Rm5 Garden

On Monday Mrs. Cummings found out that something awful happened. Something ate some of the vegetables in our vegetable garden. Also our plants weren't watered in the weekends but year 3's ,Tyler and Hashani watered the plants that survived today.


JP and NK

Planting our vegetable garden

On Wednesday the 3rd of November we started planting and loosening our smaller patch. We put tunnels up for the tomatoes and carrots. We also put small thin stakes into the ground for the climbing beans to coil around. We shoveled some smelly manure into the smaller patch for fertilizer. We are going to plant the pumpkins in the compost.

BR TLW

planting seeds

We have been making pots out of newspaper because when you put them in the ground they disintegrate. Plastic is not good because its uses up the oil resources to make the plastic.

We filled the pots with soil and planted seeds. We planted climbimg beans, tomatoes, lettuces, radishes, peas and pumpkin.

We planted them indoors to begin with because its warmer and less windy and rainy.

JW

GARDENING JOURNAL

Welcome to the beginning of our Gardening journal at Lochiel School.

On this blog you can read all about the work Room 2 students are doing to create our sustainable edible garden.

Have a look at our photos and see what we're up to.

MV

Mrs Vasdev's UK Trip

Hi everyone
We arrived safely in the UK last Sunday after 26 hours on the plane. We went from Christchurch to Sydney to Bankok to Dubai to London. See if you can follow my route on the world map. The weather here is really hot and sunny, about 27 degrees every day.
On Tuesday we went to the school I used to work at and Rianna waited for her best friend Caitlin. She ran up behind her and surprised her.
Yesterday we played crazy golf in the morning, and went boating on the lake in the afternoon.
On Sunday we're flying up to Edinburgh for a week in Scotland.
I hope you're all working hard. I bet you're looking forward to your holidays next week.
Send me a message on the blog.
Bye for now
MV

School Disco

Mrs Vasdev dressed as an indian princess at the disco. Show us your moves Mrs Vasdev!

You are going to learn how to make your blog posts colourful and cool!

visitors to our school

Bob Bickerton the music man came to our school and brought lots of musical instruments. He showed us how they work. He is showing us his violin.

JPH LHC

Edible Garden Project

This is some of room 5 kids digging and loosening the dirt.

Our class has been working on our garden for our topic last term.

Well our edible garden project is going well so far.

We did a survey to see what vegetables people like. The most popular vegetables were carrots potatoes and corn.

We also wrote letters to see if we could get the resources and help we need. We have turned up the soil and Jo's dad put some raised edging. We also have new soil to put in. It is arriving tomorrow. We will also put some of our compost in as well.

TC and TLW

Sports results and awards

Sports results

Central Pirates B grade played rugby four weeks ago against Riverton and lost 34 - 10. Central Pirates C grade lost their game four weeks ago .

KC

People Who Work In School.

Hi readers! I'm going to tell you who works in Lochiel school. There are only two rooms in Lochiel since there are few students there.

First, I'll start with Mrs. Cummings who teaches year 1-3 in room 1.

There's a few teachers that teach in Room 5 sometimes. But mostly it is Mrs.Vasdev and sometimes Mr.Page our principal. They teach year 4, 5, 6 and 7. 

The next one is Mrs.Thompson. She teaches extension class and is a teacher aide. We also have a teacher aide called Mrs Alexander who helps JH. 

And finally we have Mrs. Mc Callum who is our school secretary .

AH and JCP

extension class

At Lochiel we have extension class on Friday morning.If you don't know what an extension class is I will tell you. Extension class is for people that are smart that the teacher chooses because they think they need more work.
Last term for extension we did computers. We made calenders on the computer.
The teacher that take us is Mrs Thompson.


EM

school history

Lochiel School

Lochiel School has been here for 131 years. 

When it first started it was called The Forest Hill Railway Crossing School. The school commitee decided to change the name because it was too long.  They changed it to Elderslie School. On the third and final change they changed it to Lochiel School.

Basketball

In 1945 the Lochiel school basketball senior team were the champions.They won a trophy.

AA, NK and LR

message to Room 5

Great to see you are getting on with the blogging.

just a couple of reminders - 

1) remember to put your initials at the bottom of your posting so we know who wrote it.

2) save the draft of your blog ( do not post it straight away)so it can be checked before you post it. There are quite a few mistakes coming up.

If you are the first to read this message please read it out loud to the rest of the class.

Keep up the good work

MV

Uniforms

This year we are getting school uniforms.We are getting scorts for girls.Track pants, polo-fleece and t-shirts for all. Three quarter pants for the boys. We will be getting our uniforms as soon as they are ready. All us kids are looking forward to getting them and will post photos as soon as we get them.

JD and BS

House teams and mascots

Our house teams are Forest hill, McNeil, Cameron and Elderslie and our mascots are the blue sheep for McNeil, a buzzy bee for Elderslie, a super bear for Cameron, and a kakapo for Forest Hill.

This term the events for house points will be inter house netball and inter house cross country.

SP RH

school awards and house points

Hi, this is the first entry of Lochiel school's  School Awards and House Points.

26 March 

The school awards for room 1 were:

Anna for excellent basic sight word recognition 

Phoebe for great reading!

room 5 were:

Baleigh for excellect co-opration and care with other students

Joshua for a fantastic day working with his class on Thursday!

The winning house of the term was Elderslie house and they got a delicious basket of easter eggs. YUM!

T.A

Hello Room 5 - Happy Blogging

This is the start of your blog!

Thank you for your thinking and ideas this morning. It was great working with you.

Your next challenge is to work out a timetable to fit into your class programme so that everyone in your class makes a blog entry before i come out to see you in week 6 of the term.

Use your PMIs and your Blog plans to help you work out what you want to add.

I will see you in week 6 to work out where to go from there and maybe add some trickier bits and pieces with you.

Happy blogging.

MG

ideas are great -be sure they have time to grow.