Year 1-4 Production: The Button Box!

On Monday the 1st of September, and Tuesday the 2nd of September, the Year 1-4 students performed a play called ‘The Button Box!’ The Button Box tells the story of how, when Grandma and Grandpa’s two grandchildren, Alice and Jack, are visiting, they have an argument, and they knock over grandma’s button box. They then beg Grandma and Grandpa to tell them the story of each button, and each story is told through song and dance. Mrs Bierwith, our performing arts teacher, wrote the script and choreographed,  Ms Harwood-Matthews, our music teacher, did all the music and she did the choreography too. Mrs O’Meara, 7OM’s classroom teacher, also helped out with the choreography, and many mums were there to help with make up and costumes.

Grandma was played by Sophie Hodgson, Ella H’s little sister, and she did an incredibly good job. Grandpa was played by Paris Hague, and she was brilliant as well. Alice was played by Sophie Thomas, and Jack by Emma Gabriel, and they both were fantastic too!

Then there were many dancers, including: the island dancers, the irish dancers/leprechauns, the Bombay dancers, breakdancers, the crows, and the frog king dance. One of the crows was played by Sarah Cox, Ella C’s sister, and two of the irish dancers/leprechauns were Kathleen’s twin sisters, Sylvie and Evelyn King.

Well done to all the Year 1-4’s, you put on a spectacular performance, and a big thank you to all the parents who helped out, and to Mrs Bierwirth, Mrs O’Meara, and Ms Harwood-Matthews, as well as the Year 1-4 teachers for making the play possible, and we are sure everyone enjoyed it.

Here are some photos of The Button Box:

Term 2 Classroom Designing!

Just before the school holidays, most of our school spent the afternoon shifting furniture out of eight classrooms to the Cybrary, as over the holidays our classes were going to be re-carpeted and painted. 
This included our class, 7G, and when we came back ready for a new term, we found our class and stairwell smelling like drying paint, and very blue.
All of the year 7 & 8 classes had all the furniture stacked in the middle of the rooms, waiting to be pushed back into place. But the furniture certainly didn’t get put back in the same place! Our teachers decided to let us redesign our classrooms, and we kicked this off by going into the corridor armed with vivids, and we looked at pictures of interesting classrooms, and wrote on them what we liked and didn’t like. 
Then we went back to our class, and Miss Glubb decided the best way to brainstorm was to get into small groups and design what we wanted the class to look like. We all spent about an hour on these, and while some of the plans were very messy and others very neat, they were all still well designed and thought out. 
Next, we laid out the furniture according to each group’s plan. By the time we had pushed all the furniture into place for around the fourth group, it was quite a hassle changing things round each time, and as everyone was quite taken with the design, we decided to change it around so that it would have some of everyone’s ideas in it. Once this was done, we decided to get rid of nametags, and that each day when we came in we could choose where we sat so long as we were sensible with who we sat with. 
We could sit at a large group semicircle of desks, some smaller groups of four, and if you don’t really want to work with anyone, you can sit at the groups of two. There is also the sofa, chairs, beanbag and the spare blue tables, which we can work at as well. This design is a trial, so if it doesn’t work out we will try something different.

Here are some photos of our planning and our finished room:

Brainstorming

Looking at interesting classrooms

Looking at interesting classrooms

Brainstorming

Brainstorming in our separate groups

The desks of two in our finished plan

The semicircle of desks in the centre or our class and the mat

The desks of four down the right.

Do you know a classroom that has a creative setup? Please tell us in the comments below!

By Kathleen

Come to the new Spanish blog

<English version>

Today at spanish class, we were really excited. Guess what? We are interacting with a Argentina school’s blog and learn about their culture and learn more Spanish. All of the year 7s experienced writing posts before in our class blog. However this blog is different. We are sharing our culture with an OTHER COUNTRY!!!!! We discussed some topics we can possibly write on the blog. Some of the topics were daily routine, uniform, introduction, and so on. I’m really looking for to write a blog post about the boarding hostel. Are you all looking for this blog, too? Leave a comment below about your ideas for the blog~

<Spanish version>

Hoy a las clases españolas, estábamos muy emocionados. ¿Sabes una cosa? Estamos interactuando con el blog de una escuela Argentina y sabemos de su cultura y aprender más español. Todos los 7s años experimentaron escribir mensajes antes en nuestro blog de ​​clase. Sin embargo, este blog es diferente. Estamos compartiendo nuestra cultura con OTRO PAÍS!!! Hemos discutido algunos temas que posiblemente podemos escribir en el blog. Algunos de los temas eran la rutina diaria, uniforme, introducción, y así sucesivamente. Estoy realmente esperando para escribir una entrada en el blog sobre el hostal de embarque. ¿Está buscando todo este blog, también? Deja un comentario más abajo acerca de sus ideas para el blog ~