Jump off !

Who will win in the jump off? Or will the wind have a part to play?

Derek and AFL Drill

Derek is having fun completing the AFL drill! Did you get dizzy?

Zane and AFL

Today we had some fun on the field doing some AFL drills. Go Zane go!

Current Events Term 3 Week 7

Can you answer the following Current Events questions? Click on the image to enlarge it.

Sunnybrae Olympic Review

On Friday 10th August Sunnybrae Normal School had a school Olympics.  Some of the teams were Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Egypt, France, Great Britain, India, Japan, Korea, New Zealand and Tonga (in alphabetical order), that’s all I could remember but how does the Olympics work? You'll see in about 5 seconds. 

First all the students got in to countries (they didn’t get to choose what country they got in) and some of the year 6s got to become one of the officials, one of them was a male named Campbell Jin. Next the countries sat on the netball court in alphabetical order, then the team leaders of each counties got their paper torches and put them on the big Olympic torch while the officials got to their stations.
 
 

Then the activity started, each "country" got told which station they're going to. So they went. Each station had a different sport for example high jump, obstacle course and running...for high jump and the other sports similar to it, the juniors jumped a lower height than the middles and seniors. After about 15 minutes the bell rang and then the officials marked the team points and the team/country went off to another station while another team came. So this would be happened 4 times. Next all the teams/countries went back to the netball court while the officials packed up and went back to the netball court too.

Now the teachers announced the team/country that had the most, second most and third most points, every member of those teams got a medal.

Australia got gold, Tonga got silver and Japan got bronze.

 Then the people that were spotted showing R.I.C.E. (Respect, Independence, Cooperation, Excellence) also received a gold medal. Soon after that the children of Sunnybrae went back to their homes.

By: Campbell

Classroom Speeches

On Monday 20 August, we had to do class speeches. To decide who went first, we drew out of a box. First up ...  Julius. Julius talked about cartoons. Next... Simon, he did his on the Amazon Rainforest, Tariq was drawn out but he wasn't ready yet [sorry I can't remember the order from thereon any more] . My favourite one was...[I liked them all], my least favourite one was my own. Some of the other speeches were about game addicts, animal abuse, basketball, sports , games , t.v. programmes, myths and much, much, more. At the end of the day we had a vote for Students' Choice award and who will go into the senior finals. Tyler came 1st, Paul took 2nd place and it was a 3 way tie between Nathan, Derek and Liam for the bronze. Mr Gordon has picked some too for the finals.

By Jordan    

Current Events - Jamie

The three New Zealand soldiers killed by a bomb in Afghanistan on Sunday have started their journey home.

A special ceremony was held at Bagram Air Base where the bodies of Corporal Luke Tamatea, Lance Corporal Jacinda Baker and Private Richard Harris were carried onto an Australian Air Force aircraft.

They were killed when an IED bomb with 20 kilograms of explosives blew up the Humvee they were travelling in.

The three soldiers will be transferred onto a New Zealand Hercules plane in Australia and is expected to arrive in Christchurch tomorrow. 

By: Jamie

The three caskets are carried to the Royal Australian Air Force C-130 by members of the NZ Provincial Reconstruction Team.