Swimming on "Go Spotty Day!"

We had our second session of Swimming lessons at the Millennium Institute pools today! It's always really fun to practise our swimming skills. On our way back to school on the bus lots of us got spots painted on our faces because it was "Go Spotty day" at school today too. We went spotty to raise money and awareness of the Melanoma foundation. Thanks to Mrs Bell for the free face painting!!!

New Peter Millett Books!

😀 NEW PETER MILLETT BOOKS- OUT THIS WEEK 😀

This week is a busy week for book launches as Peter has two new picture books out. They are "The Kiwis go marching one by one", published by Scholastic NZ  and "Classic Kiwi Rhymes," published by Bateman books. Check out this book promotion for "The Kiwis go marching." 

Camp Highlights

Wow! What an amazing week at camp. Here is a movie showing some highlights!

On Friday Rooms 13, 14 and 16 went to the Auckland Museum. 


Here's a video of the event! 

Teach me Tuesday with Moon!

We had another great Teach me Tuesday session this week.  Thanks Moon for teaching us how to make flowers out of paper napkins. We'll all be able to impress our families when we go out to dinner now!

Teach me Tuesday with Dylan!

On Tuesday Dylan shared his love for abseiling and climbing with us. He told us a story about how he overcame his fear of climbing and has developed a love for adventure- very inspiring! He also showed us how to tie a special climbing knot- "The Double Fishermans knot". Have a go trying to tie it at home. Thanks Dylan!!

Teach Me Tuesday Week 7, Term 3

We had another two great Teach me Tuesday and Wow me Wednesday sessions this week. On Tuesday Noah and Nathan shared their drawing skills with us and taught us how to draw dragons and anime faces. Then on Wednesday Jenna and Bella shared Maori waiata and haka with us. We had lots of fun in both lessons! Thanks Room 13 teachers :) Here's some pictures and a video showing highlights of the sessions.

SUPERMAN DAY at UHPS!

On Friday the 1st of September we had a fantastic day at UHPS- it was Superman day!!! We invited all of our dads, grandads and poppas to school and we had heaps of fun. We started our day as a Dynamic dragons community outside on the muddy field competing in a range of "Blast from the past" relay games. Next we played a Superman Kahoot trivia quiz in teams- we had to answer all sorts of tricky questions. After that we had a paper plane challenge where we had to create paper planes that flew the furtherest. 

Thanks for coming dads- it was SUPER!

Teach me Tuesday and Wow me Wednesday- Week 4

Thanks for another great teaching session from Annalise and Kylie! 

Coding and Robotics

For the last two weeks we've been lucky to learn about and have fun with coding and robotics. We learnt how to construct and control a robot and we also learnt how to code several popular games using "Scratch". Here's photos of the sessions.

Teach Me Tuesday and Wow me Wednesday!!!

This week we had "Teach me Tuesday" and "Wow me Wednesday!" Andrew and Jayden took us for a basket ball lesson and taught us skills and organised games for us. 

Then on Wednesday, Tahlia and Brooke demonstrated how to ice and decorate cookies (that they had made beforehand). We had fun spreading icing and adding sprinkles. Thanks for the fun lessons Andrew, Jayden, Tahlia and Brooke!

Year 5 Outdoor Education day

On Wednesday last week, while the Year 6s were at the AJHS experience day, the Year 5s had a really fun Outdoor Education day back at school. Here's a video and photo collage showing the 
highlights of the day.

Term 2: Sharing our learning

Yesterday we had a great time sharing our learning. We loved spending time with our families showing them what we've been learning at school. Here's a video of the special event.

Teach me Tuesday with Fifi and Lily!

We had a sweet time with Fifi and Lily today in our Teach me Tuesday session. They taught us how to make yummy sweet treats mixing melted marshmallow and rice bubbles. It was delicious! Thanks girls!!

Our trip to Motat

 On Monday Room 12, 13 and 15 went to Motat. Our main focus for the day was making a Rube Goldberg machine, but we also took in all the other great exhibits at Motat. We had a great day!!!

TEACH ME TUESDAY- SOCCER SKILLS AND SELF DEFENCE

It was another great "Teach me Tuesday" session today. Hugh and Troy prepared two very fun lessons. First we learnt some basic "Choi Kwang do" moves where Hugh showed us how to block, punch and kick. Next we practised our soccer skills with Troy. We started by practising our kicking and shooting skills and then we finished with a game. Thanks guys- it was great!!!

JUMP JAM WITH THE BREEZE FM!

We had a great time this morning when Jeannette and Robert from "The Breeze" radio station joined us for Jump Jam as part of their fitness efforts for "Junk Free June". Our Jump Jam leaders did a great job leading us through our moves and we certainly raised the heart rates of "The Breeze" hosts!!! Thanks everyone for joining in and Jump Jamming for Junk free June!!! Here's the radio clip featuring two of our students, Grace and Hunter.

Here's a video of the event too!!

Teach me Tuesday- Logic puzzles and drawing!

Today we had three more highly successful Teach me Tuesday lessons!

Jake started off with a really tricky logic riddle. With a few clues we were off! Here's the first riddle- can you solve it???

Teach Me Tuesday Logic Riddle

Look at the following most carefully, as every line counts:   

Be gone in times of death’s long passing.   

Henry Atwood sliced his neck.   

Hath reeds knocked against thee?   

If our fathers knew, then winds, they blew.   

The sixth of candles burned my eyes.

  Horrors even among us.

   Leigh tries to eat a stone.

   The canine or the cat, it spat.

   Pay attention to the ghoul that weeps.

  Your number’s up, and it is missing. Wary the word second.

Then later in the day Olivia and Sam split the class and took two drawing lessons. Sam taught how to draw anime people and Olivia taught how to draw animals.

Great teaching guys!! We love Teach me Tuesdays!!!

SPORTS FUN!

We have been really lucky recently at UHPS!! 


Mrs Thompson has 
organised heaps of exciting sporting opportunities for us. 
In Weeks 1-4 we practised our basket ball skills with "Breakers" 
basket ball coaches. 
We have also had a fun soccer session with "Football for children". 
And on Friday we had our first session of "Snag Golf".
We have developed lots of physical skills and have also had an opportunity to develop our sportsmanship too. It's also been so much fun!! 

Thank you, Mrs Thompson and the Sports team!

Grace's Teach me Tuesday went to the dogs!!!

It was Grace's turn to teach us on Tuesday. She had a really creative idea for our lesson. First we paired up. Then she encouraged us to individually write down 3-4 reasons why we believed that cats or dogs were the best pet. We then argued our points to our partner, and finally 3 groups performed their mini debate to the class. We voted on the most convincing arguments. Her lesson finished with a visit from Grace's beautiful golden retriever Max. Grace did a great job facilitating our mini debates and we also loved meeting her dog and and dad too! Thanks Grace :)