Seussical Jr Update

~~~dates to mark in your diaries!!~~~

Dates for the show: Wednesday 26 and Thursday 27 September


Our showkit has arrived !!

Congratulations to the following students who have been cast:
The Cat in the Hat.....Avie
Horton.....Jonty
Gertrude McFuzz.....Ava
Mayzie La Bird...Jenny
JoJo.....Lara
Sour Kangaroo....Ilze

We still have some more lead roles to cast:
Mr and Mrs Mayor
Bird Girls
Wickersham Brothers
The Grinch
Yertle the Turtle

Plus The Whos, Jungle Creatures, Fish and Circus performers which will not be auditioned.

We will endeavour to complete Mr and Mrs Mayor, Bird Girls and Wickershams this week as well as find out who would like to be in what ensemble group.

If you would like to audition for Mr or Mrs Mayor (we have had some auditions already), please prepare Track 8 How to Raise a Child and the first two verses of Track 6 Here on Who (see below) - Lara - can you also learn the second verse to sing with them please :)

MR MAYOR

Well, We're Whos here.

We are Whos here.

Smaller than the eye can see.

It's true, sir.

We're who's who, sir.

I'm a Who

MRS MAYOR & JOJO and so are we.

MR MAYOR, MRS. MAYOR & JOJO

We're tiny little people

Blowing by in the air,

Wondering how and why

We're on Who,

The ti-iniest

Planet in the sky!

As on the original slideshow, Bird Girls, please prepare Track 3 Horton Hears a Who and Track 13 Amayzing Mayzie and Wickershams - please prepare Track 16 Monkey Around

Week 6, Term 2 2018

What a wet long weekend we have just had, and it looks to be here to stay for the rest of the week at least.  I'm certainly looking forward to seeing the sun again!

Congratulations to our volleyball and basketball teams who competed at tournaments last week.

Senior HQ go to UC

On Tuesday and Wednesday this week, we are taking the HQ to experience science in one of their laboratories.  Students have been divided into three groups and will attend one of the three sessions, where they will move around four stations with tutors from the university.

Students in group 1, will walk straight there from technology tomorrow.  They will need to bring a pen and morning tea with them.  They will walk back to school afterwards.

The other two groups will walk on Wednesday at either 9am or 1045am.  They will also need to bring a pen.

All students must bring a jacket, warm sweatshirt and an umbrella if they have one.

Science and Technology Fair

Information has been emailed to all parents regarding this. Students need to be choosing their topic to investigate and sharing this with their teacher for approval.  This week we will learn how to write a hypothesis - students will need to have these written by next Monday.

Seussical Jr

We are trying to finish off our auditions and call backs, but the busyness of lunchtimes is making this difficult.  We will endeavour to have JoJo callbacks on Tuesday, Gertrude on Wednesday and the Sour Kangaroo on Thursday. Once we have completed these, we will be in a position to announce the lead roles and move onto the minor leads.  Our show kit is still on its way - the company in Australia who we have purchased it through was not sent any Seussical Jr kits when they put through their last order to America, so they have reordered and have said our kit will be about 2 weeks away - hopefully in time for the holidays, otherwise I may be doing some 'courier' driving to deliver books to our leads!

Extra! Spelling Quiz

Congratulations to our master spellers who will be competing at the annual Extra! Spelling Quiz at Cobham Intermediate on Thursday evening.

Larissa, Cameron M, Hugo, Tayla, Izzy, Rahil, James H, Bhavil, Isaac We and reserves, Arabella and Addi.

Please remember to return your permission forms to Mrs B

Speeches

A reminder to Mrs Moore's, Mrs G's and Mrs B's writing classes that speech writing is now underway.  Some groups are up to practising and some are just starting writing - keep going!!

Science Fair Task 1

This is the link to the first task for the Science Fair.  It has been discussed in detail at school and children have had some time to think about and brainstorm ideas for a question.  Questions are due this Wednesday 30 May

Science Fair Task 1 - come up with a question

Term 2, Week 5 2018

Wow, it's almost half way through the term already!  Winter sport has started - we are two weeks in and the students seem to be enjoying their chosen sport - pity about the weather on Friday - here's hoping there's not too many more Fridays like that!

Seussical Jr auditions are almost complete with our final call backs this week for the lead roles.  We are just so proud of all the students who have put themselves out there and auditioned.  We hope to have the key lead roles decided this week, and then minor lead roles next week.  We are aiming to put the musical on in the last week of Term 3 - confirmed dates will come soon.

We are having a major focus on Science this term.  Students have rotated round the four teachers and experienced a variety of experiments.  We have just launched the Science Fair which all students will complete - some of this at school and some at home.  I will endeavour to send through the information we give the students so you know what is going on.  At this stage students are just deciding on their question and hopefully have talked at home about what they could do.  Next week (week 6) we will be taking the students (in different groups) to the University of Canterbury where they will be introduced to working in a proper science lab.

This week is a Teacher Only Day on Friday and Monday is Queen's Birthday which is a public holiday.  School will not be open for the children on either of these days.

Seussical Jr auditions

Congratulations to everyone who has auditioned so far for our  musical to be held late in Term 3.

This week (week 3), we will audition Horton (Monday), Sour Kangaroo, including any Young Kangaroos (Tuesday), Mr & Mrs Mayor, The Grinch and Yertle (Thursday).  That leaves the Bird Girls and the Wickershams for the following week.

We will then have our call backs for all those who have made the short list.

Year 8 Day at Riccarton High School

Thanks to Riccarton High School, our Year 8s got to experience a day at Riccarton High to see what it is like to be a high school student, and to help ease the transition between primary and secondary school.  Thanks Riccarton High for having us, it was a great day!

Technology

Science

Music

Cross Country 2018

Congratulations to every who took part in the Cross Country, particularly those who challenged themselves and competed in the competitive event, and those who ran further then they thought they could.  Here are some photos of the day...

 Warming up with Mr Weusten

 Year 8 Competitive

Leading the way in the Year 7 competitive event

 The spirit of sport: Andy supporting and encouraging one of our Year 6 students so she could experience the success of finishing.