♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ 'Open the Door to B4' started at the beginning of 2010. Over the years, through the blog,  the children of B4 and I have made many wonderful connections  with classes all over the world. We have taken part in amazing shared projects, among them Our World, Our Numbers  Our World, Our Stories  Colour Poems  The Tale Trail  and Quad-blogging  This year, I am stepping out of the classroom and will be working in a part-time role at our school. To all of the teachers and classes who have interacted with us over the years and supported our students in their lea ..read more

Our 2019 school year has come to a close. Last week we held our annual  Celebration of Learning. Here is B4's item:  Wishing you all a very happy holiday. Our 2020 school year begins on 4th February ..read more

At the end of Term 2 our school held their annual Repertory for Kids event. You can see our Year 3's play here. Here are a couple of the other plays that were performed: 'A Sleepless Night' 'Cinderfella ..read more

The Year 3 students presented their play at our school's annual Repertory for Kids afternoon. There is nothing that will scare Mr and Mrs Brown ... or is there? Check back over the next week or so to see the Year 2 play, plus the plays of the other classes ..read more

Have you ever wondered about the moon?Wondered why it seems to change shape?Wondered what the moon surface is like? B4 have been finding out about the moon.This week we talked about the craters on the moon. We did an experiment to find out how the different-sized craters may have formed.We used a tray of flour as the moon's surface, and dropped a variety of balls onto it. We were surprised when the little marble went in deeper than the big ball!Why might that have happened? Can you see the patterns left in the flour by the softball? Do you have an interesting fact about the m ..read more

At our school we believe that homework should relate specifically to the learning that happens in our classrooms.  Each term we try to have an interactive homework task that children and parents can work on together. Our recent Social Sciences learning involved reviewing our Enviroschool projects that we did last year to improve our school environment. As part of this, the homework task was to make bug hotels. Bug motels can encourage beneficial insects into our gardens. Here are our amazing bug hotels! What are your favourite bugs?How can bugs help us ..read more

We're back! After not posting since the end of 2018, we are finally back into blogging! As part of the Health topic 'Looking After our Bodies' the class watched a video to find out why we need to brush our teeth. The children each received a toothbrush and some toothpaste and watched a video about the best way to brush our teeth. Finally, we went outside to practise! What colour is your toothbrush?How often do you brush your teeth?Do you have any fillings or do you have no fillings?Do you have any wiggly teeth ..read more

As part of our science work on Fish, we walked to our river to think about fish habitats.In our river we have trout and eels.We also wanted to see how people may have changed the river and possibly affected the fish habitats. Would some fish like the shallow, swift parts of the river? We checked out a stream that flows into the river Would some fish like the deep, shadowy parts of the river? Fifty years ago, this part of the river was a deep swimming hole. Now it has filled with silt and stones.Would the fish swim here? Could landslides affect the fish in the river? Sometimes the riv ..read more

In science the class are finding out about fish. Establishing prior knowledge: Examining one of the hoki which was kindly donated to us by a fishery in Westport:(thanks to Ros for completing the dissection after school for us, so we could cook and eat the fish the next day!) The gills:  The backbone: Fish have teeth: Have you ever been fishing?What did you observe when you looked at the fish ..read more

As an Enviro school we have been learning about our school's landscape, and how we can maintain our landscape for future generations. We thought about, discussed and planned what we think our school's landscape needs, for the benefit of our school community. We have a bush area at school that we haven't been able to play in. The class decided that a good project would be to prune and tidy the undergrowth which might lead to students being able to safely play in the space. To prepare, the class practised using a variety of gardening tools safely, and finally we got to put our ideas into action ..read more