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It was great doing secret Santa for the last homework of the year

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You can't see the boys in this video but you can HEAR them!

What an amazing performance all the juniors put on today. The Year 3's were brilliant examples to the younger children of how to behave during such a special celebration.

Congratulations to Ellie and Austin. Super effort this year!

Finally no more hammering!The deck and new classroom are complete! Doesn't it look fantastic!

Great fun learning how to be safe in the water. ...

Kayaking at Naenae pool. ...

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Thanks so much Mrs Tennent for being our R.E teacher every Friday! We have had so much fun with you!

WOW! So many birthdays to celebrate in December! Happy Birthday everyone!

Room 11 teamed up with our buddy class to make this scarecrow for the recent garden walk. We are proud to say that ours has weathered all the recent gale force winds and rain. We have called him Rock Star.

Though Christmas still feels a long way off... it's not really!! ...

Today Eamon, Frankie and Zara received their certificates for their awesome efforts with the Zoo Enrichment Challenge. We'll done to everyone!Check out the amazing prizes they won for the school too!...

WOW! Doesn't the decking that is completed so far look fantastic. All going well the builders should be done by the end of next week!How exciting!

Well done you guys were awesome

We had a race with our buddies to collect all the rubbish around our school so it looks neat and tidy for the garden walk on Sunday!

We visited our scarecrow in his new home... He looked very happy amongst the silver beet and other veges.

A bit more hammering outside Room 14 as the deck steadily takes form!

Congratulations to Frankie and Zara who made the finals in Boulcott's Got Talent! You were amazing!

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It was great seeing Geronimo Stilton in our class today, we are looking forward to seeing the books in the cottage.

We are learning antonyms,synoyms and pronouns...

The deck is taking shape... with lots of banging going on outside Room 14 again at the moment!And here's a sneak preview of the inside of the new classroom!...

Buddy Time was very busy today!Room 14, 15 and 16 made their scarecrow. It was easy to stuff him with straw but Miss Kibblewhite and Mrs Wheeler had a real challenge putting the clothing on!

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Keep watching for more amazing PIC COLLAGE writing about our AWESOME Te Papa trip!This one is by the incredible Rilshan Rilwan!

We only learnt this song today!! Don't our rakau look great. Keep practising at home if you can!Here's a link to the waiata.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvDEGp0Vr0Q

This is the first half of the waiata we learnt today... Just need a little more work on the first verse!

Our athletics day was a great success. 

Check out these great photos that Johnny M's Dad took for us!!!...

It was a very close race!!! But Mr Schulz couldn't catch Blake on the final leg of the race so the Kids Team WON!

FABULOUS efforts by Abi and Lochy this fortnight!

It's a work in progress but keep a look out in our garden for our yet to be named scarecrow

The builders are now working on the deck that will go outside the new classroom.... We think they might be getting a little soaked!

Who doesn't like digging in a sandpit,especially when you unearth a dinosaur skeleton!

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Room 5 had a great trip to Te Papa this week. We spent time learning about dinosaurs and saw the giant squid. We all had an awesome day. ...

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Come and see our dinosaur projects. We teamed up with a buddy and chose a dinosaur to research.we had to use two sources of information. We mostly used books and the internet. Then we drew a picture of our dinosaur. We are really proud of our posters and we learned lots about our dinosaur....

On Friday we visited our Buddy Class Room 6 for a very cool science activity. We had to make a plasticine boat that floated. Sounds simple right? Well it was actually really tricky because we had to make sure there were no holes in it and that it wasn't too heavy. When it floated we had to see how many beads we could put in without it sinking!...

On Thursday we made our own Dinosaur Fossils using a recipe and instructions we found on Studyladder....

This week we began investigating in the certainty, likelihood,  uncertainty, or  impossibility of events happening, and came up with of some our own creative ideas.  We also tried to predict what would happen if we threw a coin 50 times.  Would there be more heads or tails?  We tried with dice too....

What a great start to Term 4 in Room 5. This week we have looked at the Triassic, Jurassic, and Cretaceous periods, when dinosaurs were alive, in relation to our students today. We have also started to look at fossils, the range and types of dinosaurs and begun to classify the types and features of dinosaurs. Wow, what a week!...

A big congratulations to Maia and Rishma this week. A fantastic way to start Term 4!

More cool photos!...

On Friday we had a really fun time working on a variety of different Dinosaur activities.Check out our awesome photos!...

The builders have been very busy while we have been away from school! We think the children that get to use the new classroom next year will love it!

Wow Term 4 has got off to a busy start. Here are some highlights from our first week. Enjoy!...

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This is a link to an interesting website I found. It has some insightful ideas about the importance of encouraging children to develop their sense of resilience and how this can support their independent learning. It also discusses how to prepare them for overcoming challenging experiences without giving up....

Over the holidays I plan to update Room 13's blog to share all the amazing and cool activities and learning experiences we have had in the past few weeks. I am a bit behind with posting at present, so please accept my apologies for this! Term 3 was extremely busy as we prepared for our WOW show and time just seemed to go so fast!Here are some wonderful photos of Room 13 children preparing...

We are learning to draw Vincent's chair with his pipe we had lots of fun

It was wonderful to see all of Room 5's hard work showcased on stage this week. A great time to  see co-operation and creativity in action. ...

We had lots of fun making our costumes for our WOW showcase performance. We learnt about  planning out our costumes, working with others, making sure we were ready on time and sharing the work between us. ...

We planned and tried to follow our plans. Most of the time we realised that we had to make changes. This was part of the learning process. We are proud of what we made out of all sorts of materials.

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It has been great to see the determination and persistence that students have shown towards  improving their skipping skills in preparation for Jump rope for heart. They have really enjoyed learning assorts of new skipping skills. Excellent work Room 5!...

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This term we have been learning about the Commonwealth and Commonwealth countries. As part of this, students created a doll out of newspaper to dress in their countries colours.  These are now displayed in our classroom. Come in and take a look. 

Congratulations Gemma and Jacob on your CHEER awards. Excellent effort. 

This morning we carried on making our mannequins that we started yesterday. We chose the materials we wanted to use and created a simple sketch of our costume ideas. Then we experimented with how to construct our costumes. It was a lot of fun!!!...

We've been working hard all week in Room 5 on our Commonwealth country reports. So it was great to have some fun and time to relax at the end of Book week today. Well done everyone. ...

A fantastic day and a great end to Book Week at Boulcott School

Many of the children dressed up as their favourite book character today. Our classroom was very colourful and exciting. A special highlight was the parade in the hall involving the whole school.

It was great having a new author talk to us today. We learnt all about the process of writing and are inspired to create our own masterpieces.

Congratulations to Karen and Preston. They are Room 5's recipients of this weeks CHEER awards. Keep up the excellent work.

We have had lots of fun in Room 5 this week feeling and describing 3D shapes. We had to work out how many faces, edges, and corners  there were. 

The children in room11 rose to the challenge of poi making after watching a clip on YouTube of how to do it. They had to learn how to plait and tie knots as well as twist and turn the cello tape and bags. Great perseverance and wonderful to see those who were more capable helping out those who found the task tricky!...

We have been spending time practising our skipping over the last two weeks, preparing for Jump rope for heart in week 4. Great fun and excellent exercise too!

 We've been working in our Thinking groups, finding out information about a country in the Commonwealth Games. 

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Today we worked on some independent, co-operative learning tasks. Check out these photos to see what we were doing....

We are reading a famous five book,we are almost finished the book,we are very excited.

We are having fun getting ready for Jump Rope for Heart. Sent from my iPad

wow Term 3 has got off to a busy start! I will be adding some new posts soon to catch up on all the cool stuff we did in Term 2. I hope you all had an awesome holiday!!!

This term we have been focussing on Multiplicative thinking. To help us, we looked at number patterns on a 100's board this week. We saw the patterns that 2, 4, 8, 3, 6, 9,  5 and 10 made on the board. This helps us see the number patterns in multiplication, and helps us remember our times tables.  ...

Here we are in our comfy PJs trying to do Jump Jam and just feeling very cosy.

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Wow, Room 4 has been incredibly creative over the last two weeks.  They have made delicious cakes and biscuits, amazing art works, games, a beautiful mosaic and a wonderfully, delicate pop up book - all to celebrate Matariki.  Here are the photos of their creations, enjoy!...

Room 1 shared their projects with us.

