All the children and parents had a fun day learning about Surf Safety and being Sunsmart. An enthusiastic group of lifeguards guided us through many fun learning experiences.
This is what we learned.

Sunsmart Rules

Slip on a long sleeve t shirt.
Slop on some sunscreen.
Slap on a hat.
Wrap on sunglasses.
Slurp up some water.
Slide into the shade.

10 Surf Safety Rules

1. Have an adult watch over you.
2. Be sunsmart.
3. If in doubt stay out.
4. Swim between the flags.
5. Never surf or swim alone.
6. Listen to life guards advice.
7. Consider other surf users.
8. Never swim or surf when tired or cold.
9. Always use correct and safe equipment.
10. Learn to recognise where rips are.

What a wonderful afternoon we had. We are very lucky to have such an awesome playhouse in our school. Thank you so much to all the teachers and parents involved in designing and making our fantastic playhouse.
Enjoy!!

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We have had a wonderful time with Steve learning how to play tennis. We have enjoyed learning new skills and games.

Hello and welcome to Room 9.
We have had a busy start to the Term.
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We have created some lovely pictures. Can you tell the children?

What a busy week we have had becoming more aware of how to care for our environment.
We have had lunch in the Native Bush, went on a bush walk to the Puketoki Reserve and on Friday we are having a beach clean up at Omokoroa.

We have had fun over the last two weeks learning about torches, simple circuits and electricity.

We have made bulbs light up and had fun making a buzzer game with Mr van Gorp.

The Life Education Van is coming to school this week. We are going to learn about the circulatory system.

As a lead up, Miss King, our student teacher has been doing a lot of fun activities with us.

We have completed an organ puzzle and had fun cutting up chicken and ox hearts. Most of us loved it but some did have sensitive stomachs.

Today we were very lucky to have a wonderful marae experience. We were welcomed on to the Tutereinga Marae at Te Puna.
After our welcome we were given some tasty kai and then shown how to weave a flax (harakeke) flower. As you can see we had a great time.
Harold taught us about marae protocol and the history of the Tutereinga Marae.
After that it was waiata time. Sarah taught us some new songs and the boys were given the opportunity to learn the haka, which they performed very enthusiastically.

We have been studying The Seven Stars of Matariki. One way of celebrating the Maori New Year is to fly kites, so we decided to make our own kites.
We had a lot of fun.
Unfortunately, the wind was not good for kite flying so only a few kites flew really well. However, we did have fun running around trying to get them to fly.

It was a beautiful day for a cross country. The children performed very well despite it being very chilly. All the adults who attended were wrapped up warmly and were rewarded by watching many closely fought battles on the track.
A fantastic effort by all those children who took part.
Well Done!!!