Percussion Group video

The Victory Primary School percussion group went on a kindergarten walking tour recently.


Here is short video about the group and their tour.

Room 11 at Garden To Table

For two weeks Room 11 were doing Garden to Table. We did it on Wednesday and Thursdays. On Wednesdays we would do some gardening and on Thursdays we would do some cooking.

The first Thursday we did cooking we made some delicious potato wedges.


The different kind of wedges we made were: Spicy wedges, Garlic and Parmesan, Indian Spices and Herbed wedges.



"Cooking the wedges was my favourite part. My favourite flavour was Spicy wedges," Bailey-Jean said.

"Making food and eating it. My favourite was eating the potato wedges," said Megan. "But my favourite was making the spring rolls out of the rice paper but not eating them"

Fair Go Finalists

Our entry made the top ten ads in the Fair Go Ad Awards. Congratulations to everyone who help us make our ad, especially the animal owners!



You can watch our ad here:


All the finalists are posted on the Fair Go Facebook page (scroll down a bit to the Primary Entries). Congratulations to Stoke School whose ad was placed second.

Gavin Bishop visits Victory

Last Friday Gavin Bishop came to our school. It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. He read us some of Piano Rock which is a book about his life from 3 to 9. Lily recommends this book. It is very interesting in so many ways.



He also showed us his teddy bear which is about 50 years old. Wow! He also made a book about the teddy bears life. He had a great sense of humour and seemed like a very friendly person. He read us another fantastic book called Bruiser.

Gavin Bishop has written so many other great books too.

New fence around our school

There are new fences around Victory Primary School to keep the children safe. The fences are made out of metal and they go around the whole school. The fence is two metres high. All schools in New Zealand have to have a fence now!



Matua Dylan thinks it's making the school bigger, tidier and newer. Sarah thinks it makes the school a safer place for some students because they can't climb over the fence.

The Mask Parade

In Room 11 Ms Duncan our teacher helped us to choose a book for the Mask Parade. People had to choose one character from that book and choose a mould that would best suit that character and that you could make into that character.



The first thing we needed to do was make some paper mache. To make the paper mache we had to rip up a lot of newspaper and put it into a giant plastic container. Then we put it into a container with some warm water and some glue. Next we had to mix it all up with our hands and it got really messy and sticky. We let it sit overnight and the next day we got to make the masks.

Victory Fair Go ad makes top 10

This year for the Fair Go Ad award we had to make an ad with an animal in it. We thought we would put our love of animals and our love of reading together to make our ad.




Rosa brought her guinea pigs to school and we used Spike in our ad. Sarah, Luke’s sister, read to Spike. Maya is one of the dogs from Paw Prints. Piper read to Maya. Van tha bawi read to Xavier, Whaea Lynda’s turtle, and Dawt Ku read to Manu the cockatiel.

We filmed our ad in the school library and in Room 16. Matua Craig helped us make our ad.

Megan was an animal wrangler, gopher, and cameraperson. Gryphon was the guinea pig pooper-scooper, a wrangler and gopher. Luke was an animal wrangler and gopher. Ethan H was our fake dog and a animal wrangler and Rosa was the guinea pig wrangler.

The finals of the Fair Go schools' ad awards will be on TV1 at 7:30 on Wednesday, 4 November.

Cultural Diversity Day

Next week on 10 September it is a very special day for Victory Primary School because all the cultures at our school from around the world are sharing their customs.



They will also be sharing these things:

- Costumes
- Foods
- Games

Some students from Victory will be Performing and other students will be talking about where they come from and what culture are they celebrate.

There will be kids that are helping their parents cooking and sharing their items.

Rock Da House

Rock the house is a show that lots of schools are doing. There are four nights and each school does one night with other schools but there is a special choir called The Back Beat Choir which do two nights and also do the harmonies.



Two students from Victory Primary School are in The Back Beat Choir. They performed at Nelson College on Wednesday and Thursday night. Victory Primary School is performed on Thursday 3 September. They sang a variety of songs. There are the songs they sang.

-Up Town Funk
-Express Yourself
-Paradise
-Ring Of Fire
-Be Okay
-Living In The Love Of The Common People
-Lost Property Box
-Lest We Forget
-Up
-Love Is Easy

Taiaha wānanga

During Mãori Language week a group students from Victory Primary School went to Whakatū Marae for a taiaha wãnanga.



