Y8 Project Unveiled

Yesterday our wonderful Y8 students unveiled their fantastic mural at a special assembly. We think it looks fantastic. We are very proud of the Y8 efforts and wish them all the very best for their college years.

Principals Morning Tea - Term 4

What a pleasure it was to take these students out on the Principals Morning Tea outing this morning.  They were nominated for putting in a consistent work effort throughout the term in both behaviour and attitude.

Teacher Workroom on the Move

Thank you to everyone who helped with clearing the area around the Teacher Workroom for removal.  A very special thank you to Joe Quirk and James Doyle for the work they did early on Sunday morning.

 Britton's Removals removed the building today with the students eagerly watching it jacked up, then transferred onto the truck and finally towed away.

Practising for the Tongariro Crossing

Y7 & Y8 on their practise walk on Friday, testing out their gear and fitness skills in preparation for their tramp over the Tongariro Crossing on the 

29th November.

Time for a quick break and some lunch.

Garden Challenge Shiled

Congratulations to all members of the Gardening Club and parent helpers for gaining second place in the Challenge Shield Competition. This was a fantastic result, led by Education Enviro Lead teachers Mrs Jacobson and Mrs Church.  Gladstone School received a certificate and $100 voucher presented to key members of the Gardening Club by Mrs Aitchison of Carterton Rotary.

Athletics Day - Go Gladdy

It was great to see the Y1 and Y2 students enjoying their participation in the Athletic Sports at South End School during the morning.

Our Y3 - Y8 students started their Athletic Sports at Carrington Park with amazing results in the relays (gaining 1st place in most relays).  Gladstone School shone at all events throughout the day both in sportsmanship and positive behaviour. Go Gladdy!

Scarecrows Big Day Out

What an amazing day we had on Saturday. Thousands of people visited the Scarecrow Fair and enjoyed the amazing stalls, foods and activities. Our monster auction alone raised over $5000.  Following the Fair people enjoy the relaxing environment of the Gobbler.  We are still waiting on the final tally to come in, which we will announce to the community as soon as it is available.  Thank you to all our school family and friends who supported this fundraising day in so many ways. A huge thank you to our amazing FOGS committee for their superb organisation of this fundraising venture.

Greats and Grands Afternoon

Everyone at Gladstone School thoroughly enjoyed spending time with our Greats and Grands this afternoon.

A number of our Greats and Grands even went on stage to join in with Room 1 & Room 2  dancing.

Dictionaries Presented to Y4 form Rotary

Y4 each received a wonderful pictorial dictionary presented to them by Rotary of Carterton.
Mr Butler and Mr Orsborn presented these dictionaries to Y4 at this morning's assembly.

Pet Day 2017

What a fantastic day we had today with the sun shining and the pets out in force. Thank you to all our judges, staff and parents for your support of the students. We appreciate your time to make this such a great event on our annual calendar.

Principals Morning Tea Recipients - Term 3, 2017

It was a genuine pleasure taking twelve of our students on the Principals Morning Tea outing this morning. These students were nominated by their teacher as having sustained a positive effort and attitude throughout Term 3.

Black Sticks NZ Olympic Ambassador visits Gladstone School

It was fantastic to have Kayla Whitelock visit Gladstone School today and inspire us with her experiences around her journey to becoming a world class hockey player and Olympic Ambassador. Kayla developed a passion for hockey early in her life that took her all the way to captaining the Black Sticks and competing in four Olympic Games.

Kayla let a few of our junior students try on her medals.

Senior students lined up to get their hockey gear signed by Kayla

Seniors On Camp

What a fantastic three days of learning our Senior Hub students have just had at Camp Kaitoke.  We are looking forward to hearing all their stories about their adventures next week.

Aladdin Trouble

What an amazing effort by all our students and teachers to put on the fantastic school production, Aladdin Trouble. A special thank you to Mr Brown - Director and Mrs Barton - Producer, for all their hard work and expertise. Thank you to everyone who helped with staging, props, costumes or in any way at all to make this such a successful show, your time and efforts were truly appreciated.
Congratulations to our main actors and to all our students on three wonderful performances - Gladstone School "We Shine".

