2 August 2024

Kia orāna, EBIS Whānau

Next week is Cook Island Language Week.

Thank you to all of you who took the time to come to the parent / teacher meetings this past week. We spend so much time with your children here at school, that it’s a real pleasure to meet the wonderful parents behind them.

The start of term 3 has been an exciting time. Last week we welcomed Masterton Intermediate for our annual football exchange. It is a special relationship that exists between these two schools and we were thrilled to welcome them to our school and then Kilbirnie Park. We’ve also held the Science Fair last week and what a range of exciting and inquisitive topics that tickled the curiosity of our young scientists. Everything from the growth rates of Mussels in our harbour, to the glucose content of cereal, to the purity of water, to the impact of conditions during a maths test,  to the age old question of does red sky at night really lead to shepherd’s delight? 

We also recently competed in the Regional Aquabots competition for the first time. For information about the results read on. 

This is the time of the year that we welcome prospective students into our school via our Open Evening and Open Days. 

The Open Days take place next week, and these are events we are greatly looking forward to. Open Evening took place this week. It was great to have so many families come and see what Evans Bay Intermediate School has to offer. It was amazing to have almost 70 students return to school in the evening simply because of the pride they have in their school and their desire to share this with others. On a night when Wellington’s weather was at its worst, you were at your best and to a person the staff were immensely proud of each and every one of you.

Finally, we know it is the Winter months but we are currently focusing on increasing attendance. The government target is 90%, and this isn’t just a number that looks good. At 90% achievement levels soar. We want to work with families to help our students to attend school so if there is a barrier that we’re unaware of, please let us know how we can help?

Meitaki

EBIS Staff

Science Fair

To start with, what is Science Fair? Well, Science Fair is a time when literally any student can submit a project, as long as you’ve done the work. This project has to be a research project, or some kind of experiment, where you can do an experiment, or research (Seems fairly self evident after the last bit) and draw conclusions from that. You have to make a hypothesis, of course, and prove it correct, or incorrect.

After you’ve done your experiment, or your research, you present your findings with graphs and charts and your conclusion, and EVERYTHING ELSE, in a slideshow. And if it's good enough, then the judges will choose you as one of the people who go through to NIWA. And if it's REALLLLLLLLY good, well then you win one of first, second, or third place.

There were many topics, ranging from water purity, to plants getting lonely. But what about me? Well, I did glucose in cereal, as an experiment rather than a research project. I liquified cereal, tested it with a device, and I found out how much glucose there was in the cereal. There was a lot of other stuff, and I found out a lot, but I can’t explain that all here, (It’s in a 7 minute long slideshow). And now I’m in NIWA, with lots of other kids, all trying to show off their findings. I’m really looking forward to it! 

This is Tobias Burgess, signing off.