Term 4 2014

We are back into it! A warm welcome to new families who are joining our community this term. Welcome to Central School. 

Remember students need to wear school hats in term 4.

We have a nine week term and finish school on December 12th. 

Here are just some up and coming dates to mark on the calendar:

Oct 16: Transition to Intermediate meeting for year 6's and parents at Central (5-6.30pm)  informal chat/dinner at 5.oopm with actual meeting starting at 5.45pm

Oct 23: Floral Fantasy (morning only bring flowers to decorate)

Oct 31: School Disco

Nov 4: Rangi and Poutama Athletics.

Nov 12th: Inter-school Athletics

Nov 21: Kapa Haka Performance at Show grounds.

Nov 25: Kakano and Koru Duathlon (TBC)

Dec 5: Kakano Celebration Assembly and shared lunch.
Koru Celebration Assembly

Dec 8: Koru Shared Lunch

Dec 8: Final School Prize Giving

Bloke's Day

Bloke's Day is from 12 - 1:30pm on 

Friday the 5th September.

All blokes welcome!

Cross Country 2014

Students if you are writing a story about the cross country you may like to look at the link, there are over 500 photos of the race and there just might be one of you!  Thank you Yoko Houthuijzen for taking these great photos.
Cross Country photos taken by Yoko Houthuijzen

Term 3, 2014

Half way through the year!

This term we are focusing on Goal Setting.

Our Graduate learner will be self motivated, set goals, manage and value their learning!

Gisborne Central herald by Cory.

Central Herald

Issue 3 Week 9 Term 2

Gisborne Central School's popular  e - news service!

HOUSE DAY BIG SUCCESS Cory Newman, Room 15 Gisborne Central School’s Houses performed well in the last House Day for Term 2, held on Thursday 26 June 2014. The theme was Tabloid Sports once again. This theme has been hugely popular with students, but is to be dropped for a little while, so that other themes can be added in, and to give students some variety.   the results from the event are: Endeavor 1st Kiwa 2nd Cook 3rd Horouta 4th The overall results are: 1st place joint tie: Endeavour 12 points and Kiwa 12 points 2nd place joint tie: Horouta 6 points and Cook 6 points	This week is the last week of Term 2, people! Enjoy the holidays! 2014 Commonwealth Games logo	COMMONWEALTH GAMES COMING UP Cory Newman, Room 15 The Commonwealth Games are coming up. The games will start on 23 July and finish on 3 August. Mr Harvey, of Room 15, got his class excited about the Games by making them do a quiz about them. They applied their prior knowledge for some questions, but for most questions they had to do some research. The games will be held in Glasgow, Scotland. DESIGNS COMPLETED AND READY TO BE CHOSEN Cory Newman, Room 15 Room 15’s Design Your Dream Classroom project is over. The work was handed in on Monday 30 June. One lucky student could potentially walk into  Room 15 on Monday 21 July  and find themselves in their dream classroom.

Central Herald - by Cory Newman

Central Herald

Issue 2 Week 8 Term 2

Gisborne Central School's popular  e - news service!

LITTER HUGE PROBLEM AROUND CENTRAL SCHOOL Cory Newman, Room 15 Gisborne Central School is facing a litter problem on a massive scale. This is particularly bad around Rangi and Poutama.   To  help the school recover the Herald is urging both students, and staff to please do the following:   -Put their rubbish in the bin or put it in their lunchboxes and take it home; have less packaged foods or plastic snap - lock bags in their lunches and use reusable plastic containers instead. Yuck! We need to see less of this, Gisborne Central School!	House Day coming up on Thursday! Remember to wear your colors, people! Good luck!!! CLASSROOMS LOVE FIFA Cory Newman, Room 15   The FIFA World Cup has gone viral at Gisborne Central School, with many classrooms hurrying to catch the latest match each day. One teacher has even used it as a learning tool for Maths. Mr Harvey, of Room 15, gave his students multiplication problems about ticket money and stadium seats. His students found them very challenging, but most finished them correctly, in the end. A few finished them, with incorrect answers, and 3 or 4 did not finish them at all.	NEW ZEALAND’S NEXT GENERATION OF DESIGNERS   Cory Newman, Room 15 In Room 15, the students have been doing lots of not so run - of - the - mill homework projects over the last two terms. A lot of them have involved designing something new. A new wind powered vehicle and a new attraction for our town are just a few things they have designed. Their latest project involves designing their dream classroom. Good luck to them all! CENTRAL C’s SPECIAL ASSEMBLY Cory Newman, Room 15 A special  Central C assembly is to be held on Friday 4th July at midday. In order to fill up the boxes the Herald encourages all students, be they new entrants, or older students to earn C’s. Here are 4 ways to do just that: 1.Get caught by a teacher picking up litter. 2.Commit to an activity ( e.g chess club ) regularly. 3.Get caught by a teacher showing courage.   4. Get caught by a teacher  showing care towards someone.

