School News
Term 3
The new term started well on Monday 19th. Already we’re well into our programme of work. Science is the key topic for this term.
Life Education
The last week of term had a health focus, with specially themed lessons in the Wellington Life Education caravan. The themes were: Year 1-2 – Air to Live; Year 3-4 – Heart Central; Year 4-5 Brainy Bunch; Year 7- 8 – Keeping a Balance.
Jenae, the Life Ed teacher, held two sessions with each group, these were then supported by activities back in class. Students also got to meet “Harold”, the Life Ed giraffe – an additional highlight to the learning. A parent session on Wednesday afternoon was well attended too.
Farewell to our visitors
We were very touched and pleased with the cards and comments shared at assembly on Thursday. Clifton Terrace Model School is leaving us now that their renovations are complete and were sharing some of their experiences with us. Some good friendships have formed between many students and staff from each school. We hope to maintain this relationship into the future.
Cross Country
We combined with Northland School for a Cross Country run recently to help us pick our runners for the Western Zone event. That was a fun morning and showed some serious runners from both our schools.
The day of the Westerns Zone race was very cold, but two of our runners, Michael B and Thomas H, braved the cold and won the day. They now go on as part of the WZ team to represent us in the Wellington Zone in mid June.
Great Illustrator
This week Year 5-8 students were fortunate to have a workshop with well known childrens illustrator, David Elliot. Some excellent advice was given and now students are working on black and white illustrations for some recent great writing that they’ve done.
