Term 4 Principals Morning Tea Outing

Yesterday I had the pleasure of taking 12 students to the Solway Cafe & Driving Range for a swim and hit of golf,  followed by a lovely morning tea. They are a great bunch of children and thoroughly deserved to be our Term 4 'Principals Morning Tea' recipients by being excellent role models of our Gladstone School rules and values throughout the term.

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Y8 Leadership Project

Y8 have been working on a project for our front fence. 

Keep an eye out for this fantastic work being put on display very soon.

Children's Chor

The following information is the words and links for the 

Children's Church Choir (from Gill Stewart)

Born is the King

Verse 1

Born unto us this day a Saviour

Gifted from heaven to a manger

The hope of the world alive

For all mankind

All of the earth rejoice

It’s Christmas time

Chorus

So lift up your voice and sing out His praise

It’s Christmas

Born is the King, rejoice in the day

It’s Christmas

Make a joyful sound

It’s Christmas

Let His praise resound

It’s Christmas

Verse 2

Goodwill to all the earth

And peace divine

All of the earth rejoice

It’s Christmas time

It’s Christmas time

Gladstone Carol Service

Sunday 21 Dec 5pm

Once in Royal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRIZ22dn-XY

It Came upon the Midnight Clear

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd2Xl-oRneg&list=RDDd2Xl-oRneg&index=1

A Messenger Named Gabriel

O little Town of Bethlehem

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sI7_TGZaOIE

Silent Night

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEH7_2c644Q

Te Harinui

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ST4HYOsGvYw

We Three Kings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jBwL3y-Wlms

Good King Wenceslas

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X69M519dycQ

O Come All Ye Faithful

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwogLAZaSkY

Children’s Song:  Born is the King

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qf6OoAZbAQg&list=PL91551B1E5C365A3A&index=18

Our Fantastic 2014 Variety Show

Gladstone School put on a fantastic selection of performances at our recent 2014 Variety Show.

Cluster Athletics

 Winning relay team

 1000m Boys race - Gladstone School 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

 High jumpers in action.

Gladstone School leading the way in the girls sprint races.

Scarecrow Fair

Our fantastic Y1 students performing their Jump Jam routine at the beginning of the Scarecrow Fair.

Greats and Grands

We had a wonderful afternoon last Friday when students invited their special older friends and relatives to school, their Greats and Grands. Students were able to play shared games with their Greats and Grands and enjoy an afternoon tea together.

2014 Pet Day

What a fantastic day we had on Thursday when the students brought their pets to school. The sun was shining and lots of parents and school community members turned up to see a great display of well cared for pets.  Congratulations to our champions!!

21st Century Learning - Thank you FOGS & BOT

It was an exciting day on Wednesday the 15th October 2014 when our new ICT equipment arrived at school. This included 7 ipads for Room 5, 7 ipads for Room 4, 2 ipads for Room 2 and the upgraded iMac pod of computers being gifted to Room 2, 12 Chromebooks for Room 3 and 2 ipads for Room 3, 2 ipads for Room 6 to go with the one to one laptops they have already in that classroom. These fantastic resources were made available as a result of our hard working fundraising group, Friends Of Gladstone School who gave the school $13,000. We are also grateful to our  BOT who have ensured funding is available to support the technician aspect of getting this equipment integrated and professional learning opportunities made available for our staff to provide purposeful learning opportunities.

Principals Morning Tea Outing - Term 3

On the 25th October 2014 I was able to share the morning with a group of wonderful students during th Principals Morning Tea outing. This included a visit to Genesis Recreation Centre followed by morning tea at the Solway Cafe Driving Range. Two students from each class were nominated to go on this outing (by their teachers) for not only displaying our school values, but showing consistent positive attitude and effort towards their school programme over Term 3.

Creating Our Fantastic Scarecrows

2014 Scarecrows

We had a great morning making our scarecrows on Tuesday, with lots of fantastic support from our parents to help the children create some outstanding scarecrows.  This year's scarecrow theme was Princesses, Princes and Politicians.

Talented Mr Gibb playing the bagpipes

We were all so lucky to hear Mr Gibb play the bagpipes this week. We really enjoyed learning about this instrument.

Camp Raurimu

Those trees were pretty tall. Can you tell who climbed all the way to the top?

Keeping an eye out for the next snowball and managing to ski and snowboard.

Gladstone Gems

A happy bunch of netballers after their win on Saturday!

Hangi Meals

Room 6 prepared 150 hangi meals that included beautiful produce donated by our school families. The men carried the large basket with all the wrapped meals in it, from the hall to the hangi pit.

Room 5 Visiting the Hangi site

Room 5 enjoyed looking at the  fire with the stones getting heated up in the hangi pit.

School Hangi

Room 6 prepared a delicious  hangi on Monday thanks to the wonderful help of their families.

Term 3 Principals Morning Tea

Two students from each class were selected by their teachers to attend the Principals Morning Tea event acknowledging their fantastic effort and attitude throughout Term 2.

Rimutaka Incline -

Room 6 thoroughly enjoyed biking the Rimutaka Incline on the 27th June 2014 .