Our Assembly!

Friday the 23rd October was Room 13's Assembly for 2015. We decided it would be really awesome to do a Rugby World Cup theme in support of the All Blacks over in England.

Our fantastic commentators Reneea and Josh introduced us and our items.

First we each shared an interesting fact about each country from the Rugby World Cup.

Here are a few of ours:

"Did you know that New Zealand is home to over 40 million sheep?" - Brandon
"Did you know that an Irish birthday tradition is to bump the birthday child's head on the ground? The number of bumps is the age the child is turning." - Apache
"Did you know that South Africa has over 11 official languages?" - Stacey
"Did you know that the National Animal of Scotland is a unicorn?" - Emma


Later we performed our "Grand Final" between the All Blacks and the Wallabies (and they have turned out to be the two teams that will play in the final!) 

Here is a video of our performance...

Aaaaaaand the All Blacks are the winners!! (Here's hoping that comes true too!)

Next we sung a song for everyone - On Top of the World. Here's the video that played in the background while we sung...

 Lots of us were nervous before our Assembly but we did an awesome job. It's something we are so proud of!

Thanks for reading about our assembly... ROOM 13 ROCKS!

Literacy Day!

On Tuesday the 8th September it was International Literacy day. In order to celebrate this, we had a dress up day at Hampstead School. We dressed up as our favourite book characters! Everybody looked great.

Here are some photos of Room 13.

A Class Photo! All dressed up.

Buzz, Hulk, Spiderman and Batman on the mat.

Elsa and Anna from Frozen

Davey Warner

Another Spiderman!

Heading off to hear Mr Melrose read!

Mr Melrose read us some awesome stories.

It was such a fun day, check out the Hampstead School Facebook page for even more photos! (Link on the right).

Kahurangi: People of the Pacific

This week Hampstead School had some special visitors! A group called Kahurangi came to visit and performed a show called People of the Pacific. They took us on a trip around all the Pacific Islands including, Tahiti, Samoa, Rarotonga, Hawaii and last but not least..... Aotearoa!! 

They sang, performed dances, taught us greetings, and told us a few facts about the different islands.

Here are some photos from the show:

Japanese Visit

Konnichi Wa!

Last Friday Hampstead School were lucky enough to have some Japanese students visit us. We started off the day with an assembly to greet them, where some of our students performed some items and so did theirs.

Room 13 had a group of 5 students visit us and we were taught how to use chopsticks! They showed us how to hold them, let us practise, played a game with us and then gifted us with some food-shaped rubbers. We felt so lucky!

Here are some photos of Room 13 using chopsticks!

Zayla having a go at holding them.

Austin giving it a shot.

A student shows Josh how it's done!

Go Cooper!

Awesome skills Alex!

Brandon giving it a shot!

Danielle is a pro.

Reneea's got skills.

Zayla, Reneea and Ashley helping each other...

Riley's nearly there!

Sometimes we had to use two hands...

We had fun with the Japanese students!

Out of this World Weaving!

Here are our Space Weaving pictures! Creating these took a few steps.
First we had to use some sparkly paint to add a starry feel to our black paper. Next we created our rockets by weaving paper together and then creating a pointy top, wings and fire blasting. Then we weaved blue and purple ribbon through our sparkly backgrounds. Next we cut out some stars, planets, comets from sparkly paper to add to our background. Here are our finished results! We are so proud.