St Pats Attack FM radio station is launched

August 24 2012 was a beautiful sunny day for the official opening of the radio station.  Our senior students have been working hard with Mr Pettigrew to get everything ready.

We listened to speeches by our Mayor, Mr Ayers (right), our Acting Principal, Miss Dargan (left) and our School Chairperson, Mr McRandle (second left).  Also helping to celebrate were Mr Cosgrove and Ms Wilkinson, our Members of Parliament.  How exciting!

Then Mr Ayers and Ethan Evans revealed the radio station sign.

After lunch Mr Evans let all the children climb aboard his fire engine.  What a great day!

We are busy bees with BeeBots Technology

Today we learned how instructions can program a robot.  Mr Wynyard from Science Alive helped us, using BeeBots.  We practised instructing the robots to go forwards, backwards and sideways.  Then we made different pathways for others to use.  We had to think very hard!

Here are the BeeBots looking happy to see us.

Isabelle is getting her BeeBot ready to move forwards.  Each pace is 15 cm long.

Sarah has instructed her BeeBot to move sideways.

Max and Daniel are planning a pathway.

Andrew and Sarah program their BeeBot to move five steps forwards.

Emily's BeeBot is ready to start a maze.

We finish with a BeeBot race - why do they finish at the same time?

Brand new five year olds!

Six new classmates have joined us in Rimu!

Here is Sarah.

Here is Emily working with Wilhemina.

Here is Jazlyn at her new school desk.

Kayla loves using her new books and pencil case.

Maddison enjoys them too!

It is Isabelle's first day today - look at that proud smile!