“The wind might cause a kite to rise, but what keeps it up there is the fact that somebody on the ground has a steady hand. You have to hold steady to your values – your integrity. It’s your anchor. You let go of that. . . well, it isn’t long before your kite comes crashing down.”
South Edge - Term 2, Week 7 2021
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South Edge - Term 2, Week 7 2021
- Weekly Update from Mr Morrison
- Hear From the CA Team
- Update from the Student Leadership Team
- From the Year 3-6 Students at Timaru Campus
- From the Year 7-8 Students at the Dunedin Campus
- From the Year 9-13 Students at Invercargill Campus
- Cross Country
- Choca Block
- Little Miss Muffet
- Edible.
- South NCEA Result Dashboard
- South Campus Van Report
- South Campus SDM Report
- South Campus House Points
- Give Some Kudos!
- Dates to Remember
- 2021 Term Dates
- Quote of the Week
This term in Science the Dunedin Year 7&8's have been focusing on Space.
We learnt about the order of the planets, gravitational pull on them. i.e., “Jupiter is the fifth planet from the sun and it has huge gravity.” We also learnt about the Moon’s phases, and looked at the blood moon eclipse, to learn about the stages the moon goes through. We also learned the timeline of happenings/ (when things were sent to space for safety and experimental purposes) – we learned that a few animals were sent to space in a ten year period – fruit flies, a monkey, a dog.
We then picked a planet to research and found out everything about it. Mrs Campbell, our science teacher, told us to create a brochure to advertise why you should come to our planet. (We imagined that the planets we picked were ours.) This included writing persuasive texts and creating fact files. It was very useful - we practiced writing persuasive texts for the speech competition on Thursday.
We used bright, attractive colours to appeal to our customers, and hooks - i.e. “Come to Uranus – It rains Diamonds!” (We were allowed to make reasons up based on the science we found out about the planet).
Here is an example of one of our brochures.
On the 13th of June it was Yolanda’s 18th birthday. So, to celebrate it we had a birthday lunch for her on Monday. There was pizza, lemonade, and chips for the juniors, and snack burgers and chips for the seniors. There was also some cake and brownie.
On Wednesday, the 2022 new entrant students came for a visit. All up there are 9 new entrants coming, and we are really looking forward to having them with us next year.
With the new Gore school coming they have made great progress on the back field of the Invercargill campus by pulling down all the trees and digging holes ready for the new boundary fence.
We are looking forward to Cross Country in Dunedin next week, we went to Seaward Bush for another off site training run this week.
