Listening Dock

Team Toroa have a new listening dock.  We are going to be listening to some chapter books at reading time!  We have a small adaptor that can take 5 headphones at once.  We all have our own set of headphones.  We are so lucky!!

Winter Tournament

Team Toroa are practicing really hard for the Winter Tournament, which will be held at Argyle park on the 11th of August.

We were split into 2 groups, one is the  year 7's team which includes Joseph, Annabel, Olivia, Kate, Hamish, Georgia and Thea. 

 The other one is the year 5&6's team where they have Kaitlyn, Tomas, Suzie, Clark, Juan, Harriet and Timothy. 

We are all nervous and excited about the up coming tournament. We all wish to win so I'm pretty sure that we're all going to do our best.

 

Thea

Holidays Are Over!

Over the holidays the students of Team Toroa got up to some very exciting things. Some people had a holiday in Hamner Springs or even went Sky Diving! Im sure everyone had something very exciting happen to them over the holidays, whether it was family visiting or meting up with old friends.

Lots of us are excited to be back at school and to see all our classmates again. Lets hope we have a fantastic Term 3!!

Olivia

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

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

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