Presentation Day for Shade

As you can see this is our Tagxedo.

 

On Friday, Mark, Debi and Kaela Rush came to our school to meet the year 7's and 8. We showed them our presentation and we talked to them about our school and how they can help us to create shade over our playground.  Here's our Prezi presentation.

We felt our presentation went good because they agreed with us most of the time.  We thought the pikelets were a nice touch and we enjoyed making them to calm down our nerves.  

They were really kind and were a great audience.  We did pretty well in representing our school and really enjoyed the experience.  It was exciting to be able to talk with such successful business people!

(Click photo to enlarge:  Here's us giving the presentation and taking everyone on a tour of the school.  We were so proud and even popped some sparkling grape juice to celebrate!)

By Fatima and Hana

Science Fair

Attn Year 7's and 8's!

As mentioned, we've been lucky to have been accepted into the Auckland Science Fair competition.  You're able to work either individually or in pairs and if you really stretch yourself and put a stellar effort in your chances are great at getting through to the Auckland finals where your experiment will be judged by professional scientists.

You're welcome to take a look at this presentation that gives you an introduction to the process.

Click here to see in full size.

Thanks to Mrs Carol Duffield for sharing the original text content!

Piping Hot Pikelets

Today the year 7 and 8 students made pikelets in preparation for our guests arriving.

We followed the recipe in the Edmonds Cookbook (a real Kiwi favourite!) and worked together to make the tight deadline perfectly.  After four batches we were well and truely ready to tuck into them... the pikelets were delicious, even if we do say so ourselves.

Click to enlarge (collage made with Picasa)

Notice the yellow goop?  We whipped the cream in the bottle (Miss H didn't think to bring a beater, whoops!) by separating it into two lots - when we shook the bottle for two long we found ourselves with butter!!

The leaders involved will update you on all the exciting details from our presentation (hopefully on Monday.)