National Science Week

This week is National Science Week. Victory Primary School teacher Sterling Cathman (Mr Science) is helping organise the event in Nelson.

Mr Science has been doing science at Victory School for four years.

"I have been doing science all my life," he said.

"Science week is trying to get primary schools involved and getting teachers a bit more confident."

Last year was the first National Science Week in Nelson.

Builders at Victory

There is lots of building going on at Victory Primary School at the moment. They are building car parks, classrooms, and a new entrance way. Comans are the building contractors and Berketts are building the car parks.

Victory Primary School Principal, Mr Brown, said there will be three new classrooms for the Juniors. New toilets have just been completed, which he calls Super Loos.

There is now a teacher resource room next to the library which has been completed recently. Mr Brown said there will be a new way to enter the school. The builders have nearly finished some safer places to walk by the carpark.

The builders have finished the whare across the creek. Mr Brown hopes it will all be finished by 23 May. The whole project cost around one and a half million dollars. Some money the school has saved went into it, and some of the money came from the government.

Story and photos by Tahlia, Zontay, Khem and Sam, Samu, William Sang.

Lunchtime Soccer Game

At lunch time there was a soccer match between Room 15 and Room 11. When they were playing soccer, four people from Intermediate turned up to ref.

Siang said that soccer is fun and he wants to be a famous soccer player. His favourite player is Lionel Messi.

Story by Sanghlei,Philemon,Tarn and Van Bawi.

Victory Leaders

This week the Victory leader nominees at Victory Primary were interviewed by Mr Brown & Whaea Rachel.

Dyson said he wanted to be a Victory leader because it would be a great opportunity and he'd get to do cool stuff. He said he was nervous at the interview and excited, scared and hopeful all at the same time.

Interschool Cross Country

Victory School students are training for the interschool cross country on the 7th June 2012. They train every Thursday running up the railway reserve and back.

Tarn is one of the fastest long distance runners at Victory School although there are other fast runners as well.

Story by Bawi Tha, Lewis, Ram Peng. Photo by Lewis