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Wednesday, 13 July 2011

Super Spellers

On Wednesday 6th July, the Yr 7 & 8s went to the Extra! Spelling Quiz at Timaru Boys High.  The two Dorie Teams were Annabel, Olivia & Zabina, and Kate, Thea & Joseph. 
The questions included fixing spelling, spelling words, mystery words, and other challenging questions.
 Some of the tricky spelling words were  words like raucous and synagogue - did you know how to spell them? 


Team One of Dorie (Olivia, Annabel, Zabina) scored 84%, and Team Two (Kate, Thea, Joseph) scored 83%. 


It was very much enjoyed by the Two teams of Dorie and the parents and teachers  enjoyed it too. 
A competition about Current Events will be coming up as well and Mrs T is keen on entering us in as well.
We would love to  go next year and maybe that time we could go for gold and get that gold medal...


Annabel

Monday, 11 July 2011

Sealed drive way

Fulton Holgan have been sealing and fixing the entrance and car park to Dorie School.  When we walk out to the bus you can feel your feet sinking into the dirt.  It has been compacted so it almost looks like concrete already.  We are waiting excitedly until it will be sealed - until then we will have MUDDY feet!

Timothy and Juan

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Christchurch Museum Visit

Last Tuesday the Christchurch Museum came for a visit. They told us about the Charlotte Jane ship, and how they dressed up. It was really interesting learning about them. They also taught us about how fast sickness could spread on the Charlotte Jane, they had a real cool game about it. We had to pretend to be sick in a bucket and pass it on.
Tomas

Spelling Bee

Tomorrow the year 7 and 8s are going to Timaru for a spelling bee. They have been practising for the last month. They are going to compete with all the schools in Mid Canterbury and South Canterbury. It starts at 6:30pm  and goes till 8:00pm so they won't be home till about 9.30. 
Dorie school wishes them all the best for tomorrow and hope you get a placing.
Kaitlyn and Georgia