Gymnastics

During the final week of term 2 we did gymnastics as part of our physical education unit. We split both the Kowhai and Kanuka class children into three groups where we focussed on ... 

- Jumping and landing

- Balance

- Roly Polys. 

We had a lot of fun during gymnastics and got to use some new equipment including a spring board, wedge mat, and the balance beam. 

Check out our photos of us learning how to roly poly ...

Tarquin could even stand up after doing a roly poly.
Well done Tarquin!

                  

  What were the important things to remember when doing a roly poly?

Who can remember the important things to remember when jumping and landing?

What did we have to do to keep our balance along the balance beam?

Last day of term 2

Silly Miss Grant went home for the holidays and forgot her computer charger! Apologies for not getting these photos up earlier. 

On the last day of school we had a Friday Funday! It started with a shared lunch in the multi-purpose room and then we were split into groups throughout the school and we all completed a bp challenge. We had to make clothing out of newspaper!

The kanuka children all worked very well in their teams! Some of them even got to be models.

Well done to Savana and Jake's teams who made the top 5!! And a special congratulations to Savana's team who won!

After the winners were announced we had a special end of term assembly to farewell Miss Sinnamon and Miss Young! We are going to miss seeing these lovely teachers around the school! Good luck for your new adventures! Miss Grant will miss working with you both.

All of the beautiful models in their well designed outfits with Ezra our guest judge.

Leadership Games

Yesterday we talked about heroes and that heroes are also leaders! 
Firefighters and police officers are heroes and leaders in our community because ...

- they save people

- they rescue people

- they are responsible

- they are kind

- they are caring

- they are brave

- they are helpful

We talked about how we could be leaders at school and at home.
Then we did some team challenges where we had to work together and help others. 
Here are some photos of us playing 'human knots'...

The first time we did this it was quite hard but once we learnt to listen, work together and help others it was really easy! We have some great leaders in the Kanuka class! 

Police Visit

On Tuesday we were lucky to have ANOTHER local hero visit us at school! Tania a police woman from Balclutha came to visit us and told us all about how she became a police officer and what she does to help people. 
Here are our photos ...

Tania talking to the Kowhai and Kanuka classes. 

We had lots of questions to ask about being in the police

A police vest is very heavy!! 

There are lots of things attached to a police vest, like pepper spray, handcuffs, and a torch, 

We got to see the police baton

Elliot got to try on the police vest

Cam got to dress in a police jacket.
Why does the police jacket need to be so bright?

Don't they make great police officers?

Ollie would love to be a police officer when he is older!
He brought along his very own police hat for a photo.

Check out the police car!

We got to hear the sirens go and see the lights flash!

It was very loud!

Thank you for coming to visit us! We loved meeting our local heroes!