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The show must go on !

This friday it is riverdale's got talent!

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Look at the cool stuff he is doing with the makey makey!

Look at the amazing calendar art by Angelo!

Last week on Friday a group of kids went to the arena to participate in the Kind Hearts event. Riverdale School was super lucky to get the first three Certificates. There are 4 levels of kindness. To get to level 1 you have to show kindness in the classroom. To get level 2 you have to show kindness around the whole school. To get Level 3 you have to show kindness in the community and finally to get level 4 you have to show kindness in the world.

Today, NED and Matt came to school to talk about the Power of Yet. We saw NED go on a mission to find his mindset. He went up Mount Everest, to the Caribbean Islands, and even to an Alien Spaceship.

The meaning of NED's name is as follows;

N = Never Give Up

E = Encourage Others

D = Do Your Best

3 kids got free yo-yo's for answering questions, and there is a sale on if you want to buy your own. All money from buying things from NED lets them go to another school - FOR FREE!!!

So come on Pounamu Atawhai - go for it!

Come on Pounamu-Atawhai there are only 20-24 cans in the can bin!

We need to put more in!!

Monrad's Band came over to our school and played 5 songs for us. There were an awful lot of high fives given out by 2 previous Riverdale Students; Lahjerah and Crystal, the lead singers. There was also Bethel, another previous Riverdale Student. After that, our school band performed a couple of songs, and the Old town Road boys performed - what else? Old town Road. In all, it was a very musical session.

It is getting very close to when the riverdale school rippa A team will be going to compete at Nationals. To help train for this they got the turbos in to help. Good luck Riverdale!

In week 2 some kids in the school I think year 3 and up could attend the tough guy and gal challenge it was a fun event that Mr Bron (And a few of the amazing parent volunteers) got us too! It was at the Linton army camp, and everyone who attended had a great time! You went through A LOT of mud! There was an obstacle coarse closer to the end too! When we got back Mr Bron gave everyone who attended a hells snack pizza voucher! It was a really cool event to attend! Now check out these photos! FACT: There were around 2000 people at the race!

This week we had newbury school come in and tell us about there school

As we all know we are getting to that time were year six's are looking into intermediates. So this was super cool and will hopefully make it easy for us to decided

Term 3 Week 1

This week Mrs Kenyon's writing group have been making picture books for the children in Piako Tahi (and possibly Piako Rua) I have interviewed one student, Angela Yamamoto for a short interview.

What is your picture book about?

It's about a girl named Julia who goes to a magical kingdom to try and find her teddy bear.

Why did you decide to write that?

We did some research about picture books and almost every book had a problem and a solution so I did it about what most little girls problems would be.

What art did you do?

I did Word art with Miss Fairbairn

Did you enjoy your art?

Yes, it was fun

What are 2 techniques you learned?

Dot art and rays

If you were to do that art again what would you change?

I think I would change the stuff that I did and the patterns and take more time

Why did you choose that art?

Because I thought it was a good way to express myself

Anything else you would like to say?

No.

This term and hopefully for the next 2 terms we are doing creativity in the far room, theres lots of amazing stuff happening in there to get in you easily just put up you idea on the wall sounds easy right! Well you need to make sure it has a good purpose either affecting you or others.

Interview with: Aidan Mace

How did you feel when you were going to the finals?

Ummmm excited and nervous

Did you get mad at your team during the finals?

Yes totally because everyone was yelling at me so I had to yell back at them

How does it feel to have won?

Very nice cause I got to go out for dinner and I got to hold up the trophy in Assembly

How nervous were you when they were announcing the winner?

Um I wasn't surprised.

Do you feel accomplished?

Yes, a bit, well it was my first Epro 8

Anything else you would like to say?

Umm im looking forward to doing it next year.

Quiz 3!

This week we had EPro8. The teams were as follows:

Riverdale Rockets - Troy Arnold, Reuben Howard, Noah Easton, Aaron Mudford

Riverdale Radiators - Julia Jackson, Macy McCallum, Paige Todd, Sora Moriyama

Riverdale Rebels - Miya Dilks, Micah Chang, Sophie Brothwell, Morcarmme

Riverdale Robotrons- Allie Ward, Aidan Mace, Toby Johnson, Landon Lau

Reserves - Ashlyn Rowland, Lucy Cadzow, Josh Morcarmme

And the seconders were...

THE RIVERDALE ROBOTRONS!!!!

EPro8 is a science electronics competition when over three days, a bunch of teams compete to get first, second, or third for a place in the semi finals.

In week 9 we won the ripper tournament!

Riverdale hasn't won for five years so its a reallly big achievment for us! Also a thankyou to the b-team for making the a team better by playing against them!

This is Toby's river safety poster. He worked really hard on it and is super proud.

In Pounamu Atawhai we have a simple way to earn snidges called SDL also known as Self Directed Learning. We have an amazing sheet that shows how many snidges you get and what you need to get finished before doing the can dos, you get follow up tasks and snidges from doing that too unless your teacher says no snidges. Every child in Pounamu Atawhai does SDL and this is a great way to earn snidges!