Lucy in a tree...

Here is Lucy climbing a big tree...

Anzac Day celebrations

On the last day of the term we took some time to celebrate Anzac Day, which falls in the school holidays this year.

We made poppies...

We made Anzac slice...

We visited the Cenotaph with Room 4....
Room 4 made a wreath and they placed it at the Cenotaph.

Here is Room 8 placing their poppies at the Cenotaph....

We looked around the Cenotaph and many children found their surnames.... They wondered if they were related to these brave soldiers who died in the war...

Tanika and Pyper showed respect by picking up rubbish around the Cenotaph...

Talented Athletes!!

Room 8 is fill of talented students!  Recently we held our school athletics and several of the students qualified for Eastern Athletics!  Here is a photo of those students...

 After the Eastern Athletics, there were also some students who qualified FURTHER onto Southland Athletics!  Here is a photo of those students...

A BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL OF THE ROOM 8 STUDENTS WHO QUALIFIED FOR EASTERN AND SOUTHLAND ATHLETICS!  YOU ARE AMAZING!

St Patrick's Day

On Thursday the 17th of March we dressed up for St Patrick's Day.  This was to just have a little fun!

Wastenet competition

We entered in a competition for Wastenet where we had to make a superhero out of rubbish and write a description about it.  We worked in pairs and here are the photos of our creations.  It would be great to win a prize!  Amazing work Room 8!

Matt

Callum and Jayden

Baden and Ben dJ

Julia and Pyper

Talia and Jodi

Jessie and Lucy

Leah and Bre

Ashton and Ben W

Jessica and Keira

Hanna and Chonelle

Tegan and Nicole

Levi

Preston and Neela

Eamon

Taine

First Aid

On Thursday the 17th of March Room 8 had a visit from Jo (From St Johns).  We were lucky enough to have Jo teach a range of first aid techniques that can help to save lives.  It was a fabulous learning session which is part of our 'safety' thinking for Term 1.

Here is what we learnt...
DRSABCD
Danger - Check dangers, always put yourself first, even over the patient.
Response - What is your patient doing?
Send for help - 111, others or AED (defibrillator)
Airway - Is this clear
Breathing - Check
CPR
Defibrillator - Should have arrived if it has been sent for

We learnt to go through DRSABCD on our patients.  When we got to C, we practiced CPR on a dummy.  We learnt that you need 30 pumps of the heart and 2 breaths and that the song "Row, row, row your boat sung twice is how many pumps to do".

 We also learnt how to put people in the recovery position if they were still breathing, but needed some help.

 Learning to bandage was also worthwhile.  We learnt some great first aid skills from Jo at St Johns.