Google Doodle Winner - Olivia!!!!

Congratulations to Olivia from Room 17 who won the 'Doodle for Google' competition in the Year 1-3 category. It's a national competition and quite an achievement. The overall winner still has to be decided and they will have their design on the Google New Zealand website for  a whole day. Olivia will be heading to the Auckland Art Gallery on Thursday for a special day.  She wins a laptop for herself and a smart board for the school. Well done Olivia!!!!!


Well done to Sato from Room 29 who also got into the finals for his age group.Thanks to all the people who voted. 
What talented artists we have at Gulf Harbour School.


Here are some shots of Olivia's great day at Auckland Art Gallery.


Click here to see photos...

2011 Hibiscus Coast Writers - Year 5&6 Competition Winners

Hibiscus Coast Writers’

2011 Hibiscus Coast Schools Children’s Writing Competition

A huge congratulations to all the children who contributed to our annual Hibiscus Coast Schools Writing competition - we wish we could publish all of their submissions.  Unfortunately, there can only be one overall winner of the Val Shearer Memorial Trophy, and this year we've introduced four additional prize sections, i.e:  Poetry, Non-Fiction, Fiction and Illustration.  Commended pieces of writing will also receive a copy of our
publication.


 C O N G R A T U L A T I O N S  and thank you so much for participating, your contributions are greatly appreciated - we sure had a tough task judging them!


Tanya Gouws
Competition Secretary
Hibiscus Coast Writers Group

OVERALL WINNER, and winner of the Val Shearer Memorial Trophy

Alexandra Wood
Gulf Harbour School

Sailing, Cyclone Wilma 2011, A Day in the Life of a … can you guess what I am?

FICTION WINNER

Angus Wilson

Kingsway School

Drama on Macadam Street

NON-FICTION WINNER

Estelle Davidson

Whangaparaoa Primary

My J-Rock Performance

POETRY WINNER

Wendy-Joy Richardson

Red Beach School

The Woman in Waiting

WRITING CHOSEN FOR PUBLICATION:-

Gulf Harbour School
Alexandra Wood	(Overall Winner) Sailing Cyclone Wilma 2011 A Day in the Life of a … can you guess what I am?
Jack Markey	Twister
Lucy Hatfield	A Holiday in Heaven The Kiss I Died in Love
Connor Gentry	The Sky so High
Keagan Modlin	Tree Wave I Hate Rugby
Philippa Gouws	Diamante Poem - Rugby A Day in the Life of Me
Giancarlo Moretti	Atomic Bomb
Pierre Duval	A Windy Wellington Poem B-Ball
Oliver Reeves	Happy Father’s Day Dad The Secret of the Colosseum When I was a Famous Movie Star
Bree Stiven	Daffodil
Josie Simmonds	What Makes a Friend Danny & Me Rotorua
Rhiannon Tarr	I Love Fashion
Hannah Maguire	If I Could Ask a Cloud Square Eyes ‘Round the World
Campbell Morrison	Bad Plane Ride
Amy Watson	My Dolphin Experience Spring Flowers
Sophie Doocey	Dragon’s Den
Andrea Nixon	The Talking Dog
Alesi Hertzke	Kids are like Gold
Halle Mitchell	Animal Cruelty
Raymond Yang	Combat Wars
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Rugby Chaos Game

Are you bored? Try Room 16's new game called 'Rugby Chaos'.
Available from Room 16. Here's the ad...

The Rippa Festival was a Ripper!!

Room 27 organised a great Rippa Festival. Check out the highlights on the video below!

Walking School Bus News!

Monique Chambers from room 20- thought that we should have a special day for WSB- "bring a friend- promote day"- so.......invitations were sent out to her whole class, and friends around, and we got 20 altogether last Thursday 1st September!- great way to start the first official day of spring"- prizes were given out and lots of fun was had! We hope this can be done again real soon- Will let you know when!  


This was for the Walking School Bus held every Tuesday and Thursday @ # 8 Alec Craig Way, corner of Du'rvell and Alec Craig Way, Caramel coloured house, with black steel fence- look out for flags and signage....Join us one day, and have some fun!- you never know what prize you will get!

The other Walking School Bus is run every Wednesday @ corner of Midshipman and Alec Craig Way (round-about point)- we rely greatly and appreciate the support of our great teachers Miss Wium, Mrs Vrettos and Mrs Southgate for their help!- Thanks ladies you help us make this BUS happen!- WOOP WOOP! Who know's who might come on the WSB- MR PETRIE EVEN- YAY!

Would you like to organise another Walking School Bus in your street?- Let us know- happy to help you set another one up! Its real easy!- GO FOR IT!!!- Let's cut down on the traffic in Gulf Harbour!- and get some exercise together!

Bye for now!
Gaylene ( Walking School Bus Co-ordinator for GHS)
randgchambers@xtra.co.nz

Real Life Learning - Entrepreneurs

Have a look at all the innovative ideas classes have come up with after they looked at what are the characteristics of an Entrepreneur. 

Kids Getting Creative in Rooms 5 and 18!

