Edgewater Seniors Learning a New Sport by Natasha

We learned to play Badminton in the gym. We first tried to balance the shuttlecock on the racquet. Then we practised holding the racquet down and hitting the shuttlecock towards the ceiling. I chose a partner and practised hitting the shuttlecock over the net. It was hard hitting the shuttlecock over the net, but I got it after a while.  We played who could hit the shuttlecock the furthest. Then we had a competition to play against  another team. Me and Allan played against Vikki and Brennan. Me and Allan won the game. I am getting good at Badminton and I can’t wait to play Badminton next week and it will be one of my favourite sports.  

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SPEC - Headway Awards Night

Well done to all the young men and women at Sommerville this year who have successfully completed their SPEC awards. What a great years' work.

Edgewater 2 - Our Learning Tours

We have visited lots of locations this year and also learnt a lot on our travels. We have added these locations to a Google Map with an image and a link to our individual blog posts.

This is Bradley's Learning Tour. Click each location to see more. 

You can find a link to our learning tours at the top of each of our blogs. Our blogs are here.

SPEC graduation 2013

What a success!  Almost all the families of Middle Cluster students turned up to a wonderful celebration evening for SPEC graduation 2013.

A celebration video with a 1970's style theme was shown and students received their special certificates from Principal, Diane Hankins, before enjoying a delicious supper prepared by the Middle Cluster  students.

Thank you everyone for coming and making the evening so special for all involved.

You can check out the SPEC graduation video here.....don't forget to leave us a comment, we love reading your feedback :-)

Manaiakalani Film Festival

Sommerville Special School is part of the Manaiakalani Group of Schools.

Last Wednesday we attended the yearly Manaiakalani Film Festival.  The movies were shown at Hoyts Sylvia Park.  

The quality of the movies from the schools involved was outstanding.  

Students introduced each movie and the audience responded really well to the movies they saw.

Some of our favourites were St Pius X and their "Faith and Harmony' friendship song, Tamaki's 'Spray and Walk away' and Panmure Bridge's 'Swimming at school is cool'.  

If you click on the picture you can go to the official website and watch all of the movies!

Sylvia Park Satellites celebrate Diwali

On Wednesday the 6th of November Sylvia Park School celebrated Diwali.
The teachers dressed up and a group of talented mainstream children performed a dance at an outdoor assembly.
Kamila (the junior satellite teacher), Boonie (from the junior class), Tryden and Kyi Kyaw (from the senior satellite class) were invited to dance with the group.'
Video and photos below.  Enjoy :-)

The 2 satellite classes and their teachers.

Halloween Celebrations

Tamaki 4 celebrated Halloween last Thursday (31st October)  by dressing up and having an exciting party! 
Lots of our friends from other classes came along. We prepared Jack-o-lanterns for the day which everyone loved.

Here are some pictures from the day.

Jack-o-lantern

Scary kids and one gorgeous fairy!

Students and staff in their costumes