph started writing after his scooter lesson

Mr Rudd (Rm2) showing us how to use a scooter 

Rm1 ready to go during their scooter lesson

Students showing Mrs Potter how #Kidsedchatnz works

I hope you all had as much fun today as I did? What was your favourite part of the day?

Free Swimming Lessons

Room 1 has just finished our free swimming lessons from the Water Hole Swim Centre. Rooms 2 - 7 as well as 17 and 18 all went for two weeks of swimming lessons, with 30 minutes every day.

We got our swimming lessons to help us be safer in the water, because too many children are drowning in New Zealand. All swimmers learnt how to improve their freestyle and backstroke swimming. Bridget, the instructor, taught her group how to use the flutter board to help with kicking. Another thing we practiced was switching from freestyle to backstroke to help with our breathing.

Most of the class enjoyed doing freestyle and it made us feel lucky to have a swimming pool at school. It was really awesome that they were free, some of our class never have had lessons outside of school and they were really enjoyable, especially as the summer has been really hot. Khayl also liked that it meant we weren't in class!

We hope that we get these again next year so that we can get better at swimming before we go to camp.

By Jordan, Sara, Mehaka and Khayl