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!