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The Fun Week Back In The Pukeko Class!!!!

admin — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:34:11 +0000

The pukeko student’s have had a wonderful 1st week back at school!
We’ve been writing bio poems about ourselves, we really enjoyed that with lots of creativity. We’ve also been writing poems including personification which is a non human doing a person action eg. the tree waved in the cool breeze. For fitness we’ve been running around and then we’ve been taking our heart beats and pulse. After we had our data we made a stem and leaf graph with our resting pulse and our energetic pulse which was a challenge, but fun.
By fellow Pukekos Allie Miller and James Sutherland.

Shearwaters Camp

admin — Sun, 11 Dec 2011 04:39:23 +0000

This year Shearwaters class stayed at The Point Woolshed!
The team were incredible!
The class worked with The Hutton’s Shearwater Charitable Trust, Department of Conservation and Trees for Travellers. The weather was incredibly hot but that didn’t stop all the students walking miles and working hard.
Thank you so much to Peter and Gwenda for allowing us to use their amazing woolshed, Lindsay Rowe for spending time and knowledge with us, Brett and Dave for providing water, humour and knowledge, Sarah for providing such detailed knowledge of the past at Fyffe House and all of our amazing parents for making our camp so successful!

Shearwater Camp 2011

Mistletoe Bay rocks!

admin — Fri, 09 Dec 2011 22:03:45 +0000

Pukeko class had 3 magic days at Mistletoe Bay last week. The sun shone, the optimists scooted across the water, the kayaks glided passed the sites, sneakers pounded the walking tracks, children busy preparing yummy food, exploring the beach for crabs and critters, relaxing in our homely whares, camp fires on the beach, wharf jumping in to the depths of the sea and much more.
Thank you to Jonathan for supporting our camp, Richard de Hamel who came over from Nelson to talk about beach life and some games, the parents who were great always willingly to help and support the activities and mostly the children who were always E for excellent.

Wharf jumping

Sailing

Kayaking

Kaikoura Suburban School 135 years old.

admin — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 05:33:09 +0000

The staff and students celebrated the special occasion of the school turning 135 years old with some of our grandparents, family and friends. The students had the opportunity to ask our visitors questions about school life from years gone by. We had a few ex students and one family that has had 4 generations go through the school.
The celebration was completed with cake and coffee.

Pukeko class

Fantails class

Fantail class

Kea class

Shearwater class

Congratulations Kaikoura Suburban School

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 23:44:51 +0000

Kim Foy has just released the results of the interschool Rugby World Cup competition. The competition consisted of creating a leaning tower of pisa, gumboot throwing and shooting hoops.
It was great to read that we were the overall winners with 1st and 2nd in the leaning tower of pisa, 2nd in shooting hoop competition and 3rd in the gumboot throw.
Thanks Sport Tasman for organising such a fun event and congratulations to all schools.

Bronze medal for Kaikoura Suburban

admin — Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:41:38 +0000

Stacey, Cody, Shaydon joined by Daniel from KPS travelled to Blenheim on Monday 19 Sept to compete in Blenheim Zone Chess Championships.
The group played 7 games. Gathering the results showed that the team won BRONZE.
We are very proud of the team as a couple of them had only just started playing recently. Credit must go to Alistair McNaughton and Catherine McNaughton for coaching and teaching the team.
Well done.

The team

The Treaty of Waitangi

admin — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 09:26:20 +0000

Treaty of Waitangi
As part of our Globalisation Inquiry we have all been learning about New Zealand history and places. The Treaty of Waitangi is a very important part of past, present and future New Zealand. It is therefore very important that we all have some understanding of how and why events took place. To help make this more possible for all the students The Treaty of Waitangi was brought to school by Year 6 students and teachers last week. Enjoy the attached movie!

