So what is our Classroom like?

In the school holidays I am going to speak to some teachers from Petone in Wellington about some of the things we have been doing about learning & ICT in our class and at Nelson Central School.

Over the past few days some of Room 9 have helped me by recording themselves talking about some things in our classroom using the digital voice recorder.

I have put them all into a video below. It is like a TOUR OF OUR CLASSROOM!

I hope you enjoy it!

From Rachel :)

Special thanks to the students below who chatted away for me: Toby, Chloe, Luke M, Te Miri, Melany, Arjuna, Siobhan, Oscar, Baxter and Logan.

Itineraries for visitors to Nelson

This term we have been planning an ITINERARY for a new visitor to Nelson.

In our scenario, our visitor was to be a 60 year old Grandma who enjoys art, walking, craft and reading.

Our task was to:

"Plan an itinerary around Nelson for a visiting 60 year old Grandma.
Include where you would go in the morning, for lunch and in the afternoon.
You will need to be able to walk to all your destinations from Nelson Central School."

Here are our finished slideshows that detail our ITINERARY, use the arrow keys to flick through the pages :)

Lunch with our Monster "IT"

We have been learning to use lots of different describing words in our writing.

Today we wrote poems that described the food we would eat if we went out to lunch with our monster "It". Here are some lines from Room 9's poems.

If I had lunch with It...
We would start out with white and orange fish pie. (Holly)
Then he would serve me a stinky, red meat pie. (Baxter)
And a cup of fat,chocolate worms. (Chloe)
Next we will eat rainbow goo. (Keely)
For desert, I would eat crimson, slushy pavlova (Logan)
And green, slimy slugs (Quanah)
with a monster sized apple (Tony)

Here are four of our best monster pictures... what do you think?

By Melany

By Logan










By Arjuna & Toby

Our Holidays 2

Another group in Room 9 has finally had some time to sit down with Rachel and put their video together about their holidays.

We hope you enjoy hearing about these students' holidays :)

What we like about our school!

Our topic at the moment is:
"It's our school and we're proud of it!"

We have been looking at all of the really cool things we like about Nelson Central School.

We used a special programme called Inspiration to create bubble maps that brainstormed all of our great ideas. You can click on the picture to view our ideas larger if you want.

By Arjuna, Hayden and Chloe


By Quanah and Charlotte

By Melany and Grace