Rugby and Room 11

Visit the Opawa School Facebook page to see some of our Room 11 children introducing the rugby players onto the field for the Canterbury game on Sunday.
The Kapahaka children also were filmed so that their performance could be shown during the interval of the game.
WAY TO GO!!!

Did any of you see it???????

Whitebait Delivery

On Friday, our 25 whitebait were delivered.
Here are a couple of pictures to show them become new members of Room 11!!
Kirsty for Whaka Inanga talked us through the process of the catching of the whitebait and how they have been looked after in a lab for a while.

Kirsty measuring the oxygen levels of our fish-tank

Whitebait in the bucket being adjusted to our tank water

In they go!

A new home

Looking quite happy in their new environment

We have been given a couple of links about our local rivers.  Our rivers are so polluted at the moment that it is affecting the whitebait populations, hence the focus on protecting our whitebait and researching their habits etc in more detail.

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/85323492/cleaning-up-christchurchs-most-polluted-river

http://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/opinion/85018548/editorial-christchurchs-filthy-polluted-rivers-need-to-be-cleaned-up-without-delay

TERM 4

Well - we are back and it has started off in a really busy way - therefore delay in first post!!!
In the first couple of weeks we have already had two sessions on healthy eating, a visit to the supermarket, recording for the rugby game, athletics training and a deliver of whitebait - PHEW!

This term we will be looking at "Our Precious Jewel".
Room 11's take on this will be - our bodies are precious, how can we look after them, followed by our local environment - how can we sustain it and help ourselves too??
For writing we will be looking at persuasive writing, maths will be fractions and decimals followed by algebra.
Then we have conferences etc and Christmas to look forward too!