The Stu Duval show

On Thursday 28^th October, Stu Duval (a famous New Zealand artist and actor) came to our school to put on a show. He told us his very own made up Christmas story called Jingle Bull. He also showed us how he learned to draw at school. He taught us one very important thing- S, 2 dots, a prickle and a line. His show was very entertaining and funny. Rhiana Merota described the show as “cool and interesting”. Janice Lim said the show was “creative and funny”.

GATE Art

At Milford School, we have an Art GATE class. In Term Two, students learned to create and paint a Papier Mache bunny. These are the steps to make one:

1.   Sketch the bunny how they want it to look like.

2.   Colour the sketched bunny with pastels.

3.   Collect newspapers, tape and string.

4.   To roll the newspapers and create body features of the bunny- Head, body, feet, ears, arms, eyes and paws.

5.   Tape the body features up together.

6.   Rip the newspaper and stick it to the papier mache bunny.

7.   Repeating the process with newspaper four more times.

8.   Repeating the process with white paper two more times.

9.   Paint the bunny to the according colours you planned.

10. Dry the bunny with a hairdryer.

11. Present it in GATE sharing assembly.

Wonderful art work in progress!

Enviro-Gate Rubbish Audit

At our school, we have a group who recycle rubbish that is collected at our school. This group is called Enviro-Gate. This term Enviro-Gate has had a rubbish audit which is when the kids in Enviro-Gate collect all the rubbish in the school and they put the rubbish in the rubbish bags.This picture shows some of the rubbish in our school. We are learning about how much rubbish our school produces everyday so that we can work out ways to reduce the amount of rubbish produced and recycle what we can.  We interviewed two of our dedicated members of the Enviro-Gate, Blair and Georgia, who enjoy Enviro-Gate very much! 

Kahurangi Dance Theatre

Towards the end of Term 2, we had some special visitors show us Maori Dances from around the Pacific Islands. The dances were from Samoa, Fiji, Vanuatu, the Cook Islands and more. The people who performed at our school were called the Kahurangi Dance Group. They were wearing very bright and vibrant clothes. They were very good at singing and doing Poi actions. We learnt a lot about Polynesian and Maori culture and we had a lot of fun!  

Badminton

Milford School has a Badminton team who practise every Friday. Recently, there was a Badminton tournament which was held at the North Harbour Badminton Centre. Competing in the tournament from our school were 3 teams. In team 1 there was Oscar Guo, Craig Lim, Tony Rhee and Sung-Guen Choi. In Team 2 there was Esther Park, Yeni Shin, Luke Trafford, and Calix Shi. In Team 3 there was Janice Lim, Emma Pattinson, Harry Bark and William Lee. Team 1 easily beat their opponents and got into the finals. They did really well and came 1^st overall. Team 2 came 3^rd overall and Team 3 was never announced. Team 1 surprised us when they brought the trophy back again. They won! We are so proud of team 1. Go Milford!

Year 5 Auckland Zoo Trip

On 15^th June, Room 5, Room 3 and Room 6, the Year 5’s, had a trip to the Auckland Zoo. Our topic this term was Animal Adaptations. We were spilt up into four groups of 6 or 7. My group headed to the Pridelands area first, where the giraffes, zebras, rhinos, ostriches and springboks were. We took some notes down of the animal habitat, or where they live, and the adaptation of the animal, which means the animal’s special feature. Next we moved to the otters. An otter’s teeth are very sharp and can bite really hard things. After the otters, we moved over to the sea-lions. We raced down to see the sea-lions performing tricks for us in the water. I really liked the sea-lions. My favourite animal was the elephant, whose name was Burma. We also had a ‘classroom session’. I learnt that the giraffe’s neck only has 7 bones, just stretched out long. We learnt a lot of new things on our trip. Alicia Oswald said she had a great time at the zoo!

The Science Roadshow

On Monday the 30^th of May, the Year 6’s went to Wairau Intermediate and attended the Science Roadshow sponsored by Fonterra. The hosts were Laura and Shane. They taught us about heat and temperature. We also learnt about how negative 273 degrees Celsius is the lowest temperature which is also called Absolute Zero (0 degrees Kelvin). There were a lot of exhibits for the students to look at and some of them were “hands on” activities, like the keyboard, which you play with your feet. Another one was a chairlift, which you had to sit in a chair and pull a chain to lift yourself up and so on. Another of the topics we were focusing on was our Five Senses, which are taste, smell, hear, touch and sight. We learnt that things we see are upside down for our eyes, but the brain is clever enough to turn that thing the right way. Laura told us about a competition, in which there were four hands-on activities and whenever we did that particular activity, we had to explain what that activity was about. When we did, we could get hole punch on our card which we could get to enter the competition. Once we had completed at least two activities, we could put our cards in a box. A little while later, Laura plunged her hand in the box and pulled out 2 names. These names were Sam Nicholson and Jack Oh from Room 2. Nicole Canuto, a Year 6 from Room 1 thought it was really interesting and she liked it a lot! This was an opportunity not to be missed!