Check out what Room 5 and Room 18 have been up to this term - looks like great fun!
Room 5 have been testing a variety of recipes to find out what makes the best play dough.
Room 18 have been designing healthy food snacks for kids that are easy to prepare and taste absolutely delicious. Last week they made fruit kebabs.

Top 8 Google Doodles sent off today!

Good luck to our 8 Doodle for Google entries! Entrants range from Year 2 - Year 6.

Keep an eye on our website to see how we go in the National Competition. Overall Winners will be announced by the 19th October. Click here for more details: http://www.google.co.nz/doodle4google/prizes.html

Secret Garden Looking Amazing!

 In the Secret Garden there has been some planting. Lots of kids have joined in to help to develop a beautiful garden. There are lots of different plants going in including strawberry plants and a mandarin and apple tree. There are students doing a great job at gardening. They are digging into the ground and then putting the plants in the holes. Then they cover the plants with soil. Next they pour a bit of water on the plants. They have planted lots of nice plants some are tasty like the strawberries!
The people have been working so fast and so hard we can not believe our eyes! Mrs Lenton and Mrs Waxman have done a fantastic job. From our class Kera, Imelda and Joshua have been involved. The garden is expanding at the speed of light and getting more and more plants. We are so happy!

By Christopher and Jonathon 

Ex GHS Student Making Great Music!

Ex Gulf Harbour School student Nicola Morrison has just placed in top 50 of 'Play It Strange' NZ Secondary Schools Songwriting Competition. She composed and sung  a wonderful song called 'Paper Planes' and got to do a professional recording for a CD coming out later in the year. Her song is currently available on iTunes, so go and buy it. Go Nicola!!!


What a great song, check it out!!!

Great Things Happening with Food and Music!

GHS Chefs

A group of Year 7's and 8's chose cooking as their 5 week elective. 'Brunches' has been the topic and we have had fun following recipes, learning techniques and creating our own dishes. This week we have a chef from Sparx, Little Manly Village to taste our 'Brunch Tortilla' we have designed. Simon Roadley, owner of Sparx, not only gave 3 GHS 'chefs' the awesome opportunity to visit his restaurant kitchen, if he is impressed with it, Simon has generously offered to trial our dish on Sparx menu! Fingers crossed!!!! All our tasters so far have enjoyed it and the 'chefs' definitely have - 

here's hoping Sparx likes it too!

What's Cooking in Food Tech!

Recently Year 7/8s have been looking at technological modeling - the brief - " Design a pasta shape that will hold a sauce of medium consistency. We learnt to make our own pasta, models and prototypes and came up with some interesting shapes!

Musical Profits

Profits from this years musical production " A Kids Summer Night's Dream" by our talented Year 7's went some of the way towards the purchase and installation of these fabulous mirrors in Room 8 - Performing Arts. The Drama Elective have made the most of the mirrors, Year 1's are finding them useful in helping them prepare for their production, there are dance/movement classes happening and GleeHS are enjoying the mirrors- working towards their debut later this term.

Music from Junk.

Year 7's have been combining junk instruments with other percussion, working on creating and layering rhythms and have come up with some unique arrangements. Check out this video  with our lovely Korean students showing us their rhythmic skills. They all play orchestral instruments too so hopefully we will manage some more videos.

Room 29 Animators in Action

Room 29 are busy creating Claymation and 2D Animations for the Animation Festival they are putting on week 9.
Watch them in action in our short film and be sure to enter our Animation Festival - click the link below for more details
http://gulfharbourschoolnews.blogspot.com/2011/08/taking-entries-now-for-ghs-animation.html

Gulf Harbour School Welcomes Japanese Rugby Team

What great excitement for the school today as we welcomed the Japanese Rugby Team. There were flags waving and signatures being signed all over the place. The students got their first real taste of World Cup fever as we lined up outside the lodge to greet the players.  It was especially exciting to see All Black legend John Kirwan there, with the team as coach. I'm sure the players appreciated the welcome and we certainly enjoyed the moment.  Good luck to the team!


Check out the Youtube clip below...

Knights and Princess Ball - What a night!!!

Wow, what a fabulous night!

Our Princesses and Knights looked amazing and a magical

evening to remember was enjoyed by everyone. Dancing,

'how well do you know your daughter?' quiz,  games, belly

dancing & jump jam performances, delicious princess food

and great music all helped to make it a fantastic evening. It

was so special to see Dads walking in arm and arm with their

Princesses. A really big thank you to our wonderful committee

of parents who worked with such passion to make this evening come together.

Ms Wesley Visits Gulf Harbour School!

