Market Day Evaluation

Last week was Panmure Bridge's market day, every class made 1 or more products that they'd sell on the day. LS2 melted old crayons together to make rainbow crayons, LS1 made photo frames and the junior classes made things like pet rocks and Christmas cards. Before the market day, students had the chance to purchase "tokens" they'd use real money to buy them, but they wouldn't be using real money on the day. Every product was $1, although some stalls offered 2-3 items to make it a better deal. LS2's total profit was $88, because although we'd made $96, we had $8 worth of expenses.

Athletics Day

Because last week on Friday was the annual athletics day for Panmure Bridge School, all of the students from year 1 to 8 were put into their year groups and given a colour. The colour that they had represented their team, and because there were only 9 activities each group had to rotate every 10-15 minutes. The colour teams were split into two groups, one of them being A and the other B so for example; in the yellow group there'd be a yellow A and B. There were activities like Rob The Nest, Frisbee Throwing, Egg & Spoon Race, a Sponge Race and Shot Put. After all of the activities we had the sprints, where the year groups were split into their genders and needed to race 60 metres. I'm not that good at sprinting but I still managed to achieve fourth.

Armistice Day Commemoration Assembly

This Sunday marks the 100 year anniversary for the World War One armistice day, but since we don't go to school on Sunday, we had our own armistice commemoration to pay our respects to those who fell for us. The assembly was held outside next to the blue fence, people like a member from the New Zealand Defence Force, board of trustees members and the head students came and gave speeches too. Two pieces of music called The Last Post and Reveille were played as the flag was being lowered and risen. Afterwards the member from the New Zealand Defence Force came to our class and talked to us about what he did and answered any questions we had like; How many years he'd been in the army, what rank he was, why he wanted to be in the Defence Force and some other things that we asked about.

Whare Hauora Opening

Last week the official opening for the Whare Hauora (Medi-Cube) happened, many important people like the head of Barfoot & Thompson and other people and companies who sponsored the construction of the room. The main aims for having the cube are to allow students to access a cost-free medical facility and also a place for school nurses to stay whilst they work in the school.

The kapa Haka performed as well.