School Disco

It's DISCO time again so get your dancing shoes on. 

Friday 27th June. 

THE THEME IS SPORTS. So come dressed looking sporty!

Kakano & Koru - 5:15pm to 6:30pm

Poutama & Rangi - 6:45pm to 8pm

$2 entry. Spot Prizes

Sausage sizzle, bacon sammies, chips, drinks and lollies to eat.

Trip to Wellington

Slideshow of trip to Wellington

Young Leaders

These Central students went to Wellington to attend the Young Leaders Conference.

We look forward to reading about their experience soon.

BANGERS and MATHS

Wednesday 21st May

5:30 - 7:00pm

Students, tell your whanau to come along.

Come and see some maths in action, have a go and have a 

sausage too!!

Term 2!

This is a short term with only 9 weeks.

A few exciting things this term are:

• Wonder Woman High Tea
• Maths Evening
• Gym Festival
• Queen's Birthday!
• Rippa Rugby Tournament
• Winter Sport starting
• Parent Interviews and Reports going home.  

It is going to fly by.

Term One Over!

To all our students have a safe and fun 

Easter and enjoy your school holidays.

See you in Term 2.

Twitter

A few classes at Central are using Twitter.  Every Thursday at 2pm Kidschatnz hosts a talk about a different topic.
This week it was about Rules.  What an interesting topic.  Room 16 even had some of their tweets picked for the best tweets.  Have a look at this slideshow of other classes who tweet.  Can you see Room 16's tweets?
Would you like your class to use Twitter?  Why?  In the meantime follow Room 12 and 15.

Our new houses at Central.

Kiwa-Horouta-Cook-Endeavour

Four strong names with significant ties to our land.  Two explorers searching for fabled lands as told by their respective ancestors, and the two vessels they travelled on.

Kiwa arrived at the mouth of the Turanganui River around 1350AD after navigating the Horouta waka down the East Coast of the North Island.  He had a skeleton crew with him after the waka was grounded at Ohiwa in the Bay of Plenty.  Paoa, the captain of the Horouta, led a party overland and instructed Kiwa to take the waka down the coast and they would meet up again soon.

Kiwa arrived at the Turanganui River before Paoa did, and waited for him to arrive.  He named the area ‘Turanganui a Kiwa’ translating to ‘the waiting/standing place of Kiwa’.  Paoa arrived in the area, but down towards the Waipaoa River, and Kiwa saw him and they once again met up and the history of our region begins.

400 years later, Captain James Cook of the Royal Navy is sailing the HM Endeavour in the Pacific Ocean and is under special instructions to find the great southern land described by sailors before him, and charted by the famous Dutch sailor Able Tasman.  On October 6th 1769, Nicolas Young, a young deckhand, sighted land from atop the mast.  This land was Te Kuri a Paoa (the dog of Paoa) and was later to be named ‘Young Nicks Head’.

Cook sailed into the bay and anchored.  He and some of the crew rowed ashore and set foot on land at the mouth of the Turanganui River.  Here, at Te toka a Taiau, a meeting between Maori and European took place that is crowded in misunderstanding and controversy.  Cook departed the bay after a few days and named the waters ‘Poverty Bay’ as the stop-over provided no food or water for their journey.  This chapter begins the European history of our area, and our nation.

Two significant sailors, two significant vessels.  Although centuries apart, the discoveries of Turanganui a Kiwa and Poverty Bay took place in the same spot at the mouth of the river.  They may not have known each other but they will be forever linked.

Our house names are a reflection of the efforts of these explorers to provide new settlement and adventure for their respective people.  Our people today, from all cultures. Are here today in Gisborne and New Zealand because of the events of these two leaders and their vessels.

