Year: 2008

Have a great Christmas and a Happy New Year. Check out this website… www.theweepies.com/snowglobe/

Our native area is fast drying out in the summer heat. Today we spent some time with the juniors weeding around the plants and laying a bed of barley straw around each to help retain the moisture in the soil. In the photo Courtney and Hayley are...

Eli is airborne! This week the seniors spent their interval and lunch breaks to lay crushed limestone on our BMX track. This has made the track much quicker to ride on. Thanks to Roger Gray and Hatuma Lime Marton for sponsoring the crushed lime and to Dallas Fraser...

Check out our PUPPET PROJECT page and see the progress we are making. This is Shavaughn’s puppet Ratatouille.

Wow! Well done to the Green Group led by Ms Lindsay and Mrs Rakatairi, and to Mrs Marshall.  Your work has won Mount Biggs School an Enviroschools Silver Award. Winning silver is not an easy task. Here is what the judges said… “Your excellent application demonstrated...

We held our agricultural day on Guy Fawkes Day. The theme for the hall exhibits this year was ‘Fireworks’. The children had to make posters, fire engines, jellignite jellies and floral displays within this theme. Our class also exhibited our business ventures, the results of...

  I read some interesting thoughts from Michael Ungar about children and physical safey in an article published in the Sunday Star Times dated October 26 2008. He claims that ‘ our children are safer physically than at any time in history. Yet with out...

Mrs Marshall has bought three sets of stilts to be used at playtimes. Alice has already mastered them!

Congratulations to Emma, Tia and Zared for winning first, second and third place respectively in the School Speech Contest. The judges were very impressed with the high standard of speech writing from the entire class. A superb effort! Emma and Tia will now represent our...

Some of us have started drum lessons at school with Paddy. Other children are learning the piano, the trumpet and the guitar. Here is a picture of Zared having a lesson.