Challenge Day Out $$$$$$

Hopefully everyone is well underway with their job contracts and earning the $40 for our Challenge Day Out! Great to see people washing teachers cars even!! Some of you have been going on 'capitalist ventures' - taking a day or time off school to earn your money for the day. This is what some hard working Room 9ers have been up to, (and you can see Aleisha in action!):

Aleisha: This week I went to Marinoto Clinic at Mercy Hospital to help out the receptionists and typists. I earned $40. I stamped 2000 envelopes and helped finish other paperwork things that needed to be done.

Laura: Last week I took the afternoon off school and I went busking. I went busking in town In that passage way by smiggle. I was busking for 40 minutes and I made $50. It was lots of fun :-)

Jamie: Last week I took a day off school and I chopped wood with Dad and Sam. I raised 60 dollars and got to keep 20 of it and it was lots of fun!

Athletics - Otago Champs

A big well done to Aleisha, Sydney, Christian and Heta who represented Balmac at the Otago Athletics Champs! They did an awesome job and we will hear about their results in assembly on Friday :) Check out this great action pic of Kaiden and Lachie in the U12 hurdles!

Poetry Assignment

Just a reminder that your Poetry assignment is due on Wednesday 24th November.... No exceptions! See me if you have any questions, and remember if you have a homework voucher you are welcome to use it on any part of the assignment (anthology or your own writing).

Good Luck! :)

Malaysian Student Teachers

Last week Balmacewen was lucky to have 2 Malaysian student teachers in each classroom. It was a great chance to meet them and learn something new about another culture. Room 9 had Miss Deeyah and Miss Sue :) See if you can remember what Malaysian they taught us....:

Selamit Pagi - Good Morning

Apa Khabar - How are you?
Khabar baik - I am fine.

Terima Kasih - Thank you.
Sama Sama - You are welcome.

Now that was an Entertaining Assembly!!

Friday the 29th of October was Bandanna Day -which raises money for Canteen. It was awesome to see so many Room 9ers and the rest of the school wearing their Bandannas (and it was a bonus mufti day!) A big congrats to Georgia, Ella and Brieanna from Room 13 who organised the day and raised $1605.00!! Meaning some fantastic teachers from Balmac got their hair completely shaved off!! Well done Mr Clarke, Mr Napier, Mr Henderson, Mr Sloan, Mr Tarapi, Mr Friend, Matua and Mr Martin!

Welcome to Term 4!!

Hello Room 9ers!! Wow the year is flying by and it is hard to believe we are into your last term at Balmac already! I'm really looking forward to an action packed term, with lots of learning and fun in and out of the classroom.
As you know, our topic for this term is CHALLENGE and will be based around the following: drugs and alcohol education, UCAP review, poetry and speeches, algebra and geometry, class touch and non stop cricket competitions, athletics, science technology challenges… not to mention the Year 8 lip sync and social, Challenge Day Out… as you can see lots of exciting things ahead!!

Remember the most important thing to keep in mind is that a lot of the end of year activities we do as a class are not a given. You need to keep up the hard work throughout this term (in and out of the classroom)… this includes meeting deadlines for homework and assignments, learning your spelling words and getting them signed off, generally being organised with PE gear, pens, glue sticks etc.

Last night we had our Term 3 Sharing night - well done to you all for the way you presented your inquiries and discussed them with the parents :-). Also a HUGE thank you to Jono, Connor and Aleisha for spending their day and editing and putting together our ads! They looked great! And also to Mackenzie, Taylor and Harry who were our presenters for the evening.

Hope you all have a great week with Ms Richardson - remember your first homework assignment for the term (speeches and reading log) is due on Tuesday 26th October - look forward to hearing your speeches!!

Cross Country!!

The Balmac Cross Country was held on Friday 20th August...in challenging conditions!! Everyone in Room 9 had been training hard, and nearly everyone improved on their times, some up to 2 minutes which is awesome!!
Good luck to these Room 9ers who will be representing Balmac in the Otago Cross Country on Friday 10th September: Aleisha Ruske, Larissa Peyroux, Christian Blackie, Jamie MacDonald, Heta Scarf-Matthews and Jacob Craig.