Our Basque visitors

On Tuesday the 29th of June four Spanish students came to our class to talk about themselves to us.First we watched a video of the Basque region. We saw their school and alot of old places there. There were six churches in the town and some sheep but not as many as in Nelson. After we got split up into four groups with one Spanish student in each group.They talked to us about their lifstyle. Some things we found out about them are they have one big school that runs from year 0 to year 13, they have no school pool and in the Basquelands they also have Mcdonalds,Burger King but no Subway and KFC. They dressed up in their traditional costumes and showed the whole syndicate two traditional Basque dances. One of the girls is staying with Holly.

Wacky hair day by Kerra and Libby

Wacky hair day was really fun. There were lots and lots of wacky hair styles. As well as a wacky hair day we had a sausage sizzle. We raised funds for the Summit Rescue helicopter by donating a gold coin if you had wacky hair.
It amounted to $315.50.
The syndicates held a competition for the wackiest hair and the winners got points for their houses(Hampden, Van Diemen, Ngatiawa and Waimea) The winners for the senior syndicate were Bryttani, Lucy, Angus and Megan.
Wacky hair day was awesome. Everyone got to be creative and it was totally wacky.

Wacky hair day by

Wacky Hair Day

Out of my window by Nadja

It was a hot summer morning and I was looking out of the big window in the kitchen while making bacon and egg on toast. I can see a thin, tall woman with a big straw hat on top of her little head; a massive, black ship floating on the bright, blue sea; the bright sun happily shining down on me; a large man with black sunglasses and a camera around his neck stomping across the golden sand and a big, green palm tree standing still beside the tall, thin woman. I can hear two little kids laughing happily and playing in the sea; the big, blue waves crasing loudly onto the sea shore; the seagulls chirping above the beautiful ocean and the large man humming a tune while taking some photos. I can smell my delicious egg and bacon on toast and the saltiness of the blue ocean water. I can taste my yummy bacon and egg toast being chewed into little pieces by me; a sip of the delightful hot chocolate I just made and a fresh piece of coconut I just got from the big palm tree. I can feel the soft, golden sand sliding through my fingers onto the ground; the hard skin of the coconut and my crunchy toast being eaten by me.

The awesome All Whites

At the moment the All Whites are in South Africa for the Fifa World cup. The first match was against Slovakia and that was a draw which made New Zealand history with our first goal in 28 years. The second match was against Italy and the mighty All Whites and yet again that made New Zealand history and everyone very HAPPY. Italy are the world cup holders so it was very surprising when Shane Smeltz scored in the first 5 minutes of the game. On Friday the 25th NZ will be coming up against Paraguay and may go into the next round. Go the All Whites!!!

Staff vs Kids Rippa game

We played the staff in a game of rippa rugby. We beat them by a try. It was awesome!!
posted by Sam, Cam and Flynn

Inter-school Rippa Rugby

The Hampden Street School Rippa rugby A-team won the finals of the Nelson rippa rugby competition.
By Cam, Sam and Flynn

Aimee's Medals

These are Aimee's medals that she won in cross country! She has a gold medal, a silver medal and a bronze medal. She got them for coming first, second and third in the Nelson Schools Cross Country. Lots of schools took part and there were over 100 runners. The race was 2.5k. It was at Saxton Field.

From out of my window by Grace

It's way out on a farm in the country. It's a gloomy day even though its spring.Out side the kitchen window I see ... The small jets loudly soaring through the dark grey clouds. The plump red quail flapping slowly through the sky with extreme difficulty. A black and white cow glares at me uncomfortably through its big hazel eyes. The green duck waddling through a chunky mud puddle.The sickly green and yellow eel moving slyly through the huge murky pond.I can taste the grey miserable rain as it patters through the cracks of the old window.I can smell the fresh dark green grass on the wet lawn.

Our awesome class

Treelanting - more awesome photos

Hampden Street dominates the interschool cross country

On Tuesday the 8th of June it was the Nelson interschool cross country at Branford park. As everybody arrived they walked the course, but because of the rainfall in the last few days it was pretty muddy. The first race was the year 5 girls. When they first started they ran past where the people were so they got cheered on.It was a close start but Hannah took the lead and won. Second was a girl from Victory and then Anna. The next race was the year 5 boys who rushed to the starting line eager to go. Some of the boys got quite muddy from falling over and sliding on water but that didn't stop Max, one of Hampden St School's top runners, from beating Central school's runners, David and Thomas, and coming 1st. The race after that was the year 6 girls who ran their hardest. It was a close race but Aimee took a 2 metre lead and kept it up to the finish line. Close behind was Joey from Central. Holly came third with a sprint to finish the race. The Year 6 boys were up next. Ben was far ahead of anyone in the whole race and got lucky number one.Cameron was the second Hampden street pupil with a placing of fifth. Our school got 3 firsts in the team competition - y5 girls and the y6 boys and girls. Now the top eight from each age group are going to the Nelson primary championships at Saxton Field. GO HSS!!!

Interschool Cross Country

Tree planting

Yesterday at around 1:00 o'clock rm 1 went to to the back beach to some tree planting with Nelmac.When we got to the beach we walked along to where we were meant to be and it was there where we met two men from Nelmac.We were planting spinifex grass to bind the dunes because they are starting to wash away so we were more than happy to plant as many trees as we possibly could.The time went so fast. We planted over 300 grasses. When it was time to leave we all got a picture by the dunes and I got to say thank you for the experience.
By Holly Mc

Treeplanting at Tahuna Beach

Tree planting at Tahuna Beach

Rielle's Diorama

I made my diorama by doing it in google sketch up first. I tried to find shells in my room. And the fishes, well i printed them. By Rielle

Felix's diorama

My diorama shows a ferocious shark chasing the smaller fish away.
By Felix

Anton's diorama

My diorama shows the seabed with a squid hunting it's prey. It shows some fish hiding from the scary shark. By Anton

Clara's diorama

For homework this week we were doing homework on the sea and some of us did dioramas. My diorama has a school of fish, some sharks, an octopus, a crab, a starfish, and a boat with fisherman in it. By Clara

Sea homework

This week Room One had our homework about the sea. Some of us did dioramas. We all put a lot of effort into it. I painted mine. It had jellyfish, a school of fish and a turtle. It was a lot of fun. By Anna