“Yippee!” shouted Room 16. Ms Wesley was finally visiting us! Ms Wesley worked at New Century International Elementary School in America and Room 16 have been communicating with the class most of the year. We have exchanged movies, slideshows, photos, emails, voice threads and more. It has been such fun and we have learnt a lot about each others schools. In term one made them a movie for them about the Christchurch earthquake. (see below)

Did you know Ms Wesley taught here at GHS in the past? She then went to America to teach and came back to New Zealand a couple of weeks ago. She brought letters for our class from New Century School. She also bought American coins and even lollies!  (They do not call lollies, lollies in America, they call it candy)

The class really liked meeting Ms Wesley. She is so nice! We had lots of questions for her and it was great to meet her. She is off to Dubai to teach now and we wish her well with that.
By Mirin

Year 8s Win Mathex Competition

Our Winning Team

Last week we took part in the Yr 7/8 interschool Mathex competition (Math Problem Solving). It was held at Stella Maris School and was a fun, energetic race to the finish. Congratulations to our Year 8 team who came in first place out of the 18 teams attending. They not only won but did so by a landslide gaining 18 out of possible 20 points - second place came in with a total of 10 points. Our Year 7 team also did well coming in 6th equal - we look forward to seeing what they will be able to achieve next year!

Yr 8 team
- Charlotte Doocey
- Brae Southern
- Jenny Cho
- Mia Davis

Year 7 Team
- Tarushna Dayah
- Erica Simmonds
- Tessa Weston
- Jasmine Tufuga.

Walking School Buses had a Penguins Day!

In celebrating the release of Mr Popper's Penguins, 20th Century Fox and the Walking School Buses had a Penguins Day for our Walking School Bus during the week of 8th-12th August.  We were encouraged to dress like penguins and "waddle" to school (keeping in mind to stay road smart whilst doing so!)

One Walking School Bus from each Auckland region will win a double movie pass and a Mr Popper's Penguins stationary set for each child.  All children who participated will receive a set of Mr Popper's Penguins stickers.

Our Walking School Bus for Gulf Harbour School called "Alec Craig Sloopers" had around 15 kids altogether whom participated on each of our Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday WSB days. All were spectacular- and "PENGDIFFERERICUOS"- some kids made their own individual masks, body suits made from black clean sacks- beaks, hats, bowties. It was FUN!

A big thank you to Chad Phillips (Father of Logan) who made x10 cardboard Penguins like what you would see at the actual cinema over the weekend, leading up to the event -they were lifesize, complete with hand and arm movements and eye holes and velcro to stick together at the back for complete "Penguin look"- these were AWESOME!

Thanks also to Mrs Southgate, Miss Wium and Mrs Vrettos for participating, and joining in the fun too!
Its great to have our Teachers on board our BUS TOO!

WE SHOULD WIN THE PRIZE GUYS-SO WATCH THIS SPACE OK!


Gaylene Chambers 

New Gulf Harbour Sign

Have you seen the new Gulf Harbour School sign out by the front car park?  It has our new vision statement   'Be the difference'  on it.

Wow that looks shiny and clean because it's brand new. The old one was over 10 years old and needed replacing. The new one was put up in the holidays and matches our new website.

So next time you are at the front gate, have a  little look!  We hope you enjoy it.
by Isabel and Lily.

School Goes Crazy With Ned Yo Yos!

The Ned Show
On Tuesday 'The Ned Show'‚ came to GHS. Clyde, who hosted the show, was there to show us how to work a Yo-Yo and give some advice. The advice was what NED stands for...
The N stands for 'Never Give Up'
The E stands for 'Encourage others' and...
 the D stands for 'Do Your Best'.

Clyde was really funny! He brought his friend Ned. Clyde told a story about what happened to NED before he got to GHS. While telling the story he was also showing tricks with his Yo-Yos. It was really cool. The story was about Ned and how he got into so much trouble by doing the wrong things. Everything came right for Ned when he decided to do the right thing.

There was also a competition and James won. He got a hat made out of balloons and a free Yo-Yo that he could clip onto his waist. Some of the tricks he did with his Yo-Yo were - the Eiffel Tower, Spaghetti, Elevator, Ski Lift, walk the Dog and go around the world. Clyde said that practice makes permanent not perfect. 

After, when The Ned Show had gone everyone at GHS went crazy and started buying Yo-Yos.
If you want to buy a Yo-Yo, a DVD of  how to use one, extra Strings or a Yo-Yo Holster then go to the office.
Here is the NED website.  http://www.thenedshow.com/
By Amelia and Kera

DOODLE 4 GOOGLE COMPETITION!

2009 Winner

It's time to sharpen your pencils! Doodle for 4 Google is back in 2011!


Google like to reflect the ever-changing world of users through the logo designs on their homepage. These ‘doodles’ celebrate different people, events or special dates and are designed by a team of Google Doodlers.


In 2011, they’re asking young people from across New Zealand to design their own doodle. The theme is ‘My Wish for New Zealand’. Google would love to see how young people want New Zealand to look like.

The best doodles will be voted on by the public, and one winner will be shown on the Google New Zealand homepage for a day, to be viewed by millions of people. You will also win technology prizes for yourself and your school!

The competition is open to all students at GHS, once you have completed your Doodle 4 Google along with a title for your doodle and a supporting statement that explains what you have portrayed and why (no more than 50 words), hand in to Miss Mills in Room 29 by 16th September.


Click here for the design guidelines:
http://www.google.co.nz/doodle4google/info.html


As a school, we will vote on our top 8 to enter into the competition.
Get google-doodling everyone! Good Luck!