Our trip to the Auckland Museum

On Monday 24th June we went to the museum with the Kauri team. We have been studying ancient civilisations and their systems this term so we went to have a look at the ancient artefacts and have a classroom session on ancient Egypt and archaeology. We had fun in that class remaking a potter vase, an ancient roman toilet seat, building a sieve and learning how to use an ancient egyptian drill.

Here are some photos of our trip.

sevens

joe and harry sevens 

on friday we went to bruce pulman park for a sevens tournament first we got into cars and drive to bruce pulman then we got out and got ready to play the first was against homai we won 41-0

after that we went to cheer on our year 7&8 team sadly they lost after that we trained for our next game against brookby 25-0 then again we cheered on our year 7-8 team and they lost then we waited for our final against gardens thay scored an offside try which should'nt of been awarded then it was half time we were losing 7-0 then in the second half we scored a try from tane and missed the conversion which ment it was 7-5 and with 2 minutes left ben scored which put us in the lead an we got the conversion which ment 5-12  and in a minute to go we won then we watched the year 7-8 finals 

then prize giving came xavier won 100$ beceause he was the best player of the day 

by joe and harry

sevens rugby 

on friday the 14th of june there was a sevens tournament and clevedon school competed in the competition , and won the year five-six grade first we came up against homai and we thrashed them second of all we versed brookby and thrashed again then last of all we came up against the gardens 

and were losing then starting beating them and won 12 to 10 and that is how it ended 

by Sam and Charlie

Life Education - Brainy bunch

This week we have had two sessions with Michelle, Harold and Tam learning that .....

• the different organs in our bodies like intestines (Cooper)
• the brain feels like an avocado (Dominic)
• if you need to scratch the nerves send a message to the brain saying 'you need to scratch' (Ella)
• messages run at 200 - 250 km/phr (Louis)
• your brain gets 200,000 messages per second (Kaiya) 
• if you tie all your veins together they stretch for 75km (Toby)
• Everyone has a brain even if it is the size of a peanut (Miranda)
• the spinal cord is like a highway (Kushang)
• if you get surprised your nerves run at 500- 560km/phr (Kate)
• messages can travel up to 560km/phr (Daena)
• the brain sends messages to the nerves (Lucia)
• the right side of your brain controls the left side of your body and the left side of your brain controls the right side of your body (Baden)

We had great fun learning all these cool facts.  Thank you Michelle!

How the kiwi lost it's wings

By Caitlin K

The day our buddy letters came.

Today we learnt about our buddy class at Point View School. First we looked at their blog and wiki to see what things they are learning this term. 

Harry and Phoebe were our posties delivering our mail. It was cool getting out own envelope addressed to us individually. Each of us got a letter and a photo (now, that was great-  we now know what our buddies looks like).

We spent our writing session reading our letters about our buddies and writing replies. Dominic thought it was cool that his buddy likes the same things he does. We are all looking forward to communicating with our buddies more often and maybe we can get together sometime later in the year.  That would be really cool!

Cyber safety

Today I went and watched a cyber safety performance by some people by Tai and Laura it was based on a true story I think it was cool. Because I have read it and its the same but with songs . I Really liked the characters because some of the scenes were really cool and funny at the same time. I enjoyed it so much as well as the hot seat asking questions I learnt a lot from that performance some of those hot seat questions were a little weird my favourite character was Dylan he was kind but then mean that was a great performance it was cool. By Charlie.