Salaka

On the fourteen of September 2010 Salaka a band from Ghana (Africa)

came to our school to teach us about African culture.

In Africa they don't have electricity so they use drums

to entertain each other.

In African schools they use drums as school bells and drum to communicate with everyone

They interacted with us and let us use the drums

I got to use a drum called treshe.

my favourite part was playing with the drums.

by

Jacob

girls chess competition

On Tuesday the 27th a team of four girls Isabella, Jessica, Felicity, and Juliet went to Selwyn house for the girls chess competition playing seven teams. we played two games before morning tea, three before lunch and then the final two games. We won by two games and were awarded a trophy!!

Cycle Safe

On Monday the 26 we started cycle safe.We all brought our bikes to school and starting at nine o`clock we checked our helmets and talked about what to wear on the road then headed outside.

We were split into groups of 4 to 6 people and each group had an instructor.Before morning tea we had checked our bikes and had had a slow race to see if we were any good at keeping control of our bikes even going really slowly.

After morning tea we assembled at their cycle safe trailer before going to do our road safety tests,all in all we had a very exciting and educational day.Now I`m looking forward to the next session when we get out on the road.

written by Sam von Melville rm 11 f.o.s

spelling bee 2010

On Wednesday the 9 June at Chisnallwood intermediate the Otago Daily Times Spelling Bee was held.
Three teams from Fendalton turned up to compete in the ultimate spelling bee.the teams were as following:
Fendalton 1: Bridget Craig, Alex Thompson and Olivier Mander.
Fendalton 2: Moss Jackson, Matisse Makoni and Henry Hay-Smith.
Fendalton 3: Owen, Isabella Gregory and Hannah Williamson.
Unfortunately none of our teams got in the top 3 places but Fendalton 1 got 90 points,Fendalton 2 got 92 points and Fendalton 3 got 93 points and were 1 point off getting a placing.
Congratulations to our school spelling representatives who did so well.

cross country

Centrals cross country here we come!!!
13 people from Fendalton school have emerged from the west zones cross country to go to the CANTERBURY CROSS COUNTRY!!!
It has already been postponed once on Wednesday so lets hope for the best this Wednesday at Halswell Quarry
The following got in:
9 year girls: Bayley Anderson.
10 year girls: Emily Wium, Annabelle Rouse and Megan Austin.
9 year boys: Nathane Cochrane, Alex Emslie, Matisse Makoni, Liam Folkes and Jake Sang.
10 year boys: Ben Marshall-Lee, Edward Batt, Moss Jackson and Logan Stapylton-smith
Mr Norton estimates that around ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY PEOPLE ARE IN EACH RACE!!!!
Lets hope that our brilliant runners do well in centrals!

sport round up

The A Fendalton school hockey team is 

smashing up. 

1 game: 17-0 against Rudolf Steiner to us.

2 game: 16-0 against Marshlands to us.

Next game we are planning to win.

my prediction is 18-0 to us.

The aces basketball team is doing great. 

1 game: lost 15-6.

2 game:won 17-15. 

3 game:won 19-0.

We are doing awesome.

That's Jacob's sport round up.

basket ball

room 11 started their first basket ball game yesterday. Team New Zealand had victory against Slovakia and Paraguay (my team) lost against Italy. This is how it works every time you score a goal you get one jelly bean, for a win against a team is three jelly beans and a draw is 2 is two jelly beans. next week team Paraguay is going to vs Slovakia and Italy will vs New Zealand.

                                                              by Yuri