Room 6, 7 and 8 children have returned from spending an overnight camp at Blair Lodge. This was a great place to visit and provided lots of challenging fun activities for all the five and six year olds. It wouldn’t have been possible without the wonderful support of so many parents. Thank you everyone.
On the first day children had the chance to ride BMX bikes on the challenging track. They also did archery, the confidence course, games and sports and a scavenger hunt. Children enjoyed creating art works. In the afternoon, we walked to a magnificent waterfall and had a cool swim.
In the evening, after a delicious dinner we sang songs to the parents. Everyone slept in cabins, a lodge, a games room or tents.
The next day we visited the Katikati museum and the Katikati Bird Gardens. Everyone liked the relaxing time and riding on the golf cart.
We are all looking forward to going on our next big adventure.
Below is a slide show showing children enjoying themselves, making friends, learning new things and meeting lots of challenges.
We have had a great start to the year in Room 8. The class is made up of 20 Year 2 children, with 11 girls and 9 boys. A special welcome to Hugo who has come from England and Jacob who has moved from Whangamata.
Children are keenly looking forward to going on an overnight camp at Blair Lodge at the beginning of March.
One of the things children have been enjoying is learning tennis skills from tennis coach Steve.
It’s been hot, so everyone loves going swimming. Having the air conditioning in our rooms has been wonderful.
The class has been very busy studying how to be fire wise. They have also been using box models to create some terrific fire engines. Children worked together and helped eachother. They studied pictures of engines and came up with some great designs. In the end they painted them the correct colours. Everyone has been amazed by how wonderfully they have turned out.
The three junior classes met together under the dome for a folk dancing afternoon with the parents. Everyone got involved, quickly learnt the steps and enjoyed trying the circle, partner and line dances. The cameras were capturing the fun moments. We are a very clever and coordinated lot. Maybe you’ll see us on ‘Dancing with the Stars ” when we are a bit older.
During the last week we have been learning about our bodies and how we breathe. We learnt about “Air to Live”. I think we have some doctors and nurses in our class. View the slide show below and see how clever we all are.
The whole school enjoyed a show put on by a theatre group. They taught us to “REDUCE, RECYCLE, REUSE and COMPOST” our waste and rubbish. It was such a well presented show and everyone listened attentively. Three of our school kids were in the “Waste Wise” show competition.
The first part of the term we spent studying sound and asked ourselves “How is sound made?” and “How do we hear sounds?” We made some very flash rubber band guitars.
Thank you to everyone who has helped their children to prepare a poem to present to the class. The children all expressed themselves well and a group excelled at the finals. Some photos of these children appear below.
The site has been cleared for the new junior playhouse. The children are keenly waiting for this to be built by Mr Power and his helpers. The plans have been drawn up and it looks like it will be a great place to play.
The whole school enjoyed a show put on by a theatre group. They taught us to “REDUCE, RECYCLE, REUSE and COMPOST” our waste and rubbish. It was such a well presented show and everyone listened attentively. Three of our school kids were in the “Waste Wise” show competition.