Only boys went to the wãnanga. They learnt mau rakau and taiaha. They also stayed the night at the marae.

Matua Solomon taught them mau rakau and games and told them stories. "It was so cool," said Morpheus.

"We got to play games and learn at the same time and we got told stories of our Atua." said Wiremu.

"I liked the story where Tūmatauenga stood up to Tawhirimatea," said Addison.

"The game that I liked was heke heke," said Oho.

Tereme liked walking in Miyazu and seeing the shooting star. "We got up at 5:30 and went to Miyazu."

Whaea Lynda Illuminates

Room 11 teacher Lynda Duncan has been working hard in her spare time to make an illuminated window at Woodlea Floral Studio on Bridge Street as part of Feast for the Senses.



Ms Duncan makes sea creature sculptures out of old milk bottles. She cuts out shapes and rivets them together and then lights them up.



"I just want people to enjoy the window, To have a smile," she said. "If it cheers them up in the middle of winter I'm happy."

There is a map of all the Illuminate windows here.

App reveiw: Swift

Swift. A modern programming language that is safe, fast, and interactive.

Swift is a powerful programming language for iOS, OS X, and watchOS. Writing Swift code is interactive and fun.

An amazing apple developing app. You un-nerdy types that means an app used for coding and programming [making] computer games.

This is the swift blog.

Swift is made by the amazing Apple Computer Company! Swift is [fairly] easy to use.
4 stars.

Video gets 100s of views on YouTube

The Song for Everyone video has been viewed on YouTube over six hundred times in less than a week.

Song for Everyone

India and a team of senior students made this video to celebrate diversity at Victory Primary School.

Matariki

Victory Primary School celebrated Matariki this week. It is a time when we remember the people who have passed on.



Some kids put on a play for everyone in the hall. Then we had soup at the Victory Community Centre.



Everyone walked up the Railway Reserve. We carried our lanterns up to the top. There and back to the Community Centre is about 3km. It was cold and dark on the way back.



Back at the Community Centre there were lots of dance items from different cultures.

By Ethan

Victory Scratch Club

It was finally complete. Andrew, Darcy, Victor, and Ethan P from The Victory Code Club were working on a project for a ping pong app using coding but this coding is different. You have probably heard about JavaScript coding but this is Scratch coding and it looks like this.



Scratch is an online coding site were you can code, use other peoples creations, and have a secret look inside them. The way you code on Scratch is that you create your own characters then snap blocks together to make the coding.

By Andrew

Flooding at Victory

Playtime turned into splash time at Victory Primary School on Wednesday when some of the school flooded.





The back court was closed for morning tea because the gutters were blocked and the water had gone everywhere. Nobody could play soccer until lunchtime. Most of the water has gone now but it was good fun while it lasted. By Darcy

iPad app review: ScratchJr

ScratchJr is a great app for making animations with block coding.



It's great for all ages even though it's called jr. The app is really easy to use and play. You can make something cool or completely random.

Coding is the new literacy! With ScratchJr, young children (ages 5-7) can program their own interactive stories and games. In the process, they learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer.

I used it and made a quick animation in one minute.  ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

By Darcy

Nepal Fundraiser

Victory Primary School has organised a fun day next Friday, 29 May, to raise money to help those affected by the earthquakes in Nepal. At Victory Primary School there are about 30 children who come from Nepal.



The whole school will be selling toys and heaps of other stuff to help - like mufti, juicies, sausage sizzle, and decorate your own cupcake.

By Ethan H

Victory cross country

The Victory Primary School cross country is coming up soon and the whole school is going to enter. A lot the classes are training for the race.


The senior syndicate is going out to the Broads field (where we are going to race) for training at lunchtime.

By Darcy

Matariki

Matariki is celebrated at Victory on 17 June. People make lanterns and kites to walk up to the end of the Railway Reserve. There they can watch a fire spinner and there are beautiful lights and once you get back you can get a cup of soup or watch the play.


