Loving Life!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

WHY IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW ABOUT INTELLIGENT DESIGN:

 

This video clip reveals how crucial what we believe is to our self-confidence and hope for the future:

 



Awe-inspiring Key of David Painting

Mrs Cameron (our CRS Art teacher) and Mrs Mayne (Grace's grandma) each produced panels for this awe-inspiring huge mural that was on display in London during the Olympic games. Artists from all over the world collaborated to present the gospel in a spine-tingling visual display:

Christian Renewal School Primary Concert: God is Good!

What an awesome concert it was!!!  Thank you so much to Mrs Lentz and Mr Buchanan for all your hard work.  Well done to everyone who worked hard to learn lines and practice roles.  For those who didn't present an item this time around - don't worry there's always next time!  There are so many students and only limited time - there is a season and time to everything - your turn will come.  :-)

Looking Back at Tayla's Blessing:

Tayla, Our Olympic Envoy

What a surprise for Tayla Young, a student at Christian Renewal School until last term, to be chosen to be the young New Zealand flag envoy. She won an ANZ Bank competition from among 16,000 applicants. Tayla had the exciting privilege of handing over the NZ flag to Nick Willis, thereby revealing who would be the 2012 New Zealand Olympic flagbearer.

Tayla’s prize was announced at her school assembly at Rangitoto College on 28 June. “One minute I was sitting there listening to Hamish Carter talk about winning an Olympic Gold and the next minute I was up on the stage with him. I’m going to take my Mum and my Nana and Poppa. None of us have been to further than Australia. It’s so exciting,” she said.

Not only was it a huge blessing for Tayla, but also for Mr and Mrs Lloyd who got to go with her. It is clearly the favour of God upon this family, as they are able to also catch up with loved ones in the UK. Tayla will get to meet cousins for the first time and Mr and Mrs Lloyd, their grandchildren. Mr Lloyd, Associate Principal of C.R.S. High School, is originally from England and has not been back to the U.K. for at least 20 years.

It just goes to show that you never know how or when God is going to pour out His blessings on you! God does not have any favourites, He loves you just as much as He loves Tayla!

Please click here for more. Or to see a tvnz video interview click here.

Olympic Torchbearer Extraordinaire!

Julia's grandad, (who by the way, is 87 years old), was chosen from among thousands of applicants to be an Olympic Torchbearer on the 14 July, to run the torch from Boscombe to Southampton.
View a local newspaper photo by clicking here and video footage by clicking here.

...Swanmore resident Sydney Dean, who was nominated by two city councillors, Thérèse Evans and Deputy Mayor Frank Pearson.

Mr Dean, 86, of Hill Pound, has lived in the area for 50 years and was nominated for his years of charity work including the Mayor of Winchester’s charities.

He said: “I’m like a child waiting for Christmas, it cannot come soon enough. I could not believe it when I found out.”

Mr Dean will carry the torch through Boscombe on July 14 and said nothing would stop him completing the route.

He added: “I’m going to get pushed around the route in my coffin if I don’t make it to the big day so I have made back-up plans!”

Mr Dean spent 40 years in the navy rising to Lieutenant Commander and has worked with national charities such as Mission to Seafarers and the St George Foundation, which helps children in Sierra Leone.

Cllr Evans, ward member for Wickham, said: “Sydney is ‘Mr Swanmore’ and has raised thousands of pounds for local and national charities, and I cannot think of a more deserving person to carry the Olympic flame.”

The Key of David

Scores of Christian artists around the world have had a part to play in a breath-taking visual display that will be on tour around London during the Olympic Games. The finished masterpiece can be viewed in its composite detail by clicking here.



Our very own Mrs. Cameron (3rd from the left) created a piece which has been packed and shipped off to London with the Pacific's contribution. Mrs. Betty Mayne (Grace's grandma, 2nd from the left) was also invited to paint one of these panels. Below is the nearly finished masterpiece - see if you can spot Mrs. Cameron's panel amongst it. (Click on the picture below to make it bigger).  

Its May and we've had fun making wind chimes together!! But boy, our class is noisy[: A group of boys and their screwdrivers, brought an old pc to school and took it all apart to make their windchimes. A lot of work, but it was impressive. Now we have the leftovers piled in a corner like junk! - Others, like me, brought metal stuff to school. Another group of boys brought a dvd player to school, they took that apart as well, which was okay. And a few boys did the same thing. Not only did we learn how to make windchimes but we also learnt what parts are inside computers! by Rebekah yuhayco

Wisdom from God

Creating a Metal Wind Chime

For Science and Technology this term, we are learning about the  properties of metals.  Then we will be using this knowledge to select suitable metals to make wind chimes and mobiles.

To complete this project your child will need to gather a collection of metal objects and pieces of scrap metal.  As you can imagine, this will require careful supervision and guidance, particularly with concern to safety.

RESEARCH:  Here are some questions to consider:

Where could we find pictures and examples of wind chimes?

What materials have been used?

What are some ways they have been joined?

Have they been coloured? How?

What types of supports have been used?

What are the metal objects hung on?

What kinds of shapes were used and how were they made?

What was the purpose of the wind chime or mobile – advertising, entertaining a baby, decorating, or making a nice sound?

What sounds do different kinds and sizes of metals make when they crash together?

Possible Materials your child could bring to school:

wire coat hanger, metal cutlery, tinfoil, twisty ties, bolts, nuts, screws, keys, bottle tops, chains, aluminium cans, springs, sinkers, metal pipes, metal washers, plastic bottle, plastic plate, tin lids, fishing line, string, old bike parts, old computer parts …

Here is a video that may spark your imagination further:

Welcome to Room 5 2012!

Mrs Yuhayco and Mrs Campbell  bid you a warm, hearty welcome!


The view from our classroom is great, so we have named our blogspot, 'The Sky's the Limit', and as far as your potential in God, the sky is the limit, too!

This webpage will be valuable for keeping up with our news and getting useful bits of information.  Here are some of our lovely class: