Kaikoura Suburban School

2012 Year 6′s

admin — Sun, 05 Feb 2012 10:21:19 +0000

On Monday our wonderful 2012 Fyffe Force Leaders took on their first challenge to raise the school flag, they demonstrated great team work and quite a bit of fun for all of us!

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.

Great start team!

admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 07:03:07 +0000

Shearwaters Thinkery is certainly going to be an exciting and dynamic place this year!
We started with a bang today – some great thinking and commitment to share and help each other succeed.
Thinkery
For all the things I hear and see
I have this thing called a memory.
It holds on fast to what I wish,
To anything quite usefullish,
And everything else, regrettably,
gets lost in my forgettory.

Welcome back to a year of Fun learning in 2012

admin — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 22:11:57 +0000

The school year starts on Monday 30 January at 9am with a fun filled curriculum. We are looking forward to seeing the friendly faces of our Fyffe Force learners and all our new students for 2012.
The staff have just returned from a Palmerston North conference and are very enthusiastic with some great new ideas that will enhance and grow our learning.
Stationary lists are available at Kaikoura Paper Plus and uniforms at Postie Plus.
Any other enquiries please feel free to call us at school or come and see us.
We are all looking forward to another stunning year.
M Spencer
Principal

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year

admin — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:38:32 +0000

Merry Christmas to all our families and to the wider community. Another year has passed which has left us valuing our school values that we believe make us life long learners. We warmly welcomed many friends from Christchurch and then another unique event, our school was closed due to snow.
We had many opportunities to celebrate throughout the year: 3 very successful inquiry units – technology, Planet Earth and Beyond and the third Globalisation, 5 fully trained teaching staff and 2 teacher aides to support and grow the learning of our children, cultural and sporting successes and a group of stunning students whose achievement levels continue to grow.
We look forward to 2012 continuing with the same staffing, getting started with introducing Multiple Intelligence and discovering ways to become a sustainable learner/person/athlete/thinker, discussion with Ministry of Education with options re new space and many cultural activities.
If any new families would like to contact the school please feel free to email or phone and leave a message.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

Merry Christmas to you all.

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

Athletics day in Kaikoura

admin — Sat, 19 Nov 2011 21:00:00 +0000

Congratulations to all on a great day at Kaikoura’s inter school athletics day. Following are the overall champions in each of the year groups.

Kaikoura District Primary Schools’ Athletics Sports, held on Monday 14 November, 2011
1st, 2nd and 3rd placings in year groups

Year 1 girls:
1st Madacin Archbold, St J (23 points), 2nd Maia Kahu, KPS (14), 3rd Kelis Rarere, Hapuku (10).

Year 1 boys:
1st Akeem Saidy, Sub (10), 2nd= Tane Hippolite-Poharama , Hap, & Issiah Niblett, St J (9)

Year 2 girls:
1st Alice Fissenden, St J (16), 2nd Siara Harmon, St J (11), 3rd Minami Te Moananui, St J (9)

Year 2 boys:
1st Ethan Walker, LD (23), 2nd= Nakutera Kahu, KPS, Oliver Burra, Sub, Blake Timms, Sub, & Alex Roberts, Sub (6)

Year 3 girls:
1st Samantha Irvine, Sub (25), 2nd Anna Schmidgall, Sub (8), 3rd Tyliah Tawha-Falwasser, KPS (6)

Year 3 boys:
1st Jacob Ferris, KPS (17), 2nd Gus Perkins, LD (10), 3rd Reuben Lyons, Sub (8)

Year 4 girls:
1st Annalise Graham, LD (22), 2nd Shayvaria Sullivan, Hap (11), 3rd Alexis Harmon , St J (10)
Year 4 boys:
1st Jaden McHerron, St J (20), 2nd Ben Norton, KPS (10), 3rd Kayden Hole-Manawatu, KPS (8)

Year 5 girls:
1st Samantha Fissenden, St J (16), 2nd= Grace Fissenden, St J & Jade Hole, KPS (11)
Year 5 boys:
1st Karn Marshall, KPS (26), 2nd Grayson Flavell, KPS (18), 3rd Dartell Rarere, Hap (10)

Year 6 girls:
1st Savannah Hole-Manawatu, KPS (12), 2nd Zoe Reader, Sub (11), 3rd Dakota Frisby-Rawson, KPS (10)
Year 6 boys:
1st Adam Ford, St J (15), 2nd Broc O’Connor, St J (14), 3rd Tuhawaiki McDonald, KPS (8)

Inter-school T-Ball tournament

admin — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:42:44 +0000

A responsive text written by James Sutherland on the inter-school T-ball.

On Tuesday the 8th of November at Kaikoura Primary School we had a inter-school T-ball Tournament. Our team was called Suburban Strikers.

The first match was against St Josephs Saints. My team, the Strikers, got off to a good start with Allie achieving a home run!Then later it was my turn to bat. I swung my bat and the softball went far, far away. I scored a home run! The Strikers went on to win the second and third innings 23 – 11.

The second match was a challenge it was against the Kaikoura Crackers. We thought we had it easy, but no way! The star player of the match was Kahn. One little mistake and you were in trouble! The Crackers were too hard, we lost 28-19.

Kaikoura Crunchers were next in line. This match was a very fast paced match, far throws, lots of catches, quick outs and home runs! My highlight of that match was a home run because the opposition backstop dropped the softball. We lost but only by 32-28.

The last match of the day was against the Inlanders. Wow we really set our eyes on a victory. The Strikers had a very practiced combination. Felix and I were in the diamond and Uriah at first base. We won the match 27-21.

I wish I could of got one more match at this amazing event because it was a very enjoyable event.

By James Sutherland.

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