Stupendous Swimming

Stupendous Swimming

The past two weeks from the 3rd of September too the 14th of September has been our annual school swimming lessons.  On the first day we rode the red bus to the Graham Condon pool. We got sorted into three groups. I got into the highest! I was so excited! We did lessons in our groups for a week and two days. our group did Freestyle, Backstroke, Breath stroke and Butterfly. We also did diving and races. After we finished our lessons in our groups we learnt about swim safety. On Wednesday we got to put on life jackets! We got to swim with them on. On Thursday we got to go on a boat. It was so fun! I really enjoyed our swimming lessons this year!  

Comment Question: Do you like swimming? 

School Trip To Margret Mahy Playgoround And Imagination Staion

On Monday the 21 of August Tumu Hub went to four different places for PBL. Imagination station, Biz Dojo, Core Education and the St Martins Community Center and Hill View School hall.

I went to Imagination station in town. There we split into groups of four or five and we all had a role to play in the group. I was the town banker who got all the bricks. Some of the other jobs were, Mayor, Environment officer and safety officer.  All the jobs were important and had a purpose. After we got our job we had to go and get a base for our town. There was a colour chart were each colour block represented a different building like red was houses. There was 5 other blocks that we could chose what they meant. So after we had chosen what they meant we had to start building. Halfway through we had ran out of blocks so we couldn't finish, but it was really fun. 

Something I learnt form building the town was that everything that goes into a building is important for the finished product. 

After we had finished at the imagination station we walked down the road to meet the rest of the Tumu hub team at the Margaret Mahy playground. We played and ate lunch there before getting into our PBL groups for a scavenger hunt. Margret Mahy is so cool and we were really lucky to be able to go there.

Have you ever been to Margaret Mahy Playground? 

Art Gallery Trip

On Tuesday 13 June from 12.30-2pm Home base 4  went to the Art Gallery. We had 5 very kind parent helps who generously  gave up their time to come and help  us on our trip. If it weren't for these amazing people we could not have gone. There were so many cool pieces of art and our host Bianca explained them really well. After we had a tour of some specific pieces we got to make our own tree house. We were given a piece of card with a template on it and we had to cut it out, colur it and then go to a table and use a craft knife to cut out the windows and doors. We all sat at a table with some colured pencils and we colured everything on the tree house. Some people were really creative and put rope swinging theirs using real rope! You will be able to see my tree house down below. 


Photos of my tree house:

Picture 1: One side of the outside. 

Picture 2: door side of the outside.

picture 3: The inside. 

The aim of my out side was to have it to look like a sky.

The aim of my inside was to make it look like my dream room. 

Thanks for reading and coming to cheek back on my blog. Have you ever been to the Art Gallery? If so what was your favorite piece of art?

Harriet