Triathlon 2017

What a great event we had on Wednesday 22nd March! It was our very own triathlon. A big thank you to the PTA for providing the delicious food on offer and to Mr Holloway for designing and organising the event.

It was good to see so many people out and supporting their children and our school at an event that also supports a healthy, balanced lifestyle.

The monies that were raised are going to help us to build our very own bike track so that next year the kids will be able to use the track to bike and run on. The track will also be used throughout the year. 

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Check out the great photos that were taken by Mrs Pacheco...

It was great to have the school councillors helping out

You needed to quick at getting changed after the swim!

There were some books for sale to help you enjoy reading as well as help to raise some money for our library! 

There was lots of delicious food for sale!

We needed lots of help with organising everything.

Swimming

We have had six weeks of swimming and what a wonderful time everyone has had, cooling off in our school pool and developing their water skills at the same time. 
Mr Lister, our caretaker posts the temperature every day, which has been really interesting and coincided with our maths focus on Time, at the start of the year. The temperature was never below 20 degrees when we swam and 29 degrees was the hottest it got(more like a warm bath really)!!!
It has been really great to see such a lot of resilience and positivity towards learning to swim and we have seen lots of effort and willingness to give things a go!!! This has resulted in some great improvement.
Although it was too wet for our actual swimming sports day, we all had a lot of fun on our practice days, and it gave the children some experience of how it would look and feel. Here are some photos showing how much fun we had!

Making it look easy!

In line ready to give it their best.

Mrs Pacheco celebrating a race well swum.

One of our mermaids.

Watching the action.

Ready! Set! Go!

Does my hair look alright?

Cyrus relaxing after his race!

Backstroke style.

WELCOME TO 2 0 1 7

Kia ora whanau and friends! We have had a great start to our year. We welcome Mrs Mary Medcalf and Mrs Rosalie Stevens to the teaching team. We know they will love working with your children this year.

Our big inquiry this term is about "HABITAT". We are using our visit to the rocky shore to get us thinking about what a habitat is and what creatures need to live there. Click on the link below to see a youtube clip...

Rocky shore

The Redwoods

The Redwoods 

Te Mata Peak
(click on title to follow the link)

Our final trip as well as our BIG DAY OUT was a great success. There was  a lot of resilience required as we made our way up and down the hills, making our way to the shady redwood forest. 

We had been told of the legend of Rongokako - the sleeping giant and how Te Mata peak came to be formed. 

There was an expedition to to the top by some intrepid trampers who had to all write an application to Mrs Dingle to say why they would like to do it.

For the activities the teachers took different activities. Mrs Pacheco did some drawing, Mr Hodgetts went for a walk and looked at the fossils along the way and Mrs Makene made bridges and shelters. 

The weather was perfect and it was nice and cool playing in amongst the trees- we even saw some tuis and piwakawaka.

Thanks again to the parents who took transport and helped witth supervision - we can't do these things without you.

Manaaki whenua, manaaki tangata, haere whakamua 

Care for the land, care for people, go forward.