Jason Gunn comes to Gilby

Te Ropu Ngakaunui and Te Ropu Maia have been learning the song My Hometown by Jason Gunn for assembly. We thought we would contact Jason and see if he wanted to come down and watch our performance. Unfortunately he was at the vigil at Hagley Park the same time assembly was on! This was ok though because he sent us a video to share at assembly instead.. click on the pic below for a link to our special video.

Jason came and visited us at school on Tuesday Morning. He walked in the door and said "Can I ask you a silly question? Would you guys like to be on the radio??!" 

We performed our song and it was recorded to be put on More FM later that day. We did a fantastic job and brought Jason close to tears. He was with us for 45 minutes and talked to us all about what we want to be when we grow up. We had such a great time, what a cool guys!

We loved hearing ourselves on the radio, thanks for coming Jason!

Happy/starstruck faces

All about Ngakaunui

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Art in Ngakaunui

We have spent the last couple of weeks decorating our plain grey walls in our classroom.

We created some beautiful portraits based on the style of the artist Nate Williams (check him out). We talked about our interests and things that were important to us. Then we divided our portraits up and wrote these words on. They look amazing up on our walls!

We are also learning our Mihi's this term so we created some colourful visual Mihi masterpieces. Don't they look great! Now we just need to practise speaking them...

Sport Canterbury

For the last two Friday mornings Ngakaunui has been working with Mike Peacock from Sport Canterbury. He has been coming in and showing us how we can use sport equipment in different ways. We each received a sports bag, and in it was some gear. Week One we worked with bean bags, tennis balls and cones. We explored different games and the students had the chance to work together to come up with different ways to use these. Although it was a rainy day and we had to do this in the hall, we had a lot of fun! We then got to take all of this new gear home and show our parents what we had come up with. We are trying really hard to remember to fill out our PassSports with all of the new games we have been coming up with at home.

Week 2 Mike came in with a whole load of Frisbees! It was so much fun learning how to throw these and coming up with games. Students used chalk to create their own Frisbee Golf games (a fave of Miss Johnstone's), there was 'who can throw the furtherest', and Frisbee dodgeball.

A lot of fun on a Friday morning. Students were out there at morning tea with their Frisbees which was awesome to see. A couple ended up on the roof so we are waiting for Mark to get these down... oops!

Check out how much fun we had.

Frisbee crew

Brett was here!

Look at the happy faces

Brett Fairweather came into Gilberthorpe School last Wednesday. He had the whole school on their feet practising their Jump Jam moves. It was such a great way to begin our day. He even got the teachers on stage to help him out with the Coconut song. Miss Johnstone used to practise that in her lounge quite some years ago so it was a dream come true meeting the man himself!

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Duffy Comes To Gilby

We spent last Friday afternoon watching the Duffy Theatre Show.

It is the school holidays and Duffy is off to spend the break with his cousin Sam and Aunty Grace. Sam and Duffy don’t get to see each other much, as they live in different cities, but they talk a lot while they play games together. It turns out Sam is a bit addicted to one particular game. Duffy wants to do fun things IRL (in real life) and get some holiday reading in, but Sam is seriously lacking books. In his boredom Duffy starts to play with mysterious family heirlooms and gets sucked right into the game! Duffy and Sam have to work together to battle creatures such as the Dismantler and the Scrambler to help Duffy escape the game before time runs out! They learn that reading and books are their only hope.

We were so engrossed! Check out some pics below. Thanks Duffy!

Top Team

Yesterday we were lucky enough to have Top Team come to our school! We got to school all excited to see lots of different activities laid out for us on the field. The event began at 11.30. We were sorted into 10 teams and had to rotate around activities. Check out some of these below:

"The Human Conveyor Belt"

Our favourite activity. We had to get water from one end of an obstacle course to the next...without using our hands!

Miss Waho blocking some leaky pipes

We really had to work together as a team for this one

Who can build the highest tower?

A massive game of Memory! Hamish doing well coping with tiles blowing away in the wind.

Teamwork

Great day had by all of us!

We had such a fun day. Our value for the week was teamwork and we showed a lot of this throughout the day. Miss Johnstone gave out plenty of fish tickets to people providing encouragement and support to their team members. Gilberthorpe students are great team players!