Shakespeare Revealed

Recently on Brydseed I read the statement "structure leads to creativity" and raised this discussion with the Year 7/8 Inquiry group. While we certainly don't all agree the students did agree to think about this idea.

We all know William Shakespeare wrote a multitude of plays but how familiar are we with his poetry? 404 years ago Shakespeare wrote Sonnet 18, one of the most famous love poems of all time. After some research into "What makes a sonnet a sonnet?" we discovered there are very strict rules and lots of them. We also discovered that Shakespeare not only followed these rules but created them!

Follow our work as we attempt to write our own sonnets. Wish us luck!

10 000 Hits!

Wow! We have had 10 000 hits on the investiGATE@Kimihia site. What a feat! It's great to know people are watching the site and following our progress. What's next? 100 000 seems like a reasonable goal.
These are pretty special numbers to us at GATE Kimihia. If you are keen to find out more inteersting  information about the numbers 0 to 9999 click here

Another Look at Last Year's Science Fair Success

This information has been moved from the Science Fair page to make way for the 2013 Science Fair.

Below are the 2012 entries and winners. Joe, Cameron and Liam went on to win 2nd Place in the Physical World category at the Waikato Science Fair and Sonya and Kirsten went on to win a Highly Commended award at the Waikato Science Fair.

Following a great deal of hard work students finally submitted their project boards for judging at our school science fair. The investigations were varied and included finding which fruits grow the most mould, which soft drinks create the best Mentos volcanoes and which firewood burns best. Thanks to Pamela Dunn and Jasmine Ahmu for judging the competition.

And the winners were:

1st place: Kirsten Maclaurin and Sonya Fenton with Menacing Mould

2nd place: Joe Harris, Cameron Mailer and Liam Loveridge with Fire Fury

3rd place: Joel Geissmann with Tough Stuff



Highly Commended: New Helper by Jennifer Qiu





Fishy Business by Katie Simpson

Liquid Electricity by Katelynn Pini and Jemma Goodall





Bombs Away by Brendan Hunt and Brandyn Smith

Recommended Reading

The holidays have been a great opportunity to get lost in a good book. Check out the new titles on the blog bookshelf. Don't forget that if you have read a great book you'd like to recommend to others, write a short book review and we'll add it to the book review page.

We're back

It's been very quiet for the last couple of months while we have all been enjoying the summer sunshine... but we're back and looking forward to another busy year of learning. And just to get you started here are 50 collective nouns to bolster your vocabulary

A superfluity of nuns



A murder of crows