Some of Room 5 students have become passionate about the World cup. We have started researching some of the countries that have made it through to the last 16, and finding which continent they are in, their language, currency, a some interesting facts about them. Obviously we're keeping a eye on the results too....

Some of room 5 students have been practising in preparation for their Polyfest performance next Wednesday.  It was great for the group to be able share their learning with the rest of the school at assembly on Friday.

Check out this really interesting article that has some cool videos included.Especially for all the Loom band Fans in Room 13http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/fashion/10202775/Five-awesome-Rainbow-Loom-designs...

We have been working on our Multiplication strategies, particularly breaking down number problems and using what we know to solve them. This week we used number Animal strips to show some of the different ways we could solve the problem.

Room 4 have been working hard on developing our literacy circle skills this term. We have focused on Discussion Rules and also on all the reading strategies we know - inferring, visualizing, questioning to name a few.We are now able to run our circles independently, ka pai!...

Here we are waiting to have our lesson. The progress is really exciting to see even in such a short time!

We have been working on our Netball skills over the past few weeks, and having some fun too!

We have been learning to find facts about all sorts of mini beasts. We had fun learning new information about spiders and drawing webs for our spiders to hang in.

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Well done to Eunice for getting TWO awards in one day at our CHEER awards assembly on Friday.Congratulations Eunice, you not only came 1st in our recent cross country - you also got Room 13's CHEER award!!!...

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Check out these cool photos of Henry, Hefrani and Shanika!Looks like we have some very talented, up and coming Junior Masterchefs in Room 13!Well done on such a superb job completing your optional homework cooking task you guys. I am very impressed!!!!...

Congratulations to Angel for being our very first Smiggle Praise Card Prize Draw winner!!!Remember you have two weeks to get in the draw for our next prize!!!Keep up the great work everyone, I am looking forward to giving out LOTS of praise cards in the next two weeks!!!!Lots of love,Ms. S

Room 5 spent time today practising Netball and Basketball skills in the hall. We had a great time and will carry on improving our skills over the next few weeks. 

Kia Ora Koutou Tamariki ma,Whew, what a busy week! Just want to tell you all how proud I am of you all and the way you have all been working so hard.I had a fun time shopping at Smiggle this afternoon, so I am really looking forward to our first Praise Card Prize Draw tomorrow.I wonder who will get their name drawn!!!Love, Ms. S

Room 5 students were fortunate to experience "Excellence" in action this week. We heard Cathy performing her new piece "Ballade pour Adeline" composed by Richard Clayderman. Fabulous talent Cathy. Well done.  ...

Everyone has been writing amazing poems in our unit, using wonderful language features and descriptive vocabulary.  This learning can be seen in our writing about a moment in time.  Everyone is using their 5 senses as well to describe thoughts and feelings.Here is Mia's writing about cross country which we ran last week -            The Starting Line...

Room 4 has been learning a lot about Area and Perimeter so far this term.  They had another task to complete for Mrs Kaye.We had 24 apple trees to plant in our garden.  How would we plant them in order to take up the least amount of ground from our play area?  What was the area?  Each group had 24 counters to help model the tree planting.  What do you think we discovered...

We wrote a reflection as a class about our cross country experiences. Room 11 children did really well.

We are starting to put up some new displays so we have taken some photos of our awesome paintings before we take them home. ...

We have been investigating how we find the Perimeter and the Area of a space.  Mrs Kaye needed help building a dog pen for her sister's new puppy.  She had 40 metres of fence, each one a metre long.  In groups we had to build a pen that gave the puppy the largest area to run around in.  We used ice block sticks to help us - each stick = 1 metre.  Then we had to remember...

We have begun our poetry unit this term, beginning to look at using imagery, mood and themes in our poems.Have a read of Elijah's fantastic poem.  What is it about?Water DropletRunning across the branch as I fell to the groundA leaf softly caught me as it danced byI join my friends in a puddle, that's fineNo one knows we never die, if they said we did, that would be a lie.Yes, it's about the...

Hi Everyone,I am working on adding some new pages to our class blog!Watch this space!

Check out our cool Fun Ferns Netball lesson....