Room 6 Mathematicians

Room 6 used their collaborative problem solving and risk taking strategies to work out their addition and subtraction facts during a game of SKUNK earlier in the week. They had to work in pairs and make decisions about the probability of gaining or losing the most points based on the roll of the dice.

Clever Writing Practise Y1

Year 1 students were working hard and enjoying practising their great writing skills at the whiteboard table.

Congratulations Mathematicians

Congratulations to our Math team representatives who took part in the competition in Masterton last week at Wairarapa College. We were proud of the following students for their positive participation and contributions:

Y5 & Y6 Teams = Alice, Dylan & Hannah  and

                             Jasper, Japhy & Ruby

Y7 Team = Summer, Conall & Hamish

Y8 Teams = Phoebe, Foster & Ella and  

                    Anika, Tessa & Lily

Thank you to all the school families who provided transport to and/or from the Mathematic Competition in Masterton. We really appreciate your support.

  Y7 & Y8 teams working out their strategies

Maths Week Celebration

The sun was shining when the Y7 & Y8 students led the school through a range of seven different Math activities as part of our Gladstone School Mathematic Week celebrations. There was lots of great learning going on and it was wonderful to see the leadership skills of our senior students shining through.

Farewell and Thank you Mr Dlaziel

Last Friday our school said thank you, farewell and good luck to Mr Dalziel. Room 6 had a surprise morning tea for Mr Dalziel after the school assembly.

Football Tournament

What a fantastic opportunity it was for our senior students to celebrate their football skills at the recent South Wairarapa Football tournament. Go Gladdy!

Seniors vsiting Aratoi

Our  Senior Hun students have been very fortunate to be able to visit Aratoi this week to work with the education team for viewing the Te Marae o Rongotaketake, the Ngati Kahungunu exhibition which is focussed on redressing the history of the iwi.

Our Creek

 Our stream was flowing in the holidays with all the wet weather. This was taken just after the water had started to recede.

Term 2 Principal's Morning Tea

Congratulations to the Term 2 Principal's Morning Tea recipients. What a great bunch of students to take out. 

The students from Y1 - Y8 were nominated by their teachers for showing a positive attitude and consistent effort throughout the term.

Wear A Wig Day

Everyone at Gladstone School got into the spirit of Wear a Wig Day this morning, with some bright and wonderful hairstyles around the school. All donations went to the Child Cancer Foundation. Thank you to staff and students for your wonderful contributions.

Gladstone School Y7 & Y8 Speech Competition

Congratulations to all participants in today's Y7 & Y8 Speech Competition. What a great variety of topics were presented. It was fantastic to have English secondary school teacher Kathryn Homes and her student (Kuranui College) involved in the adjudication of this competition.

Congratulations to Y8,  1st place getter Anika and runner up Ella. 

Congratulations to Y7, 1st place getter Angus and runner up Lucy.

Footsteps Dance

Over the past term the Senior Hub and Room5 & 6 have been participating in regular dance lessons once a week with the talented Footsteps dance tutors.  It was exciting to watch the final dance performances shared last Tuesday, to celebrate the end of the lessons for 2017. After watching the dance performances the tutor had the whole school participate in a final dance 'taster'. This was a great way to enjoy such a fabulous Arts celebration.

Amazing Day of Learning

There was some fantastic learning occurring for Gladstone School students today. Our seniors took part in the amazing opportunity to plant trees at Kourarau Dam and stream. This involved local farmers, Greater Wellington Regional Council,  Iwi and Enviro School facilitators all teaching the students about this special project and local place of significance.  The Y5 to Y8 students, their teachers and wonderful parent helpers planted close to 2,000 trees today.

Today Room 6 were concentrating hard at the Wairarapa Chess Tournament, held at Masterton Intermediate School. The Room 6 students absolutely showed other school how Gladstone School can 'Shine', both with their fabulous behaviour and their amazing chess skills. Our students being Y3 & Y4 were younger than the other teams who were mainly Y5 & Y6. One Gladstone team was placed runner up to the overall winners. What an outstanding result.