WEEK 8 has been a very interesting week with lots of new learning.

The week started with a great event organised by Mrs Dykstra: TOP TEAM: 
MONDAY
We were sorted into groups and had to rotate around 11 different stations which had challenging activities to do.

WELL DONE to all of the house captains and School council members who helped throughout the day. 
Huge congratulations go to George for his outstanding efforts with everyone throughout the day. He received a Principals Award for his work. 

TUESDAY:

TEACHERS: dressed up as Famous people who have come across challenge in their lives. 
Mrs Ewen and Miss Love were Sir Ed Hillary and Tenzing Norgay. What were the challenges that they had during their lives. This was a great ignition to our new inquiry. More about this as the term passes. 

DUATHLON: On Monday, we have 4 students from Room 19 who are competing in the Canterbury Duathlon at Ruapuna Speedway. GOOD LUCK to George, Daniel, MIchael F and Katie. 


We watched an awesome short clip on Friday. Check it out: What do you think it is about?




WRITING: We have been writing letters which are similar to those from the book: "The Day the Crayons Quit"

READ SOME OF THEM IN THE NEXT POST

WEEK 7

Phew another busy week for us all:

Monday: Room 19 welcomed our new student teacher in the class Her name is Jordyn Love and she will be working with us until the end of week 6. 
CBHS students were out at the school for another session. We love having the boys here to coach us and it is great to get out there amongst the other senior students and lay with them. 

DUATHLON: Awesome day was had with this event. Many thanks to the parents who were able to give up their time to help s out. We really appreciate it. Well done on the great effort that you put into your event. Official results will be out very soon. 

WEDNESDAY: New reliever in the class: Miss Cordes. 

THURSDAY: West Zone swimming for 18 students; including the following from Room 19. 

Where did you get boys????

Many thanks to the PTA for the awesome new swimming caps. They stand out and made it easy for us to follow the students int he school. 

Week 6

Wow week 6, and it doesn't seem like we have only just got back from camp. The weeks are flying by and they are very full with everything we have happening. 

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CBHS: We began the week with CBHS students coming in again and coaching us for different sports. It is great to see the way everyone participates with these sessions. We have two more to go next week. 

Congratulations to Katie: After an exhausting camp and with it being her birthday, Katie arrived home on Friday and went straight off to a swim meet. She earned herself 3 ribbons, a couple of them for personal bests. Wow, you are a super star Katie. 

Senior School Swimming Sports: Many thanks to our wonderful parents for their help. We could not do these events without you support. Well done to all of the students for going out their and giving it  go. We are really proud of what you have achieved. We have our West Zone happening on Thursday 15th March at Jellie Park. We have 18 students competing in the afternoon. Good Luck to all of you, including the students from Room 19, Charmaine, Katie, Grace, George and Illia. 

We had a chance to complete a couple of challenges this week. First one was seeing how many pebbles we could move from one cup into another one, without using our hands. We were able to use a straw. Check out the short video clip. 

FRIDAY CHALLENGE: We set ourselves up into groups of 4-5 and we were given the task pf building a tower for our new basketball to sit on. We had to have the tower be able to hold the basketball up for 20 seconds. We all began by just wrapping our basketball up in newspaper, we need to make sure that we read our instructions correctly. Check out some of the towers that we built. 

The Winning team: Their tower held their ball for over 20 seconds. 

BUDDY CLASS: Room 10 are our buddy class. We got to meet up with them this week before we went along to the School assembly. We were very happy to be working alongside other new students. We are looking forward to getting to know them more. 

 HOUSE CAPTAINS at Assembly. 

More Camp Photos

CAMP PHOTOS

NEXT WEEK

Next week is a busy week sports wise. We need parental support and help for two different events. One very important event is the Senior School Duathlon which takes place on Tuesday. A letter will be sent home about this tonight.

Please also see the message below.

Dear whanau/families
Our whole school Top Team event takes place on Monday 19th March and we need lots of parent help. There are 11 activities and we need one parent to supervise at each activity. There are three time slots to choose from, or you may supervise more than one time slot if you are able Below is a timetable of events: TIME ROOMS INVOLVED 9.00-10.30 17, 13, 7, 14, 8, 15, 18, 16 11.00-12.30 2, 6, 3, 11, 20, 9 1.30-3.00 1, 12, 19, 10, 4, 5

WEEK 6

We have got a very busy week ahead of us. 

Monday: CBHS students are coming in for coaching. 
Tuesday: E Asttle Writing sample
Wednesday: Senior School Swimming Sports at Jellie Park Pool. Please make sure that you have your togs and swimming towel. More information will be sent home regarding this event early in the week.
Thursday: CBHS coaching again. Assembly, Meeting our new student teacher who will be with us from week 7 until the end of the term.
Friday: Orchestra and Choir

 Mt Hutt is in the background.

Katie had her birthday on our last day of camp. We got to decorate cute biscuits that Katie and her mum had baked. 

Thank you to all of our fantastic parents for their super help during camp, Rebecca, Trevor, Roy, Katie, Dani, Rochelle and Dean. We really appreciate all of you help and guidance. 
Also a huge thank you to parents for helping make it worthwhile, making sure that your child had the correct clothing and also for making us lovely meals and providing fruit and baking. It is all very much appreciated. 
Many thanks also to Jo Dudley to all of the organisation that goes into making a camp like this happen. 

There will be more about camp later this week.