Room 4 has begun investigating different standard units of measurement this term.  We have chosen objects to measure and have made estimations first and then measured them using standard units such as mm, cm, m, and km.  We are beginning to look at using our prior learning to help us convert units from one unit to another unit of measurement.  We are having lots of fun too, ka pai...

We had a wonderful day sharing our stories, memories and treasures about ourselves on Wednesday, when our All About Me Museum was open to the public!  We proudly shared our photographs depicting important information about us, our Prezi timelines with 5 significant events in our lives, art that depicted a fun thing we like to do, and 4 artefacts that are our treasures from different...

 Isabelle and William presented the wreath made by Room 11at our ANZAC service today.

what a ray of sunshine on such a wet and cloudy day! 

Boulcott School entered the Hutt City Council run competition to produce a mural that reflects our thoughts and memories of Lower Hutt.  The finished murals are to be placed around the council building as it begins a renovation.   All of the senior syndicate were involved in some way.  Every child in each class produced a wonderful design, from which 21 were chosen and then drawn...

Check out our amazing Energiser!...

Here is BLUE or TUI HouseEvery second Friday we sit in our House colour groups for School Singing. Today there was a House Chant competition which was won by...

We are proud of the children in room 11 who have modelled our Cheer values so far this year.  Well done all of you.

Room 4 have been working really hard on their swimming skills this term.  Look how awesome we are!Learning to swim is COOL!...

What a hive of creativity, perseverance and cooperation. The children thoroughly enjoyed making things out of boxes during discovery time....

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Topic this term is All About Me, so we have completed an art piece that shows us doing something we love.  First we took a photo of ourselves doing a fun activity.  Then we printed them out in black and white and traced around the details.  We then used dye to highlight ourselves and other details and then used felt pens to colour in using doodles.  It was great fun!  ...

TOP MARKS  maths website!Sheppard Maths website...

The juniors had a wonderful time learning some protocols and waiata at Kapa haka today. We were so proud of them.

Room 11 wrote an amazing poem about the dragonfly that Ashton brought to school. We looked closely at it and tried to describe it by thinking about what it reminded us of. Here is our poem.

We are all super kids in room 11.

We made a graph to show the takeaways we like

We have been learning how to draw sausage people. We even drew some action shots....

Thank you to our buddy class for helping us make an amazing Christmas decoration - our hand tree. Merry Christmas.

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The senior school was so lucky to have the author Stacy Gregg come to talk to us about being a writer.  It was very interesting hearing about how she creates her ideas - from her own experiences, just like we do!  After listening to Stacy tell us about her writing process, we realised that as writers we also plan out our stories, think about our characters, setting and the plot.  ...

The seniors enjoyed the beautiful weather this week and we took advantage of it and got out into the garden.  We had to put newspaper around the fejioa trees and then cover the paper with chip bark to stop those pesky weeds.  And, we had to lug topsoil over to the planting beds using buckets.  It was hot and tiring work but also lots of fun.  Our garden is slowly coming...

We have all been making great progress with our writing this year.  We have thought about what we are doing well and what might be the next focus for us in our writing.  Well done everyone for really thinking about your own skills and next steps.  Tino Pai!

Kia ora.  Mrs Kaye has made a QR code and placed it outside the classroom door.  When you visit us please leave us a positive comment about all the great learning you have seen in our classroom.  Just scan the QR code and it will take you to a page on our class blog.  We love hearing positive feedback!...

Room 5 has got into our inquiry this term by using our thinking skills.  We have done a Gallery Walk, looking at pictures of gardens and labels, writing down what we noticed and one question we have....

Room 5 are learning to add details in their writing.  We are beginning to 'show' not 'tell' the reader.  We are using Storybird.com to help us do this.  Click the link below to read our book - or scan the QR code to go straight to the website to create your own book -Storybird...

Room5 is so excited because we have 6 new ipads to start using in our classroom, yay!  On Friday we used them during Te Reo and made posters of Maori cultural values using the pic collage app.  Here's one we made for Manaatikanga -

Room 5 have been learning how to 'show' not 'tell' the reader by writing words and language features that create an image in our heads, tino pai.  Also this week, we have learnt how to start each paragraph with a topic sentence that will show the reader what the paragraph will be about.Here are 2 pieces of our wonderful writing - Holidays!I flung myself into the diesel-powered cheater....