Web Wonders win 2nd Place

On Thursday evening Sarah, Leishan, Kimberly, Mrs Nicholls and Mrs Jewiss all flew to Auckland to attend the TVNZ NetGuide WebChallenge awards on Friday. For some of us it was our first flight and was very exciting. We stayed in a hotel in Central Auckland and Mrs Jewiss brought us breakfast in bed in the morning!

On Friday we started the day with a trip up the Sky Tower - WOW! It was scary walking on the glass floor and seeing all the buildings below. We then went to the TVNZ Atrium building ready for the presentation. All the other schools were there and it was exciting seeing Matt and Dana from Studio 2. We sat right down the front and got a big clap for coming all the way from Dunedin. We were really nervous, butterflies fluttering in our tummies. They started with our category, third place goes to ... It wasn't us!! Second place goes to ... Us!

Breaking News!!!

Leishan, Kimberly and Sarah have made it as finalists in the TVNZ Netguide Webchallenge competition!! You can view their website at http://www.pinehill.schoolzone.net.nz/rmfive
Click on the Web Challenge link and have a look at the Endangered Animals site.

We are so excited, we are on our way to Auckland tonight to attend the prize giving ceremony tomorrow at the TVNZ Atrium. The girls will be podcasting the event, so head over to our podcast page to hear all the exciting news.

Pine Hill School really is Cool!

Web Challenge

We in Room 5 have been working really hard this term to build some web pages for the TVNZ Web Challenge competition. Our pages are now uploaded to the site and you can have a sneak preview of them by visiting our class website and clicking on the Web Challenge link.

www.pinehill.schoolzone.net.nz/rmfive.html

School Ski Trip

On the weekend of 19th / 20th August some families from Pine Hill School went on a ski trip to Treble Cone. Mrs Jewiss's family and Mrs Nicholls' family were joined by the Pitt family and the Lee family. It was a fantastic weekend with great weather, impressive skiing skills :-) and a few impressive skiing crashes, mostly by Mr Nicholls :-). A big thanks has to go to Mrs Jewiss for organising such a wonderful weekend and organising the good weather. We knew she could run the school, but the weather... ?

Survivor - Quarantine Island

The children from Room 5 were in for a surprise on Camp this week. Not only did we have a jam packed week, but they found out that they were on SURVIVOR - QUARANTINE ISLAND. Activities included designing a tribe flag and chant, 'fear factor' which meant eating and drinking strange substances, as well as proving physical and mental strength. It was a fierce and close competition and the winners of SURVIVOR - QUARANTINE ISLAND 2006 were The Titans!

Back at School for 2006!

We have started 2006 with a bang! We are all glad to be back after such a long break. We have had some exciting things happen already and have some exciting things to look forward to. We have started the term looking at how our brain works and how we can help it to do its best work in Room 5 as we think for ourselves. We have also had a visit from two Highlanders, dressed in red to support the Heart Foundation and we are going to be doing Jump Rope for Heart for this term.

The big thing we are all looking forward to is CAMP!!! We are leaving in a week's time and Mrs Nicholls and Mrs Jewiss have some surprises in store for us.

So that is the beginning of our term at Pine Hill School. Hope your year is starting off well too.

The children of Room 5.