Harakeke Weaving

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A Cup Holder

Detachable cup

Scooters are used for a lot of things for example travelling, but say your  going to the dairy to get a drink, but you can’t hold the drink while riding the scooter or you will probably drop the drink,, instead of just holding the drink you can use a detachable cup holder as the drink won’t Spill. There are a two clips that attaches onto the handlebars of the scooter, any scooter will work with two long sticks on either side of the clips and they attaches onto a cup holder ( which is where you put the cup). The cup holder will be very sturdy.

By Declan, Khan, Shayden and Aayush

Plastic Shredder Prototype

A plastic shredder is a machine used to cut plastic into smaller pieces for granulation. The shredders are designed specifically for all plastic waste, like car bumpers, pipes, plastic straws and plastic cups. In the process, large plastic items are fed into the shredder.This is how plastic breaks down.

Drain Protector

A Drain Protector is to stop pollution and rubbish from going down the drain and to protect the sea life.

To work the drain protector you have to put it in the drain and leave it for every second Monday after, you use the pegs and hook it onto the drain and pull it up. To stop it from slipping down the drain there is white tape on it. Now you have to empty it into the bin. Finally you put it back in drain, and set up again.

By Loretta and Lydia.

Underwater Speaker Prototype!

Our prototype is an underwater speaker that would sit on the bottom of fishing boats. The speaker would play loud Orca/killer whale sounds to scare away dolphins, sharks, whales and sea turtles from big fishing nets. This is a major problem for all sea creatures and if we don’t change now we may have no more sea life left.

Did you know recent studies show that more than 87,000 sharks, 3,400 dolphins and 1,100 sea lions over the past 25 years have died due to fishing nets. The nets are also estimated to have killed more than 380 whales and 100 sea turtles! WE NEED TO DO SOMETHING NOW!

Our invention is an underwater speaker that plays loud Orca\killer whale sounds to scare away sharks, dolphins and a few more sea creatures. The speaker would sit under large fishing boats and play the sounds, The sound will not affect the fish as much as it will other sea creatures as they can’t exactly hear noises, as of this, the fish number caught should still be the same. Who would want to kill a graceful dolphin?

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Our Invention

Jasmine and Rosie have made this happy plate plate to overcome your sadness. When your sad, your sad, and no one likes to be sad so we invented… The Happy Plate!

Every human needs to be happy because happiness is so important that it's extremely vital to our own goals in life. Happiness also can help us achieve many personal ambitions and goals. Also, by being happy, we have the potential to change many other lives just by being ourselves. Also Scientific evidence suggests that being happy may have major benefits for your health. For starters, being happy promotes a healthy lifestyle. It may also help combat stress, boost your immune system, protect your heart and reduce pain. What's more, it may even increase your life expectancy.

Sunnyhills Athletics Day 2018

   

On Monday 5th of November, the whole Kauri Whanau school participated in games and athletics activities. It was a windy day but we had a really fun day!

Year 4-6

   

   

   

Diwali 2018

This festival celebrates traditional and contemporary Indian culture in its many forms as well as being New Zealand’s largest colourful festival, with a vast range of Indian foods, sweets and we have enjoyed amazing costumes, lively music and fabulous dance.

  

  

Sunnyhills Colour Run!

The teachers had a fantastic time getting bombed by all of the students present at the colour run!

We did a run with obstacles, had food trucks, photographers, dance parties, lively music, bubble machines, and hoses out and went crazy bombing each other with colour!

What a day!

If you missed out you better come next time. 

Science Experiment Learnshop

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Science in a Van

Fwd: Bike Safety - Bigfoot Adventures

Large Art for Nature

Large Art for Nature

Room 7 has been learning about patterns and Art. So we had to colour in a piece of paper with pastels. We had lots of fun colouring them in. Every piece is a piece of puzzle so that we made amazing The turtle and The Lion. 

Firstly Mrs Swan asked us if we wanted the lion or the turtle then she gave us a paper to colour, but we weren't allowed to have the same colour or more in a row.  Some people got more than one piece at a time, because each piece they received only has very small amounts of colouring to do. In conclusion, we succeeded and we all loved it. Mrs Swan was incredibly happy.

By Rajeev Silva

Music

         

Music

In the music room the whole class is doing a project

on how companies have different slogans and jingles,

Mrs Dowden divided us up into groups and gave us

all the company name Malafada. Each group was given

a jingle tune (mostly nursery rhymes) and we were given

a product. We all were given a piece of paper to write

down any ideas we have, and we created our own jingle.

Then we had to practice them until we knew them

off by heart. We are going to present to the whole

class, and Mrs Dowden will choose the best

performances and show them at the next whole

school assembly.

Different groups will have turns to perform

and they will all have different jingles,
there are currently four different groups,
sunblock, sandwich spread, deodorant
and toothpaste.

Every group has to sing to the tune of the rhyme

and they have to make it about forty-five seconds

to a minute, and usually they have to sing the

chorus twice. At the end you have to say your

slogan again and you say the company's name.

Room 7 has been working hard to

make a jingle and a slogan for their companies.

By Jacob and Jake

ARTS WEEK

Last week, it was week 7 and…. ARTS WEEK! In week 7 we did multiple

things that got to do with art. This included, Dance, Drama, Music and

Visual Arts. We had an art rotation where the year 6 teachers covered an

area of art and each class would do fun activities with that specific teacher.

Mrs Swan and Mrs Cometti did Dance whilst Mr Mac and Mrs Lewis

covered Drama. Each teacher did different activities with us, children.

Mrs Swan did Sport related 8 beat dances, by making sport actions into

dance movements.

Mrs Cometti taught how to make a verb/noun into a dance movement.

She also taught us not to touch other people whilst dancing. We learned

this by playing a fun game called ‘City Square.’

With Mr Mac we played Family Portraits and made short plays to share

with the class.

Mrs Lewis’s activities included, how to act like an object, A fun short

little red riding hood play and making funny advertisements and

performing them in front of the class.

And to make it even better, on Friday we had mufti day. We could dress up

as anyone who had something to do with art. People dressed up as the

Mona Lisa, Painters, Mimes, Dancers, Fashion Designers and more!

Mrs Swan dressed up as her favourite singer named Madonna.

Overall, Room 7 absolutely enjoyed arts week. We can’t wait for the

art exhibition coming up! We will be presenting…. Wonderful Wired Critters………………

From the best class in the school ! :)

BY: Karthiga + Jasmine

        Baking Cupcakes

Today we made vanilla cupcakes

at Sunnyhills. It was a rainy Friday

morning,

when we arrived at school hall

we melted the butter in a bowl

and then mixed it with an electric beater.

Then we poured the sugar into the bowl

and mixed it with an electric beater again,

then we cracked 2 eggs into the bowl,

and poured in some flour, then added some milk as well as the vanilla essence.

We put them in the oven and they cooked

for 15 minutes. Lastly we tasted them

and they were delicious, So we handed

them to one for everyone and they loved them!!

The End

By Zoe Blanchard, Lily Jaksic and

Alexandra Lawry

Baking Vanilla Cupcakes ⍤

Firstly, Mrs V preheated the oven to 190°C, Mrs V also went to the staff

room to beat the butter. Secondly, Khan and Daniel added Chelsea caster

sugar, then Alex beated the mix until it was soft and fluffy with the electric mixer.

Thirdly Khan and Lily cracked the two eggs, and we had to mix

the mixture well again! Our group added the sifted flour, milk and

vanilla essence then we beat the mixture again! We placed the paper baking

cases in a cupcake tin, we each put in the mixture in the paper cases until

it was 2/3s full.  We baked it for about 10 minutes. We were going to

make the vanilla icing, but we didn't have all the ingredients.

It was delicious.

By Khan & Aayush    

Buddhist Temple

Room 7 went off with the

year 5’s and 6’s to

the Buddhist temple,

here’s what happened:

Firstly we  were placed into four separate

groups, 1, 2, 3 and 4. We were introduced to

the temple’s people and staff, then we went to

the wishing bell and learnt how to make a wish

with it. There was a long line to have your wish,

but it wasn’t too long of a wait.

                                                      

Secondly we huddled inside a small room.

Then the staff taught us how to hold an ink brush

and gave us a piece of paper with chinese

characters to trace over. It was a really hard grip.

Most children struggled, some of us just gave up.

After we were finished we picked up our papers

and headed to our next activity.

We walked over to another part of the temple,

before we entered we had each been each given

a flower to put in a little area with all the other flowers.

We scurried into the room and watched a video about

a prince riding on a white horse. We then wrote a wish

on a  piece of paper which was shaped as a leaf,

cloud or flower. We then each got a pin and stuck it

onto the wall.

After we were all outside in a group we learnt how to

bath the buddha. Firstly we poured water over the

right shoulder, then the left. Finally the back,

whilst doing so we were saying the 3gs and 4gs.

After we walked up a few steps and had a small break.

We each got biscuits and small cup of water to

wash it down. While we were enjoying our food

we got a tattoo which said one of the 3gs  4gs in

action

Once we had finished we scrambled inside

a few policemen came to talk to us. We got to

ask questions about what they carried around with

them on the job. One of the kids asked if they could

get handcuffed and the police replied with, “alright.”

After he got handcuffed we had to exit. It was sad to

leave but we all had a great time, we each got a horse

charm to remember the special moments we had there.

By Shreyas, Shayden, Zoe and Tony.