Fascinating Flax History

Yesterday Waianiwa School drove to Riverton by bus to learn about flax milling, how to work the machines and how to make string from the flax fibre. We also visited the Enviro South Centre to learn about food.
We learnt about how the different foods we eat grow from seeds, fruit, roots, flower, fungi, leaves, grains and nuts. Mrs Guyton showed us how to make flour from wheat and bake it into bread, how to make cheese and butter from milk. Room 2 and 3 children learnt that eggs came from hens.
Mr Guyton showed us how to make marshmallow seed balls from clay and seeds. The clay balls dry out in 2 days and can be planted in your garden anywhere. If you put the seeds in clay balls, birds can't eat them. We made lots of clay balls so that we could growing marshmallow plants and then making marshmallows by cutting the roots, boiling them and adding sugar.

By Year 5 and 2 children

Keeping Ourselves Safe

Room 4 are learning about 'Keeping Ourselves Safe.' For the first part of the week Room 4 had Constable Paul come in and talk to us about how people need permission to touch our body, touches we like, touches that hurt and touches that are confusing. We made flow chart about our weekend activities and numbered them from safest to most dangerous.
Miss Still gave us homework booklets that had sheets to do with safety.We had to look after an egg for a week.
Room 4 watched 'Phoebe's story.' It was about Phoebe who was being bulled at school. A teacher helped her with the problem. Then we made a poster about ways to keep safe. We watched a story about a boy when his babysitter touched parts of his body that he didn't like.

Jacob.C and Sarah.A.

Wacky Wacky Hair Day

Waianiwa School had a very Wacky Hair Day. It was all done for Westpac Rescue Helicopter. We are helping fundraise money so they can pay for the helicopter come and to save people's lives.
We came to school with terribly funny hairdos.

We came with lots of hair spray in different colours. Brayden even shaved his head in a checker board pattern.

Every child came also with a gold coin. With everyone's help we raised $106.

By Annabel and Kade

Cross Country

Boy, it was a long wait. Finally it was my turn to run. The horn beated and away I ran. I was running as fast as I could. Look I was in front but running out of energy. I was getting stitch but still had 1 lap to go.
Dig it in, you can do it I thought to myself. I could see the finish line. I had to sprint to pass other runners. Yeah! We had finally finished. I wonder who came 1st 2nd 3rd. I was so hot and red that I needed something cold to cool me down. My heart's still beating fast. We can go home now.
By Jordyn and Jackson

Remembering the war

We had to complete task's like War Ration pack's , Poppy facts, a present from home for a soldier and a memorial. The poppy's were presented in Assembly. They read the information to the whole school including Mr Muhl. Mr Muhl was very impressed with the information explained.

By Emily and Dallas

Anzac Service

The Anzac Service was held in our Community Room last Friday. All of the class presented an item. In our class Jacob read a poem called 'In Flanders Fields'. Annabel read our class letter to the Troopers sharing our thoughts about the ANZAC soldiers.Room Three presented some plaques Room Two presented a poem of their thoughts and feelings. Room One presented a word chart displaying feelings.When the amazing Anzac service had ended everyone walked out to the flag pole to raise the flag half mast.Then we went out to the memorial gates where Chris said a poem and the wreaths were laid.


By Eden and Daniel

Swiming Sports

We drove to Winton for swimming sports.We waited for our names to be called.We watched the other childern race before us.We cheered for all the Waianiwa swimmers. Dean Grant competed in the boys year 5's race and won easily. Finally Kaleb's name was called out. So he walked over to the starting line beside the pool.The race started and Kaleb set off in a flash. He got 1st in both swimming races. My group was called next.So we stood by the starting line.We started swimming and I had two 4ths in my race. I was feeling happy because I didn't come last.



By Teegan and Kaleb