Noo shows his skills

On Fridays we have Nicola Walker take students for music lessons.  There are singing, keyboard, ukelele and recorder lessons.

Noo attends keyboard lessons and this week he came and shared with us.   We were really impressed.

Hockey with Mike

Mike from Mid Canterbury Hockey will be teaching us some hockey skills.  Today we were making sure we had control of the sticks and balls.

To complete the session we had a game of "Rob the Nest".  This was quite tricky as everyone wanted to maintain speed, but sometimes speed meant they lost control of the ball.

EPro8 Challenge

So much excitement having 6 more kits for us to use.  These kits are like massive lego or mechano building kits - they have aluminium pipes, joiners and screws. In small groups we followed a plan to construct a pulley system that had to be at least 1.6m tall.  Some even managed to get their pulleys working!  Huge effort to think, collaborate, co-operate and build a design.

The photos say it all - everyone was busy and proud of their work. 

And here are our final products!

Gumboot Day

Squeals of joy and laughter could be heard from all activities run for Gumboot Day.  We had "Toss the Gumboot", "Target Practice" and "Over - Under with your boot" activities and we rotated round these activities with our buddy classes.  It was hard to get quality photos with all the gumboots flying!

Gumboot Day is a National day to raise funds for children that need counselling to have this service for free.  In our country there are many children struggling through life.  So like wearing gumboots in mud can be hard work, these children struggle to cope with learning.

Our school raised $136.

Football with Karen

We started off with fun games to warm up and boy did we need that as it was very frosty when we had our football sessions with Karen.  Once we were warm we were put into teams to have mini games.  Lots of fun.

Samoan Language Week

This week is international Samoan Language Week.

We are lucky to have a couple of Samoan students in our class and they can help us with some of the words or phrases in Samoan.

Talofa lava = hello

Fa'afetai = thank you

Mālo = well done

Afio mai = welcome

In class we looked at some Samoan art and then designed our own using traditional patterns.  Here are a few of the finished art works.

Netball Skills

We are having some sessions with Natalie from Mid Canterbury Netball for 3 Wednesdays.  Natalie gave us lots of challenges to complete.  The warm up challenge was all about jumping and she managed to trick most of our class quite easily.

In the video clips you will see us attempting more ball skill challenges - some far too hard and some of our class found some way too easy! Ask your child if they can show you some of the challenges.