22 September 2023

Kia ora EBIS Whanau

We have arrived at the end of another school term. 

Students have been working on speeches for the majority of the term. In the last 3 weeks they have had to present them to their class. Speeches chosen by the classroom teacher were then advanced to the team finals where one Year 7 and One Year 8 were selected to compete in the school finals. This was held on Wednesday 20th September. All the speeches were exceptional with topics ranging from The Environment to Boredom. Congratulations to Marina from Room 4 who won the Year 7 Speech Competition talking about her experience growing up in a single parent household, and to Eddie from Room 11, The Year 8 and Overall Speech winner with his very entertaining speech on Laughter.

The WRISSA Boys Basketball have brought back the school’s third trophy for this year. The boys played as a team and with good sportsmanship all the way through the tournament, right through the final where they defeated Naenae Intermediate in a tough match.

The girls team also played well, but were knocked out in the quarter finals.

The Te Wiki o te Reo celebrations were enjoyed by all students throughout the week. Students participated in activities like tukutuku, poi making, and harakeke weaving. The Hangi on Wednesday also went well and the whole school was served in about half and hour. Thank you to Miss Trye for planning the entire week, and for Matua Rob for the Hangi organisation.

The final term is already looking to be very busy. Here is a list of some of the events taking place in Term 4.

Production - Space Education

• Additional rehearsals during the Term 3 Holidays

• 31/10 Matinee for Contributing Schools.
            Evening Performance

• 1/11   Evening Performance

Ākauwaiata

• 27/10 Pasifika @ Levin Intermediate School

• 30/10 Motu Kairangi Kapa Haka @ Akau Tangi Sports Centre

• 10/11 Te Ora Atamira @ Maidstone Intermediate School

Regional Sports Festival

• 18/10 @ Manawatu

WRISSA Tournaments

• 1/11   Touch Rugby

• 15/11 Swimming

• 22/11 Softball

EOTC Week

• 8/12   Rotation 1

• 11/12 Rotation 2

• 12/12 Rotation 2

• 13/12 Rotation 2

We hope the students have a fun holiday break and that they return rested and ready to work hard in Term 4.

The EBIS Staff

Term 3 - The Term of Science & STEAM!

And that's a wrap on Term 3!

WOW!  What a term!  EBIS Science Fair, NIWA Wellington Regional Science Fair, EPRo8…..and to finish it off a trip to Science Roadshow today!

EBIS has an amazing bunch of younger Scientists and STEAM enthusiasts and it has been really lovely seeing the achievements of students this term - particularly at the NIWA Science Fair.  It is the absolute highlight of the EBIS year.

Science Enrichment finished the term on a high with some Elephant Toothpaste - and some very foamy drains (oops)!  It is great to be able to bring out some of the ‘cool chemicals’ with this very responsible bunch.

Science Roadshow

Science Roadshow provides a great chance for students to explore some of the Physics & Chemistry topics we have been covering in Science SPEC this year.  Today's demonstrations complimented some of the lessons we have had and it was awesome to see how many students connected with the hands-on displays. 

We tend to host this every couple of years and next year it's EBIS’s turn again!  

Thanks to all of the amazing ‘science crew’ of EBIS students who have made this term so much fun!  I am looking forward to the Space Place in Term 4 and to hearing how our EPRo8 teams go in the finals on October 12th.  

Miss Hood, ahood@ebis.school.nz

WRISSA School Swimming - Nov 15th 2023

EBIS has entered into the WRISSA 2023 Swimming event.  This is held in Masterton on Nov 15th.

Schools are able to enter 2 swimmers per event and EBIS students will be able to select 2 events.  

Trials will be held on Thursday of week 1 with a backup date of Thursday week 2.  Trials will be conducted by myself and our EBIS Swim Coach from Taraika Swim Club. 

Events:

50m Freestyle 

50m Butterfly

50m Breaststroke

50m Backstroke

100m Freestyle

100m Individual Medley

Relay

Note that each of the above events has a boys and girls race.  As a starting point swimmers who can swim 1 length of free in less than 20 secs are encouraged to come for a trial.

An email will go out to all families at the beginning of week 1 to remind students of the upcoming trials.

Transport will be figured out when I know how many swimmers we are taking.

If you have any questions about this event please contact me ahood@ebis.school.nz (Amanda Hood).

Boys Basketball