By Ethan P

App review: Klikaklu

Klikaklu is an app made by Coopercode LLC. You take a picture at any place and then you save it as a clue. When you have added as many clues as you want you let your friends go and find the clues. When they have found a clue they scan it with their ipad or iphone. When they are in the right place they unlock the clue and go on to the next clue.



I think it is a great app but I wish it was not so annoying with its pop-ups. It also wants you to get a perfect photo which is sometimes annoying, but on the bright side it is a great game if you want a mix of screens and phisical activity.

By Darcy

ANZAC remembrance at Victory

Victory Primary School made a field of remembrance for ANZAC. It had lots of white crosses and they all had a name of an ANZAC soldier who had died in the First World War.



In the middle of the field was a cross that said unknown solider, because lots of soliders are in unmarked graves.

By Darcy

Tree Planting at Murphy Street

On Wedensday some of the seniors went up to Murphy Street park to plant some trees. Darcy said it was really good.

They had a very good time and had a lot of fun.

Farewell Gareth

Last weekend all of the people from Victory went to the Victory Community Centre to say farewell to Gareth. Gareth is the coordinator of the Community Centre.



Gareth is going to Scotland with his family. Everyone was sad and we hope they all come back soon.

By Ethan H

Fitness

Victory Primary School classes are doing fitness lessons with Nate, a fitness instructor from Sport Tasman.



One of the games we play is Simpsons!
We have to get into a big circle and are given a number and then when Nate calls out our number we all run around the circle and back in our space into the middle.
The first 2 people there get to be Maggie. After a few rounds when he calls out Maggie the two winners become Lisa and so on as the Simpsons go.

Bigger, Smaller or the same?

We noticed that the school milk containers are a different shape. We wondered if they contained the same amount of milk.



We measured the length, height and width of each milk carton and then we multiplied the numbers to get the volumne of each carton. The old carton holds about 215ml and the new one about 218ml.

The only problem with the new boxes is that they are harder to stack because they are taller.

By Andrew and Sophie

Ministry of Inspiration

Andrew and Renata went to The Ministry of Inspiration at NMIT at the end of Term 1. They had free registration which saved them $50 each.

They went to three sessions. Andrew went to Whale Watch, Golden Ratio, and Android App Development. Renata went to Whale watch, Out of the Box, and Android App Development.

At Android App Development they did a tutioral on the Internet and learnt about coding for Android. The code is a bit like Javascript but different. They made an app that was just a button and you could tap on it and it would say something.

"The day was good and it would be worth $50 for it," said Andrew.

Duffy Assembly

On Tuesday Keith Tonkin came to Victory Primary School for a Duffy assembly. He read one chapter of his book Avaiki Tautau – Homeland Beneath the Stars.


He is a non-fiction children/young adult writer.

Making Chapati

Arjun, Sanjay, Salom and Darcy made Chapati, a Nepalese food.



Chapati is normally made in a wrap but since this is the Nepalese version we made it like this. In the photo there is a different version which is another kind that Sanjay brought to school. It was super spicy!

Kids learn slam poetry at Victory

Today Te Kahu Rolleston, a slam poet, came to Victory Primary School. We had to write a poem and some people had to read their poem to the whole school. It was kind of breath taking.



Slam poetry is poetry you say out loud to an audience. It is meant to rhyme. Darcy wrote a poem about biking.

It goes like this:

Use your bike 
Use it like this 
Bike it thru the streets of Nelson 
Bike it up mountains 
Fly like the wind 
Bike thru the city 
Bike thru the land 
Bike thru sand 
Towards the horizon 

Poem by Darcy

Story by Ethan

Trolley Derby

Last Saturday was the Mike Pero Trolley Derby. Heaps of trolleys entered and 1 or 2 were from our school.



Gryphon, who was in the race, said, "It's nerve-racking, very exiting and dangerous. I had to be very careful down the hill with my steering or I might do a flip." Gryphon's tips are stay to the side of the road or you will hit the pot holes. The website for the Trolley Derby is here.

Victory leaders

Victory leaders are librarians, sport leaders, the guys with Mr Science (sorry I don't know what they're called). Anyway Enviro group, (my friend is in that), lunches and Journalists (I'm one!), so yeah, hope you like!

 
This is a photo of the library leaders.

By Maire