The CBS Culture Parade

It is interesting to discover how many different ethnicities we have at Cockle Bay School.  Students come from a vast number of different countries.  To celebrate this, it was decided to have a Culture Parade.  Everyone, students and teachers, could come to school dressed in ways to demonstrate country.  After we had shared our cultures in our classrooms, the whole school had a parade around the filed before morning tea.

Later on, in Maths we did cultural statistics.  We collected our data, displayed on a bar chart as well as a pice chart, and then wrote sensible sentences about what we could see.

Our Spanish Day - the Bull Fights

People who wanted to, could have a tray at being a matador or a bull.  With some practice, we became quite proficient at whisking the capone (cape) away from the bull at the very last minute.
You can watch a video of some of the bull fighting and the signorettas parading on the CBS news:  CBS news - week 7

Our Spanish Day

Mrs Bear's daughter, Ali, has come to New Zealand for a holiday. She spent a day at Cockle Day teaching us some Spanish language, pronunciation and some simple greetings.

We also learned a little of about the Spanish culture by dressing up as signorettas, role playing bull fights and learning a traditional Spanish dance.  We will perform the dance in front of the school at our Weka Assembly on Friday.

After lunch we selected tapas from the tapas bar, instead of our usual brain food break. We could choose from la albondiga (meatballs in spicy tomato) and tortilla (a kind of potato omelette).  We used a crispy slice of bread like a little plate with a toothpick to keep our tapas from falling off.

Grandparents Day

On Wednesday, 26th July, the Junior School hosted a Grandparents Day where people shared their things and memories of school in the olden days.  We made a venn diagram with stickies to compare then and now.  It was interesting to see what was the same, such as skipping and chess; and what was different, things like computers, inkwells, fidget spinners and . . . the strap.  We also heard about games like Kiss Chase, school pet days and making terraniums.  Maybe we should try some of these!

After a sharing time, we served our guests morning tea.  Thankfully, there was plenty for everyone, including all the students.

Everyone made an invitation to send to a family member - here is a selection of invites

Everyone contributed to our venn diagram to compare past and present school life,

Kate O's Granny shared her photo album.

We played this board game from China, which is a lot like chess.

Mathew s with his Nana and Pop.

Kyan with his Nana.