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Orientation Day for year 8’s.

oisbloggerkids — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:35:24 +0000

This Friday majority of the year 8’s will be going to orientation at Waitaki Girls High School (WGHS) or Waitaki Boys High School (WBHS). Good luck to all of the year 8’s that are going to one of the high schools.

By Taylor.

Softball Season at O.I.S.

oisbloggerkids — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 21:26:26 +0000

The softball season is back again and we are into it! This year at Oamaru Intermediate we have a total of seven teams. Six boys teams and one all girl team. Common guys get into it.

By Taylor.

Interactive whiteboards

oisbloggerkids — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 22:27:17 +0000

An Interactive whiteboard is a big screen put on top of the normal white board and can be controlled using a keyboard and mouse hooked up, Wireless keyboard or a Special Interactive pen. Currently 5 Classes have these boards and now it’s time to put them in the rest of the classes. The children in the classes soon to get them are bound to be excited as are the teachers they are a great learning tool and aid in making life interesting using these cool boards.

By Samuel

GRAND DESIGNS

oisbloggerkids — Wed, 06 May 2009 22:24:34 +0000

Our school is currently undergoing some improvements that will make it safer and up to current standards. These are; the art room and a couple of section of tarmac. The art room is being done up because it really needs it. And the tarmac that was being torn up was dangerous and a safety hazard.
By Josef

Meet the Bloggers

oisbloggerkids — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:25:49 +0000

Hello World!
I would like to introduce my wonderful group of bloggers for 2009. They have spent the last couple of weeks ‘getting to know’ blogging, and are now looking forward to jumping in! I thought that it might be a good idea, if you got to hear a little bit about each of them – from them!
Mrs S

Intro 2009

oisbloggerkids — Mon, 16 Feb 2009 21:28:19 +0000

Welcome to 2009, a brand new year.
We have new teachers, new students and wiser year 8’s.
At the end of last year, we farewelled three teachers: Mrs Brosnan to a new school, Mrs More formally Miss Christie to Pembroke School and Mr Campbell who has sadly retired.
However, this does create opportunities for new teachers such as:Mr Brown (Room Five),Mr Wansbrough (Room 13), Mrs Caldwell (Room 14), and Mr Jenkins (Room 3) to teach at OIS in 2009.

By Abbey

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My Two Years at OIS.

oisbloggerkids — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 22:57:19 +0000

Over my past couple of years at OIS I have had an awesome time making friends, loading my brain with new knowledge and playing my favourite sports with other team mates and schools.

At OIS we are given a choice to play an instrument, we have some of the top range musicians and instructors here; there are many instruments we are given choices to play from drums or guitar to saxophone or violin and they all have amazing instructors.

Having such a friendly environment here, means that I have made heaps of new friends and I get around well with everyone.

We are also given lots of opportunities like Bloggers (OIS students update the school Blog with all the important things happening around the school), extension maths, art, fabric and hard materials (wood work).

We have two fundraisers, the chocolate sales and the spellerama, the chocolate sales are when each student is given a box of chocolates to sell worth $2 per bar and 20 bars ($40 dollars per person).Each box we sell we go into the draw to win cool prizes like I-pods or televisions .And the spellerama is when we are given two weeks to practice spelling words on our list and are tested 50 words. Per word we get right we raise 5 cents and the more sponsors we get the more money we raise. Just like the chocolate sales we go into the draw to win prizes for each card we sell.

The money we raise goes towards things like the new canteen, the lunch seats, the challenge course and other things that us students will benefit from.

In the summer each class goes swimming at least twice a week in the school pool with brand new solar heating (raised by our fundraising) we are divided into groups of our ability and are given lessons or tasks.

Every second year James Hargest college from Invercargill come down to Oamaru to have an interschool with us and billet with students from OIS, On the other years we go down to Invercargill and stay with people from there school.

We are given chances to play sports like rugby netball hockey soccer and almost any sports you can think of we currently hold the rugby title. This interschool helps us make friends with people from Invercargill and meet up with them the year after.

In year 8 camp is really exciting and we look forward to it all year, as we are given the choice to go to either, Mt Somers, Stewart Island, Wainui or Dunedin these camps are all great and we are having camp season right now, Stewart Island is away and the rest have been.

We welcome any newcomers to our school and I highly recommend it.

By Cam

New Bloggers

oisbloggerkids — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:36:12 +0000

I have been selected to be a new blogger at O.I.S, from a choice of a number of pupils. I have a great selection of skills to bring to bloggers but also a lot to learn.
This is my first article I’ve posted on this blog and am very excited at being posted.
Our blog teacher (Mrs Senior) organises our group each week and is the glue that keeps bloggers together and keeps it going.
I am looking forward to posting another article soon

Gabe

New Solar Panels Are HOT!!!

oisbloggerkids — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 21:30:55 +0000

Recently O.I.S. has had new solar panels installed. The old panels gave O.I.S. 25-30 years of good heated water for the school pool. How it works is that the water runs through the black pipes underneath double glazed windows so that when the sun shines on the windows it keeps the heat in and the black pipes do the same job.
The water has to be cooled because it’s so hot. Then it’s pumped into the pool.
The whole school fundraised for these new Solar Panels. We raised over $10,000.

By Tyler and Blake

Energy To Burn inquiry

oisbloggerkids — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 22:28:23 +0000

As part of our energy to burn topic we were given a task of choosing a question about anything to do with energy/power. The main topics were ocean energy, wind power, solar power, hydro and mainly any other energy source. We then were told to start a project on our question, we were given class time to find out information and create our project presentation such as posters, power points books, pamphlets etc. We were given two weeks to have a finished product and present it to the class. We were marked out of 40.This activity gave us knowledge of new energy sources and taught us a lot about our topics.