This is our school Ponsonby Primary.  We have 23 students in our class 

Each class has six mini lap tops

Know-a-thon

  This term the whole school is participating in a fundraiser for the school caled a Know-a-thon.  All the students recieved a sponsor card and a sheet of questions at the end of last term that they had to find out the answers to.  At the same time they had to collect sponsors from amongst friends and family.  The test is on Friday 23 July.     

Fizzing And Foaming

Our topic this term is Fizzing And Foaming.  We are going to make bathbombs and desighn their pakaging to sell at Guy Fawkes in term four.

Football World Cup

In the past week Ponsonby Primary School has hosted a mini football world cup.  Each class represented a different country.  Room 2 was Honduras and our game was against  Brazil (Room 1) on Monday 21st June.  It was a very close match as it came down to penalty shoot outs.   Katie Halliday scored the winning goal!   On Thursday 1st July the best year six players will face off  against the teachers and staff.

       Teachers Won 1-0

              Warkworth 

Last year  in Year Five the Room Three students planted trees into milk cartons in the PGU (plant growing unit).  On Wednesday 30th June the students that were in Room Three last year went to Warkworth to plant them.

Mathletics 

All the students in Ponsonby Primary have a mathletics account.

www.mathletics.co.nz/  

                                            Speeches
 

This term we have been writing and presenting speeches.   Out of 22 speeches Mrs Watson chose the best five presenters to go into the semi-finals with Room 1. 

These speeches were: 

Jack Owles - Big Bang, Will Moselen - Dad's new boat, Ella Hartley - Why I Should Be An Only Child,

Jackson Smolenski - Food, Glorious Food, Megan Browne - Male Chearleading. 

Out of these speeches two of them got through to the Finals.  These are the  Two Fantastic finalists from our class.

 Will Moselen - Dad's New Boat

Ella Hartley - Why I Should Be an Only Child

  Pasifika And Grandparents Day

On Wednesday 9th of June our school had a Pasifika and Grandparents Day.  This is when all the students in the school dressed up in bright colourful clothes that remind you of the Pacific Islands.  On the same day the people that could,  invited their Grandparents to school  and gave them a tour and showed them some of their work.  Mrs Malcolm even supplied them with cup of tea if they got tired.   Mr Watson brought in his robot  from Auckland University to entertain us some of the grandparents.  It was a successful day!

MY GREATEST FEAT

Our school has become involved with a promotion from McDonalds called "MY GREATEST FEAT".  Every child in the school has received a pedometer and is asked to record on the My Greatest Feat website the number of steps they walked everyday.  The aim is for the combined number of steps in the school to amount to 16000 km. This is the total number of kilometres that the All Whites will travel to all of their games in South Africa.  It is also the length of New Zealand. www.mygreatestfeat.org                            

Art

Most students in our class have now finished their T-Shirts for art.  Mrs Malcolm has let us put our disc work into the school art exibition in week four as well.  Don't they look fabulous.