I Feel Good

We have had a lot of fun paticipating in the Subway I Feel Good competition. You can check it out on the Subway website but we've put a copy on our blog too.

Manual

Hi everybody. Welcome to term two! Hope everybody had great holidays. The technology sessions have started again. The first session for the Yr 7 kids was art due to the fact that the Horticulture teacher was away. But next week for the Yr 7 kids it will be horticulture.

The rubbish problem

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Athletics

Our Surf Life Safety Talk!

Jake & Josh, Two guys who are lifesavers! No really!! They work at Red Beach saving the lives of many swimmers. Today they came into Tomarata School to tell us about their job and how rewarding it is to save someones life.
Some of the rules they told us about safely swimming at the beach were:

• Never swim alone
• Swim between the flags
• Learn to identify a rip
• Use the right swimming equipment
• Never swim when tired or cold

They also dressed a student in a lifeguard uniform and she had to pretend to save another student from a rip! We had so much fun having them here and we hope they will return to our school in the future.

By Olivia and Hannah

Healthy Food

Hi Tomorata Room 1! I see you have lots of new material on your blog. You've had a busy term. How about making your voice thread public, so we can view it easily? Keep up the good work.
Ms Donnell from Kaipara Flats

Athletics day

On Wednesday our school went to athletics to represent Tomarata School. We did ...sprints,high jump,long jump,discus and shot put. I enjoyed discus the most but everything else was fun too.
by Finley Savage

Our gardens are growing

As you may already know our school has been making class gardens. The plants have been growing rapidly over the past weeks of the term. Some classes have been adding little extras to their classrooms gardens like a butterfly and some windmills. We have been putting egg shells and coffee grounds on our garden to keep the snails and slugs away.
by kristian

Healthy Eating

Our class have been investigating healthy eating. We have looked at packaged lunch items to see if they got the healthy food tick by checking the amount of sugar, fat and sodium in each serving as well as the kilojoules. We have discussed what sort of foods are good.
Last week the Yr 6's made Apple Scones this is how we made them.
Apple Scones

Ingredients: Wholemeal Flour, White Flour, Grated apple, Cinnamon, Sugar, Margarine and Milk.

Method:

Step 1. Put 1 cup of White flour and 2 cups of Wholemeal flour into a bowl.

Step 2. Rub 2 tablespoons of butter into the flour then add 2 tablespoons of Sugar.

Step 3. Make a well in the middle and add 1 cup of milk and 1 grated apple.

Step 4. Mix together until it is doughy then place mixture onto a floured board the knead lightly.

Step 5. Press out to form a square or rectangle then cut into even sized squares.

Step 6. Place on a baking tray then bake at 220 for 10 minutes.

After we had finished cooking them we had one each and gave the rest to the teachers.

This is what the Yr 6's said about them.

Ally: They were yuck.

Denim: They were alright.

Eru: They were yum with margarine.

Our value this term is Citizenship

Warehouse charges 10 cents a plastic bag

Warehouse charges 10 cents a plastic bag

We interviewed some Tomarata students and teachers to see what their thoughts were about the new charges.

Well done, Rhys and Jamie. I am pleased to see your level of concern for our environment and I like the way you are using your ICT skills to present the information. Mrs Duffin.