School Swimming Carnival

School Swimming Carnival – Competitive

Monday 2^nd March

Years 4-8

Waikanae Pool

Your child has been sent home with a note today saying if they have entered the competitive or non-competitive races.

Competitive races will start at 10.15am with 8 year old FREESTYLE.

After the length races have finished, the children will join the rest of the school in novelty races, earning houses points and a free swim.

The non- competitive group  will be walking down to the Waikanae Pool leaving school at 11am.

They will be involved in novelty width races, earning house points, followed by a free swim.

Children will need to take with them lunch and a water bottle. The pool shop will not be open.

We will be returning to school by bus from 2.15pm.

Don't forget to put some sunblock on and wear a hat. Teachers will be taking additional sunblock down to the pools.

Launching our new 'Houses'

We all got dressed up and shouted our chants as loud as we could.  The launch of our new school 'houses' was a lot of fun.  It started off really cloudy and threatening rain and as soon as the cheering started the clouds parted and we were showered in sunlight instead.  Great team building and support.

And.........Kahurangi were the winners on the day!  Woo hoo!!

Kahurangi Blue and Kakariki Green

Kowhai Yellow and Whero Red

Whero and Kakariki competing in the tug of war.

Our juniors competing in a quiz 

Our first Soccer session

We had such a great time learning some soccer skills.  Josh and Curtis were awesome!  Every Tuesday from 2.15-2.50pm we will be learning more skills.  Some of the children have decided to bring their sneakers next time as the ball was a little hard to kick with bare feet.

Managing Self - Key Competency

Our New School 'Houses'

We have introduced a 'house' system where points will be gained for various activities throughout the year.  We are in 'KAHURANGI - BLUE'

Friends

Te Aramoana Newsletter

Te Aramoana Newsletter has been emailed home today (10/02/15) however here it is for your reference.

Mighty March Circus Carnival

The PTA have organised a dedicated website for information on the even taking place on March 21, 2015.

Click here

LIBRARY - Our first visit of the year

We enjoyed our first session at our wonderful library today.  

The children have all chosen books to read for the week.  With the use of our book bags, we will be able to keep the books in tip top condition.

Thank you Mrs Burns!

Unfortunately the noise level was a little high for the library.  

Next time we will need to remember our quiet library voice.

Calling all helpers for the Mighty March Circus Carnival

Please keep an eye out for notices in the school newsletter.

The PTA and some extra helpers are desperately trying to put everything together to make our Mighty March Circus Carnival on Saturday March 21 a great success.

For a school of over 400 children, our last count at the meeting was 12 and that included 5 staff members.

We'd love some more help and support.  If you are a FACEBOOK member, how about liking our Waikanae School PTA page as we are trying to post as much information as possible.  We are also in the process of developing a dedicated website for this 'Mighty March' and those being held in the future.

There will be Mighty March meetings in the school staffroom every Monday evening until the event starting 16 February.  All meetings begin at 7pm.

Meetings are usually a laugh and we're a great bunch to work with.  We look forward to seeing some of you ;)

Some interesting facts

I'm not sure how accurate these are but some of them are quite thought provoking.  What do you think?

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