News

Keep up to date with the latest news and events from Balmacewen. 

 

Red carpet event.

Please read on for information and reminders for those involved in the red carpet event on Thursday 3rd December.

Posted: Wednesday December 2, 2020

Waterpolo

The end of season finished on a high with the GOLD team winning the A grade in our Thursday afternoon competition. Our Red team finished second in the B grade and our Blue team had a very tight game going down to Fairfield in the last quarter 2-0.

Posted: Tuesday December 1, 2020

Chickenpox

Posted: Thursday November 19, 2020

Year 7 News

It's a wrap! Our PBL performances are over, the end of year celebrations have started and our year 7 students are ready for a well earned break and looking forward to stepping up as Year 8 students in 2021.

Posted: Wednesday November 18, 2020

Ballet

During Week 5 all Year 7 classes were privileged to have a Ballet lesson with Chloe, an educator dancer with the Royal New Zealand Ballet. This was a fantastic session to tie in with our Term Four topic - pARTicipate - with our focus on the ARTS.

Posted: Wednesday November 18, 2020

Year 8's Perfect Pies

Callum and P may be designing the Dunedin Pie, but our Year 8's have been busy designing and making their own pies.

Posted: Friday November 13, 2020

Screen Printing

Many Year 8 students have said that the screen printing unit is one of their favourites!

Posted: Tuesday November 3, 2020

Tis the season

to be jolly ... We have been feeling jolly in Fabrics about creating festive decorations that show our individual designs and new hand sewing skills.

Posted: Tuesday November 3, 2020

Monkey Business is all about PROGRESS not perfection!

Some Year 7 classes were challenged to create a unique sock monkey that demonstrated the new hand sewing techniques they had developed.

Posted: Tuesday November 3, 2020

Final Assembly and Prize giving - Thursday 10 December 6.00pm, Regent Theatre

A warm welcome to Balmacewen whanau and friends to our Prize giving assembly.

Posted: Sunday November 1, 2020

Community notices

Please see community notices attached below...

Posted: Saturday October 31, 2020

Waterpolo - South Island Championships

This weekend we have entered a team in the South Island Intermediate Waterpolo Championships here in Dunedin.

Posted: Friday October 30, 2020

Quick Art Lessons

Every now and then a group might just have one session left. One crew focused on working collaboratively and was inspiring by Keith Harring's body outlines. The other group focused on being creative and designing personified food characters.

Posted: Thursday October 29, 2020

Cardboard Homes

In art Year 8 students reflected on the meaning of HOME and then designed and created miniature homes. The focus was on our super skill of problem-solving and persevering which helped us develop the skills of an independent learner.

Posted: Thursday October 29, 2020

Terracotta Warriors

Year 7 students took up the challenge to create miniature clay warriors.

Posted: Thursday October 29, 2020

A message from the Principal

Posted: Thursday October 29, 2020

Am I Doing This Right?

Learning new skills, persevering and questioning.

Posted: Thursday October 29, 2020

Touch

Balmacewen has 7 teams participating in the Oval Junior Competition this term

Posted: Thursday October 29, 2020

Year 8 News

Kia ora year 8 Whanau

Posted: Thursday October 29, 2020

2020 - what a year!

While most of us are looking forward to the end of 2020, it is a time to reflect on how lucky we are to be at school, playing sport, attending events and socialising while many other countries are still living with restrictions and lock downs. Written as part of our class speech competition we would like to share Tila's speech on the positives of 2020.

Posted: Thursday October 29, 2020