National Jandal Day

We celebrated the great work of our local Surf Lifeguards on Thursday by supporting National Jandal Day. Since 1910, Surf Lifeguards have been patrolling our beaches in their jandals.

For more information, have a look at the Surf Lifesaving New Zealand website or the National Jandal Day page on Facebook.

We decorated our jandals creatively and showed them off in a parade. The Teachers made some tough decisions in awarding the Junior School jandal prize to Kayden, and the Senior School's to Max. Well done boys, some excellent creating, innovating and imagining there!

Kereru Champions

The Rockets had an incredibly successful day running at the Kereru Cross Country yesterday. We were so excited to get up into the Hawke's Bay hills and show off our long distance running skills and tactics! We were so thrilled having three champions in the class. Jack won the Year 2 boy's race, Lorna came second in the Year 1 race, and Ocean came third in the Year 2 race. Wow Champions! Well done we are so proud of you! All the Rockets had big smiles on their faces on the way home. Marvin was so thrilled and proud of everyone's efforts. Go team!

Jack's Adventures

Kate and I went to the snow it was fun.

Jack.


Jack posted this himself on the blog this morning, with lots of Rockets watching and helping. Jack's Mum said that Kate and Jack got to play in the snow past Waiwhare on the Napier- Taihape Road and then they brought a ute load of snow home and made a snowman at the front gate. Jack said that he put some snow in his sandpit! Great effort Jack.

Jack wrote a story about Goldilocks

Where in the world is ..?

We have been struck with Wonderment and Awe when looking at our Blog's statistics. We have now had people from 15 countries reading about our learning. We are always so excited in the morning to see if we have any new countries to pin on our map. Here are Jack and Ocean after checking out the latest additions.

The Big Fat Gorilla (and Mr O' D)

We had a great time last week, when Mr O'D came in to teach us one of his favourite games. It's now our favourite game!
Its all about a bit fat Gorilla, down in the jungle...