Winter Tournament

On Tuesday the 4th of September we travelled by bus to Saxton Field for Winter Tournament. There were lots of other schools there that were awesome at the sports. We were allowed to choose from two of six sports. The sports we could choose from were Netball, Hockey, Ki o Rahi, Rippa Rugby, Football and Boccia.

Netball
There were lots of people and everyone in my team got a chance to be each position. Out of A for attack, D for defence and C for centre, my favourite position was C. In this position you were allowed everywhere apart from the two semicircles on each short side of the rectangular court. The team I was in was pretty good. We only lost one game and we got two ties and two wins. I think I might play netball as a sport at school as well!

By Lexi

Hockey
One of the sports that I played was Hockey and I found it very amusing to play. We got to play six matches and we won three of them.The schools that we versed were Tahunanui School, Birchwood School, Enner Glynn School, Stoke School and Nelson Christian Academy. There were three teams from every school (including us). I was in team three. At the end of the day, I thought that it was a great experience.

By Reuben

Football
When we got to Saxton Field we had a little snack before walking to our first sport. When we arrived at the field we put our bags down on the hard soil. We thought that the ground would be easy to run on.We waddled like penguins on to our first field.Then we realised that the ground was a big mud bath. As you ran your shoes sank in trapping your nice clean shoes. When the games were over and our clean shoes had turned black, we walked back and had lunch.

By Asha

Ki o Rahi

My name is Charlie and I am going to talk to you about Ki o Rahi.  The aim of the game is to get the most points.  My favourite sport at Winter Tournament was Ki o Rahi.  You need a cylinder, a ball, rips, 7 sticks and lots of cones. You need two teams. One team tries to throw the ball at the cylinder.   If they hit it they get a point.  But there are three people on the island and they try to protect the cylinder.  The same team is also trying to hit the sticks around the edge of the game and they run over the bridge and put the ball down without getting ripped.  The team with the most points wins.

By Charlie

Rippa

At Winter Tournament I played Rippa Rugby.  When we all got to the spot that we
were playing on, we put our bags down and got in to the lines.  After we got in
line, we were given the straps and rips to put on. Then we all went to the
fields to play. When I got to the field that we were playing on, I took off
my shoes and socks because it was really muddy.The first team that we played
was Enner Glynn School.  After we started some of us were really muddy. Next we
versed the other Nayland Primary team. The last team that we played was Stoke School and most of us were really muddy. When we were finished we all got our bags and shoes on and went back to the netball courts to line up in our classes.  We all went back to school on the bus.

By Alizae

Tennis

For two Mondays this term we played tennis with Suzie. We played games. We played jackpot - that was my favourite.  I had the most money in my team. I scored $725. The skills we learnt were under hit and we learnt to do a rally. For the warm up at the start we had to rally over lines. Reuben and I got 20. It was really fun playing tennis with Suzie. We were only out for half an hour. I wish we could go back as it was fun. That week there was also a tennis day at Tahunanui Club for people that wanted to do it. Hopefully we can go back another day as it was really fantastic.

By Cyprus

Cross Country

This day was an exciting day! I am talking to you about Cross Country. After the short walk to Nayland College we got sorted into our house colours. Then we watched other student's races as we waited for ours to begin. For some of us it was a long wait! The order was five year olds, six year olds, seven year olds, eight year olds, nine year olds, ten year olds and finally eleven year olds. Two weeks later the competitive winners went to inter-schools. It was fun and I think everyone did great!

Tree Planting

Tree planting

On 6 August we went tree planting at Tahunanui Beach. To get there, we went on a bus. When we got off the bus we had to walk a little. The people talked to us and showed us a skink. Then he showed us how to do the planting. We had to dig a hole, then put the plant into the hole and fill the hole back up with sand.  Then we gently used out feet to flatten it. There were a couple of skinks and huhu grubs. In total our class planted 240 plants. We went to the beach and got some sticks to put around our plants to give insects and skinks a home. After all the plants were planted we went back onto the bus and went back to school. It was such a good day.

STRIKE WORKSHOP!!!

On Monday 28th, at 2:30 pm my class walked to the MPLC. We had to wait for Room 7  and Room 2.  All of a sudden loud noises like boom and bang went off! One noise was so loud I had to cover my ears. Moments later at 2 pm the two other class strolled out chatting and bragging all about it. As the other class, Room 5, sat down on the mat, Katie joined us. She played beat after beat. We had to follow the beat and I think that I nailed it. After some time Murray came in. We played 'Little boy, big boy'. It was great. It went on for 25 minutes but it felt like 2 hours. Next the bell rang and everybody raced to the classroom but I stayed back and helped tidy up. Then I picked up a notice and ran as fast as I could to the car.​

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Ride On!

A few days ago, some people from Ride On came to our school to teach us all the important things we all have to know about riding our bikes and keeping us safe. We all went into different groups with different classmates.

The first thing we all did was a helmet check. We put two fingers below our helmet, two fingers between our helmet straps and our cheek and two fingers between our chin. We had to make sure our helmets fit perfectly or else they'll be too tight or loose.

Secondly, we checked our bikes to see if we had flat tires or any unusual things. Then we did the 'M' check. The 'M' check was also to see if we had any unusual things or any flat tires.

The next thing we did was L.S.M. It stands for Look, Signal, Move. It is when you look behind you (just in case), you signal for the cars behind you and then you move. 

Soon after, we learnt how to stop safely when there is something in front of our bikes and we are about to run over them. Room 3 enjoyed it so much! We really wish that they would come back again! 

STRIKE!!! Monday 28 May

At 8:50 in the morning the whole school went to the Strike Performance at Broadgreen Intermediate and listened to their drums and watched their fire play. First we sorted out where the classrooms were going to sit. After finding where to sit, we sat quietly and waited for the Strike Performance to begin. Roughly about 5 minutes later three people came out and introduced themselves to us. Their names were Hannah, Murray and Katy. They did their first song that I think was called 'Terror'. Then after a couple more songs they started to ask volunteers to come up and have a go at beating the drums. They asked the school to tell them what teacher should go up and play the drums. Most people voted Ms Campbell and Mr Canning. Hannah called Ms Campbell 'Wonder Woman' and Mr Canning 'Superman'. So then they played the drums and to be honest it was pretty funny. After that I think it was the fire play. The fire play was dangerous but cool at the same time. Then they did a couple more songs until that finally finished. We all lined up then headed back to school to get on working.

By Keanu