Friday, August 27

A netball team


Our A netball team won the Primary B Grade championship cup recently by beating Ngatimoti 11-4. Thankyou to Celia who did a wonderful job of coaching the girls this year. Most of our players are Year 6 or 7 which means they will back again next year and hopefully they will collect more trophies!

Friday, August 13

Go the All Blacks!!




Miss R went down to Christchurch to watch the All Blacks play Australia at the weekend. She managed to take these photos of the All Black haka and Richie having a chat with the referee!
The All Blacks won 20-10 which meant they retained the Bledisloe Cup for another year....now we just need the Rugby World Cup!!

Gym Pyramids

We are gearing up for the Gym Festival .. the girls are practising their pyramids for the B grade event next week. They have a compulsory pyramid that they have to perform as well as create their "own" one. They will be judged our of 5 on the day. Good luck girls!

Thursday, August 12

Soccer coaching

George the soccer coach came over from Nelson this week to teach us some basic soccer skills. He made us practise dodging between players and then we played a few games that focused on ball control and looking for support players while still dribbling the ball.
We look forward to George coming again next week!

I love the Knight Life


At the end of Term 2 the senior school were invited to the Memorial Hall to watch a school production called "I Love the Knight Life" which was performed my students from Parklands School. We got to travel into town on the school bus which was exciting! The show was very good, there are lots of talented actors and actresses in Motueka!

Volleyball

Josh the volleyball coach came in this week to teach us some basic skills. We have two year 6 volleyball teams who play after school on Wednesday nights. Josh showed us how to do a forearm pass and how to volley correctly. Josh plays for the New Zealand Volleyball team (even though he has Canadian accent!) and plays in competitions all around the world.

Apple Juice Test

Dean and Riley read a story recently called 'The Apple Juice Test". We thought it would be a great idea to make our own juice using a special juicing machine so we could decide for oursleves which tasted nicer....apple and carrot juice or apple and grape juice.
Lisa helped the boys to cut up the apple and carrots into pieces and to use the juicer and the verdict was.....APPLE AND GRAPE juice tasted the best!!
Thankyou to Chrissie for the loan of her Juicing machine