Jackson - Joshua's Dog

Thanks to Joshua and his dad for bringing along their dog - Jackson. They have been training Jackson for the last 9 months and he will leave on Tuesday for some more intense training.

Fair

Make sure you get to the fair this weekend, will be a great day! 

Bath Bomb Making for the Fair

We had fun on Tuesday experimenting with ingredients to make bath bombs to sell at the School Fair (Nov 12th 10-2). Beautiful colours and scents....come buy one or six from our stall next weekend! Bath Salts available too in a range of exciting colours and smells...
THANKS to all those who SCENT (haha) along essential oils for us to use, especially Pearce's parents from Summerfield's Pharmacy...much appreciated

Boys who Sew!

These boys were sewing up a storm in the mid base space today. We are beginning preparations for the Arrowtown School Fair. Christmas Bunting made by the year 6s. 

Pathways

Wow, thanks for all of the amazing Pathways efforts this term everyone! 

Olympic Triathlete Nicky Samuels visits us today!

We were lucky enough to have an Olympic athlete visit us today, fresh off the plane from America...Nicky Samuels, triathlete. She came an impressive 13th in Rio. She is based in Wanaka and is home for the summer. She was happy to answer all our questions and even gave Elise a t-shirt for inviting her to our school. Awesome way to kick off our Olympic Evening!

Mask making with Oamaru artist Donna Demente

Take a sneak peek at some of the beautiful masks created today with the help of Donna Demente. These will be on parade down the main street of Arrowtown at 12 on Saturday, come along and have a look!

Olympic Projects

The snow day worked out to be perfect timing. These two lovely girls and the lovely Maisie, spent their morning making a diving cake. Amazing girls! 

Daffodil Day!

Daffodil Day across the school last Thursday, very well organised by the Year 8's to raise over $1100. Lots of great yellow outfits in Year 6 which were shown off on the catwalk. Congrat's to Connor & Chloe voted Best Dressed by classmates.

Rippa Nationals

Good luck to our team in Wellington today!

Winter Sports

We love our Winter Sports programme at Arrowtown School. Come in the Year 6 block to read our descriptions.

Cross Country

Congratulations to all of our fabulous students who participated in today's cross country. What a beautiful afternoon it was!

Poetry

Come into The Workshop to read our crazy poems! We were focusing on describing what a noun might do to help readers create a mental image.

Word Wall - Class Displays

Our displays are very meaningful and relevant! We will be using our word walls in both The Base and The Workshop to help us with our information report writing. Watch this space for interesting reports about past and present Olympic athletes. 

Tuakana/Teina

Our wonderful Troy teaching his group how to share equally!

Olympics

This term we have some must do tasks to research about our country. Look at what Mia researched and created in her spare time! Amazing Mia. All of the Olympic uniforms for Wales are on hanging on the line! 

Beep Test Ready!!

Being healthy and active this morning! 

Kids Olympics Sports Day

What a fun filled day we had on Monday in Frankton. Congratulations to team USA and Croatia on such a successful day! Go Atown! 

Pathways

It was amazing to spend a lunchtime supervising a Pathways project. Some year 6 girls planned a 2 day gymnastics rotation for year 3/4 students. What a successful time for all! Well done girls, superb organisational skills! 

Fractions and Proportions Improvements

Well done to these students for their amazing results!
We have worked extremely hard all term to improve our fractions and proportions knowledge and strategies. Congratulations to all students on a very busy term of maths.

These are our highest achieving students:

Flo = 100% 

Jack K. & Oz = 1 incorrect 

Maisie = 2 incorrect 

Finley & Liana = Next two top scores 

These are our most improves students:

Largest percentage increase on stage student was working on: 

Logan W. - 63% Increase 
Lily - 58% Increase 
Pearce - 47% Increase
Aiden/Lucy W. - 46% Increase
Gwynie - 45% Increase
Charlotte - 42% Increase 

Sophie C./Leo - 39% Increase