Room 12's Healthy Cook Off!

Wow what a week this week has been! The children have been so engaged in our healthy cooking challenge and time has flown by! Today we finally got to cook the meals we have been collaboratively planning. I am so proud of every single one of us. Everyone collaborated brilliantly in their teams, worked hard researching ingredients and recipes, created some very persuasive and creative digital recipe books through Book Creator, and cooked wonderful meals! 

Our guest judges (Jasmine and McKenzie - contestants in 2017 Junior Masterchef and creators of the chicken parmigana meal at Giovanni's restaurant) really enjoyed tasting our meals. They found it really tough selecting the top three because they thought every group did an incredible job! After lots of contemplation and discussions, they awarded...

First place to the creators of the Tomato and Basil Pasta (Mya, Tinky, Mia and Emma)

Second equal to the creators of the Mince Ravioli (Team Ratburgers - Avaani, Richard, Alan and Charles)

...and also to the creators of the Yoghurt Berry Cups (Team Cookinators - Lola, Imogen, Leah and KJ). 

Congratulations to every single Room 12 child...you all did an amazing job and we have had a very successful week filled with lots of learning and fun! Ka Pai :)

Also, a big thank you to our wonderful parent helpers who came and supported our mini chefs. We could not have completed this without you, so thank you so much! 

Check out photos from our cooking spectacular!

Congratulations Tinky and Alan!

A huge congratulations to both Tinky and Alan who both competed in our senior school speech finals this morning! They both did an amazing job and presented their speeches with confidence and enthusiasm.

Alan received a Highly Commended award and Tinky took out the competition by being awarded First Place!

Tinky now moves forward to the Rotorua Speech Competitions where she will represent our school and compete against the top speakers from other primary schools in the Rotorua region. This is being held at the Harvest Centre next week (Tuesday 11th September) at 5pm. It would be great if other children and whanau from our class could attend this event to show our support for Tinky!

Congratulations Alan and Tinky!

SURPRISE.....Healthy Cooking Week

Today the surprise was revealed.....we are all taking on a healthy cooking challenge this week! In groups of 4, we are going to collaboratively research, design, budget, advertise and cook a healthy meal. This meal has to serve 4 children and be prepped/cooked within half an hour. We have Tuesday and Wednesday to plan and create an ebook to advertise our meals and then on Thursday we will be cooking!

Today we were very lucky to have a special visitor....Deep from Giovanni's restaurant! He came in and did a cooking demonstration - showing us how to make pasta from scratch and create a marinara sauce to go with it!

We really enjoyed this cooking demonstration and cannot wait to use some of the skills we learnt today when we cook our own meal. Deep also told us about the NZ junior MasterChef challenge that he is hosting next year here in Rotorua. Keep an eye out for advertising about this as we are the perfect age to enter! He is also bringing out a cook book called Lets Eat later in the year that includes his recipes as well as some junior chef's recipes that they have developed in Deep's special cooking classes for kids! 

Week 7

Kia Ora Whanau, welcome back to week 7! We have officially made it through Winter and are now into Spring. Here's hoping the weather begins to improve!

This week is going to be an incredibly fun and action packed week!

Tomorrow morning we have speech competitions at 9am. Congratulations to Alan and Tinky who are our Room 12 finalists! This was a very tricky decision as all of our children did an amazing job; they should all be very proud of themselves because I know they all challenged themselves and overcame lots of barriers to do their very best. Feel free to come along tomorrow to watch the finals and support Alan and Tinky...we will be cheering them on!

This week I have planned a surprise challenge week for our class. This begins tomorrow after speech finals, where I will reveal what the challenge is AND we have a special guest coming in to ignite the challenge. Children will be working collaboratively in groups of 4 and will have Monday afternoon, Tuesday and Wednesday to complete the challenge, with Thursday being set aside to create the product they have designed. I won't give too much away on here yet as the children do not know, but ask them after school tomorrow what it is we are exploring and learning all about! They will need to purchase an item to bring in on Wednesday which will be less than $5...it would be really appreciated if you could please help your child find and purchase this item as it will be needed to complete the challenge. Ideally, we would like to have an adult helping 1 or 2 groups each on Thursday when they are creating their product. If you are available to help out on Thursday between 11 and 12.30pm please send me an email at nicoleh@stmarysrotorua.school.nz, get your child to bring a note to me, or pop in and let me know. Thank you!

On Friday we have a Nativity of Mary Mass. Whanau are more than welcome to attend this; it starts at 9am at our Church. It would be really nice to see you there :)

I hope you all have a lovely and safe week. I am very excited for the week ahead and supporting our class on this fun learning experience!

God Bless,

Nicole

St Mary’s School is taking part in the Colgate Community Garden Challenge.  This means as a school we need to start collecting oral waste products. There will be a box outside Room 6 where used products can be placed.  We can win a total of $4000 for our school grounds and gardens. Let’s start recycling and collecting for our School!

THIS WEEK - TONGAN LANGUAGE WEEK

MONDAY 3rd September

9.00am Totara Speech Finals

WEDNESDAY 5th September.

Totara. Some chn working with Mural Artists

3.00-3.45 Library open

THURSDAY 6th September

Totara. Some chn working with Mural Artists

8.45am School Singing

10.00am Science Roadshow. Enrichment Class

3.00pm Pasifika Homework Club

3.00pm Library open

FRIDAY 7th September

9.00am Nativity of Mary Mass

11.00am Pasifika Practice

12 Noon Choir in the hall

No Assembly

WEEK 8

Maori Language Week.

Social Justice Week

TUESDAY 11th September

5.30pm Rotorua Schools Speech Comp. Harvest Centre

WEDNESDAY 12th September.

3.00-3.45 Library open

THURSDAY 13th September

Steam Puddings for Maori Language Week

8.45am School Singing

3.00pm Pasifika Homework Club

3.00pm Library open

FRIDAY 14th September

11.00am Pasifika Practice

12 Noon Choir in the hall

Assembly. Lorna. Tanya Tapsell speaker at assembly