We want our students to be explorers and adventurers in life and we want them to be proud of our history and celebrate this through fun, competitive, colourful, and energetic school-wide events.

Lines of symmetry in the playground.

Room 12 have been learning about lines of symmetry in geometric shapes. We went out into the playground to look for different shapes and we investigated where we thought their lines of symmetry might be.

Here's a taster of what we discovered...

Drawing in two of the lines of symmetry in the long jump pit!

We think the line of symmetry in this shape is down the middle.

Music Video.

Here it is, the world premiere of The Coal Miner's Video by room 16.
We hope you enjoy!

Diary of week in Northland by Spike

Spike is a year 5 student who recently had the opportunity to go to Northland.  He was asked to complete a daily diary.  We hope you enjoy reading it.

Tuesday 11th March 
We flew to Auckland. The biscuits weren’t bad. Hung out at Auckland airport the chips weren’t bad. Flew to Kerikeri airport - forgot one of our bags. The airport is even smaller than Gisborne's. The campground is nice but we have to watch tv in the tv room. Apart from that its great. We look across the Waitangi estuary at people doing waka practice.

 Wednesday 12th March
 Staying at Waitangi campground by the Waitangi estuary. This morning white faced herons were feeding in the low tide. Shells litter the beach and further out in the mud a person is looking for cockles. Mum and I set out in the morning along the Waitangi mangrove walk. We saw shags nesting in the pohutakawa trees and a parent feeding its chick. The Haruru Falls at the top were low, but the horseshoe shape was clear. The bed and walls of the river are columnar basalt it looks like a lava flow into the sea. dad and Rata got gold and silver medal winning ice cream in Paihia. We went to the Makana chocolate factory and champagne truffles came with us and Rata liked the macadamia crunch. Pete’s antiques and collectables delivered blue willow and a plate mum was collecting. Had great kiwiana it was superb the tobacco tin collection was awesome. We went to the $2 shop in Kerikeri which rocked on glasses - 3 pairs, and a green beard. The Kerikeri Stone Store was a moustache hit and many photos taken of it and Kemp House (the oldest in NZ). Lunch at Paihia was chips, pies and air for mum. The ferry trip to Russell saw Captain Spike and Captain Rata take the helm.Captain Rata steered us into shore. We walked up Flagstaff hill, where Hone Heke chopped down the flagpole 4 times, left Dad at the pub, while the rest of us went to Pompalier House - the first French Mission, from the road then examined bullet holes in the first church in NZ which Charles Darwin contributed funds to because he thought Russell (then Kororarika) was a godless place. Rata ate lamb rump and coleslaw which she loved and the rest of us had great beer battered chips at the Duke of Marlborough(they hadn’t actually battered it with beer) .
 The chips were rated Presentation 5/5
Crunch 5/5 the smaller ones were amazing, the centre was creamy
 Flavour 4.7/5 a little acidity would have been perfect.
The aioli was nice but not sensational Timing 5/5 excellent didn’t wait long
 The sun shone brilliantly on the ferry ride back to Paihia and the tide is in at Waitangi estuary.

  Thursday 13th March Left Waitangi and drove via Matauri bay to Te Ngaere bay. It is a beautiful cove with pinky gold sand and rocks with the Cavalli islands in the bay. Me and Mum wet our feet then mum buried me and picked up volcanic rocks and mudstones of volcanic silt. We went into Whangaroa then lunched at the Mangonui fish and chip shop.
 The chips: Presentation - 2/5 as just in paper. Not inventive
 Crunch 0/5 no crunch
 Flavour greasy and tasted normal 1.4/5
Timing. Not that good. 2.4/5.
 The American accent wasn’t good. Free wifi though. Saw dads mountain Taratara. Then drove to Kaitaia, and on to Ahipara. Rata buried me then we swam in the sea and paddled in the stream. The campground has a tropical feel with lots of plants a table tennis table and a funky lounge and a good swing playground. The weather threatens a cyclone.

