Brando Yelvich

                                                             Brando Yelvich

Probably the best day of school was the Monday Brando came to our school and talked about his journey around the coast of NZ. He also talked about how to showed resilient.  In one part of his journey his goal was to take one step and his next goal was to take another one and another and so on and on. Brando has inspired so many people.  He even inspired me.

Brando also has ADHD and that means, you literally think of everything and anything, for example a door handle, how does it work?, what is it made out of?, what's inside?, what's on the other side of the wall?, etc. Brando had to take pills when he was four and had to continue until nineteen years old.

Brando is now going to schools and talking to students and motivating them to show resilience.

Term 1 Review

                                          Inter school triathlon

The horn blew and the race started. We were off like a herd of Caribou, faster than the wind, around the corner and towards the goalpost. 
My heart was racing 1 million miles an hour. I could hear Hokowhitu screaming GO MILA!!!!! I ran faster. I got the stitch, so I ran with my arms in the air. 
After 2 minutes

of running with my arms in the air my stitch was gone and I could think about winning. I hopped on my bike and started peddling. I passed about 10 people on the bike ride because I had a road bike and then 2 people in the pool. I did one full length of the pool without passing any one and without any one passing me. I finished in 9th place. Afterwards I got an ice cream and headed back to school.
That was an exiting day.
                                          BY MILA

Board Games

Developing our understanding of Awhi, by making and playing board games.

The Kindy Games

Showing lots of Awhi at the Kindy Games.

Science

In science today we looked at developing strong structures. We used blu tack, tooth picks and a piece of cardboard to create a platform to hold counters. Some people arranged their tooth picks in triangle shapes to try and create a strong base. 

Worm Farm

Cleaning out the scrap buckets. Every Friday members of the Green Team collect all the scrap buckets, empty them into the worm farm and clean them out. 

Inter-school swimming

Interschool swimming was a blast!
Hokowhitu school came forth and I even bet my personal best time.
It was also boring at the same time cause for nearly the whole day you would sit, well in my case.
When it was my turn, I jumped out of my seat and ran down to the pool even though I nearly slipped I came fourth in the relay too!

-Oscar Oshaughenssy

Interschools swimming

Inter schools swimming was AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had never won anything before so I felt better than the best I've EVER felt. At Freyberg pool, the atmosphere was all competitive. When I stepped onto the diving board I suddenly felt a surge of fear and then, as I dived the world went black and  my eyes closed for the impact and when I surfaced to breathe the race was on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jonny

Camp waimanaaki

"Finally, camp was here. I was so excited I was about to BURST!!! I put all of my bags on the bus and went to the hall with my mum. All the year fives were in their (12 groups). I found my group and sat down. Mrs Hodge came and spoke a few words. When she had finished talking, everyone started chatting about camp and how amazing it was going to be. Mrs Hodge blew the whistle and we were all listening.  Starting from the end of the groups we went on to the bus. When all of the groups were in the bus, the bus took off and off to camp we go!!! By Isabella

Goal Setting Evening

Well done, to everyone who showed their parents around Te Kete Tangaroa over the last couple of nights. You did an awesome job at sharing your learning. Check out some of the comments parents left on the whiteboard.

 

Camp Waimaanaki

Camp Waimanaki was lots of fun here is a photo of me and the girls in my cabin:

(Mahee is the one that's cut off in the yellow sweater and Ella's the one in the aqua blue jandals) while we were there we played human cludo and ate lollies secretly in our cabin shhhhhh!!! ha ha ha don't tell the teachers

the end by Ruby

Camp...

Yay,  camp was the best time of my life and we did the beachcombers ball. I loved looking for the things for the dress we made.  We went kayaking and raft building too. On camp we had nice snacks!!!  We did paintball and had a bounce on the trampoline too.  We went to the  rock pools,  "cool right", we saw star fish and a seal it was so cool.  Then we walked all the way back from the rock pools. It was such a long.  We found  a stream on the way back and we jumped in it. I was so hot!!! . I loved the rock pools.  

We also did kayaking. As we got on the kayak,  crash  Lenny fell out nowhy me.
haha Lenny  and then we did paintball it was so fun 

Road Race

Congratulations to our week 9 certificate recipients!

Thomas, Presley, Sam, Edmund, Edmund, Ava, Izzy, Ella, Jewelia & Nic