Science Experiment

Marshall and Braxton's milk bottle boat science experiment.

Hangi

On Friday 10th June, we prepared and enjoyed tasting a Hangi to finish our week long Matariki celebrations.  

Thank you to Hayden for taking the photos and making them into such an entertaining video for us!  

Science ~ Mt Ruapehu

We have been having a little bit of fun with the States of Matter this week, looking at changing liquids to gases and solids to liquids.  

Today we completed an experiment based on how different liquids interact with each other.  There was lots of wonderful vocabulary being used and questioning happening.  

Hahei Camp ~ 2016

Here is a video that Ryan helped me create.  It is some photos and videos from our time at camp.  Enjoy!!  

Leave a comment saying what your favourite part of camp was.  

Mrs Silvester

Friday fun

While some of the hub were at Ohinemuri swimming today & the juniors on their beach trip, we enjoyed having the school to ourselves by trying to enlarge an original picture. We had to make everything 4 times larger which required a lot of mathematical thinking and problem solving. The end result was very exciting to see come together!

We had a special treat at lunch of smores (biscuits with marshmallow sandwiched between & melted) thanks to Caitlin and Rebecca. The end of the day saw a special scooter display from Ashton to see how many students he could jump!

Welcome to 2016!

Songs for our production

If you would like to learn the words for the production, here is a link so that you can look at them at home.

Production Songs.

Adding and Subtracting decimals

Please watch my video on how to add and subtract decimals. Tell me what you think?

Adding and subtracting video link

I am practicing with Mt Taranaki on how to use our blogs!! Have fun!

How do engines work?

Today our literacy group had a trip into town to see Dennis at Paeroa Auto Spares and Andy, Aaron & Darren at Whyteline to help us understand how engines work.
We all learnt the different parts of engines and had some hands on experience with how they work together to make cars, tractors and motorbikes move.

A huge thanks to both business' for taking time out of their day to help us.

Mentos & diet coke explosion

Today in literacy, Mrs Silvesters group performed a science experiment.  The students had to write instructions on how to do the experiment and then after we wrote our results and explanations.

Christchurch Camp 2015

Fun memories from Netherton Schools year 6-8 camp 2015

 #flipagram ♫ Music: The Nights - Avicii made with @flipagram

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Grandparent's Day in 'The Hub'.

Well....what a fantastic day we had by all yesterday at Netherton School. It was grandparent's day and we had around 80 grandparents come and spend the day with us. Children had the opportunity to share some of their learning and the grandparents shared games, books and activities that they used to play when they were at school.
The children and grandparents made some beautiful artwork as a keepsake of the day.
Thank you to all grandparents and friends of the school for coming and sharing the day with us!!
Here are just a few pics!
 

You Can Learn Anything

I came across this clip by Khan Academy that I thought was interesting and relevant for some of us in the hub.

In the comments, maybe you could share with us a time when you have found something new tricky to learn, but with practice over time, you can now achieve it.  

Mrs Silvester 

The long drove

This week Mrs Silvesters literacy group have finished off their narrative poetry about The Long Drove.
The students have then used movenote to present their poetry and we have shared a few of them here for you to see.  Hope you enjoy!

Breanna H 
Bronson 
Duncan
Flynn H
Georgia
Maggie M
Marshall
Sophie Rose

Pigeon Impossible

Below is the short video clip- 'Pigeon Impossible.'
Watch the video clip and comment on your favourite part. Give reasons why it is your favourite.

It's not a planet, it's our home

Trailblazer in Space

Here is a different version of the video clip we watched in class yesterday (Year 7's- you were at manual!). This clip gives a bit more of information about Ham and the preparation of going to Space. Watch this and comment below on your thought and ideas. You could even make some comparisons between the 2 videos.

Camp

Waitawheta Camp

Senior Camp - Video Maker