Oakura/Coastal Stars Hockey News

On Saturday the 16th of August the Oakura hockey team won their semi final game against Fitzroy Quick Sticks. Our great goalie Seton saved every goal with help from our backs Sasha, Robert and Oliver.  At full time the score was nil all so we went into 5 minutes extra time.  Within the first minute we scored!  Game over.  Oakura/Coastal Stars 1.  Fitzroy 0. On to the finals we go. Written by Oliver.

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On Saturday Seton, Ed, Oliver and I (Robbie) are going to play in the finals against Welbourn at the hockey pitch in town.

On Saturday morning last week we played at the pitch in town against the Fitzroy Quick Sticks. You have probably heard how close it was. In the game Oliver suddenly passed to Robbie and he scored in the last five minutes of extra time the goal. I was in goal in this game, and I'll also be in goal on Saturday in the finals. Written by Seton and Robbie.

Buddy Fun with Room 4!

Last week for homework room 9 we asked to think of something, for example origami or a board game, to do with their room 4 buddies and we had to write instructions for it. We did the activities outside. Everybody did really cool things. Charlotte made obelk (which is like goo), Tayla made a board game and Belle and I made a paper box with a paper caterpillar inside. Our buddies looked like they were having so much fun. 
Written by Rosie.
Photographs by Jack and Miss Bain.

Pajama Day for Mellowpuff Charitable Trust

Oakura School had Pajama day today! It was to raise money for a charity called Mellowpuff. We had to bring a dollar coin or more to school and if you did, you were in the draw to win a packet of MallowPuffs! It was so fun because 1. I didn’t have to get into my clothes this morning and 2. I was really nice and cosy in my PJ’s outside. I was wearing a dressing gown but most people were wearing onesies because onesies are so popular these days. Alex won the Mallow Puffs in our class. PJ day was so awesome, I can’t wait until next year!

Written by Salvador.

If you'd like to find out more about the charity, click on the link below. The school raised over $500 for the charity today!

Mellowpuff Charitable Trust

R.A.K DAY IS COMING!

Monday September 1st is New Zealand’s Random Acts of Kindness Day.

What will you do?
RAK DAY WEBSITE LINK

Cory received his Silver Reading Award!

I was so excited to get my silver certificate for reading 30 books.

I feel awesome. Now I'm happy. I can't wait to get my gold award! Cory

Snowflake Maths Fun

On Thursday 14th August room nine made paper snowflakes for the winter themed school disco. Miss Bain printed out instructions for us and we copied off those. There were two different types of snowflakes; one using a square piece of paper and one with circle paper. We used our protractors to give the circles a radius of 10cm. Everybody’s snowflake was different with different shapes. When we finished making our snowflake we put sparkles and glitter on them. In the end everybody's snowflake looked really cool and they will make the disco look great!

By Rosie 
Room 9 made some really cool snowflakes for our school disco. One type was really hard to fold but the other one was great fun to make. 
By Charlie

Lunchtime Sewing Club

Above: Katelyn is ready to sew!☺

This year Room 9, Oakura school are lucky enough to have a teacher who is an excellent sewer. She showed us some of her soft toys she had made and we all loved them. We started up a lunchtime sewing club so we could all enjoy learning to sew. Written by Katelyn.