Cross Country at Lynton Downs School

admin — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 19:09:28 +0000

What a fabulous day we had at Lynton Downs School on Thursday 11 August. We were so proud of our Fyffe Force learners running and participating so well.
A huge thank you to Mrs Blue, Miss Wilson and their whole school community. It was a well organised day.
See results below:

Kaikoura District Cross Country Results
Held at Lynton Downs School Thursday 11 August 2011

Key: KKPS = Kaikoura Primary School; KKS = Kaikoura Suburban; STJ = St Joseph’s; HAP = Hapuku; LD = Lynton Downs; WB = Woodbank; KKHS = Kaikoura High School; HS = Home-schooled
1st 2nd 3rd
Yr 1 Girls Liberty Perkins LD Blaise Lyons KKS Francine Presado STJ
Yr 1 Boys Sacha Barker KKPS Issiah Niblett STJ Tyler Perry KKS

Yr 2 Girls Rose Armstrong KKS Jessica Pattison STJ Kailani Ngawhau HS
Yr 2 Boys Xavier Davis KKPS Ethan Walker LD Oliver Burra KKS

Yr 3 Girls Elyse Sutton STJ Samantha Irvine KKS Anna Schmidgall KKS
Yr 3 Boys Fergus Perkins LD Makhaleo Endacott KKPS Reuben Lyons KKS

Yr 4 Girls Ruby Armstrong KKS Danielle Pattison STJ Steffi Burra KKS
Yr 4 Boys Jaden Mcherron STJ Kayden Hole-Manawatu KKPS William Rattray KKPS

Yr 5 Girls Allie Miller KKS Saraya Brown STJ Jade Hole KKPS
Yr 5 Boys Dartell Rarere HAP Karn Marshall KKPS Grayson Flavell KKPS

Yr 6 Girls Dee Clark KKPS Helena Bowater STJ Savannah Hole-Manawatu KKPS
Yr 6 Boys Max Simpson STJ Adam Ford STJ Broc O’Conner STJ

Yr 7 Girls McKenzie Baker-Flynn STJ Claudia McHerron STJ Anna Pacey STJ
Yr 7 Boys Jake Knowles KKHS Anton Schroder STJ William Bartrum STJ

Yr 8 Girls Neroli Lancaster STJ Hannah Spencer KKHS Jessie Vaughan KKHS
Yr 8 Boys Harry Rattray KKHS Jake Calvert STJ Oceon Grady KKHS

Target wall and asphalt

admin — Thu, 04 Aug 2011 04:06:43 +0000

Wow what a great week we’ve had with our new area. Great work Kevin and Evan who designed and built our target wall and Fulton Hogan for laying the asphalt.
This has provided lots of extra space for our students. This has been timely with the purchasing of our new scooters and skateboards.

New skateboard and scooters on new asphalt beside new target wall

We are loving our new area!

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Residual.

admin — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:27:25 +0000

Jen, from Enviroschools, and Ralph Hogan came and spoke to the Pukeko class about the importance of reducing, reusing and recycling our rubbish to prevent too much residual waste (landfill waste).
We looked at the pyramid of rubbish and identified the important layer, the bottom layer, was to reduce the amount of packaging. We found that by buying in bulk we can reduce our packaging. Often we identified that the packaging could be reused and or recycled.
We kept our rubbish from yesterday and found there was only one piece of rubbish we couldn’t recycle. This was the plastic wrappers that have the silver lining. See photo for examples. The museli bar wrapper at the bottom of the photo we can reuse as it is a clear plastic.

Quotes from the students sharing their new learning:
Allie reflected, “Silver plastic wrappers can’t be recycled or reused. We need to find some without.”
Felix reflected, “Kaikoura allows us to recycle most of our plastic.”
Katie reflected, “Reduce means to buy in bulk to reduce the amount of rubbish and to reduce the cost.”
Hannah H reflected, ” We need to reuse our packaging more eg. plant seedlings, water bottles, food storage..”
James reflected, “Reduce is the most part of the ‘Rubbish pyramid.”
Stacey reflected, “Kaikoura people should be strict with their recycling to prevent our landfills filling up.”

It would be exciting to see all of our rubbish that leaves our school go into the recyclable bins with no rubbish for the landfill!