KELLY TARLTON VISIT

We had a school visit to Kelly Tarlton's to study animal habitats and their environment.

We also looked at the impact of climate change on these habitats.

The students had a wonderful time and enjoyed studying the different marine animals.

The obvious highlights were the penguins and the sharks - fortunately they weren't swimming together!

Look at me, I'm a fish

MORE INTENSIVE SWIM PHOTOS

INTENSIVE SWIM PROGRAMME

The Year 1-3 classes are attended an intensive swim programme at the Leisure Centre.

The programme runs for 4 days each week over a two week period. 

The student’s confidence, swimming ability and stroke correction improve significantly over this time.

In addition, and probably most importantly they are having fun. Take a look for yourself! 

TEDDY BEAR PICNIC

The school participated in a Teddy Bear Picnic where all the students could bring their teddies to join them for a shared lunch. There were mountains of delicious food for teddies and children to gobble up, we even had to send some of it back home. Even though the weather forced us to have the picnic inside everyone seemed to have enjoyed mufti day and bringing their favourite teddy to school, it was lots of fun.

Mountains of delicious food

Great fun

Picnicing with my teddy

and mine too.

GRANDPARENTS DAY

The whole school celebrated their grandparents (or elderly people) by having their own Grandparents Day.

In our class we had 6 grandparents and they shared what life was like during their schooling days. They talked about large class sizes, bossy teachers, and boys getting into mischief with ink pots and how to play marbles. The scariest of all was the talk about getting the cane or the strap - I bet that hurt!

What a lovely story

Some of our grandparents

BUNTOKU ORIGAMI

On Tuesday we had a visit from some of the exchange students from Buntoko High School. They spent a period with us showing how to do Japanese paper folding or origami. It was a lot of fun folding traditional cranes and other birds, although the boys enjoyed the paper darts most of all.

CLASS IN ACTION

The Ruru class in action during a normal day in the class.

Photos include individuals and groups working togther during several English lessons.

Don't they look great!

RURU CLASS

This year the Year 3 class choose the Ruru (Morepork) as their class name. They liked the facts that the Ruru was a small but noisy bird, I wasn't too sure about that connection! Maori folklore says that the Ruru also represents wisdom and safety. The class also liked these characteristics and agreed that the Ruru was the best NZ native bird to represent them in 2016.

A cute Ruru

ATHLETICS DAY

It was an awesome day for our school athletics. The sun was shining, but not too hot, school records tumbled and the Tui Class had fun, running, jumping and throwing.

I really liked the sportsmanship and encouragement that was given by the competitors to each other.

Of course iceblocks topped off a great day!