I would like to take this time to thank those of you who have given up their time to help out with the preparation of the school pool. It is certainly reassuring to see the enthusiasm there is when all we have to do is ask.
I do believe Jackie has organised some painters for Saturday morning and I’m sure many hands would make light work!
If you would like to lend a hand, contact the school office.
On Wednesday 26 November 2008 Lacey, Neroli’s Mum, Donna, Rebecca and I planted the Native Garden. We planted the plants and watered them. We planted Kowhai trees, a Pohutakawa , Flax , Banks Penninsula Blue Grass, Carex and Cordylines.
Thanks to Mrs Hennessy and Ms Moffit, we have been given the results from the fabulous day we had on terrific Tuesday.
The results from the day:
5 year olds: Haruka 3rd in quoit, Samantha 1st in high jump; 3rd in 30m & 50m sprints, Chloe 1st in long jump, Hannah-Mae 1st in quoit throw and Laila 2nd in shot put. STEFFI 2ND= OVERALL 1st in shot put, 2nd in long jump, 3rd in quoit. Well done.
6 year olds: Ruby 2nd in high jump. Well done.
7 year olds: Allie 2nd in discus, ZOE 1ST OVERALL 1st in 30m & 50m sprint, 3rd in long jump & shot put and SOLA 2ND OVERALL 1st in high jump, 2nd in 50m sprint & long jump. Well done.
8 year olds: DIRK 1ST OVERALL 1st in 50m sprint & discus, 2nd in 70m sprint & high jump. Well done.
9 year olds: Kelly 1st in discus, 3rd in shot put, 50m & 70m sprints. Well done.
10 year olds: HANNAH 1ST PLACE OVERALL 1st in long jump, high jump & discus, 2nd in 70m sprint and 3rd in 50m sprint. Lacey 2nd in shot put. Rocky 3rd in long jump. Marohi 3rd in high jump. Well done.
11 year olds: Thomas 3rd in discus, Denver Jones 1st in 70m sprints, 2nd in 50m sprint and 3rd in long jump. 1ST PLACE OVERALL Tessa 1st in high jump, 2nd in long jump, 2nd= 70m sprint and 3rd in 50m sprint.
Congratulations to you all.
We recognised our successful overall champions from Tuesday efforts so took liberty to organise for 3 of our Fyffe Force learners to participate in the Marlborough Athletics held on Thursday 27 November. Viv kindly transported for us and wow we have the best 10 year old girl high jumper in Marlborough at our school – Hannah and the 2nd best 8 year old discus thrower at our school Dirk and Tessa who high jumped to be 4th best in Marlborough. Congratulations to you all.
On Tuesday 25th November we all had athletics. First all the schools ran the sprints. Then the 10 year old girls and boys went to high jump followed by shot put. Lastly we did long jump and discus.
Earlier this term room 3 went and saw Ben Foster. He is a Kaikoura sculptor. Ben entered his sculpture in ‘Art In The Garden’. He entered his sculpture called ‘Standstill’.
He demonstrated casting a bird out of pewter for us.
I really enjoyed his pictures of the ’Manu’ – Maori for sandfly. I also loved the pewter sculptures of lavendar and flowers out of his garden.
By Neroli
It is hard to believe a whole week has flown passed since our camp!
Mistletoe Bay was a fantastic spot. We were fortunate enough to spend it amongst good company, good weather, a number of different animals, good food and good accommodation.
I extend a huge thanks to Donna, Linda, Chris, Dean and Andrew for the support and help you gave to the children and myself. A truly terrific team.
We participated with a bush study and we now know the difference between manuka and kanuka. K = kind kanuka, M = mean manuka. We actively took part with photo orienteering and we looked at the tidal zones with a whole different meaning. Did you know that a limpets life consists of moving back and forwards on the same rock as the tide moves for its whole entire life. If you pull the limpet off its rock and put it on a different rock it become disorientated and will die! These limpets can live up to 80 years!
Another fabulous experience with a fabulous bunch of people. Thank you.
