Cross country

Yesterday  in the afternoon we had our school Cross Country event. Despite the biting cold all the juniors really gave their best efforts and thrilled all the parents who came to watch. 

Room 9 really excelled winning 7 of the placements so all our hard work paid off. 

In fact everyone ran and really gave it their best effort. Made me so proud of them all. 

No doubt there were some very tired children last night. 

What a great class and look at all those placement certificates!

Te Puia

Room 9 had a wonderful trip to Te Puia this week. We had lots of fun and found out lots about the special area in Te Puia. 
We all stroked the huge Pounamu in the entrance way that is protected by the 12 guardians. they were really tall. the stone looked like a frog.

While we were there Whaea Carly and Matua Ho showed us all the special pools they cook in. Here is Cameron , Noah, and Justin eating their hard boiled egg. It took 7 minutes to cook! and tasted yum!

We also visited the weaving and carving schools. In the weaving schools. Whaea Annie was so impressed with room 9 s knowledge about flax she gifted us a beautiful kite .

But there was much more to see. We were so quiet in the kiwi house we even saw the kiwis preening their feathers. The exciting part though was seeing the big geyser going up. Jai, Hemish, Amber and her mum got wet from the steam. It was so steamy .....

The valley had lots of fumeroles and it smelt like rotten eggs in places. It must have been exciting for the maori people when they first went to live there. We played in some houses (whares) that they used to live in.

There was a waka there too .

We couldn't have gone without our parents so a big thankyou to all those mums and dads that came along.

We had such a great time there and saw so many things not found anywhere else in the world!

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Adventures from the weekend.

Week 3

Welcome back to week 3. We have had some amazing sharing from the children this morning.
Hemish and his family welcome a new baby boy (name not disclosed yet) not sure if it was the same day as the new Princess. 
Jasroop also had some amazing news sharing  how his father has gone to Nepal as a volunteer to help with the devastation there. I'm sure it would be an amazing but very challenging  experience.  Our strongest and best thoughts are with him for a safe return.

Kaylee took Mintie home this week and made an amazing video with her dad for us (even gave her a bath!)  So hopefully everyone else made the most of the glorious weekend and enjoys this small clip!