Go Paroa

Good luck to our Rippa rugby team who are up in Wellington playing in the nationals this week!!

Milk for everyone!

A bit of excitement at school today as we recieved our first lot of milk from the Fonterra Milk for Schools programme. The children were very happy slurping away at their milk while doing some silent reading!

What a brilliant milk monitor we have too, thanks Harry! Also a big thanks to Emma and Trinity for your wonderful demonstrations in folding the cartons to be recycled!

Hanmer Springs camp

Wow, what an amazing time we had in Hanmer Springs last week for our class camp!

We had such a fun time with Huntley and Alex from Activity Hanmer. They took us Orienteering, Mountain Biking, Tree Climbing and we had a go at the Mission Impossible challenges. I even climbed a tree, and I'm really not a fan of heights!!

We also had a fantastic time at the hot pools. My favourite was the Super Bowl!!

A huge thank you to all the parents that came along to help out, camp would not of been possible without you!

National Anthem

If you have a Fisher and Paykel washing machine at home then have a go at this to hear the National Anthem...

Before you start:
The machine must be turned on at the wall switch, but off at the machine.
Press and hold the Advance button, and press the Power button.
Push and hold the Water Temp Up button for 2 seconds.
The tune will begin to play!

To change the tune:
Press and hold the Water Level Up button for 2 seconds.
Then hold the Water Temp Up button for 2 seconds.
A new tune will begin to play.

You can scroll through three songs which are the National anthems for NZ, Australia, and the USA.

To cancel the programme and return to normal settings, turn the power off at the wall switch.

Very exciting day at school on Friday... We ended book week with a bang and had a fantastic dress up day! The kids and teachers all looked amazing as their favourite book characters!

Cycle Safety

On Monday two police officers came to school to teach us about cycle safety.

We had slow races and did an obstacle course that had zigzags, seesaws and a ladder that we had to go over on our bikes.

We learnt about road rules, using hand signals, how to wear our helmets properly, how to check our bikes are safe to ride (check with a M), legal requirements for our bikes, and how to safely ride our bike on the road.

We learnt it is important to always wear our helmets because the doctor can't fix your brain like they can fix a broken bone.

Thank you to the police officers for coming and helping us learn how to be safe on our bikes!! We had an awesome day and learnt lots of new things.

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Red Puppy Pet Day

Last Friday we had a pet day to raise money for the Red Puppy Appeal. We brought our pets to school and had a parade.

There were heaps of intelligent animals, some of them even talked.

There were lots of dogs and the teachers made an obstacle course for them to play on.


We had an epic day.

Room 6

What a stunning day we had yesterday for our School Athletics at Anzac park. Here are a few snaps from our day with some that show our fantastic shot put techniques!

What a wonderful afternoon it was today!! We had house sports and the school leaders did such a fantastic job running the sports and leading their teams... Job well done!

Having a close look at a baby greyboy shark!!

What a fantastic start to athletics practice...

This week we have had some Softball coaching with Andy. We have learnt how to throw and catch and we will learn some more skills in fielding and batting later on in the week!

What an awesome time we had throwing soaking wet sponges at the staff to raise money for the Relay for Life!! Mahe Drysdale even joined in on the action...

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