Volleyball Interschools

On Wednesday, some students from PBS went to the Barfoot & Thompson Stadium to take part in the volleyball interschools.

There were three teams that participated from our school and they were: the year 5/6's, the year 7/8 group one and the year 7/8 group two.

The year 5/6's ended up winning only one game out of 5. The year 7/8 group one won three games out of six, but unfortunately the year 7/8 group two won none of their games.

You can see the results here: https://www.panmurebridge.school.nz/sport/weekly-wrap

Although, some of the results weren't vey good, everyone enjoyed the day and had a great time. Thank you to Mr Ogilvie for organising this trip.

Blog Labels

Learning Space 1 are streamlining their blogging and moving towards creating comment threads. To facilitate this process LS1 are going three things:

1. Reducing the labels used to the following: Achievements, Arts, Cybersmart, EotC,HPE, Inquiry, Kiwi Sport, KiwiCan, Manaiakalani, Māori, Maths, Reading, Science, Summer Learning Journey, Technology, Writing
2. Using one of three different test types for posting: recount, information report, explanation
3. Engaging with other bloggers, asking questions, and replying to questions.

Athletics Day

On 22nd of November Panmure Bridge School did Atheltics. Each class was sorted into four groups. The groups were Red, Yellow, Blue and Green. The Yr 6s started with Lilly Pad Gladiator, then they played Rob the nest and tried to get as much balls as possible. We then did long jump and we tried to jump as far as we could. We then played sponge relay, softball throw, hula hoop throws, the egg and spoon challenge, then we played lifesaver and lastly we played frisbee throws. We then had sausage sizzles. Later in the afternoon we had races for Yr 1s -Yr 8s.

Term 3: Whole School 60 Year Production

It was back at the end of term 3, and everyone attending Panmure Bridge School had to dance in front of a huge audience. Why did we do this? We did this as a representation of the 60 years that Panmure Bridge School has been running.

It all started in the beginning of term three when we started to practise a dance each. Nobody knew what we were doing this for, but we all went along with it. We were greeted by a women named Zoey. Zoey was going to teach us the dances, although most of the class was still confused as to what this was all about. All together, there were 6 dance groups. They were in order, Gangnum Style group, Single Ladies group, Party Rock group, Whip Nae Nae group, Dougie Group, and Harlem Shake group. Each group had a separate dance to learn, and they would perform those dances together.

Every week the students would have a lesson, and for every lesson they would learn more and more. This kept on happening until completely knowing the dance became a lot more important. At this point, all students would be using any bit of spare time to go over these dances. Then the costumes needed to be sorted out.

Each group had required costumes, excluding Harlem Shake group. Now student would be practising their dances in their costumes to make sure that what they're wearing would be suitable to dance in (Whether it's the correct size).

Japanese sword skills

Japanese sword skills!

A group of LS1 students went out with Mr Wong today to practise some Japanese sword skills for drama and dance. We learnt one stance (daijodan), the strike to the head, and the responding evasion.

We would like to thank Stuart Millward at Bunnings for providing the sticks to practise these skills with.

Team Building with Mrs Anderson

Today in LS1 we had Mrs Anderson in our class talking about Cooperation and Trust. We did an activity called the Sitting Circle. We had to make a circle and face each other's backs. We had to sit on each other's knees and sit for about a minute. We sucessfully did this task. This was judged by Miss Kirkpatrick.

Athletics day

Panmure Bridge had their Sports Day today. There were a range of events from hurdles to skipping. At lunch the school got a treat from Mrs Burke, and everyone had an ice block to eat. After the regular lunch break, the school went into doing sprints. The day was fun, and thankfully the weather held up.

Inquiry: Who am I?

This term's inquiry is Who am I? We will be learning about ourselves and our peers, as well as our National identity and Digital identities. This week we finished off our 3D stars with comments about ourselves and other classmates.

Starting the year.

Room 9 started the year off last week by learning about ourselves and each other: our likes & dislikes, family, future goals, places of origin.