 Friday 14th March
Cyclone Lusi is due to hit today but worried we might miss it we headed to Cape Reinga and the eye of the storm. At the time it was dreary but quite good. We saw the maelstrom where the Pacific Ocean and Tasman sea meet. We walked to the lighthouse and hung onto mum so we didn’t get blown off the pathway. There was a sign by the lighthouse which way to London - via the maelstrom, Tokyo, Spirits bay, Tropic of capricorn and Sydney. Cape Reinga is where spirits jump off New Zealand on their way to Hawaiki. We didn’t go to North Cape which is the northernmost point of New Zealand. We went to Houhora where Dad used to come every year for holidays when he was a kid, went past the hospital where he was born and saw the house where he lived. Kaitaia for lunch - the chips were ok but not worthy of rating. Bought an excellent sword. Back to the camping ground at Ahipara where Dad’s family used to have some land. The rain has finally arrived but not a cyclone.

 Saturday 15th March
Headed for Taipa for the farmers market but it was cancelled. Watched violent churning seas and howling winds instead. At Cable Bay there was sand and seaweed on the road from the storm. Drove down an obscure road through the bush to Mangamuka Bridge. Lunch at KFC Kaikohe - no dim sum in the dim sum shop. On to more lunch at the Boatshed Cafe - excellent pizza - then the Rawene fish and chip shop. Verdict the KFC chips were dry, the Rawene ones were good - quite salty, not that much crunch 3/5. The Hokianga Harbour was stormy too, but the wind has gone at night. A brief trip out to Opononi for bread and a look at the beach. We are staying in a cabin at Rawene - no tv, thank goodness Sherlock is on On Demand so we can watch it when we get back. Futurama was entertainment instead. Sunday 16th March A bit of a dreary morning so a drive to Waipoua Kauri forest. We had morning tea at the visitor centre then dodged showers to walk to the Four Sisters kauris then onto Tane Mahuta the biggest kauri and possibly the biggest tree in New Zealand. It is 2000 years old! Then we had lunch at a cafe just out of the forest. It had cool signs everywhere " if God didn't want us to eat animals he wouldn't have made them out of meat." Was my favourite. Then we went for walk at Omapere Signal station headland. It is the south head of the Hokianga harbour - a really beautiful assortment of windblown sand stones and plants. Looking at the Hokianga Bar I couldn't see the channel at all. There were waves crashing the whole way along the gap between the two heads and a maelstrom where the coastal waves met the outgoing flow of water from the harbour. Back at the camping ground Rata and I went for a swim in the pool while mum and dad went to see the Koutu boulder concretions. Sometimes its boring having a mum who’s a geologist.

 Monday 17th March
 A lovely sunny day, we drove to Ngawha where we looked at bubbling puddles. It smelt geothermal but with metal in it- mum said it is a spring with quite high mercury levels. We didn't swim but were all interested. Then we drove to Kawakawa and looked at the Hunderwasser Toilets. I had chips - came in newspaper, 3.5/5. Then went on to Paihia and we all had award winning icecream, looked at shops and then to Kerikeri for sushi lunch. Down to the Stone Store again, Dad, Rata and I crossed into the river - the level was much higher than before the cyclone so we couldn't cross the whole way. Disappointingly despite the fact we all wore green, Rata had a green beard and I had green glasses and looked like a leprechaun, no St Patricks day cheer was in evidence- a severe disappointment for this Irish family. Rata and mum got stung by a bumble bee at the airport - but honey cured them! Onto the plane for the flight back to Gisborne and Rose the dog.

Inter-School Triathlon

Photos

What a great event.  Congratulations to all our students who represented our school.

Camp Three

Some photos from Neo.

Camp Three was a great success.  Have a look at the link and see a few snaps.

CAMP competition.

Write about a school trip you have enjoyed and we will enter it in the LEOTC competition, prize is $250 towards a trip of your choice. Well done Ryan who has entered and good luck. Here is his entry about Lake Waikaremona.

The Lake Waikaremoana camp trip was an experience never to be forgotten!  Beautiful views and mountains, and thats only on the way there.

The steep frightening caves are definitely a permanent memory locked in my mind.  The view of the glistening lake from up high on a mountain is breathtaking!  The beautiful sounds of the forest grasp you away from reality when hiking steep terrain.

Co-operation is key to get things done at camp. We couldn’t of gotten through the caves and hills without anybody helping and encouraging! Co-operation is working together to do something, and we learnt from camp that it is a very big virtue.

Waking up from camp and doing push-ups and jogs and schedules will make you feel like you’re in a real army camp reporting for military training.  It’s not easy to have the courage to wake up at about 6:30 A.M and exercise straight after waking up.

Camp is an amazing moment that should be remembered for years and years.

Ryan Luo Year 5 at Gisborne Central School