Amazing Race Week 9

This week is the final week of our Amazing Race - students have worked well over the last 9 weeks and this week they are able to choose their destination and road block. You can't go to a country we have already visited.

Good luck, the points are very close amongst our top teams!

French Brunch!! (Notice)

The students have been enthusiastically studying French this term. With the term coming to an end a Quiz/French Brunch is planned for Wednesday 10th December.

The cost of this event is $3 per student. Each student will get a drink and a croissant or pain au chocolat. The money need to be paid to the classroom teacher before the event.

Thank you for your support you have shown the students as they have engaged in the new French Language Programme at our school this year.

Regards - Ella Murdoch, Lead Tutor French Programme

Balmac Year 7 "Top Town" 2008(notice)

As mentioned in last week’s newsletter, the ‘Year 7 Top Team Challenge’ will take place next Friday 12th of December. The students will be divided into school house teams to participate in a range of group challenges as an end to our term four focus on communication and teamwork. This will take place on the school grounds from 9am until lunchtime. The students need to come to school in correct PE gear (navy shorts/trackies and school PE t shirt) and can bring house colours to wear too. If your child does not have correct PE gear, they will need to come to school in their uniform. Students will also need to bring a towel (some activities involve water) as well as a big lunch and drink for the day.

Keep your fingers crossed for nice weather – if the weather forecast looks poor for next Friday, we will make a decision early next week about a postponement day.

Natalie Paterson - stream report

Stream Report
On every Thursday, most of the time this year our class - room 13 has been going down to kaikorai stream to do water testing on Kaikorai stream. At kaikorai stream there were lots of tests you could do; P.H., conductivity, G.P.S. and clarity. I was in a group with Sammy, Jessie, Jacinda and me at the start our group job was G.P.S. where we measured air and water. Then when Sammy moved to Kaikorai Valley College our group became Jessie, me and Jacinda. We stopped doing G.P.S. and started doing conductivity which to me is a lot more fun than G.P.S. Also it’s a lot easier because all you have to do is scoop up a cup of water from the stream and put a little measure thing in the cup of water. It will then come up with a number on its smallish screen which yo write down, then you repeat 3 times and BINGO! You’re done. Stream testing is always fun and I’m glad we had the chance to try it this year.
By Natalie.

Jordie & Arnold - Stream Report

Water testing 2008Room13 have been doing water testing down at the Kaikorai stream. We have been testing clarity, temp, ph, con, do2. We have been going down to the Kaikorai stream since the start of the year, trying to make a difference. We go bug testing a lot and find out the good and the bad. I have learnt a lot in this year about the steam and that you are killing the fish. We have about 5 people that go down to the stream every Thursday. Some of our class went out to blow line to plant trees and we sprayed fish on the ground meaning (if you put rubbish on the ground you are kill most of the fish in the sea which means no sushi).also when the class went to bowl line for the stream (there was rubbish every where)! So this is what I expedients at water testing 2008.By Arnold Te Kawa and Jordie Beres!