Thud! Thud! Thud!

“Quick! Let’s go! The helicopter is coming!” Miss Hall said excitedly. Room 25 quickly made a line and rushed outside to join the crowed.

Far in the distance we heard a faint thud sound, which grew louder and louder. We saw the helicopter coming closer and closer. Before we knew it, the helicopter was hovering above our heads.

The helicopter slowly came down and landed on New Windsor School’s back field. The New Windsor School students all cheered in excitement.

Room 25 joined up with their buddy class, Room 24, and together we walked around the police helicopter. We asked some really important questions. Muket asked one of the pilots “how do you catch the criminals when you’re flying the helicopter?” The pilot said “we radio the police car and tell them where the criminals are, and we wait for them to arrive to take the criminals away.”

The police helicopter visited our school today as part of our health unit on emergency services.

Just before morning tea we waved goodbye to the police helicopter as they flew off to catch some criminals.

By Darius, Thai, Muket and Miss Hall

Thud! Thud! Thud!

On Thursday morning at New Windsor School Room 25 excitedly and quickly rushed onto the field to see the police helicopter and the police pilots. It was health week and it was going to be the best week ever because of all the emergency services that were visiting us. It was so fun watching the helicopter land and take off.

By Alex

The Shiny Blue Police Helicopter

At New Windsor School something exciting happened…the police helicopter and police officers came to visit us. All this excitement happened before Thursday morning tea. We were inside and heard a whirring sound. Then Miss Hall said “quick! Let’s make two lines!” Then we went outside and when the police helicopter landed everyone was cheering. The reason why they visited us was because it was health week and it was part of our health unit on emergency services. When it was hovering above New Windsor School, there was lots of noise and then we waited to ask the police officers questions with our Room 24 buddies. Then finally it was our turn to ask the police helicopter pilots questions. We went around the helicopter asking police officers questions. Then they were checking to see if it was safe for the helicopter to fly again and then they flew away. We said “good bye!”

By Joseph

The Police Helicopter

Today at New Windsor School something awesome happened. I think you are wondering what happened. Miss Hall said excitedly “Make a line, the helicopter is coming”, so Room 25 made a line quickly. Room 25 rushed outside to join the big crowed of people waiting for the helicopter.  Then we searched for our buddies and waited together for the helicopter. Finally the helicopter landed. The police pilots came out of the helicopter. It was very noisy. We waited and waited until it was our turn to go and see the helicopter. Finally it was our turn. I asked the police officer two questions. My first question was “how high is the police helicopter allowed to fly?” The police officer said “the helicopter is allowed to fly 10 Sky Towers stacked on top of each other”. My second question was “where does the police officer keep the bad guys on the helicopter?” The police officer said “he waits with the criminals until the police car comes to take them away”. I was able to leave when somebody asked “how fast can the helicopter go?” I heard the police officer say “the police helicopter can go 250 kilometres an hour”. I was amazed! Then we went back to class for morning tea. The helicopter came back and flew in circles in the sky. I saw Ms Corbette waving goodbye to the helicopter. Today was a fun and exciting day.

By Siddhesh

Police Helicopter 2

In the morning a big police helicopter came to New Windsor School and landed on the field. Our class was scared. The helicopter had big engines. I really want to know how the helicopter keeps me safe.

By Farah

Police Helicopter

Today we went to see the police helicopter “2”. When we were on the field the helicopter came closer and closer. After that we waited and waited for our turn to asked the police helicopter pilots some questions. Miss Hall said “that we have to find our buddy”, but Khalen’s buddy has moved to Room 12, so I said to Khalen she can come with me and my buddy, and Khalen said “yes”. Finally it was our turn to ask questions to the police helicopter pilots. When we were on the backfield people from Room 24 asked some questions and while they were doing that we were going around the police helicopter and Siddhesh was asking questions. We then went back to class.

By Lata

Amazing Police Helicopter

Before morning tea Room 25 went out to see the police helicopter “come on guys” said Siddhesh. “I don’t want to miss one second of it” said Thai. “Look” said Muket. “The police helicopter’s coming” said Olivia.

We asked the police helicopter pilots some questions, like “how far can a helicopter fly and how long do you have to train for?”

We had a look at the engines of the helicopter with our buddy. Then the helicopter flew off “bye” we said “have a nice day” we also said.

