Wellington Zoo

On Wednesday we went to the Wellington Zoo. We saw baboons, cheetahs, zebras, monkeys, birds, elephants, tigers, otters, lemur, porcupine, meerkats, emus, wombats, dingos, kangaroos and pigs.

It was an awesome experience and would love to go back again. Everybody enjoyed it. Libby's best part was seeing the animals do there tricks in the Amazing Animals. The amazing animals is where some of the animals at the zoo show off there talents by doing tricks.

Year 8 News from Capital E

The Sounds of Marlborough

Wind rushes through
overgrown flax leaves
and a gang of wekas
wake from a slumber.

At Paradise Point
children bounce
behind motor boats
on blow up biscuits.

Blue cod dangle
from fish hooks
as barracuda
snatches our meal.

The taste of sea water
mixed with a tsunami
of scallops in my stomach
and the sound of waves
still sing in my ears.

By Jahna

Creative Books with Tiffany

Creative Books with Tiffany on PhotoPeach

Sculpture at Springston School

On Wednesday 27 October as one of our art week activities a sculptor named Leah Henderson came to Springston school. We made a hand print out of wood and cut it out with a jigsaw. We then drew a design on the wood and drilled holes inside our design so that Leah could cut them out with a jigsaw and make our hands all individual. Leah is going to put our hands and designs on to aluminum and cut them out with a plasma cutter to make a sculpture.

By Josh G

Pastels with Mike

A few weeks ago we had several talented artists come to share their skills with the seniors for a week. Everyone got to chose the activities they took part in, some examples were; soap carving, creative books, sculpting, drama and heaps more fun options.

I had the opportunity to participate in pastel drawing with Mike Glover. Mike taught us skills of using pastel. He covered such things as how to use the pastel effectivley, how to merge and blend the colours and lots of other bits of information. By the end of the afternoon we came away with 2 stunning peices of art.

By Mollie Room 7

Mike, Molly and Lucy displaying their work

Pet Day

Imagine a school day where you could take your favourite pet along to enter a competition to be the best pet and owner. Then you and your pet could get dressed up and parade around a circle with all your school watching. Well for Springston School this is a yearly tradition.

On the 3 November (pet day) there was a great turn out of animals. The whole morning was full of excited students, overwhelmed judges, helpful parents and amazing teachers. As well as bringing your pet the students had lots of other exciting things to do throughout the morning, i.e. face painting, meeting other animals, animal owner look a like competitions and of course entering or watching the dress up parade. With many animals like horses, dogs, cats, rabbits, mice, guinea pigs and even llamas the day was a huge success and everyone can’t wait for next years pet day.

Courtney J. Year 7

Pet Day

Athletics Day

Art Wordle

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