Tip Top Trip

Today we went to the Tip Top factory. Everyone had a great time and saw and learnt lots about how Tip Top make their ice cream. There was lots of interesting information for us to think about.
Here are some of the interesting facts...
# They use 25,000L of milk and 30,000L of cream each day
# The ice cream base has 4 ingredients- milk, cream, sugar and glucose
# Homogenise means to sieve out the lumps
# Pasteurise means heat the ice cream hot then cool it to kill any bacteria
# Vanilla is the most popular ice cream flavour
# Choc Bar is the most popular stick ice cream
# They use 20 million cones a year
# The machine can fill 35 2L ice cream containers in 1 minute
# A different machine fills 200 ice creams in a cone in 1 minute
# Their main freezer is the size of a supermarket and is -28oc

We weren't allowed to take any photos of the factory but here are some photos of us enjoying a delicious treat at the end of the tour!

Term 2

Tomorrow is the start of term 2.  I hope you have had a great holiday and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow.  Mrs Muir will be back on Thursday.

This term's Inquiry is 'How did that happen?'  It will focus on kitcen science and we will be visiting Tip Top ice cream factory next week!

Term 1 Achievement Certificate

Congratulations to TW for recieving the Term 1 Achievement Certificate for giving her BEST effort throughout Term 1. Great work!

NEW READING BOOKS

Dear PTA
Thank you for $10000 to buy new reading books.  They are fantastic!

Our Homework Task

Our homework task was to research a successful New Zealander. We had to find out information about them, write what made them successful and what we could learn from them. Everyone did a great job. Some children made posters and others made booklets. Come into Room 19 to have a look.

This Week At Assembly

Congratulations to RC (Special Terrific Person Award) and JB (Values)! Well done!

This week at assembly....

We have been extra lucky this year with the Easter break not being part of the school holidays! We have had 2 short weeks but have managed to still have assembly both weeks.
Last week SS was the Special Terrific Person recieving the certificate at assembly and JJ recieved the Values.
This week CS recieved the Special Terrific Person certificate and BO recieved the Values.
Well done everyone!
Our value at the moment is 'Respect'. Everyone is working hard to show each other respect in the way they do things and in what they say. We have ben talking about the saying 'Treat others the way you like to be treated'.