By Emily

The Police Helicopter

On a Cold autumn day police officers came to New Windsor School, they came in a shiny blue helicopter. It slowly landed on the backfield. We went to look at the police helicopter. We saw a camera on the bottom of the police helicopter. We asked the police helicopter pilot “how many times the rotor blade spins in one minute?” He said “in one minute it spins 400 times”. We slowly walked around it. Finally it took off. We waved goodbye. Then we saw the helicopter high above New Windsor School at morning tea time.

By Claire

The Police Helicopter

Thursday the 28^th of May 2015, at New Windsor School, in the morning the police helicopter came and landed on our back field.  All of the classes came out to see the helicopter, even the little children from Room 4. The helicopter made a thud sound. Miss Hall said “oh my gosh!” We went with our buddies to check out the awesome helicopter. We asked many questions to the police officers. The police officers were great, the helicopter was cool and had big engines. At last the police officers were going, we waved and said “good bye” The engines started and the helicopter went away.

By Mahek

Police Helicopter

“Quick let’s go!” “Ok” I said. We ran outside. We made it just in time. “Yay!” The helicopter came, Emily shouted. Then the police helicopter came out of the sky. They had to take their time to land. They came to New Windsor School just before morning tea today, because it is health week and we are looking at the roles of the emergency services.

By Olivia

Police Helicopter

One day Room 25 saw a helicopter. We went to see it. It landed on New Windsor’s back field.  I got to ask them a question. I asked “how many hours a week do you have to work?” the police pilot told me “50 hours a week”. When they left it was so windy. It was the most exciting thing in my life.

By Khalen

Cross Country

Well done to all the students in Room 25. A fantastic effort by all!

St. John's comes to New Windsor

Olivia from St John's came to explain to us the role of St John's and what we should do in an emergency.

We role played making an emergency call and in a calm and clear voice answering the dispatchers questions. We learnt why it is important for us to know our phone number and address.

Olivia showed us how to bandage a cut to stop the bleeding. Olivia from room 25 helped in the demonstration.

"Plug it, squeeze it, lift it and wrap it!" We practiced on each other. 

Last Futsal Lesson

The students were sad to have their last Futsal lesson today...but enjoyed their mini tournament.

Well done to all the students in Room 25 for trying their best and being supportive of one another. 

Room 25 visits the Library

We practiced our school values - be respectful, be responsible and be the best you can be while we visited our school library.

We respected the people who would come through the corridor by placing our shoes against the wall.

We returned our books, so others could enjoy them too.

We remembered our book bags so we could look after the books and return them in the condition we borrowed them in.

We shared the beanbags and read quietly.

We made the right book choices for ourselves.

Are all rocks the same?

We have been learning to compare and contrast. We first practiced as a whole class using landforms...One Tree Hill and Aoraki Mt Cook.

We were each given a rock (some of us used the rocks we had collected from around our houses). We looked at our rock, and them explained to a buddy what we could see. On a Venn diagram we made notes on  the similarities and differences we observed.

We shared what we found, and then talked about how a geologist might categories rocks. We thought they might do this based on colour. We decided to categories our rocks based on colour. 

We decided that there were some rocks in the wrong colour category, so we moved these rocks. This is how we finally categorized our rocks.

There was still some debat over some rocks being in the right colour category. We decided that geologists probably don't categories rocks based on colour because many if the rocks we looked at aren't just one colour.

Mahek asked a really good question...why are rocks different colours? Siddhesh thought this might be because rocks come from different places and the colour of the rock tells you if it is from a mountain or a river. Olivia and Emily thought that the colour of the rock tells you what country the rock is from. 

Rock Observations

This term we are learning about land formation in science. 

We began the unit by brainstorming what the word landform could mean. Some of us thought it had something to do with people. Others thought it had something to do with nature. Some students spotted the word land and thought it had something to do with hills and mountains.

Armed with magnifiying glasses we became geologists and observed a range of rocks. The students we able to practice their observation and data recording skills.

More Futsal Fun with Pat

We started today's lesson with a quick warm up of stuck in the mud.

A quick game of kings and queens helped us to practice our ball skills. Students were asked to keep track of their points - we were also working on our fairplay skills, by keeping track of our own points.

After honing our skills it was time for a quick game of Futsal. Pat put the students into teams, and then the fun began...

We can't wait for Pat to come back next week!