UHPS Cross Country

This Wednesday we had our school cross country running race.  We all ran as fast as speeding lasers and we were sweating like monkeys!  It was a fine sunny day and we all had lots of energy.  It was tough but we had lots of fun. 

Congratulations to Zach (2nd in 8yo boys), Scarlett (1st in 7yo girls), Oliver (1st in 7yo boys)

We all tried our best to achieve our own personal goals.  Josh was particularly happy with his best ever cross country result.

Well done everyone in Room 16!!!!!

By Josh, Chelsea, Tom, Rachel, Ian, Jake, Timothy and Miho.

Teach Me Tuesday

Today was our first teach me Tuesday.  Teach me Tuesday is when each person in the class gets to teach the rest of the class about something they enjoy doing or are great at.  It might be a hobby, sport or something they know a lot about.  This Tuesday Olivia taught us some hip hop dance moves.  Check out the pictures of Room 16 grooving!!!

Term 2 Newsletter

We've had a great start to Term 2. Here is a newsletter letting you know what we'll be focussing on this term. Click on the image to read our newsletter.

Book Week

This week was book week - it was a total explosion of fun!  We did lots of fun activities and on Friday we dressed up in our favourite book character costume.  Here is a photo of us in our amazing costumes, can you spot, Little red riding hood, Harry Potter, Boy zero, and Slinky Malinky?

Report writing

This term we will be learning about how to write reports.  A report needs lots of things like capital letters and stops, a title, an introduction, paragraphs, conclusion, and many others.  Here is a short report we wrote together about kiwis.

Kiwi

In this report you will learn about kiwis, their special features and what they eat.

Kiwi features

A kiwi is an amazing flightless bird with many special features.  It has an unusually long beak with nostrils at the end (see picture).  The kiwi also has one of the largest eggs compared to its body size.

What a kiwi eats

A kiwi is a nocturnal bird that only hunts at night.  Kiwis eat all sorts of small creatures such as insects, spiders and worms.  It prods its very long beak into the ground to find insects.

Conclusion

I think a really interesting fact is that kiwis will even walk into streams to hunt eels.

By Room 16

Cross Country Running

We have started cross country running practice on most days.  We are trying to get fitter by beating our own personal best times.  First we did a slow jog and timed how long it took.  Then the next time we went a little bit faster and tried to beat our own time.  Next week we are going to be going a little bit further.

From Elliyah, Abby, Lily and Room 16

How to sketch people

Room 16 wanted to get better at sketching people.  We had a look online and had a lesson then started practicing ourselves.  Check out some of our amazing sketches!